Filed under: Industry, House, Reality-Free

He hasn’t won an Emmy (although that might change in a tiny over a week from now) and he’s not going to win People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive (although I think he very attractive), but at least Hugh Laurie, the star of Fox’s Home, is being rewarded in another way — the wallet.

Laurie is getting a raise in salary to $400,000 an episode. That’s not as much as 24’s Kiefer Sutherland ($500,000) or CSI’s William Petersen ($600,000) or Two and a Half Men’s Charlie Sheen ($825,000), but it’s pretty darn good.

Whether you think Charlie is worth that much money or Bill (who’s actually only going to be in half the shows on CSI in 2008-2009) or Kiefer, for that matter, but Hugh Laurie has earned this raise. He’s the center of House, the most important character, and there’s no show without him.

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Filed under: Industry, Programming, Celebrities, Hell’s Kitchen

Get ready for more bleeps and blurs on FOX.

FOX is so impressed with Gordon Ramsay and the ratings for both Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares that they’ve given the green light for a third series from the chef. And if I understand the concept for this series, then I think this is the begin of Ramsay’s demise.

The new show is going to be based on a British show that Ramsay does called Man Camp, which I’ve never seen but is described as “a boot camp for men whose ladies are slightly concerned about how feminine they’re becoming.” Seriously? That’s the premise of the show? Maybe if the men are becoming too feminine it’s the women who should be sent to the boot camp.

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