Ewan McGregor, Katy Perry, Emma Stone and Jason Segel are confirmed to attend next week’s People’s Choice Awards ceremony in Los Angeles.

The show is to take place Jan. 11 at the Nokia Theater, L.A. Live.

Also expected to take part in the CBS telecast are Jason Biggs, Matt Bomer, David Boreanaz, Elisha Cuthbert, Ellen DeGeneres, Nina Dobrev, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Nathan Fillion, Morgan Freeman, Ginnifer Goodwin, Ashley Greene, Alyson Hannigan and Liam Hemsworth.

The roster of guests also includes Julianne Hough, Terrence Howard, Vanessa Hudgens, Josh Hutcherson, Angus T. Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Zachary Levi, Adam Levine, Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jennifer Morrison, Dermot Mulroney, Liam Neeson, Sharon Osbourne, Busy Philipps, Rob Schneider and Cobie Smulders.

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Events in 2011:

People’s Choice Awards 2012 Nominees Announcement – 08 Nov

TV Guide Magazine’s Annual Hot List Party – Nov 07

And ScreenCaptures from Happy Endings Season 1:

Episode 10: Bo Fight

The People’s Choice nominees were announced Nov. 8 in Beverly Hills.

Katy Perry, Glee, and Harry Potter led the pack with the most nominations, but Beyonce managed to snag five as well. The movie The Help also shined with three nominations.

Julianne Hough, Joe Jonas, Jennifer Morrison, Sharon Osbourne and Busy Philipps and Elisha Cuthbert had the honor of dolling out the nominations which included the movie Bridesmaids, actor Morgan Freemen, and television show Modern Family.

The event will be held Jan. 11 at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, with Kaley Cuoco replacing longtime hostess Queen Latifah.

To vote for your favorite stars, movies and television shows visit peopleschoice.com before Dec. 6.

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Halloween comes early to ABC. The network’s prime-time comedies will celebrate with Halloween-themed episodes tonight and Wednesday.
On the new Tim Allen series “Last Man Standing,” Tim Allen dresses as Hollywood icon John Wayne in “The Green Beret” and horror icon Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson) appears as a guest star. The episode airs 8 tonight.
Elisha Cuthbert portrays Marilyn Monroe on “Happy Endings” and Jay Mohr will guest star on “Suburgatory” as Steven, Dallas Royce’s husband.

This Wednesday: “Happy Endings” — “Spooky Endings” (9:31-10:00 p.m., ET) — Jane and Brad (Eliza Coupe, Damon Wayans Jr.) spend a scary Halloween house sitting for friends in the suburbs while the rest of the gang heads to a warehouse party, where their costumes don’t quite have the effect they anticipated, especially for Alex and Dave (Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton).

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If judged by its debut, the ABC sitcom Happy Endings should probably have been called Inauspicious Beginnings.

The show, with little promotion behind it, premiered in April, when the traditional broadcast-network season was running out of steam.

It marked the latest entry in a yearlong parade of ensemble comedies with characters navigating the travails of young adulthood in hip urban neighborhoods: CBS had Mad Love. Fox had Traffic Light. NBC had Perfect Couples along with Love Bites and Friends With Benefits on deck.

Every network was after the Ross-and-Rachel magic.

Six months later, Happy Endings is the sole survivor.

“No, is that true?” Elisha Cuthbert, one of the co-stars, said by phone. “Are they really all gone?”

They are.

Only Happy Endings, with its sextet of 30-ish Chicagoans, received a second season.

What it still doesn’t have, cast member Adam Pally noted, is prime promotion from the network.

“I haven’t seen one commercial for us during Modern Family,” he said last month on the day before the second-season premiere, in the time slot after Modern Family.

Then again, he acknowledged: “It’s kind of nice to come in under the radar. I think it gives people a certain ownership of the show.”

At the outset, the deck seemed stacked against the cheery, slightly campy series — which arrived late to a party full of rivals.

ABC also decided to air episodes out of order because it didn’t consider the first and second installments funny enough.

In the pilot, the Cuthbert character dumped her fiance (Zachary Knighton) at the altar. ABC thought that, during the next two episodes, they and their pals — a married couple (Damon Wayans Jr. and Eliza Coupe) and two singles (Pally and Casey Wilson) — spent too much time coping with the breakup.

“The network wanted viewers to be able to find the show at any point and still enjoy it,” series creator David Caspe said. “They had 13 episodes sitting in front of them and the luxury of saying, ‘ Let’s lead with our funniest.’ But it was still a moment of huge trepidation for me.”

Despite the strategy, the show struggled in the ratings. In the second week, ABC changed the time slot — and viewership dropped from 7.2 million to about 4.5 million. And yet positive word-of-mouth started to spread.

Some critics even came around. At Aoltv.com, Maureen Ryan revisited the show late in the first season and wrote, “I’m happy to say that Endings improved in a number of key ways.”

For starters, the dialogue is honed to the sensibilities of the actors, who are all 28 to 32.

“The way we speak on camera is how we talk,” said Coupe, who plays the married perfectionist.

The actors are also dogged about perfecting their timing and sticking the punch lines.

“We all wanted to prove we had the comedy chops to pull this off,” Cuthbert said.

With the focus on laughs, it’s easy to forget that Endings studiously plays to the themes with which its audience will identify. They just prefer to cloak them in absurdity.

In the second-season premiere on Sept. 28, for instance, one character dealt with first-time homeownership issues, while race and sexuality loomed as obstacles to friendship in another plot strand.

Before she was discovered, Coupe worked as a bathroom attendant at the Heartland Brewery in Times Square (“a job I took only because I heard that the Saturday Night Live after-after-parties were there”).

Wilson kicked around St. Mark’s Place with her longtime writing partner, June Diane Raphael. The two will soon weave those experiences into an ABC pilot, Walk of Shame.

Pally taped pilot presentations. Knighton managed to get guest roles on Law & Order and Bones, while Wayans wrote for his father’s series, My Wife and Kids, as well as The Underground.

Cuthbert, on the other hand, signed on to 24 when she was 18 and spent the next nine years there (as Jack Bauer’s repeatedly imperiled daughter), then lusted after a comedy project that would turn her image on its head.

“In my heart,” she said, “I think the reason the show works is that they found people who were ready for it.”

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“There was a little bit more pressure,” Cuthbert says of her status as the cast member with the shortest comedy resume. “I think everyone was like, ‘OK, is she just going to be the straight man of the group?’ That’s really not what I wanted. I wanted to come into a comedy and finally show that side of myself.”

Her funny side has involved a lot of physical comedy. From drunkenly devouring ribs to hipster dance breaks, Cuthbert’s Alex is decidedly not playing it straight. And in the season premiere we find her showing off one of her more impressive skills: wielding the invisible hula hoop.

“I’m trying to tone that down,” she says. “I’m sure everyone at home is sick of me doing the hula hoop.”

The hoop, which has now made non-appearances on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” at improv shows and in the series, actually started off-camera, goofing around with the rest of the cast.

“Shooting [at] night, you’re tired, you’re exhausted, you start to go a little Cuckoo crazy in the wee hours of the morning,” Cuthbert tells us. “Somehow the hula hoop came out, and where it came from… no one knows.”

Check out our full video interview with Cuthbert, where she also tells us about more sisterly storylines to come for Alex and Jane (Eliza Coupe), which cast member she’d like to share more screen time with and working opposite director and guest star Fred Savage.

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Whoopi Goldberg has offered actress Elisha Cuthbert a way to get around her fear of flying.

The 55-year-old veteran star – who also prefers to keep two feet on the ground – said Cuthbert can borrow her luxury bus tour to the US to promote the new season of TV show Happy Endings.

Appearing on The View, Elisha told Whoopie, ‘I can’t afford the beautiful (luxury bus) so what I do is I have these things where, every time I get on a flight, I have these things I have to do, and it’s a way to cope and calm my nerves…

‘So as soon as I get on board I put my right foot first. I never get on a flight with my left foot, and, if I do, I have to get off and get back on… I’ll do a little prayer, and it’s the same prayer all the time. But it’s really helped me and now I feel like I’ve come up with a plan to cope with it ’cause we do fly so, so much.’

But kind-hearted Whoopie quickly said, ‘Well if you want the bus ever, I’ll let you have it ’cause I’m here (in New York) so it’s just sitting here.’

Grateful, Cuthbert seized the opportunity, ‘Oh, I’d love that, that’d be great.’

source: monstersandcritics.com

Episode 7: Dave of the Dead

Episode 8: The Girl with the David Tattoo

Episode 9: You’ve Got Male

Episode 5: Like Father, Like Gun

Episode 6: Of Mice & Jazz-Kwon-Do