On Saturday, William Shatner took to Twitter to mourn the death of longtime Star Trek co-star Leonard Nimoy, ruefully confessing he couldn't "make it back in time" to attend the late actor's funeral on Sunday.
That little blue "verified" checkmark on Twitter means something. It's for stars, people the common folk aspire to emulate. People whose valuable Personal Brands™ are at stake. People like William Shatner. And definitely not those pissant "nobodies" in the media.
If the cancellation of Skins is any indication, America just isn't ready to see boffing kids. Also today: Julie Taymor wants her money dammit, good/bad news about your favorite future sitcom, William Shatner's got a new gig, and so does Damon Lindelof.
It wasn't easy convincing the network bigwigs that Star Trek was a sure thing but Roddenberry was on a mission. Here Shatner talks about how the show moved on from its rough start to become a vehicle for social commentary.
We're all well aware of William Shatner's love for performing pop hits in a goofy spoken word style, his "Rocket Man" is legend. Here's his performance of "It was a Very Good Year" from the Mike Douglas Show in 1969.
Today at Gawker.TV, Zach Galifianakis and Jimmy Fallon goof around with prosthetic arms, William Shatner covers Cee-Lo's "F*ck You," Joel McHale stops by Today, a coked up and/or rabid hamster attacks people, and a 60-second recap of yesterday's Colbert Report.
On last night's Lopez Tonight, William Shatner continued the performance art that is his life by breaking out a spoken word-style cover of Cee-Lo's "F*ck You." Like his legendary "Rocket Man" performance, this is just fantastic.
A network sitcom is born from a popular Twitter feed, and gains hype from its controversial title. William Shatner signs on and we expect a train wreck, but from the start it aims to please rather than shock.
This is the cold open from last night's Late Late Show, and it's perfect, which should come as no surprise, given the participants. But will "Shatner being Shatner" be enough to make $#*! My Dad Says watchable?
A&E will run an interview with DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo tonight, in which Malvo claims that he had co-conspirators who haven't been caught. Who got this scoop? William Shatner, who just called Malvo and asked. Journalism, motherfucker. [NYT]
Leonard Nemoy recounts how William Shatner hated his awesome bike and would torment the actor by hiding it all over the sound stage. Here's the real question—why not just use the teleporter?
A tipster thought an image of William Shatner over the headline 'How the Chinese Explain the Rash of Horrific Knife Attacks on Schoolchildren' might be the best contrarian Slate piece ever. But it seems it was just a mistake.
CBS has released a sneak peek at Fall's twitter-turned-TV show, $#*! My Dad Says. Let's be honest, no one will remember the order of the characters in $#*! My Dad Says. It will be probably be referred to as "shit."
William Shatner says he's made an astounding $600 million shilling for Priceline.com. [Update: Shatner says the report is not true]
Today at Gawker.TV, William Shatner and internet-sensation Lin Yu Chun duet, Fox and Friends go blue for Earth Day, we weigh in on South Park's Muhammad censorship controversy, and seven seasons worth of Michael Kors' Project Runway insults.
George Lopez's PR team must be trying to up their game before Conan arrives at TBS because last night they paired the internet's latest sensation with William Shatner for a duet of "A Total Eclipse of the Heart."
Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner reading what must be a hilarious issue of Mad in 1967, featuring the first Star Trek parody, "Star Blecch". [The Daily What]
Tonight, William Shatner guest hosted WWE Raw and, as Bill is wont to do, provided the Midwest and Deep South with a healthy dose of absurdity via a series of spoken word covers of "WWE Superstar Anthems."
William Shatner and Richard Simmons: each ridiculous in their own right. What happens when you put them together on live television? This moment where two hilarious people—if only for a brief moment—were gloriously united as one.
