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A documentary about Anna Nicole Smith will debut on Netflix next month, and the streamer finally released a first look at the film on April 17. The revelatory feature-length documentary, titled "Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me," will serve as an "unflinching and humanizing examination of the life, death, and secrets" of Smith, born Vickie Lynn Hogan, according to the synopsis - from the Playboy model and reality TV star's rise to stardom to her untimely death in 2007.

Per the trailer, the upcoming documentary features never-before-seen footage of Smith, home movies, and interviews with key figures closest to her who haven't spoken out about the model - until now. It'll also reveal "new insights into the story of the quintessential blonde bombshell hardly anyone really knew."

In January 2022, director Ursula Macfarlane teased what viewers can expect from the upcoming documentary in an interview with Variety. "I approached Anna Nicole's...

Anna Nicole Smith’s life is center stage in the trailer for Netflix’s upcoming documentary about the late star.

The streamer released its first spot Monday for Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, set to debut May 16. Featuring never-before-seen footage, home videos and interviews, the film will document Smith’s life, from her Houston upbringing to her rise to fame that included the cover of Playboy, modeling for Guess and appearing in such Hollywood projects as the 1994 film Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult and E! series The Anna Nicole Show. Smith died of an accidental drug overdose in February 2007 at age 39.

“I would just advise people just to follow their dreams,” Smith says in the footage. “They can come true. I’m living proof.”

Among the topics covered in the new project is her legal battle over the estate of husband J. Howard Marshall, an...

Anna Nicole Smith, the Playboy model and reality television star who died suddenly in 2007 at the age of 39, will be the subject of a new Netflix documentary.

The film, which is still untitled, will include never-before-seen footage from an unreleased documentary about a young Smith balancing motherhood while on the verge of global stardom. The documentary is still in production, so it’s unclear when it will be released on Netflix.

Born Vickie Lynn Hogan, Smith gained notoriety as a Playmate and Guess model, and she set off a media firestorm after marrying 89-year-old oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. Once she ascended to the spotlight, Smith’s life provided ceaseless tabloid fodder, including the public battle for her late husband’s estate, drug addiction, paternity lawsuits and her first child’s untimely death. In the early 2000s, she headlined the E! series “The Anna Nicole Show,” which captured the...

Margaret Cho is paying tribute to her friend Anna Nicole Smith, who died in 2007 of a drug overdose.

Cho stars in a new music video called "Anna Nicole," from Cho's album American Myth and which tells the story of when the friends kissed in 2002's The Anna Nicole Show.

Cho also opened up about her friendship with Smith, whose death at 39 of a drug dose came shortly after her 20-year-old son Daniel died in 2006. Daniel passed away in Smith's hospital room just three days after she gave birth to her daughter Dannielynn. A pathologist later determined he died from a lethal combination of methadone,...

Margaret Cho is paying tribute to her friend Anna Nicole Smith, who died in 2007 of a drug overdose. Cho stars in a new music video called "Anna Nicole," from Cho's album American Anthem and which tells the story of when the friends kissed in 2002's The Anna Nicole Show. Cho also opened up about her friendship with Smith, whose death at 39 of a drug dose came shortly after her 20-year-old son Daniel died in 2006. Daniel passed away in Smith's hospital room just three days after she gave birth to her daughter Dannielynn. A pathologist later determined he died from a lethal combination of methadone,...

Margaret Cho is paying tribute to her friend Anna Nicole Smith, who died in 2007 of a drug overdose. Cho stars in a new music video called "Anna Nicole," from Cho's album American Anthem and which tells the story of when the friends kissed in 2002's The Anna Nicole Show. Cho also opened up about her friendship with Smith, whose death at 39 of a drug dose came shortly after her 20-year-old son Daniel died in 2006. Daniel passed away in Smith's hospital room just three days after she gave birth to her daughter Dannielynn. A pathologist later determined he died from a lethal combination of methadone,...

La Toya Jackson may be a reality television star now, but she hasn't always wanted to share her private life with everyone.toofab's Rachel Hoffman caught up with the "Life with La Toya" star, where she revealed that she had a hand in helping "The Anna Nicole Show" become a reality. "Remember 'The Anna Nicole show?' They wanted that to be 'The La Toya Jackson Show,' the 58-year-old revealed. "They kept calling, and I kept saying no because reality TV was brand new then. I couldn’t imagine cameras following me. The last time they asked, I said no again, so they went ahead with Anna Nicole."While La Toya wasn't ready to be in the limelight back then, she said that timing is everything. "They’ve asked me every year since, and this time, it was good timing for me. It was something that I was...

It’s no longer shocking when established film directors turn to TV — after all, Martin Scorsese, Jane Campion, and David Fincher have all done it recently to great acclaim.

Still, you may be surprised to learn that Lifetime’s upcoming Anna Nicole Smith biopic was directed by none other than Mary Harron — a filmmaker best known for her wicked work on controversial cult favorites like I Shot Andy Warhol and American Psycho. Thanks in part to Harron’s pedigree, the movie also managed to attract an unusually accomplished cast, including Oscar winner Martin Landau (as Anna Nicole’s wealthy husband J.

Another piece reality TV real estate has just sold!The Studio City house where the late Anna Nicole Smith's life was filmed sold on Wednesday for $1.3 million."The Anna Nicole Show" was one of E! first forays into reality TV, and lasted two seasons. Of course, the network would later air "The Girls Next Door" and "Keeping Up With The Kardashians."Anna Nicole purchased the 5 bedroom, 5.5 bathroom under her real name, Vickie Marshall, in April 2005 for $1,335,000. The house passed to her daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead, after Anna Nicole's death in 2007.However in April 2011, Howard K. Stern, Smith’s one-time lover and the executor of her will, gained the court’s permission to transfer the home under his name. In July 2011, Howard placed the home on the market with an asking price of $1.75 million. It went through a few price drops before finally selling this week.The master suite has...

Yesterday was a rough day for the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Swift on the heels of reports that cast member Kim Richards had checked herself in to rehab, Bravo aired a gut punch of an episode that showed yet another emotional breakdown from Taylor Armstrong, who admitted on last night’s Watch What Happens Live that her life was “unraveling.” It’s not the first time issues of abuse, be they substance or physical, have been addressed any number of reality shows from The Anna Nicole Show to Jersey Shore, but what is it about this season of Beverly...

Los Angeles, Aug 2: Late Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith's California home has been put on sale.

The sprawling 4,700 square foot home, where Nicole filmed her reality TV show 'The Anna Nicole Show', before her death in 2007 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs, has been put on the market by the trustees of her estate, which is worth $1.75 million, reports contactmusic.com.

The mansion contains five bedrooms, five-and-half bathrooms and a gym.

Ians...

Anna Nicole Smith's former designer is returning to reality TV to find the next busty model. Frank Rodriguez, who appeared on Smith's "The Anna Nicole Show", is looking for a bombshell with the actress/model's measurements so he can create gowns for her.

Producers tell TMZ.com Rodriguez is looking for an Anna Nicole look-a-like and plans to shoot his search in early August at a casting in Los Angeles. The winner will get to model the designer's clothes.

"The Anna Nicole Show", which was debuted in 2002 on E! cable network, focused on her personal and private life. The reality TV series was canceled in 2004 due to "creative differences", but has retained some life in reruns and on DVD releases.

Anna Nicole Smith's former designer is returning to reality TV to find the next busty model.

Frank Rodriguez, who appeared on Smith's The Anna Nicole Show, is looking for a bombshell with the actress/model's measurements so he can create gowns for her.

Producers tell TMZ.com Rodriguez is looking for an Anna Nicole look-a-like and plans to shoot his search next week (beg02Aug10) at a casting in Los Angeles.

The winner will get to model the designer's clothes.

'Anna Nicole Show' Star -- Hunting for the Next Anna

Anna Nicole Smith's personal designer from "The Anna Nicole Show" desperately wants Anna to model his clothes again ... but since she's dead, he's shooting a reality show to find a replacement.

Producers for the show tell TMZ, fashion designer Frank Rodriguez -- who often appeared on Anna Nicole's 2002 reality show -- came up with the idea to find a beautiful busty blonde like Anna worthy of his clothing line.

According to the producers, the Anna Nicole look-alike competition will be shot documentary-style with casting taking place next week in L.A.

But there's a catch ... we're told there are no plans for a cash prize.  In other words, 89-year-old oil tycoon Not included. Source: TMZ...

Anna Nicole Smith 's personal designer from " The Anna Nicole Show " desperately wants Anna to model his clothes again ... but since she's dead, he's shooting a reality show to find a replacement. Producers for the show tell TMZ, fashion designer Frank Rodriguez -- who often appeared on Anna Nicole's 2002 reality show -- came up with the idea to find a beautiful busty blonde like Anna worthy of his clothing line. According to the producers,...

The late Anna Nicole Smith's baby daddy, photographer Larry Birkhead, thinks it's time to sell Smith's memorabilia, and he'll do just that on June 26 in Las Vegas.

"The auction came 'cause life was starting to look like a museum around the house," Birkhead told "Extra."

There are many of Smith's possessions going on the block, most notably, a 1992 Mercedes-Benz 300 Sl Roadster and a collection of bronze statues, both given to Smith by her late husband,...

"Keeping Up with the Kardashians" ended the fourth season with an impressive rating and the family is now looking at a bigger picture. Kim Kardashian wrote on her official blog that she loves the idea of bringing the reality show to wide screen. To support her wish, she has suggested some names in Hollywood who would be suitable to play them.

Proclaiming that she would be the executive producer if indeed it will make it as a movie, Kim said, "Khloe would definitely be played by Liv Tyler. She's tall, beautiful and curvacious with great facial features." She added, "Kourt's the smallest of us three, so I think someone like Vanessa Hudgens would be perfect because she's petite and she's kind of quiet and intimidating at the same time, haha."

As for herself, Kim picked Penelope Cruz because she wants the sexy accent. However, Kourtney Kardashian has a different thought of who should be Kim,...

By Josef Adalian

“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” has smashed another ratings record at E!

Despite airing opposite the Olympics, the fourth season finale of the reality soap opera drew 4.8 million viewers Sunday at 10 p.m., making it the most-watched telecast in the network’s history, according to Nielsen. It also broke network records for biggest telecast in a number of key demographics, including adults 18-34 and 18-49.

Overall, the 10-episode fourth season of “Kardashians” now stands as the most-watched series in E! history. (Sorry, “The Anna Nicole Show...

The Kardashians are definitely hard to keep up with! The second episode of their show on E! has just set a new record for not only the series, but the network as well. According to the Hollywood Reporter, 4.2 million people tuned into Sunday night’s episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. That number beats out the previous title holder, The Anna Nicole Show. Kim Kardashian released a statement exclusively to Hollyscoop, saying, “I am so excited for people to see this new season of Keeping Up With the Kardashians...it's by far our best yet! I...

We’re getting closer to the Final Four, PopWatchers! Our Guilty Pleasures Reality TV Showdown now moves into the Finals for each of our categories. We start with Relationships, where the guiltiest, most pleasurable shows have risen to the top of your votes. It’s the matchup we all saw coming: Flavor of Love vs. Rock of Love. Does gold teeth trump silken hair? Does public pooping triumph over a vagina shot? Let’s remind you of just a few highlights from each show: Flavor of Love A certain stairwell pooping incident, Pumkin’s spitting on New York, the dance competition,...

We’re in the Semifinals of our Guilty Pleasures Reality TV Showdown (see full bracket here). Now we're into the Competition category. Semifinals, Competition: Tool Academy vs. Wipeout Here's what some fans had to say during the first round of voting: Emoney on Tool Academy: "Tool Academy! I watched Season One while I was on maternity leave and the baby just slept all the time. Awesomest show ever. Love Matsuflex. Seriously, what kind of dude calls himself Matsuflex? Second only to Paradise Hotel on my list of all-time favorite reality shows." Brittany on Wipeout: "The commentary is hilarious not to mention the big balls!

We’re in the Semifinals of our Guilty Pleasures Reality TV Showdown (see full bracket here). Now we're into the Competition category. Semifinals, Competition: Celebrity Mole vs. Paris Hilton's My New Bff Here's what some fans had to say during the first round of voting: MyLisa on Celebrity Mole: "Celebrity Mole (Hawaii), hands down. Corbin Bernsen and Stephen Baldwin were hilarious together, and Kathy Griffin was right there with the snarky commentary. What I love with both Celebrity Mole editions is that they’re all actually having Fun! I recently saw the Yucatan re-run — Dennis Rodman *is* the Mole of Moleville.

We’re in the Semifinals of our Guilty Pleasures Reality TV Showdown (see full bracket here). Now we're into the Celeb-Reality category. Semifinals, Celeb-Reality: The Surreal Life vs. Keeping up with the Kardashians Here's what some fans had to say during the first round of voting: Ailene on Keeping up with the Kardashians: "Yes, they have no real reason to be on tv, but they’re entertaining." Remy on The Surreal Life: "It led to VH1’s entire line-up for most of the decade – it spawned Celeb-reality. Especially in the earlier seasons, the show was just plain addicting to watch the drama unfold.

We’re in the Semifinals of our Guilty Pleasures Reality TV Showdown (see full bracket here). Now we're into the Celeb-Reality category. Semifinals, Celeb-Reality: Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica vs. The Anna Nicole Show Here's what some fans had to say during the first round of voting: Nee Nee on Newlyweds: "I wasn’t planning on watching, but my tv just so happened to be tuned in to MTV on that magical first episode containing the “tuna/chicken” comment. Just seeing Nick’s face when Jessica asked that question, was enough to make me keep watching. It was completely entertaining, no matter how 'produced' it was.

PopWatchers, this is exciting! The results are in for the Quarterfinals of our Guilty Pleasures Reality TV Showdown – in the first two categories of Relationships and “Real" Lives. We’ve already had some major upsets to stir things up. Somewhere Lauren Conrad’s heart will break to hear that Dog the Bounty Hunter was more popular than The Hills. Newcomers The Real Housewives of New Jersey beat out their popular Atlanta counterparts – NeNe and Kim, take that! Also, Temptation Island looms large in the pop culture consciousness six years after its run, beating Tila Tequila. This is going to get hard.

PopWatch is on a quest to determine the Greatest Guilty Pleasure Reality TV Show of All Time. We have 32 seeded contestants in four categories (see full bracket here), and we're finishing the quarterfinals in the Celeb-Reality category. After you vote, please leave comments about why you love the show you chose. Quarterfinals, Celeb-Reality: Being Bobby Brown vs. The Anna Nicole Show Being Bobby Brown We'll always have "kiss my ass!," thanks to this trainwreckalicious how-is-this-even-happening doc-style reality trailblazer. And the immortal line, "hell to the no." And the image of Bobby helping Whitney in the bathroom. - Margaret Lyons The Anna Nicole Show...

“Guilty pleasure” can mean different things to different people, and some people shun the concept altogether, saying if something is pleasurable then it’s not guilty. But when it comes to publicly admitting (as I can) that you have spent your free time watching Tool Academy, we can all agree that’s not a proud moment. Team PopWatch wants to celebrate the most embarrassing delights in the world of reality TV, so today we're kicking off our Reality TV Guilty Pleasure Showdown. It'll be just the thing to cure your wintertime blues. We've had many impassioned (and surreal) discussions over...

America sure loves the Kardashians! Kourtney Kardashian and her sister Khloe Kardashian not only have a successful show on their hands, they set a new record! The series debut of Kourtney and Khloe’ Take Miami averaged 2.7 million viewers for E! in its premiere on Sunday night. According to Tvbythenumbers.com it was the best series debut for an E! original series since the 2002 premiere of The Anna Nicole Show, and its performance with its target audience, women 18-34 was tied for best of any E! series premiere with a W18-34 rating of 3.7. What...

Sometimes ratings can paint such interesting portraits of the American audience. Mad Men set a series high and ranked as the top show on cable Sunday with its third season premiere. And yet, its victory on the night was only 0.1 million viewers over the premiere of E!s Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami.

Those K&K numbers make it the new highest premiere on E! since The Anna Nicole Show premiered. A record briefly held by Kendra's premiere earlier this summer.

So one the one hand we have one of the most deservedly acclaimed television shows of the past decade, and right there with it, running neck and neck, is yet another reality spin-off featuring rich people who are only famous because ... they're famous. I blame Paris Hilton. She was one of the first people who got famous for doing absolutely nothing.Continue reading Mad Men debuts huge, but almost gets...

By Josef Adalian

As TV types wait to see how last night's third season premiere of "Mad Men" did in the ratings, E! has stepped in with some Nielsen news of its own.

 

The network just sent out a release noting that the premiere of "Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami" attracted nearly 2.7 million reality show junkies. That's the best series premiere number for an original E! series since "The Anna Nicole Show" in 2002.

 

Among women 18-34 (E!'s target demo), "K&K" delivered a 3.73 rating, tying "Anna Nicole" as the networ...

HBO's "True Blood" has managed to hit yet another series high.

Sunday night's episode was seen by 4.3 million viewers, the latest record for the vampire drama.

HBO's freshman comedy "Hung" (3.4 million) as well as "Entourage" (3.3 million) had their second-highest numbers of the season. HBO recently renewed all three shows for another campaign.

Showtime did well too, with "Weeds" (1.6 million) and "Nurse Jackie" (1.4 million) rising up to best their premieres and post season highs.

Also Sunday night, the season finale of "Kendra" on E! averaged 2.1 million viewers, the network's highest-rated first-season finale since "The Anna Nicole Show."

On Tlc, the Monday night return of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" was seen by a strong 4.2 million viewers (1.8 million were adults 18-49).

That's a steep 61% drop from the show's last outing -- June's "breakup episode," which was the program's most-watched ever -- but it marked a rebound after the show's pre-breakup trend, which had taken...

E! is picking up a second season of its breakout reality series "Kendra."

The network will order 12 more episodes chronicling Kendra Wilkinson's marriage to Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Hank Baskett.

"We saw a marriage in Season 1, and now we are going to see Kendra navigate the unfamiliar waters of being a newlywed and a new parent all at the same time," said Lisa Berger, executive vp original programming and series development at E! "We can't wait to be there with her every step of the way."

The network also plans to air two specials in December, when the couple's first child is due and Kendra moves to New Jersey to live closer to Baskett year-round.

The former "Girls Next Door" co-star's latest E! reality show premiered in June and drew the largest debut audience for the network since "The Anna Nicole Show" -- featuring another former Playboy Playmate, Anna Nicole Smith...

By Dominic Patten

Reality TV isn’t just for the wannabes. It’s also a refugee for the once-famous seeking a chance to be famous again. However, as parents, these more seasoned celebrities have taken conflicting approaches when it comes to having their children in front of the cameras.

Anna Nicole Smith: The former Playmate seemed clueless and shameless in E!’s “The Anna Nicole Show,” from its debut in 2002. The same cannot be said for her teenage son ...

Just because Girls Next Door is over doesn't mean Kendra Wilkinson is going anywhere!  The busty blonde's new reality show Kendra is a smash hit! Sunday's premiere episode was the highest-rated series debut on E! since 2002's The Anna Nicole Show. Not only did 2.6 million viewers tune in to see the show, she also out-performed all premiere episodes of Girls Next Door. If you missed our behind-the-scenes look at Kendra's debut episode, make sure to check it out!  Did you watch Kendra's premiere episode? Tell us what you thought below! ...

More than two years after Anna Nicole Smith died from a lethal cocktail of prescription drugs, authorities have filed the first criminal charges – targeting her former attorney and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern. Stern, 40, a fixture at Smith's side for years who once claimed to be the father of her daughter Dannielynn, has been formally charged with conspiring to furnish drugs to Smith prior to her death, prosecutors said Thursday. He was arrested and booked by police in Whittier, Calif., with bail set for $20,000, police records show. Also charged with felonies were two doctors, Sandeep Kapoor, 40, and Khristine Eroshevich, 61, who allegedly prescribed medication unlawfully to Smith,...

Former model and reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith has died after being rushed to a Florida hospital following a collapse at a Florida hotel; she was 39. According to initial reports, Smith was found unconscious in her room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, Thursday afternoon, and was unresponsive when a rescue unit arrived at the scene. She was then rushed to Memorial Regional Hospital after 2pm ET. Her attorney, Ron Rale, confirmed that Smith died at the hospital about an hour later. Smith had most recently been involved a paternity suit over her daughter Dannilynn, instigated by her former boyfriend Larry Birkhead, who claimed he was the father of the child and not Howard K. Stern, Smith's lawyer, boyfriend, and co-star on her reality TV show. The paternity suit, as well another lawsuit, a class-action suit brought against her and the diet company TrimSpa, came on the heels of the death of her son, Daniel Smith, who died in his mother's hospital room in the Bahamas of a drug overdose just three days after the birth of Dannilynn on September 7, 2006. Ultimately, the death was ruled accidental after extensive coverage and private medical examination. Born in Houston, Texas, Smith cultivated a blonde, Marilyn Monroe-style image and became famous initially as 1993's Playboy Playmate of the Year and as a model for Guess jeans in the early '90s. In 1994 she married millionaire and oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II, who would be her second husband; he was 89, she was 27. When he died in 1995, she became embroiled in a feud with her husband's family over the rights to the $400 million estate, the beginning of a protracted legal battle that would go all the way to the Supreme Court, which decided that the case could only be tried by the California federal courts, invalidating a Texas state court ruling. After fading from the spotlight, Smith resurfaced in 2002 with a reality show, The Anna Nicole Show, and as the spokeswoman for TrimSpa diet pills, to which she attributed her dramatic weight loss. For years, she became a prominent tabloid figure, as magazines chronicled her life's ups and downs and the continuous court battle with her in-laws. Smith reportedly married Howard K. Stern in September 2006 in the Bahamas, though according to some reports, the marriage was not legally binding. Further details surrounding the cause of death were not immediately available. --Mark Englehart, IMDb staff...

Reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith's strict slimming regime has become the subject of grave concern for close pals - because she's shifting pounds by refusing to eat. The busty star - whose svelte figure bears no resemblance to her buxom frame in hit TV program The Anna Nicole Show - is continuing to shed weight by avoiding food, and friends fear her extreme efforts to slim down are posing a dangerous threat to her health. One says, "She hardly eats. A while back she couldn't pick up a box of cookies without eating them all - now she won't even read the label. She hardly eats at all because she loves all the praise she gets for getting slim again. She's wasting away." Smith is heading to France to film a European vacation documentary for her next professional venture.

Busty heiress Anna Nicole Smith has just learned her critically-panned reality show has been cancelled, after more than seven months in limbo. The Anna Nicole Show debuted on entertainment TV network E! in 2002 to shockingly high ratings, which quickly dwindled over the months. But bosses still gave her a contract for a second season as it proved to be the network's highest- rated series. And now the voluptuous blonde is free from her series, she's quickly signed up with E! to take on another show called Anna Nicole Bares It All, which debuts on February 22. Cameras will follow the Texas native as she prepares for her first catwalk job in years for New York's Fashion Week. Production begins this week.

Facing stiff competition in the celebrity-reality genre, E! Entertainment will bolster its schedule with 12 new series this year. The cable channel responsible for The Anna Nicole Show has seen its programming specialty co-opted everywhere, from broadcast series like ABC's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! to fellow cable nets like VH1 with The Fabulous Life. The new dozen, shepherded to air by E!'s new development division, refocuses the network on A-list stars rather than the figures on the fringes of showbiz -- as seen in The Michael Essany Show and Star Dates. Both of those first-year series were renewed; the verdict on Anna is still to be determined.

Buxom beauty Anna Nicole Smith has become addicted to prescription drugs because her enlarged breasts are causing her so much pain - according to a new TV documentary. Dark Roots: The Unauthorized Anna Nicole alleges the former Playboy model - whose reality TV series The Anna Nicole Show has been panned by critics and increasingly shunned by audiences - is addicted to Vicodin painkillers. The new show alleges that Anna, who inherited around $500 million from her late oil tycoon's estate, had two large implants put into each breast to increase her bust size, but they have caused her massive back pain.

NEW YORK -- The second-season finale of the original FX series The Shield didn't match last year's results, but the season average did. Tuesday night's episode scored a 3.2 household rating (3.7 million viewers and 2.6 million households). Those Nielsen numbers represent a step down from last year's finale, which drew a 3.9, but Shield closed out the season strong in the male 18-34 demo, notching a 4.2 rating. The second season averaged a 2.8 rating and a 2.3 in 18-49, identical to the first-season average in both of those demos. Shield actually improved its totals in adults 18-34 (9%), men 18-34 (7%) and men 18-49 (18%) over the previous season. "Considering the track record cable series like The Osbournes and The Anna Nicole Show have in their sophomore seasons, 'Shield' has had a remarkable season," said Steve Leblang, senior vp strategic planning and research at FX.

XXX hunk Vin Diesel has a crush on controversial actress-turned-reality-TV star Anna Nicole Smith - because he's attracted to "white trash." The hunky former doorman is reportedly trying to set up a personal meeting with Smith, who is famous for marrying an octogenarian oil billionaire, and now stars on her fly-on-the wall The Anna Nicole Show on E! Diesel, who also wants busty Smith to star in his new film, reasons, "I have a thing for white trash."...

Anna Nicole Smith's reality documentary show has won a second season. The Anna Nicole Show - which follows the life of the 34-year-old former Playboy model - has been panned by critics. But if Mark Sonnenberg at cable network E! Entertainment Television is to be believed, "Viewers are captivated by Anna Nicole's surreal world." In an announcement yesterday Sonnenberg revealed 13 more episodes of the show will begin production next month. He said, "They (viewers) are rooting for her to turn her life around, get back into shape and revitalize her love life. What's in store next for Anna Nicole remains to be seen." When the show first aired in August it scored the highest ratings ever for an E! program, but numbers have since slipped.

Liza Minnelli has been behaving like a diva while preparing her new VH1 reality show Liza And David's Dinner Party. The Cabaret star and her manager/husband David Gest haven't been very co-operative in the preparations for the show, which is meant to challenge MTV's The Osbournes and E!'s The Anna Nicole Show in the cable voyeurism sweepstakes. An insider told the New York Daily News, "They haven't been nasty but haven't exactly been considerate." VH1 execs had arranged to hold interviews for the job of executive producer in the "nicest conference room in the Viacom building" in New York, but the room proved unacceptable to the couple, who insisted the meetings took place at their favorite hotel, the Plaza Athenee. And when VH1 booked the luxury suite, Liza didn't turn up. The source says, "Liza didn't even show up. It was just David, which is OK, since he's the TV producer. But eventually she'll have to meet the producer, so they'll have to do it again." Liza also cancelled a photo shoot. The couple's rep Warren Cowan explains, "Liza had a little cold. So they were a little late. So they changed the site to the Plaza Athénée. What difference does it make? There's no problem here. There is a love affair between VH1 and Liza and David." A VH1 rep vouches the delayed meeting "was mutually changed. VH1 is really happy with Liza and David. They're our No.1 project."...