Buzz Briefs: Winehouse, Foster
Winehouse Hubby Gets 27 Months In The Slammer
A judge on Monday sentenced Amy Winehouse's husband to 27 months in jail for assault and obstructing justice.
Blake Fielder-Civil has admitted beating up pub manager James King in a barroom fight in 2006 and then offering him $400,000 to keep quiet about it.
Passing sentence at Snaresbrook Crown Court, Judge David Radford told Fielder-Civil he had behaved in a "gratuitous, cowardly and disgraceful" way. Winehouse wasn't in court.
The 24-year-old singer and Fielder-Civil, 26, married in Miami in May 2007. He was arrested in November and has been in jail ever since.
Winehouse has become an international star since she released the Grammy-winning album, "Back to Black," in 2006. But her music has been overshadowed by reports of drug use, her run-ins with the law and her tempestuous relationship with Fielder-Civil.
"Greek" Star Takes Frat House Habits Behind The Wheel
Scott Michael Foster, star of ABC Family's frat-house series "Greek," has been released on $5,000 bail following his arrest in Hollywood for misdemeanor drunken driving.
Police say the 23-year-old Foster, who plays Kappa Tau President Cappie on "Greek," was arrested at 12:20 a.m. Monday.
Los Angeles police Officer Sara Faden says Foster was arrested at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Cherokee Street in Hollywood. The circumstances of the arrest were not immediately available.
Foster was released on bail around 5 a.m. He's due back in court Aug. 11.
The Illinois native also sings in a band called Siren's Eye.
Fallon To Start "Late Night" Online
Jimmy Fallon's debut as the new host of "Late Night" will come online, not on television.
Fallon, who will take over the NBC show when its current host, Conan O'Brien, replaces Jay Leno on "Tonight" next year, will hone his approach in brief Internet shows, "Late Night" producer Lorne Michaels said Sunday.
Fallon, a former cast member of Michaels' "Saturday Night Live," will appear online for several months before beginning his stint on the broadcast show.
Michaels knows that seasoning can be valuable: The producer picked O'Brien out of obscurity to fill Letterman's old slot at NBC, then stuck with him despite savage early reviews.
Despite its prime-time woes, NBC has managed to maintain its late-night ratings dominance, although O'Brien has been challenged lately by Craig Ferguson on CBS. Now NBC is attempting a tricky transition based on a promise made nearly four years ago that O'Brien would succeed Leno.
Lil Scrappy Free On Bond After Weekend Arrest
Police say Atlanta rapper Lil Scrappy is out of jail after being arrested following a fight with his sister's boyfriend.
The 24-year-old rapper, whose name is Darryl Richardson, was released on $1,500 bond from the DeKalb County jail in Georgia on Sunday.
DeKalb County police spokesman Marcus Hodge says Richardson got into an altercation with his sister's boyfriend on Friday afternoon after the couple argued. Richardson was stabbed during the fight, but the injuries weren't serious.
Police arrested Richardson and charged him with felony marijuana possession, felony use of a weapon during a crime, misdemeanor obstruction of police officers and misdemeanor battery.
The boyfriend wasn't charged.
Richard Roeper Leaving Popular Movie Show
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Richard Roeper says he is leaving the nationally syndicated show "At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper" after eight seasons. His last appearance on the show will air the weekend of Aug. 16-17.
Roeper said he intends to "proceed elsewhere...as the co-host of a movie review show that honors the standards established by Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert more than 30 years ago."
"I will be free to share the details on that program in the near future," he said.
Roeper joined Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert on the show in 2000, after Ebert's original co-host, Chicago Tribune film critic Gene Siskel, died of a brain tumor in 1999.
Roeper was chosen from among a large group of contenders to be the permanent replacement for Siskel after his death.
"Deal Or No Deal"'s New Syndicated Version Offers Daily $500,000 Top Prize
Howie Mandel, the models, the banker and the briefcases all will be in place when the syndicated version of "Deal or No Deal" premieres in September-along with cash for viewers as well as contestants.
Players on the new show, based off of a series that debuted in the Netherlands in 2002 and became an international success, won't have a shot at the top $1 million payoff that's possible on NBC's series, but the half-hour show airing each weekday will offer a still-hefty $500,000, the show's producer told The Associated Press Monday.
The TV audience will have their own chance to win as well as watch with a $10,000 weekly prize up for grabs via a companion Web site or a call-in number, series producer Endemol USA said.
Mandel will continue to host the hourlong NBC show, which is entering its fourth season next month and has proven a hit.
"My wife could not be more thrilled to have me out of the house and at work Monday through Friday," Mandel joked in a statement released by Endemol..