• Though she seems slightly young for the role, Joan Cusack will be playing the mother to Isla Fisher's character in the Shopaholic movie, Variety writes. John Goodman has been cast as her dad.
• Allison Janney will voice a character in Fox's proposed animated series The Pitts, Zap2it reports.
• Paris Hilton will star as herself on My Name is Earl when the show returns April 3 with a one-hour episode, the Associated Press reports.
• The CBS '70s-set swinger drama Swingtown will premiere in May, writes the Hollywood Reporter.
• Janet Jackson's new album topped this week's charts, Billboard reports.
• According to Variety, Away From Her and Eastern Promises were the big winners at Canada's big award ceremony, the Genies.

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Hugh Dancy and Krysten Ritter have joined Isla Fisher for Confessions of a Shopaholic, the film adaptation of Sophie Kinsella's bestselling Shopaholic novels. Fisher will play the Shopaholic herself, Becky Bloomwood. The film version focuses on Becky, "a compulsive shopper in Manhattan up to her neck in debt who becomes a financial-advice columnist." Want to find out what Dancy and Ritter have to do with it.

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Well, the many of you who proposed that Isla Fisher would make a good Becky Bloomwood in the Shopaholic movie were spot-on with your casting. This was rumored to be true for some time, but now it's official: Isla Fisher will play Becky in the movie. Jerry Bruckheimer will produce and P.J.

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• Exciting news of the week: Sophie Kinsella's novel Confessions of a Shopaholic will be made into a movie.
• Speaking of excitement, I got up close to John Krasinski so check out my interview with him. I also recently talked to Rose Byrne and she's cool, too.
• Now that you know the differences between the two movies Reservation Road and Revolutionary Road, check out the trailer for Reservation Road.
• I'm weighing in on the Emmy nominations all month. This week I mull over the nominations for Supporting Actor in a Comedy and Supporting Actress in a Comedy.
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Given the success of Bridget Jones' Diary and any number of other "chick flicks" based on chick lit, I'm surprised it's taken this long to hear news about a movie based on the Sophie Kinsella Shopaholic series. But alas, now the time has come for a film all about Becky Bloomwood and her wacky adventures. ComingSoon reports: P.J.

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