Hollywood Exclusive by Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith

Carrie Keagan admits it hasn't been easy adapting to a morning show schedule with her VH1 "Jump Start Live" morning variety show — but the energetic blond internet star would like to keep rolling with it beyond its current two-week run just the same.

"I came cross-country for the show, so getting used to the New York time zone was part of the challenge. I was getting up, and I was like, 'Whaaat?'" relates Keagan — who is known to Internet viewers as the lead anchor, writer and producer for No Good TV (including the shows "Up Close with Carrie Keagan" and "In Bed With Carrie Keagan"), with more than a billion views online. "And I'm looking out on Times Square and it's blizzarding, which is definitely something I'm not used to," she goes on.

Then, too, she declared that she would refrain from dropping the F-bomb on the show — but admits that no sooner had she made the commitment that she caught herself explaining a popular Internet acronym to Aaron Eckhart that included the flaming word. Other than that, however, her first week of the new show went off without a hitch, and "We were all just celebrating and hugging and jumping up and down,"

As far as being on in the a.m., "The vibe of our show is so relaxed and easy-going, I think we could be on any time of day," she says. "Our 'Morning Buzz' is a hangover cure for people just tuning in."

The plan is for "Jump Start Live" to help promote this Friday's (11/14) Critics Choice Movie Awards on VH1. After that, Keagan and company are waiting to see if there'll be an order for more "Live" shows. She hopes so, although she admits, "I don't know how Kathie Lee (Gifford) and Hoda (Kotb) do it with this kind of schedule. Do you go out on weekends and stay up late, or do you go to bed early to stay in synch with the rest of the week?"

Whatever the future, No Good TV marches on with celebrities laughing it up with Keagan and cussing at will. She's also likely to be front and center doing red carpet awards show coverage. And then there's the movement to see her cast as the Justice League's Power Girl character — a fan movement that began after the 30-year-old one-time Playmate of the Month dressed up as the superheroine.

"I would LOVE to do it," she says. "People responded so well to that. The creators of 'Power Girl' saw the clips, and they were really happy with them."

DON'T STOP 'TIL YOU GET ENOUGH: Even as the drama continues to unfold over Michael Jackson's death and his doctor's possible legal culpability, Jackson's artistry continues to blaze a creative path. This week, auditions are taking place in New York and Los Angeles for "Thriller Live" — a new stage production for London's West End, set to open in March. Not only are the show's producers (including Jackson super fan and documentarian Adrian Grant) looking for a young African-American male capable of singing Jackson's songs brilliantly, they also hope to find a female lead who can sing like Patti LaBelle, and other singers described as a Marvin Gaye type, a Sam Cooke type and a Jon Bon Jovi type. And lots of luck with that.

ONE ADAMA, TWO ADAMA: With an end-of-month production start in Vancouver slated for the "Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome" Web series, forces on the project have been pushing it to the 11th hour in casting a lead actor to play young hotshot pilot William Adama. A casting notice for the role went out last week. Meanwhile, the real William Adama — Edward James Olmos — is busy with his sons' low-budget movie. He's among the stars of "Filly Brown," directed by Michael D. Olmos, with Mico Olmos exec producing. It's the story of an up-and-coming Latina hip-hop performer(Gina Rodriguez) who faces a crisis of conscience when she has to choose between friends and fame. Lou Diamond Phillips is also in the movie, and they've been looking to cast a major female role with a name actress.

MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC: Sure, "Nashville Star" was canceled in 2009, but that doesn't mean there's not an appetite out there for a country music competition show, right? We'll find out soon because a casting notice has gone out for a host for a new, yet untitled, reality competition show in the country music realm. Candidates should be bright, spunky, personable and attractive — and able to read copy "with personality." The job's open to male or female, experienced or non-experienced. Yee-haw.

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