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The National Post is running a story on Terasa Hill who we saw on Dragons' Den season two pitching Barnie's Horse Treats. After her show appearance, Hill became a Canadian success story, but things turned sour when the Canadian Food Inspection Agency reminded her she hadn't registered her product. Click here the read the cautionary tale...

Suzanne Dingwall helped us out with Dragons' Den auditions recently and she posted on her blog about the experience. She brings up an interesting point about making investment decisions based not on the bottom line but on a compelling idea. Dingwall writes, "As an investor, what do you do when someone asks for help, not money?" Click here to read her post.

Guest post by Dragons' Den producer Mike Armitage There is a difference between a great idea and a great business. Many people have come to the audition with ideas – something they’ve always dreamed about creating: a new store, a new sauce, a new kind of shovel. Their idea is revolutionary! I could make millions of dollars! Yes, you could. But ideas don’t turn into millions of dollars on their own. You need to put that idea into action. You need to start a business. That business has to grow in value. To add value you must put some effort (work) into your ideas. Value of your business =…

Guest post by Dragons' Den producer Mike Armitage Dragons' Den rounded off our East Coast tour with an amazing audition in Halifax. Thanks to the tireless effort from Ashley Urquhart and her team of volunteers at CEED, we had 41 people brave the den. That is the most people come out to an audition in the East coast in Dragons' Den history. Thanks to everyone that helped out. Some businesses and entrepreneurs were so strong they were asked to come on the show within hours of applying! Remember, if you are asked to be asked to come to Dragons' Den for our taping of Season Three be sure to ask…

The eTeam asks... if Dragons' Den had a fantasy league, which of the following would you love see on an illustrious panel of fire breathing investors?

Here is a look back at some of the highlights, lowlights and sidelights of the upfront week, which ended on Thursday. HE SAID WHAT? People who attended the Univision presentation were buzzing about a closing remark made by Joe Uva, chief executive at Univision Communications. He wrapped up the event with a jocular, four-word [...]

Fox’s “American Idol” dominated another night of television ratings on Wednesday as the singing competition reduced its cast of would-be pop stars to two, David Archuleta and David Cook, who will compete in next week’s finale. Nielsen’s estimated that 24.3 million viewers tuned in to the results show at 9 p.m., during which Syesha Mercado [...]

The Hollywood Reporter: "'The Bachelor' will be looking for love all over again on VH1. The lifestyle cable network said Thursday it acquired the full library of ABC's reality competition series." VH1 has set network records with its own dating reality shows. No Tags

Several networks stuck to their plans, previously announced, to cut back on the hoopla and hyperbole for the 2008-09 upfront week. Others decided that the assembled advertising agency employees and journalists could use a song, a laugh or a glimpse of a celebrity or two. A multimedia presentation on Monday afternoon by NBC Universal offered visitors [...]

A scene from Fox's upfront presentation. Scroll down for the latest updates… 4:14: At its upfront today, the last of the broadcast network presentations this week, Fox will sell traditional television as the most valuable advertising medium. Its upfront introduction sold its ratings growth in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic and used words like "hilarious," "alive," [...]

Lost’s two part, three hour season finale begins tonight, and if last week was any indication, then the final 3 hours of Lost this season are going to be incredible. We get one hour tonight, followed by a two week break, then we get the remaining two hours of the finale. It is still difficult, at this point, to determine why only the six get off the Island – and further, why just those six. We will definitely start to get a clearer picture of that tonight. Spoiler Warning The showdown between the survivors and the freighter people begins. A relatively vague (imagine that!) show…

Spoiler Warning Locke, Hurley and Ben continue their quest for Jacob’s cabin tonight – and we will be introduced to a new character as they draw closer. Also, we’ll see what Michael has been up to since Sayid handed him over to the psychotic Freighter people. ABC’s Official Show Description “Locke is enlightened as to the whereabouts of Jacob’s cabin, and life aboard the freighter becomes perilous.” Tonight’s episode is a Locke-centric flashback, and I have to think this will be one of the better episodes of the season. On the surface it definitely seems to be the most…

Sent in by the always insightful poster Hammer, he explains his theory on the whispers and we posted his unedited thoughts below. Thanks, Hammer. As most of you are already aware there are whispers that are often heard when apparitions appear, when manifestations of Smokey appear, when Smokey as the black cloud appears and as RGS recently pointed out here sometimes when Others appear. These whispers seem to be from characters that have died on the island (and maybe some that have died off the island). I theorize that when characters die, some or maybe even all of them become Whisperers. Many…

Tonight I am sure everyone will be on the edge of their seat as we wait to see if Dr. Shepherd can be saved from the perils of… Appendicitis? – with all the dangers of the Island, who would have thought a bum appendix could take out our beloved hero?!? Also, we should see if Locke’s crew has any luck finding Jacob’s cabin… ABC’s Official Show Description Spoiler Alert “Kate and Juliet must learn to work together when Jack’s health is seriously compromised. Something goes wrong as Sawyer, Claire, Aaron and Miles continue their trek away from Locke’s camp and back…

Given the amount of discussion devoted recently to the possibility of time travel and/or distortion, a good friend emailed me a link to the following theory - some of you may have already seen this, and even though it has a few holes in it, this theory definitely has some sound thought behind it. Further, I think Ben’s comments about Widmore “changing the rules” apply pretty well under some version of the theory outlined above. Anyway, I thought I would point this out to get your thoughts, and because though I do not whole-heartedly embrace everything behind this particular…

There's No Place Like Home, Part 1: Everybody is in a heap of trouble in this cliffhanger episode.

Losing My Mind: Meredith is fighting with her therapist, Cristina is actually cleaning her home, Ava's having a hysterical pregnancy, and a brain tumor patient is hallucinating that she has a wonderful boyfriend who is going to come stay with her during surgery.

Goodbye, Toby: Michael's HR nemesis gets his big send-off, but in an hour packed with big moments, the biggest one never comes.

If It Smells Like A Rat, Give It Cheese: Sara M recaps as Erik makes reality television history and gets voted out despite winning the immunity necklace, thanks to the well-oiled mind game machine that is Parvati, Natalie, Amanda, and Cirie.

The Greg Garcia Interview: My Name Is Earl's mastermind shares his love of TWoP, his hatred of Wikipedia and his plans for more adventures for everyone's favorite mustachioed karma king.

We've been hearing a lot of industry whining lately about how technology is ravaging the traditional TV business model. Starting next season, Fox will actually try to do something about it. One reason viewers love watching their favorite

Comedy is hard for network TV these days. But CBS thinks it's worth it. The network's big move for the 2008-09 season is to start a new sitcom block on Wednesday night. Encouraged by the strong post-strike ratings performance of its Monday line-up,

In one of those last-minute instances that occur in a network scheduling session, someone at the CW decided to change the title from one of its new series from How To Teach Filthy Rich Girls to Surviving the Filthy Rich. Perhaps the CW has

If the annual spring ritual known as the network television upfront soon disappears, historians will say the end began on May 12, 2008 as ad agency execs marched into something called the NBC Experience. NBC decided to dump the traditional

In 2005, Bill Hemmer became one of the biggest on-air names from CNN to jump to Fox News Channel. He's traveled the world as a correspondent for FNC, but it's taken the 2008 Presidential campaign for him to emerge as a leading anchor for the

I’m so nervous! I hope I’m funny. But I don’t know if I can even talk straight. I’m a mess. So we’re going to have a round-table discussion for MTV News with the following American Idol writers: Jim Cantiello of MTV.COM, Michael Slezak of EW.COM, Maura Johnston of Idolator.com and MJ from mjsbigblog.com! MJ is coming all the way from Boston. Isn’t that cool? There’s going to be make-up, and video cameras and stuff, it’s kinda frightening. I’ve never done this before. I have some of the questions in front of me and I can’t think well.

Wow that was an epic. I can’t wait for the 2-hour season finale next week. I hope we get some explanation about the time travel thing next week, but I doubt it. And is Sawyer going to jump off the helicopter? Gad, I hope not! What is interesting is that I really don’t want any of the characters to die. To answer Jack from the end of last season: Yes, Jack, you have to come back to the island! Forget the real world, the island it where it’s at! Heck if it can move and all the time travel thing that we suspect, I want to live there! LOL I love Lost!

Sanjaya Malakar performs “Always On My Mind” on American Idol Extra Simply… DIVINE! Sanjaya Forever!

David Archuleta and David Cook on American Idol Extra Okay, so can we all just get along? Thank you. Video clip: David and David on the Finale:

Syesha Mercado on American Idol Extra Syesha’s brother fiance is so cute! Ha-ooh! Ha-ooh! Ha-ooh! Video clip:

Sorry for the lack of commentary right now -- I will update later with my thoughts. Suffice to say that from a geek angle there's a lot to love here.FOX ANNOUNCES PRIMETIME SLATE FOR 2008-2009 SEASON TWO NEW DRAMAS, THREE NEW COMEDIES AND ONE UNSCRIPTED SERIES JOIN SCHEDULE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED J.J. ABRAMS DRAMA "FRINGE" ALONG WITH COMEDY "DO NOT DISTURB" (working title) DEBUT IN FALL JOSS WHEDON'S "DOLLHOUSE" AND NEW UNSCRIPTED SERIES "SECRET MILLIONAIRE" TO PREMIERE MIDSEASON NEW ANIMATED COMEDIES "THE CLEVELAND SHOW" (working title) AND "SIT DOWN, SHUT UP" (working title) DEBUT IN SPRING FOX…

CBS has 18 shows returning to the schedule. The most significant change is the creation of a new comedy "block" on Wednesday night, with "The New Adventures of Old Christine" and "Project Gary", a new series. As earlier reported, they've picked up "The Mentalist", "Eleventh Hour" and "The Ex List" for dramas and also picked up "Worst Week" as a new half hour on Monday night after "Two and a Half Men". There are a few time period changes, but nothing earth shattering. "Harper's Island" has been picked up for midseason.CBS has had the advantage of stability in their schedule the last few years,…

The following is a transcript of a meeting at the CW just prior to the release of their scheduleINT. BOARDROOM - DAYDAWN O.Good morning everybody!Mumbles from rest of table.DAWN O.Okay, so now that we don't have to program the weekend, what have we got?MINION #1Well, we've got Gossip Girl.DAWN O. OMG! I love that show so hard!MINION #2Yes, for real, Ms. Ostroff.MINION #1But it's only got about two million viewers.DAWN O.Yeah, but it's so good!MINION #1Well, since it does seem to be generating some good press for us, we've decided to focus on that core demographic of 14 to 30 year old women…

Updated on 05/14.New Series Premiere Dates / Status:NETWORK:Unhitched (Fox) Sun 9:30 PMDance War (ABC) (could return next year)Farmer Wants a Wife (CW) Wed 9 PMThe Mole (ABC) 5/17 9 PMSwingtown (CBS) 5/29 10 PMFear Itself (NBC) 5/29 10 PMWhen Women Rule the World (Fox) 6/2 9 PMCelebrity Circus (NBC) 6/11 9 PMWipeout (ABC) 6/24 8 PMI Survived a Japanese Gameshow (ABC) 6/24 9 PMThe Baby Borrowers (NBC) 6/25 8 PMHopkins 24/7 (documentary series) (ABC) 6/26 10 PMDance Machine (ABC) 6/27 8 PMHigh School Musical: Summer Session (ABC) 7/20 8 PMWanna Bet? (ABC) 7/21 9 PMCABLE:Tell Me You Love Me…

It was a great Geekerati show last night. Dave was very open and informative about writing for TV, the future of television and his geek preferences.Check out the interview in the sidebar.

Chuck interviewed uber guru Hank Williams live from Wagner Park in beautiful Battery City Park on Friday, May 2, 2008. Chuck and Hank discussed theft, the economy, and why everything sucks.

Chuck interviews financial expert Tim Sykes.

Chuck interviews recording artist Kiyomi, media executive James Lane, and radio executive Stevie B and gets their thoughts about making music in the age of digital media and web 2.0

Here's something you'll not have been expecting: recipes! Actually just the one. Slashfood has reprinted a recipe from Frank DeCaro's Celebrity Recipe Archive for Dick Sargent's Chinese Chicken Salad. It involves rice sticks, whatever they are. If you click over to the Recipe Archive you'll see something on offer from Agnes Moorehead as well. Tags: Agnes Moorehead, Dick Sargent, recipes

Episode originally broadcast on 10-29-1964. See the TV.com episode guide. The delightfully frumpy and frazzled Aunt Clara makes her first entrance into the series in this seventh episode. This time it's through the front door, her confused spell having landed her in the middle of the freeway. It's immediately clear that her impoverished powers are a problem, though that's not the principal issue of the episode. Clara has arrived for a meeting with Samantha and two older witches, Bertha and Mary, about the annual misrepresentation of witches that characterizes the Halloween season. The four of…

Richard Baer died on February 22nd. He wrote, according to this obituary, 23 episodes of Bewitched--as well as episodes of pretty much every other show people like me grew up on: F Troop, The Munsters, M*A*S*H, and so on. (See also his entry at IMDB.) The first episode he wrote for Bewitched was Driving is the Only Way to Fly, the 26th episode of season 1. (Interestingly, that episode was also Paul Lynde's first appearance on the show.)

I'm not sure what prompted her to do it, but Gracie over at Open 24 Hours has a gallery of art work that appeared in the Stephens' home. See also her recreation of the Stephens' living room.

Episode originally broadcast on 10-22-1964. See the TV.com episode guide. Early morning, Darrin's-late-for-the-train, would-be kitchen sex is interrupted by the Stevens' doorbell: a certain Marshall Burns is at the door, a little boy played by Jimmy Mathers (younger brother of Leave It To Beaver's Jerry Mathers). Marshall is ready for his morning tryst with Samantha. It seems she's his only friend in the neighborhood, and he regularly stops by for breakfast. He's fatherless and the victim of a "nervous, overprotective mother." Said mother--played by June Lockhart with a Southern…

ET has the latest... This just in: "The Hills" is a hit! According to Us Weekly, MTV announced that the guilty pleasure's season finale on Monday was the most watched show in its time period among the ever-important 12-34 age group. This season of "The Hills" was watched by more than 43 million people, making it MTV's most successful series since "The Real World XIV: San Diego" in 2004.

The longtime girlfriends will say "I do." ELLEN DEGENERES and PORTIA DE ROSSI are set to tie the knot! The celebrated talk show host and her long time girlfriend will make the announcement on Ellen's show today, an audience member told the Associated Press press after yesterday's taping. The big news comes on the heels of the California high court striking down state laws against gay marriages.

ANDREA EVANS has returned to her Emmy-nominated role as Tina Lord Roberts on "One Life to Live" after an 18-year absence -- just in time for the show's 40th anniversary, taking place on July 15. "To know that I left 'One Life to Live' 18 years ago and that the audience still so badly wanted me to come back -- how could I say no?" she tells ET. "There is nothing more complimentary than to have your audience miss you and want you back." Andrea says she never wanted to leave the show, but she was involved in a very scary stalking situation at that time and as the…

Melinda learns some uncomfortable truths on tonight's "Ghost Whisperer."The "Ghost Whisperer" wraps up its season tonight when Melinda (JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT) uncovers the truth about her family's past through a series of bodily possessions. On last week's episode, Melinda, after many years and a long search, reunited with her father (guest star MARTIN DONOVAN), who she discovered was a prosecutor in Grandview and may have convicted an innocent man, who is now seeking revenge. When Melinda rushed to warn her father, she may have been too late. The door to his hotel room was jammed,…

ET breaks "Dancing" news! ET breaks news that "Dancing with the Stars"' finalist CRISTIAN DE LA FUENTE, who tore a muscle in his bicep during a dance two weeks ago, has scheduled surgery for next Friday, after the finale. The former "CSI: Miami" and telenovela star told us, "The arm cannot improve unless I have surgery and I have surgery scheduled for next Friday." He said that his arm is hindering him in some ways in preparing for the upcoming finale: "The problem right now is that we don't use [the arm in our routine], but sometimes if we fall after a lift…

After spending more than two years mocking and sending up The Bachelor with its Flavor of Love franchise and spin-offs, VH1 has now acquired the rights to every season of the show. That includes all 12 seasons of the regular show and four The Bachelorettes, plus "all cycles through at least 2008," according to VH1. The cable network will reintroduce us to the franchise by airing the first seven seasons over seven days, starting on Sunday, June 1. The weird part about this news is that VH1 is playing the acquisition straight, insisting that their shows and ABC's show are basically the same…

After continuing to slide week to week during the point in the competition when ratings usually increase, American Idol 7's ratings improved this week, at least when compared to last week. Wednesday's results show was watched by 24.2 million people, and "reversed a six-week downward trend Wednesday night with a 9% ratings increase from last week in the 18-49 demo," Variety reports. That's actually an increase from the 24.0 million people who watched Tuesday night, and in previous years, results shows have had lower ratings than the performance episodes. Apparently, people are tuning in just…

Despite essentially being let go from Elle magazine, Nina Garcia will stay at the magazine and appear on Project Runway 5. However, that sentence could be written "...stay at the magazine to appear...," because Elle basically created a job for her so she can stay through the end of the show, at which point she'll start her new job at Marie Claire. Her future on the show's sixth, Lifetime-hosted season is uncertain, as she and Michael Kors are both still in negotiations. In a press release, the magazine announced "that ELLE has entered a new agreement with Nina Garcia who has been named…

On Monday night, Flavor of Love 3, which is apparently still airing, will conclude, ending both this season and Flavor Flav's three-season, 35-episode (plus reunions) search for love. His now-epic quest will come to an end in what VH1 is calling "the most dramatical elimination in 'Flavor of Love' history" (VH1's acquisition of The Bachelor seems to be affecting the network already), as "Flav finds himself caught between an undeniable chemistry with one girl and a love connection with the other." This weekend, before that dramatic finale, the cable network once known for playing only music…

Summer used to offer a break from television until reality TV invaded eight years ago and changed that. While broadcast networks have extremely few reality series scheduled in the fall, that's not the case this summer. Almost 30 new and returning series will air on network TV and cable, most of which will debut in June. However, some that will fill the summer months have already started broadcasting, and others kick off next week even as spring shows finish their runs. Here's a look at how you can fill your summer in front of the TV. What shows are you most looking forward to? Times listed…

It's Toby's goodbye party at Dunder Mifflin and Michael demands a huge celebration that matches the joy in his heart.Added: May 16, 2008Air date: May 15, 2008Duration: 42:30Expires in 15 days on June 01, 2008

NBA highlights from May 15th, 2008Added: May 16, 2008Air date: May 15, 2008Duration: 02:42Expires in 2 days on May 19, 2008

Earl is still questioning karma bringing Billie into his life. Billie forces Earl to choose between the list and her. What will Earl pick?Added: May 16, 2008Air date: May 16, 2008Duration: 42:23Expires in about 1 month on June 20, 2008

Watch Chris Paul make the amazing one-handed strip and take it coast-to-coast for the lay-in.Added: May 16, 2008Air date: May 15, 2008Duration: 00:20Expires in 4 months on September 30, 2008

Watch Fabricio Oberto make the pretty bounce pass to Tim Duncan for the slam finish in Thursday's Game 6.Added: May 16, 2008Air date: May 15, 2008Duration: 00:15Expires in 4 months on September 30, 2008

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Network rolls out big guns in late August; Fringe to follow House, Dollhouse set for midseason.

Actor Jorge Garcia talks about season four of ABC's hit, snooping around the set, and his favorite theories about what is going on in the show.

Network brass expands comedy by adding Wednesday-night laughs; five new shows penciled in for fall.

Cable network's programs, including Sopranos, Sex and the City, on Apple's download store.

Network also renews Old Christine, Unit, Engagement; welcomes six newbies.

The overall design of Season 4 has been genius, as the introduction of flash forwards have set us up for a most unique of season finales. We’re building to a climax from both the past and the future, and the energy seems fittingly magnified. Yet for all the tension coming to a head on the island, two off-island scenes tonight really stood out for me: the reunification of the Oceanic 6 and their families on the tarmac here in Honolulu, and Claire’s mom revealing to Jack that he had (or has) a sister. The latter because it’s a reveal that we knew was inevitable, but was still…

  Play  This episode of “The Transmission” takes a look at “Cabin Fever,” the eleventh episode of the fourth season of “LOST.” We recap the episode in eight minutes, then spend some time discussing it in greater detail. Then, we turn it over to You All Everybody, featuring our brilliant listeners and readers. In the Forward Cabin, we preview next week’s episode and the last days of production for Season 4. Get iTunes | Subscribe to MP3 | Subscribe to Enhanced Podcast (AAC) Segments: 0:00:00 Introduction 0:01:11 “LOST” in 8…

The beautiful paradox of “LOST” is that, tonight, we have an episode that told us so much. Yet ultimately, at its core, the revelations are simple, basic, cutting right to the heart of the show we’ve loved for four years now. The quiet contentedness with which Ben shared Hurley’s candy bar said it all… without a single line. Tonight we saw the passing of the torch, the beginning of the next era for the island, and one that — perhaps foretold by Locke’s childhood choice of the knife — will be a tumultuous one. “Cabin Fever”…

  Play  This episode of “The Transmission” takes a look at “Something Nice Back Home,” the tenth episode of the fourth season of “LOST.” We recap the episode in eight minutes, then spend some time discussing it in greater detail. Then, we turn it over to You All Everybody, featuring our brilliant listeners and readers. In the Forward Cabin, we preview next week’s episode and discuss a major shoot in Wai’anae. For the curious, this is why the podcast was late this week. Get iTunes | Subscribe to MP3 | Subscribe to Enhanced Podcast (AAC)…

If last week’s episode was a taste of action adventure, “Something Nice Back Home” brings us back to the character drama. There was a heap of ’shipper fodder and a dabble of mystery, and in between a substantial serving of connecting the dots. Jack and Kate play house and bliss out, only to have it all go to hell (starting the descent into “we have to go back” Jack from the end of Season 3). And why? Ominous warnings from a Hurley who’s become accustomed to visits by Charlie but doubts reality, and hauntings by his dad. Claire’s dad, as well,…

NBC has released a second 30-second spot to help “count down” the premiere of Heroes Season 3. This one gives us a brief look behind-the-scenes of the show’s new episodes, including a brief interview with Masi about Daphne, the new villainous speedster who has been described as his “arch nemesis”. By the way, watch those [...]

Can’t wait until September for fresh Heroes episodes? Lucky for you, then, that you won’t have to wait that long. Kind of. While yes, the Season 3 premiere of Heroes won’t show up until September, 2008, there will be new Heroes content to digest starting in mid-July, when NBC announced that the first episode of [...]

Got word today that NBC has released a 30-second teaser for the upcoming third season of Heroes. There’s nothing there to get too excited about; in fact, there’s not a whole lot there to get excited about at all. It’s 30 seconds of an announcer guy and some random video of the cast, with the [...]

It looks like Tim Kring and company have pulled a fast one — they’ve changed the name of the Season 3’s new speedster villain from Joy to Daphne, or at least according to a recent article on actress Brea Grant. The article also has Grant mentioning that she will be a true villain in the [...]

What are the chances that Christopher Eccleston, aka Claude the Invisible Man, will return in Heroes Season 3, or a future Heroes season? It doesn’t look like it’s going to happen anytime soon, if at all. Eccleston has a bit of a history with abandoning shows, as fans of Doctor Who can certainly attest to. [...]

Ellen DeGeneres and her longtime girlfriend, actress Portia de Rossi, plan to get married, according to the AP. The talk-show host made the announcement during a taping of her show Thursday, at which De Rossi was in the audience. Ellen's

New to TVGuide.com: • Ausiello has exclusive details on the star of the House spin-off, Jorja Fox's CSI replacement and 24 movie casting news. • My TV Matt'rs blog has exclusive interviews with Prison Break's Sarah Wayne

Not that 24 fans needed to be made more excited/impatient for the long-delayed Season 7, Kiefer Sutherland at Fox's upfront presentation promised truly super-Bauered times ahead — and in a way, you have the WGA-AMPTP feud to thank for it. "After so

After 14 years of marriage, country music star Shania Twain and her husband, music producer Robert "Mutt" Lange, are splitting up. The pair married in 1993, six months after meeting. They have a 6-year-old son together. The couple, which

Fox entertainment chairman Peter Liguori at Thursday's upfronts presentation unveiled a "Remote-Free TV" initiative, under which Fox will launch its two new dramas — J.J. Abrams' Fringe (premiering in late August) and Joss Whedon's Dollhouse

The balance of power in the NFC East may have shifted again today -- bad news, Giants / Redskins / Eagles / Jessica Simpson fans: "Tony did dump Jessica," a source close to the quarterback told Us. "Of course, she's upset!" Part of the reason for the break up after only six months? "This Jen and John Mayer thing is eating her up, and she just can't handle it — and Tony has basically had enough," a Simpson pal told Us. "She's too much to handle." Rejoice, Cowboy fans! Now, when Tony Romo does his molestor-ey "Tony Romo, Eastern Illinois University" intro on Monday night football and winks…

Lost secrets revealed and Doug Benson travels to Narnia…tonight on Best Day Ever. Best Day Ever: 5-15-08

Who would have thought that a 20 year-old outtake from Inside Edition with Bill O'Reilly losing his sh*t about not being able to read a teleprompter would inspire so much wonderful hilarity on the Internets this week? We've seen remixes and compilations and Colbert (oh my!), but in my opinion none of those things measure up in laugh-out-loud funniness to the clip below from Barely Political, in which we imagine what Bill's producer might have been yelling back at him from behind the camera in the midst of this now-classic meltdown - I LLOL'd. Thanks for a great week, Bill! Check out the clip…

"Heyyy, does anyone know how to get to the spiky bangs and ridiculous ill-fitting clothing store? I need to go there." (via INF Daily)

Sistah network LOGO has just launched what will perhaps be the greatest show/website of our lifetime: RuPaul's Drag Race, the biggest kiki of 2008. Are you or do you wish to be America's Second Most Famous Drag Queen (it is Roop's show, after all), then you're in luck: The casting site is launched and just dying to receive your fabulous submissions. Listen to this plea: "Give us your wretched weaves, your 6-inch stilettos, your sagging falsies, all yearning to breath free. The internet now has a haven for starry-eyed drag queens looking to be famous not only in their own minds but on TV as…

Joshua Packwood knows what it's like to be a minority. This weekend he'll be the first white valedictorian to graduate from the historically black, all male Morehouse College in the Atlanta school's 141-year history.

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James Woodard is slowly returning to life. He is starting over after spending 27 years behind bars. He was wrongly imprisoned and cleared by DNA.

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Bad choices all round by all three contestants. When they are finally given the opportunity to show of their talents with songs they may have been singing forever, they chose between them, Peggy Lee’s Fever, Chris Brown’s With You and Dare You to Move by Switchfoot. Randy Jackson made a great choice with Alicia Keys If I Ain’t Got You which was Syesha‘s first song of the evening. But after all was said and done, better left to Alicia Keys to perform! Syesha’s own choice of Peggy Lee’s Fever would have been well suited to a warm up cabaret act at a local church fundraiser but did…

I-t-s T-u-e-s-d-a-y n-i-g-h-T!!!!! And we’re one more step closer to the crowning moment of series 7 in the now ‘too long running’ reality show American Idol. It would appear that not only has the contestant’s interest faded, as displayed last week when Jason Castro all but begged to be voted off, like a child at summer camp hating every moment of an activity his parents had promised him would be the highlight of his life, but the viewers are beginning to wander off from the summer camp site in their droves also. With the premiere of American Idol holding the title of the lowest…

It was yet another night that saw a nervous contestant’s hopes of a multi-million dollar career in the music business being dashed so publicly but was it a contestant who should have taken the walk of shame longer ago than last night? Jason Castro, it would appear, has mainly viewed the entire competition as a bit of a giggle and even intimated last week that he’s really burnt out and wanted to be voted off American Idol. With his 1960’s choice of Bob Marley’s I Shot the Sheriff and Mr Tambourine Man, originally sung by Bob Dylan, it must have been difficult for Simon Cowell, Randy…

Unlike most previous weeks on the reality show, American Idol, Tuesday night saw the four remaining contestants being given the opportunity of selecting their own choice of songs they wished to publicly crucify, with the proviso that it was a song that had ‘inspired’ them in the past. From that category one would have expected offerings along the lines of, Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On, or even Frank Sinatra’s My Way, so in that case how on earth did Jason Castro come up with Bob Dylan’s Mr Tambourine Man and David Cook’s choice of Duran Duran’s Hungry Like the Wolf? Viewers…

“I lost some lines in there; that’s kinda bad.” 21-year-old Southern contestant Jason Castro made a blunder the size of Texas during Tuesday night’s American Idol. For the millions of viewers who tuned in to watch the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-themed episode, it was a nail-biting hour filled with enough angst to power a small country. Jason started off with a not so thrilling rendition of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff,” which earned him several slaps on the wrist by two out of the three judges. Randy Jackson sat there chuckling before classifying the performance as “really…

Ladies and gentlemen of the press, meet the Oceanic 6. And please, immediately start poking holes in their cover story. Wow, anyone else literally jumping up in down in frustration when you realized that we have to wait TWO weeks to find out what was teased so brilliantly last night? "Lost" always presents questions, of course, and I'm sure the show's final two hours on May 29 will leave us with some hum-dingers. But it seems that the finale will indeed answer a few things that have been killing us since the season began—heck, since last season ended. How do the Oceanic 6 make it off…

Been a bit remiss about blogging BSG lately, other than my musings on Starbuck (during which I completely forgot that we're dealing with a 40-year time period that's passed, so it's unlikely – though not impossible – that Starbuck was that young blonde girl in "Razor") and the blog carnival. But we learned that Eric Stoltz has joined the Caprica prequel cast to play the yin to Esai Morales' yang. Stoltz plays Daniel Graystone, the patriarch of the other major family at the heart of this prequel movie/back-door pilot. Alessandra Toressani plays his daughter, Zoe. Morales plays…

For about two months now, it was only a matter of who would finish third leading up to the all-David finale for which the producers and judges have shamelessly shilled. That meant comeback kid Syesha Mercado—the drop-dead gorgeous victim of seemingly endless bottom 2's and 3's and the kind of unwarranted judges' criticism matched only by Carly Smithson—finally bid adieu at the end of last night's results show. But what a run it was. From moment one, I knew Syesha had potential. When the Top 24 was revealed, I wrote, "Fine, I'll say it. If there's any justice, she's the 'American…

Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states it simply: No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. Yet, every week during the run of 24 each season (until this season, when we got pre-empted by the writer's strike, sniff), many people who otherwise abhor torture cheer on our man Jack Bauer as he shoots a suspect's wife in the knee, uses a lamp cord to administer electric shocks to his girlfriend's estranged husband, chops a bad guy's finger off with a cigar cutter and otherwise tortures assorted bad people. Problem is,…

The suspense is killing me as much as the dread of those final credits rolling is chilling me. I think I can safely say I speak for The Office fandom when I say I can't wait for it to get here, and I don't want it to be over. So with less than five hours to go, I leave you these tidbits of Office-ness to get you through the homestretch. TVGuide.com caught up with Melora Hardin (in Scottsdale, Ariz., presumably), and she dishes on the finale. Did you know Melora's going to be in the upcoming Hannah Montana movie? TVGuide.com: Have you ever had a relationship with someone you worked with?

If three previous seasons of Top Chef have taught contestants anything, it is that you always have to follow the judges’ rules for each challenge. If you don’t, you are the most likely target to be sent packing. In Top Chef, taste is subjective. So all things being equal, the rules are the deal breaker. Andrew is the latest chef to learn that lesson the hard way. His over-confident attempt to create a healthy sushi box lunch for Chicago cops (???) fell flat with the judges, both because it didn’t taste very good and also because it was missing a food group required for the…

All eyes were on American Idol‘s elimination show last night.  Curiosity once again helped the program win back viewers lost in recent weeks. 8pm The Price is Right (7.3 million, 1.4/4 in 18-49) narrowly won its hour. Deal or No Deal (7.1 million, 1.8/5) was down a notch. ‘Til Death (5.9 million, 2.2/7) and Back to You (6.9 million, 2.5/7) both did about the same. Wife Swap (6.4 million, 2.5/7) slipped by 600,000. Approximately 4.6 million saw Whitney Thompson crowned America’s Next Top Model (2.3/7). Tags: 18-49, american idol, americas next top model, antm, audience,…

The American Idol will be named next week, but before the finale extravaganza can begin there was one last piece of business to deal with: elimination. For this special night, all the judges and contestants dressed in black and white (or, one or the other). The Top 3 Idols danced around the stage and judges’ island singing “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now.” I didn’t really love the performance, but nerves probably played a big part for the singers. The week’s Ford video followed, Idols crooning “Heaven” inside an MTV Cribs theme. This one was actually pretty cute, which is more…

Given all the controversy - and attention - Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew garnered last season, it was only a matter of time before a new installment was greenlighted. According to the New York Post, stars who may seize the opportunity to get some help include pop singer Aaron Carter, basketball star Dennis Rodman, Skid Row musician Sebastian Bach and former madam Heidi Fleiss.  Although some of these names could clearly benefit from the program, VH1 would not comment on any of the casting rumors. Production on the next season of Rehab is scheduled to begin in June. Tags: aaron carter,…

After 11 weeks and 14 models, it was time for America’s Next Top Model: Cycle 10 to come to a close. Who was the next girl destined for Seventeen magazine?  Was it Fatima (the Somalian with the horrible childhood), Whitney (the first full-figured model to make it this far) or Anya (the “ethereal beauty” with the god-awful voice)?  Read on! Tags: americas next top model, americas next top model cycle 10, antm, anya kop, cw, cycle 10, fatima siad, jay manuel, miss j, miss j alexander, models, nigel barker, paulina porizkova, photo shoots, reality, recap, sidefeatured, tyra…

In case you might have blinked, the annual network Upfronts were this week. It’s the annual ritual where the major networks roll out their new fall schedules with great fanfare and entice Madison Avenue to buy advertising “upfront” for these new schedules based on a few clips and pilots that will be retooled or scrapped, committing billions of dollars on nothing more than blind faith. As I describe the process in my play – it’s as if you put an off-track betting window in a mental institution.But this year it’s all been very low key, which begs the question – if the networks…

There should be a special place in hell reserved for stage parents. They should spend all eternity having to watch Hillary Clinton star as GYPSY and do her own singing.The latest example of this unique form of child abuse is AMERICAN IDOL hopeful David Archuleta’s overbearing father being banned from rehearsals. No wonder when little David has to speak he sounds like a whipped puppy. You would too if your dad was the Great Santini. It’s hard enough to sing “Imagine” but when your dad is bouncing a basketball off your head during rehearsal it must really be tough.Under the guise of…

The fun weeks of AMERICAN IDOL are over. All the interesting stoners, tattoo ladies, hayseeds, emotional wrecks, biker chicks, foreigners, cretins, cheerleaders, divas, endomorphs, satyrs, and future serial killers have been voted off. Now it’s down to three and you know who’s going to win so it’s kind of like dragging a dead horse across the finish line to shoot it.Sorry to say but AMERICAN IDOL has jumped the shark. I think it was the night Danny Noriega sang “Jailrock Rock.”The format has gotten tiresome. We’re sick of seeing the damn Coca Cola backdrop. Tired of saying “Who…

There is a grassroots campaign to save BACK TO YOU. Fox canceled it but CBS is supposedly interested. I always thought CBS would be a better place for it anyway.There is a petition you can sign to show your support.Best of luck and if it works I'm starting a petition for ALMOST PERFECT.AMERICAN IDOL recap to follow shortly.

WALL –E – Pixar space movie from the director of FINDING NEMO. Robots have to clean up Earth, which has become a giant trash dump. Set twelve years in the future.THE LOVE GURU – Mike Myers plays another painfully unfunny character in a movie that, judging by the trailer, could be the worst comedy ever made. And that includes STOP! OR MY MOM WILL SHOOT starring Mr. Funny Boots, Sylvester Stallone.WANTED – A nerd is recruited by a secret society and turned into a lightning fast superhero. Has a love scene with Angelina Jolie but she doesn't know it.SPACE CHIMPS – Ohmygod, is this what…

Courtesy Photo/Joelle AndresMustard Plug performs tonight. Oops. We goofed. A calendar item in The Weekend section had the wrong date for Mustard Plug's "Punk Rock Prom" show tonight at Skelletones, 133 Division Ave. S. We received an e-mail from Mustard...

It's really going to be a battle of the Davids after all, just as so many people predicted and hoped it would be. More than just a skirmish of two guys and their vocal abilities, this is almost an ideological...

Courtesy PhotoWhat you'll see: The top 10 "American Idol" contestatns from this year will appear at Van Andel Arena on Sept. 3 Sorry I'm so late on this, but I just stumbled upon the password for today's Pop-Tarts Presents "American...

Courtesy Photo/ABCMarissa is gone and the top 3 is set. Editor's note: Lorilee Craker offers her thoughts on "Dancing with the Stars" results show from Tuesday night. When Marissa Jaret Winokur says "Do something that makes you feel sexy, and...

Live blog for tonight's "American Idol" begins around 8. Leave comments above, not below, during the live blog....

The federal trial of infamous Hollywood private investigator Anthony Pellicano ended today with a jury verdict finding him guilty of all but one of the racketeering and conspiracy criminal counts against him. Reports from inside the courtroom say he sat expressionless while the verdicts for himself and his co-defendants were read. Pellicano had been charged with 77 [...]

  EXCLUSIVE: I'm told that, this time around, it's IATSE who has put the screws to the Capitol Films indie film Nailed because its crew members weren't being paid. The pic's union members had been begging IATSE for weeks to get involved over all the payroll irregularities. Friday was supposed to be the deadline set for the crew to get paid since [...]

That's the number -- $80 million -- which my box office gurus are estimating for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian's 3-day weekend haul. Showings of the joint Disney/Walden Media fantasy pic start in major outlets among the 3,929 theaters at 12:01 AM Friday, but of course the major moolah will be made during Saturday [...]

I need to take a personal day Thursday so DHD posting will resume at the earliest tonight or the latest Friday AM. Play nice while I'm gone. Oh, and TOLDJA! I broke the news a week ago that Time Warner Cable's spokesperson Patti Rockenwagner was taking over as Paramount boss Brad Grey's exec VP of corporate communications. See my [...]

Media Rights Capital, and everyone else, passed on Moonlight for mid-season. The show is dead. Moonlight fans will be singing outside Warner Bros today at noon and again on Friday by the big main gate at 4000 Warner Blvd near Pass street. I'm not sure why but they will be singing. 'Moonlight' Is Dead At MRC & Everywhere; UPDATE: [...]

At first, the rumblings were off the record. But now, as Kristi Yamaguchi, Jason Taylor and Cristian de la Fuente head into next week's finals, it's being discussed quite openly: There is a "nice" problem at Dancing with the Stars. All three

The following contains spoiler information about Dancing with the Stars' latest results show. Is this the week that all of the long-running underdogs get sent home? The same night that American Idol's Syesha — who has almost always placed

As if the Season 6 semi-finals weren't reason enough to be in a party mood, Season 3 champ Emmitt Smith entered the ballroom just before show time and did the funky chicken all the way across the floor to his ringside seat. "I'm not sure if he was

Has the clock at last run out for a longtime underdog? Is Jason poised to tackle second place? Can Cristian take advantage of Kristi's weakest numbers and gain some serious ground? Those questions and more are raised by TVGuide.com's latest Dancing

Could Dancing duo Derek Hough and Shannon Elizabeth be quietly choreographing plans for a new reality show of their own? Sources tell Extra that the two are in talks with the production company that Mel B runs with her husband, Stephen

RL deadlines kept me from blogging last week, so I’m going to pull everything together today, beginning with friend-of-the-show Fr. Jim Martin’s visit last night. He does have a knack for breaking Stephen out of character! Here’s the clip from last Wednesday. At least when Stephen crosses the line of decency, it seems he has the grace to realize it: And finally, from Thursday’s show, the six degrees of Barack Obama: To put it all in perspective, here’s a little tidbit of an interview with Stephen in the Philadelphia Inquirer the weekend before the show’s…

Looks like Stephen is all set for the Pope’s visit to New York. He’s got quite a welcome package prepared, right down to a baby to be baptized (son of Colbert Report writer Peter Gwinn). Whether the pope accepts or declines the invitation, it could make for some great comedy bits in the days to come.

Happy Easter everyone! For your holiday viewing pleasure, here’s the clip of last year’s Easter Under Attack. The Gospel According to Cadbury. My favorite Easter clip, “The Wørd: Marketing” seems to be having some technical difficulties on the new Colbert Report website, but we’ve got 50 days of Easter so I’ll keep trying to retrieve it.

In which the humble custodian of this blog submits to photography and reveals her day job. My local paper interviewed me about the blog and there’s a very nice article here. I even bought a hard copy of the paper, which I haven’t done in ages. Happy Holy Week, everyone! Here’s hoping that someone out there is attacking Easter and catching Stephen’s attention.

Stephen brought in Bill Donohue, head of the Catholic League, to rage at Rev. Hagee’s endorsement of John McCain. Sort of like a professional mourner? Also, a housekeeping note on the site. The Motherload videos are no longer working, so I’m in the process of upgrading the links to the new Colbert Report website. The site looks like it’s going to be fabulous once they get the full archive up. I’m hoping that older episodes featured here that expired will be available again.

*After last week’s debacles, I cannot believe we have two more episodes (1 tonight and 1 big two hour event two weeks from now).Who’s excited for a big season end cliffhanger?ME!!!Erase and Rewind The episode begins much like the show began.Some people on a plane.This plane, however, is a cargo plane.And this one contains the Oceanic 6.Before they land, they get a warning of the situation from an airline representative.She tells them that in addition to their families, press will be at their landing site. Even though we all know…let’s recap our Oceanic 6:we have Sun, Aaron, Kate,…

Crazy in LoveMeredith wants to quit therapy.Provoking her, the therapist calls her a quitter.So Meredith fires her. Typical Mer.Why can’t she be strong enough to accept her faults?She’s so hard on everyone.It’s a little frustrating.Week after week our title character mentally and emotionally destroys herself. In big Seattle Grace News, Walter Tappley, the “god” of surgery, has come for a visit.He even trained the Chief.The Chief’s excitement is palpable, and he runs to Hahn to have Tappley scrub in with her.Man, the guy even has Hahn’s knickers all bunched up. Meanwhile, Derek…

What do you think Masi Oka is like in real life? I see him as this quietly funny guy, who can totally let loose with friends. Who knows if I'm correct, but since I've decided to find him a lady, I figured I should get to know the guy, right? You see, awhile back I saw Masi on Ellen and she totally made a fake classified ad for him. Well that was back in September 2007, so I figured I should update it for all the ladies out there. It'd be a mitzvah of sorts.First of all, the good news is that Masi told me he "could still use a classified." That means he's single! (Who's swooning?)Now, before…

I never really had a thing for Milo Ventimiglia. I definitely liked watching him as Jess on Gilmore Girls and I love when he flies on Heroes, but it ended at that.Well, all that quickly changed the moment I saw him in person on the NBC red carpet. I kid you not, I saw Milo from afar and I started to get butterflies. I immediately blurted out to the reporters around me, "I think I have a crush on Peter Petrelli." (Peter, of course, is the character Milo plays on Heroes.)Luckily I was able to keep my composure during our interview, but that didn't stop me from running home to my boyfriend to…

Out of more than 100 thousand wannabes, Syesha Mercado held tight to her dream and rode it all the way to a third place finish.  She deserves every bit of glory. This week, 56 million votes came in to deem David Cook and David Archuleta the two best singers of the competition.  Neither of them had to endure the scare of Ryan making them "step aside" on any results night. They've always made it to the safe couch.  Week after week, Syesha was singled out amongst her fellow singers - constantly with a lower percentile of votes.  After contestant 11 left, Syesha was either in…

Torchwood alum Freema Ageyman has been cast in a 15 part serial based on Charles Dickens' "Little Dorrit" which boasts a phenominal cast including Andy "Gollum" SirkisThe story is about the titular Dorrit's rise from rags to riches, and back.For the full press release, take a gander over at the BBC Drama Website

Maybe the BBC is trying to make up to us Yanks for making us wait a week late to see Torchwood... Now, US residents can buy and download episodes of Torchwood from the Apple iTunes Store.Americans can buy single episodes and complete seasons, so what are you doing still reading this??? Get to it!

I bet you're thinking I was going to write something about John Barrowman's singing career here... Nope!Seriously though, James Marsters will be appearing and performing at the "Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors" aptly located in New Jersey on the weekend of June 20th, 2008.One of the highlights will be Captain John preforming a concert for fans on Saturday, June 21st at 8:30 pm.The convention itself costs $20 Friday, $25 Saturday, and $25 on Sunday, with advance ticket discounts available on the website.If you would like to attend the James Marsters autograph session, there is one on Saturday…

The wonderful 'Marcus' over on the Doctor Who Forum has posted a full break down of the ratings for Torchwood's second series over here in the UK. They include overnight ratings, official BARB readings, AI (Appreciaion Index) and repeat viewings, too. You have to be registered to read the forum post the data forms part of.Meanwhile, the special Radio 4 audio only Torchwood episode is scheduled to air immediately after the current series of Doctor Who ends - in either June or July.Eve Myles will now be appearing at a Milton Keynes Collectormania convention this weekend (specifically, the…

Ant wasn't the only one on holiday... As the Torchwood news in the US was basically the same as the UK, I found myself with little new material to report on... until now... Enjoy!-TremasYou know, you have to worry about lawyers sometimes... For rights reasons, the commentary track for "Last of the Time Lords" was left off of the US release of the Doctor Who Season boxed set. However, our friends at BBC America have taken are of us Yanks by offering the commentary via download:"Doctor Who stars David Tennant, Freema Agyeman, and John Barrowman give you an insider's guide to this season's…

Chat about "Lost" here at noon PST. on Friday, May 16th. How cruel. In order to bring us what was originally intended to be an unbroken season of 16 episodes, ABC delayed the start of "Lost's" fourth season by several...

After an uneven post-strike season, "The Office" came back tonight with a funny ensemble episode that hearkened back to some previous plot lines and obviously left open questions for next season. It got off to a very promising start, going...

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