"Idol" cuts runner-up's paycheck: Jessica Sanchez to receive just $30K
In previous years, Sanchez could've earned at least $175,000. PLUS: Kris Allen thinks it's time to cancel "Idol," Adam Lambert can't say nice things about Clay Aiken, and "Idol" alum Brooke White welcomes a daughter.
Lifetime developing a drama based on Clarice from "Silence of the Lambs"
Coming in the wake of NBC's "Hannibal," "Clarice" would follow a young Clarice Starling soon after she graduates from the FBI academy.
Memorial Day Weekend marathons
Here's a list of what's coming up over the next three days.
Pop-culture memorabilia collectors are getting a VH1 show
The VH1 Classic will explore the world of music and pop culture collectibles.
Watch Ellen interview Jimmy Kimmel at the TV Academy
Kimmel looked back on the past decade of "Jimmy Kimmel Live." PLUS: Charlize Theron takes Kimmel to prom.
"Cupcake Wars" does "Glee" challenge
Contestants will compete on Sunday to serve their cupcakes to a "Glee" cast and crew party.
"Awake" creator explains the series finale
"That was always our Season 1 flagpole," says Kyle Killen. PLUS: "Awake" vs. "Lone Star" — Killen compares his 2 canceled series.
Lessons from the 2011-2012 TV season
Women won the gender wars, and musical-competition series didn't reach a breaking point.
CBS releases extended new show trailers
Watch four-plus-minute previews of "Elementary," "Vegas," "Partners" and "Made in Jersey."
Aaron Sorkin & Kristin Davis are reportedly dating
The "Sex and the City" alum and "The Newsroom" creator have an HBO connection.
Alison Brie recalls attending a clothing-optional college
The "Community" star would jog naked through campus.
"Duets" lacks excitement
The newest singing competition feels forced and isn't as addictive as "Idol." PLUS: "Duets" makes no sense.
"Cougar Town" names a new showrunner for TBS
"Gary Unmarried" vet Ric Swartzlander will run the day-to-day operations as "Cougar Town" moves to cable.
Charlie's intricate "Girls" apartment was built in 4 days
Charlie's apartment has become a character unto itself. PLUS: See "Girls" filming Season 2.
How Joel Kinnamon, "the Brad Pitt of Sweden," became "The Killing's" scene-stealer
"He’s funny. He’s charismatic. He’s everything I wanted Holder to be," says "Killing" boss Veena Sud.
The Lonely Island gives $10,000 to their high school
The group that rose to fame on "SNL" is helping pay for a new scoreboard at Berkeley High.
"Teen Mom's" Amber Portwood gets a new mugshot
Portwood yesterday surrendered to police.
Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton can't make "Hatfields & McCoys" compelling
The History channel miniseries, airing Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, don't give the actors any character depth. "The two actors can only do so much smoldering and glaring," says Hank Stuever, "and we're well into the final night when their characters seem to broaden, showing the burden of rage and remorse." PLUS: Miniseries is involving and rewarding.
HBO's "Hemingway & Gellhorn" is gloriously messy
Starring Nicole Kidman and Clive Owen, the film airing Monday, says Dave Wiegand, "is over the top in places, grand, sexy and probably too long." PLUS: The film lacks heart — it's worse than "Sharktopus."
As Jon Caramanica notes, "Mr. Phillips is the fifth fundamentally sensitive white male singer in a row to win the show, a fact probably indicative more of stagnation in the 'Idol' voting base than in a resurgent interest in tepidity. It is no small thing, and worth noting, that of these white men he is easily the best, not a dullard or a mook or a boy made good. He was steadily great throughout the season, never once in the bottom three, and even when he underwhelmed, he came off as a bored genius in a remedial class, going through the motions and hoping to sneak through." PLUS: 
"Past that," Mike Kelley adds, "we'll be flying by the seat of our pants. I don't want to starve the fans and the adventure is part of the fun." Kelly was speaking to the Wall Street Journal, which visited "Revenge's" Manhattan Beach set, where Emily VanCamp was hard at work. "The days are long," says Josh Bowman, "the shooting very intense. With a drama like this you have to maintain a sense of urgency and necessity. That's exhausting." PLUS: 
"Goodbye," says James Poniewozik, was "a solid, at times fantastic, season-closer." He adds: "It hit a lot of stories and reminisced with a lot of callbacks. (I particularly liked Mr. Schu's confession about planting the pot to set up Finn in the pilot, showing that Glee doesn’t have complete amnesia about itself.) It was frenetic and jumpy and sentimental, like a senior running around the hall trying to collect as many yearbook signatures as possible before the final bell." PLUS: 
But, Laurie, says he won't miss inhabiting his prickly character. "I put him on like a suit of clothes, and I didn't take it off," he says. "I didn’t send it to the dry cleaner as often as I should have. I kept him on. It sounds pretentious when actors talk about the cost of something because we’re hideously spoiled and overcompensated. But having to inhabit a character who is that cynical and morbid and occasionally suicidal, a character that tormented, can get to you after awhile. It can start playing tricks on you. You start wondering why you’re doing it, whether there’s any value to it." PLUS: 
