Joss Whedon responds to "Dollhouse's" cancelation
"I don't have a lot to say," he wrote on fan blog Whedonesque, adding: "I'm off to pursue internet ventures/binge drinking. Possibly that relaxation thing I've read so much about." PLUS: Final episode of "Dollhouse" to air Jan. 22.
Oprah: Sarah Palin and I talked about everything
Levi Johnston, her marriage, everything. PLUS: Palin talk show might still happen.
Jon Gosselin accuses TLC of violating child labor laws in countersuit
Court papers also show that the Gosselins were initially paid $2,000 an episode.
"Sesame Street" pays tribute to Google with "oogle"
Yes, there is mutual love between the two brands.
Fox's "Our Little Genius" pits smart kids against each other
The Mark Burnett game show will offer a prize of $500,000 for child age 6 through 12 who's the smartest.
Syfy tries a sitcom with "Outer Space Astronauts"
The five-episode series premieres next month combining live-action and 2D and 3D animation technology.
American woman allegedly stalking Susan Boyle
The "Got Talent" star was reportedly "shaken up" after the woman showed up at her home, and was intercepted by her bodyguards.
"The influence of Reality TV has been insidious, pervasive," James Wolcott complains in Vanity Fair. He goes on to list the damage reality is responsible for: 1) Reality TV has lowered network property values, 2) Reality TV has annihilated the classic documentary, 3) Reality TV wages class warfare and promotes proletarian exploitation, 4) Reality TV has debased the time-honored art of bad acting, 5) Reality TV encourages and rewards vulgar, selfish, antisocial, pissy-pants behavior and 6) Reality TV gives voyeurism a dirty name.
"This episode is the turning point for the show," says Ryan Murphy. "Certainly, after this, it remains a comedy, and it’s fun. But writing this made me feel the responsibility of showing the truth of the pain that outcasts go through. It’s not all razzle-dazzle show business. It’s tough, and it’s painful, and it was for me growing up, and it is for most people." PLUS: 
The AMC series doesn't pander to its audience, says Tim Goodman. "It's not every day that a faltering marriage, built on a lie grasped in fear and protected with admirable, unwavering confidence by the main character, collapses so sublimely over the course of three seasons," he writes. "For that matter, it's a rarity when viewers are given insight into the human condition not by quick-cut witticisms or explosive, violent action sequences but in everyday ordinariness that can be drab or meandering – just like life."
"What made 'Balm' tremendous," says Zack Handlen, "was that it offered a glimpse of that salvation that's long been one of the show's defining characteristics. Unlike other crime dramas,' Sons of Anarchy' has people who can be noble, people for whom family life and brotherhood aren't just ways of hiding their essential venality."
