"Jersey Shore" stars defend Italian stereotypes: What's wrong with "Guido"?
“A Guido in our circles is like a good looking Italian guy. A Guidette is like a good-looking Italian girl,” says cast member Mike Sorrentino, who adds: "I just happen to be 100 percent Italian, I happen to be in very good shape and my hair happens to be spiky."
Muppets "attack" Tyra Banks
What is Cookie Monster's hand doing on Tyra's booty?
"Shear Genius" adds Jonathan Antin and Matthew McConaughey's galpal
The Bravo hairstlying competition is being shaken up with new host Camila Alves and new judge Antin from "Blow Out" fame.
A&E's "Lawman" follows 20-year sheriff veteran Steven Seagal
The "deputy sheriff" uses the show to display his "amazing Zen shooting techniques." PLUS: What if other celebs had secondary careers?
How "Glee" improved upon the "High School Musical" formula
There are at least three novel elements "Glee" injected into the "HSM" formula, says James Wolcott. 1) Sue Sylvester, 2) Courting many demographics and 3) Respecting its borrowed offerings. Of Sylvester, he says: "'Glee’s' genius coup is to give us a villain figure of seething hostility and cunning antagonism—a Taser in a tracksuit who fuses the raw pessimism of Hobbes (life is 'nasty, brutish, and short') and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche (the 'will to power') into one malevolent, fun-loving gal."
Lea Michele: "I was very much like Rachel when I was, like, 8 or 9"
Watch the casting of Mercedes // Jayma Mays: A day in the life
Jessalyn Gilsig: "Tonight’s episode is kind of a reckoning, as I like to say"
Osmosis TV: Which TV shows do you watch without actually watching?
Tim Lusher doesn't watch "Gossip Girl," yet he knows everything that's going on just because his partner has it on. "I'm sure this sort of thing goes on in every household," he sas, "although I don't know what the word for it is. I'd say 'passive viewing,' if that didn't cover virtually all TV, given the nature of the medium. Perhaps osmosis TV? Ambient TV? Washover TV? Accidental appointment viewing?"
"Sons of Anarchy" creator on the finale, the impending renewal and the future
Season 3 will happen, "but it's a matter of finalizing all the other deals," says Kurt Sutter, who also explains "the Half-Sack thing." His plans for next season? "To take them into a world that is outside their own, where they don't have control, where they are subject to other people's laws and beliefs and perameters. Where they aren't quite the big fish in the small pond."
"Na Triobloidi" did a better job of balancing plot and characters
Everything moved so quickly // A satisfying conclusion, despite final minutes
Plot holes galore: "Sons" ought to return to its Jax roots
