Oprah: "Just get me out of the chairs"
Oprah Winfrey explains her new nighttime talk show: "For years I’ve said to the producers, ‘Just get me out of the chairs,’” she says. “The next chapter for me is releasing myself from the studio and being tethered to those chairs." But her new show, "Oprah's Next Chapter," won't be all travel: "Sometimes I’ll just do it from my front yard. I have a very nice front yard," she says." PLUS: Oprah on her OWN vision.
"Jersey Shore" will finish Season 2 back in Jersey
Says MTV: "Once the boardwalk heats back up, the series will return to the Jersey Shore to complete the season."
ABC airing a whopping 5 hours of "Lost" programming on finale night
Sunday, May 23rd, starts with a just-expanded two-hour "Lost" special at 7 o'clock, followed by the two-hour series finale at 9 o'clock and concluding with the one-hour "Jimmy Kimmel Live" special at 11:35.
Tina Fey & Steve Carell: We wont' do an "Office"-"30 Rock" crossover
"Nope. Usually those cross-pollination things are so cheesy," says Colbert.
ABC offers the first 14 minutes of "Happy Town"
If you can't wait till April 28, you can get a taste right now.
"Lost" abuses the laws of electromagnetism
Popular Mechanics explains why Desmond's episode was so wrong.
TV Land Awards will reunite the "Love Boat" cast
They'll be honored with the Fan Favorite Award.
Donald Faison sued for not paying the mortgage
The "Scrubs" star owes $525,000 for an apartment complex he owns.
Jeff Probst: "Heroes vs. Villains" is easily one of the Top 3 "Survivors"
The Top two, according to Probst: Season 1 and "Fans vs. Favorites."
One show will be a series of Jon-less specials featuring Kate and her kids, the other will have her visiting the workplaces and homes of everyday people. "I want to be out there learning from others, helping to provide insight whenever I can, though I don't consider myself an expert on anything," says Gosselin.
"I know how Booth and Brennan’s story ends," says Hanson. "The trick is figuring out where to place it. We talk about it at the least at the beginning, middle and end of every season, as to how we’re going to deal with the hot potato." He also says of the characters' backstory: "I would say it’s 75% organic. I’m a big fan of letting things unfold as the series goes on, because you learn more about your actors."
The queen of daytime is coming to primetime with her own weekly hourlong show, which would air two to three times a week. According to the Wall Street Journal, the show will take Oprah "out of the studio setting that has been her home for 25 years and follow her around the globe for conversations in places such as Egypt and China." Says Oprah: "I'm going to take viewers with me, going to take celebrities I want to interview with me" around the world.
"Hollywood has had too much influence on the decisions she's made as a mother," says Jon's attorney, Anthony F. List. "It's a problem when she stars using the children because she's angry with Jon." PLUS: Kate's lawyer fires back: "
From "Hull High" to "Cop Rock" and "Fame," TV history is littered with musical TV series that failed to last a full season. One expert attributes "Glee's" success to the rise of "youth-oriented Broadway musicals like "Rent" and "Wicked." Another expert attributes "Glee's" popularity to its high school setting: "High school works better than college. . . . In high school, for example, someone can stop you from performing because you didn't follow the rules set by adults. It is also a time when you're still discovering things, a time of firsts. 'Glee' has that authentic sense of, 'This really matters to me.'"
"Why is it important that we learn this through Des?" James Poniewozik says of last night's episode. "Because he's special. In this case, just as he was uniquely able to unstick in time and see the future, here he seems to be uniquely able to consciously inhabit both Island reality and flash-sideways reality. No, we don't know yet how the alt-universe works, what created it, or what it's for, but we know that it's connected in space-time with Island reality; it's not a dream, or Heaven, or a glimpse of the future. And Desmond, it appears, is again the key."
"What happened," according to Nikki Finke, "is there was a scene in which Neal McDonough, who played Nicollette's husband for the 5th season, was supposed to slap the actress. The way I hear it, during filming on September 24, 2008, Sheridan wasn't reacting the right way. So Cherry was on the set supervising and in that context only he struck her." PLUS: 
"Behavioral placement" is the Peacock's way of getting viewers to mimic the do-good actions of their favorite characters. As the Wall Street Journal reports, "Unlike with product placement, which can seem jarring to savvy viewers, the goal is that viewers won't really notice that Tina Fey is tossing a plastic bottle into the recycle bin, or that a minor character on 'Law and Order: SVU' has switched to energy-saving light bulbs." Jeff Zucker adds: "People don't want to be hit over the head with it. Putting it in programing is what makes it resonate with viewers."
"We expect the case to be hard fought," her attorney said in a statement, "and it will not be a surprise if ABC and Mr. Cherry try to depict Nicollette to be something other than a team player and long-standing industry professional. She put her heart and soul into the role of the Edie character, a character that she truly enjoyed playing." PLUS: 
