"Survivor" Russell off the hook for alleged assault
The DA in Lafayette, Louisiana has declined to file charges at "the victim's request."
Ex-"Survivor" producer to be charged with wife's murder
An arrest warrant is expected to be issued for Bruce Beresford-Redman for his wife's death in April.
Cops, ambulance called to "Basketball Wives" reunion taping
At least one cast member was reportedly arrested.
Happy 10th anniversary, "Survivor"!
The CBS show that took the nation by storm in summer 2000 and ushered in the reality TV era premiered on May 31, 2000. PLUS: Read TV Tattle's coverage of "Survivor's" launch.
Lee DeWyze's Marilyn Manson past unveiled
Listen to the "Idol" winner sing "Beautiful People."
Happy 20th anniversary, "Seinfeld"!
Technically, "Seinfeld" launched as a one-off episode "The Seinfeld Chronicles" on July 5, 1989, but the very first "Seinfeld" as a series episode aired on May 31, 1990.
The "Diff'rent Strokes" star succumbed to an intracranial hemorrhage today (at approximately 2:05 PM ET), after his family opted to take him off life support at a Utah hospital. According to TMZ, it was his wife's decision to pull life support. Coleman, who was 
As promised, "FlashForward" ended its 1st season with a cliffhanger (
"There are museum animatronics doing better presidential imitations than Quaid," says Hank Stuever, who finds Quaid's Clinton too distracting. "If I had been in director Richard Loncraine's shoes, a couple of days into filming, I would have gone on eBay and purchased one of those cardboard, life-size Bill Clinton cutouts and had Quaid carry that around in front of him while the cameras continued to roll and I frantically waited for 'Saturday Night Live's' Darrell Hammond to return my phone calls."
The CW had the seven lowest-rated shows of the 2009-10 season, including dead-last "High Society," which ranked No. 124. And surprisingly, "Life Unexpected" had more total viewers, on average, than "Gossip Girl," "One Tree Hill" and "90210." Meanwhile, the highest-rated sitcom was "Two and a Half Men" at No. 11, followed closely by "The Big Bang Theory" at No. 12. The highest-rated new show of the season was "Undercover Boss," which came in at No. 6, followed by No. 19 "The Good Wife."
Would Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood win "American Idol" nowadays? Perhaps not: "If three times makes a pattern," says Richard Rushfield, "'Idol' then has set in to what seems a hardened law that the winners will be exclusively low-key, cute, white, male rockers, as seen in the last winners David Cook, Kris Allen and now, Lee DeWyze." Rushfield points out that the "cute boy dynasty" started in 2007, when "Idol" first allowed singers to use instruments. "Since the rules were changed to allow instruments, the contest has been dominated by musicians, much more out of the rocker or singer/songwriter tradition, then pure songbirds," he notes. Also around 2007, says Rushfield, young people texting became widespread, which has resulted in them becoming a powerful voting block.
The 12-year-old YouTube sensation's signing to Ellen's record label apparently took some of the spotlight away from "Idol," at least on Twitter. As Simon Dumenco notes, "what we have here is a show whose iconic chief judge, Simon Cowell, just departed, and whose newest judge, Ellen DeGeneres, seemed to be way more interested, during finale week, in cultivating her own star-making powers, which have nothing to do with 'Idol.'"
"Weirdly," says Lisa de Moraes, "tweener girls and middle-aged women seem to love to vote for these super-safe guys — they just don't buy their albums or download their tunes much." The part-time paint salesman, she notes, "became the franchise's third consecutive Super-Safe Kinda Beige Rocker Boy winner. DeWyze follows the super-safe Kris Allen who, similarly, in 2009 beat the spectacularly talented but ultra-polarizing guy-linered Adam Lambert, and 2008's super-safe David Cook, who beat out the spectacularly talented but creepily dad-dominated David Archuleta."
So what if she's a dancing pro, says Amy Keyishian, who writes: "Yeah, I hear you, people: Nicole is a professional dancer, so how is it fair that Buzz Aldrin has to compete against her? To which I say: Aren't you tired of crappy dancers? No, seriously, I think the professional athletes have a similar advantage, and nobody complains about them. She could just as easily have been technically great and an emotional mess. Evan's been touring with Stars on Ice, that's dancing. And: Shut up. It's a TV show."
