What happened when William Shatner met the dad from "$#*! My Dad Says"?
"It's funny," says "$#*! My Dad Says" Twitterer Justin Halperin, "they met each other on the taping of the pilot. It was pretty awesome because Mr. Shatner is a lot like my dad. Mr. Shatner walks up and he's like, 'Hello, sir,' and my dad says, 'Hello, sir,' and they take a picture together. Then they turn around in opposite directions and walk away. (laughs) It was pretty great." PLUS: Shatner says: "We say spit; why can't we say sh*t?"
Casey James: "You don't always get the chance to do what you want to do" on "Idol"
Why didn't we see the louder and rougher version of him? PLUS: Lee DeWyze is the fave to win.
"Ron Swanson" predicts "Parks and Rec" will return in the fall
Amy Poehler and Aziz Ansari are totally fine with returning in 2011. But Nick Offernan says, "Apparently, there's a bit of a public outrage taking place. It makes us feel good," adding: ""We're shooting six episodes that were meant to be in the fall and might still be. You never know how TV plays out." PLUS: "Parks and Rec" has been out-"Office"-ing "The Office" all season and watch the producer's cut of the season finale.
Will Forte rejected "SNL's" MacGruber sketch 2 to 3 times
If it wasn't for writer Jorma Taccone's pestering Forte to play the role, there probably wouldn't be a "MacGruber." PLUS: The last "SNL" movie was a decade ago ("The Ladies Man").
Chad Ochocinco's "Dancing" delayed production on his VH1 dating show
"Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch" is Ochocinco's 3rd reality show in the past year, after "Dancing" and HBO's "Hard Knocks."
"Old Christine" isn't giving up, but it looks like "Ghost Whisperer" will wind up at ABC
According to Deadline Hollywood, an "Old Christine" deal "appears very, very difficult to make," but its producers are fighting to get it on ABC.
It's not just the wigs and the spoof-ready acting that makes it so cheesy, says Matthew Gilbert. As he notes, "For a drama that traffics in philosophy, religious allegory, physics, and literary references from Jane Austen to Kurt Vonnegut, 'Lost' has a decidedly B-movie feel. After the remarkably cinematic 2004 pilot episode, set immediately after the Oceanic 815 plane crash, the adventure has been pretty schlocky. On the cusp of the mass release of 3-D TV, with 'Avatar' pulling the art of special effects into the future, “Lost’’ comes off as an especially humble affair."
Shonda says of the explosive season finale: "When I pitched this finale at the beginning of Season 6 (those of you who know me know that I pitch the end of the season first and we work towards it), when I pitched a gunman shooting up the hospital, it seemed fine. Really it did. And then 20 or so episodes later, I started to write it and it did not seem fine. It did not seem fine at all. On an almost daily basis, I would come into work and throw myself down on the sofa in the middle of the office and burst into tears like a…well, like a bitch baby."
The conservative watchdog's president says: "CBS intentionally chose to insert an expletive into the actual name of a show, and, despite its claim that the word will be bleeped, it is just CBS' latest demonstration of its contempt for families and the public. There are an infinite number of alternatives that CBS could have chosen, but its desire to shock and offend is crystal clear in this decision."
Crystal Bowersox and Lee DeWyze may be lacking when it comes to pizazz, but they are perfectly apt for this season. As Ann Powers notes, "Though it's likely a transitional state, this year's mood of mellow disinterest in diva attitude and ring-grabbing showiness may ultimately benefit 'American Idol.' It may be jarring for longtime Idol trackers, but in a way, the turn away from heroics suits both the continually downscaling music industry and a television program that, though still on top in the ratings, no longer even pretends to claim the center of the pop zeitgeist — partly because there is no bull's-eye left to hit."
"Supernatural" will be paired with "Smallville" on Fridays, while former bubble shows "Life Unexpected" and "One Tree Hill" will air together on Tuesdays. "Nikita" will follow "The Vampire Diaries" on Thursdays" while cheerleader drama "Hellcats" will air after "America's Next Top Model" on Wednesdays. PLUS: 
Conan O'Brien 
"Lee’s vocals were giving me chills (or perhaps I was being filled by the Holy Spirit)," Mary T. Kelly says of 
"This should go down in the books (or blogs, who reads books?) as one of the best episodes in one of the greatest freshman seasons in recent history," says Bobby Hankinson. "The musical numbers were a mix of processing cheese into something fully enjoyable and taking an established Broadway performance and imbuing it with new emotional context. It's what this show does best when it's in top form. Plus, Mr. Shue didn't rap once."
"There's the tiniest whiff of satirical potential in the pilot episode of 'The Good Guys,'" says Hank Stuever. "…According to the network, the series will run for a bit this summer and return in the fall, so at least they like it. The first episode is a sometimes energetic effort to rediscover some of that ol' mullety magic, but it's also got the clumsy problems of all pilots, including a tendency to overstate its premise."
"The Big Bang Theory" are moving to Thursdays at 8 o'clock to establish a comedy block on that night with 
