NBC picks up "Next," starring Paul Reiser as "Paul Reiser"
The "Mad About You" star is returning to NBC in a "Curb Your Enthusiasm"-style comedy.
"Survivor" Rupert: "I would go back and change day 1"
Specifically, Rupert regrets breaking his toes on the opening day. "It took my patience and tolerance away because I was in so much pain every day and I had a hard time in many of the challenges," he says. "Feeling those bones move around and grind against each other had me on the ground. There‘s no aspirin unless you tap out of the game. Until then, it’s bite on a stick."
NYC's economy will lose $79M a year from "Law & Order's" cancelation
The end of "L&O" will leave a major hole in the economy. In its 20 years, the Dick Wolf drama spent about $1 billion in New York, on everything from microphones to donuts to coffee.
Nigel Lythgoe: "SYTYCD" is going HD
It wasn't on in HD before?
"Big Bang" breaks cable syndication record
Fox and TBS have won syndication rights, with TBS reportedly paying more than $1 million per episode, beating "Seinfeld's" record.
3 fired from NBC's picked-up pilots
British actor Ben Chaplin is off David E. Kelley's "Harry's Law," while " Ian Reed and Fran Kranz have been dumped from "Friends with Benefits."
Conan O'Brien's name appears on NBC's press release today announcing the pickup of his production company's "Outlaw," in which Jimmy Smits plays a former Supreme Court justice. Also picked up: "The Cape," a cop drama starring David Lyons and Summer Glau; David E. Kelly's "Harry's Law," a legal drama starring Kathy Bates and Brittany Snow; and "Friends with Benefits," a comedy that sends Ryan Hansen on the hunt for the perfect woman.
NBC made the news of "L&O's" cancelation after 20 years official today, with the final episode airing May 24. "The legacy of his original 'Law & Order' series will continue to make an impact like no other series before," said NBC chairman Jeff Gaspin. "The legacy of his original ‘Law & Order’ series will continue to make an impact like no other series before." According to the NY Times, "The original show 
"I don’t know what happened," says Probst. "…I felt that Rupert was a bit of a bully. And maybe Rupert suffers a little bit from 'I've been reading my own press" too much. 'I’m the greatest guy in the world.' Everybody has their flaws and everybody has their Achilles' heel. And I think that Rupert’s might be that he’s lost touch a little bit with how he’s perceived because I don’t think everybody on the show loved Rupert. I think they got a little bit tired of Rupert as well."
"There is a certain label that gets stuck on a show, even an HBO show, where it’s sort of highfalutin," Lindelof, along with Carlton Cuse, says in their latest extensive interview. "I really want to watch 'Treme,' but I also feel like it’s going to be intellectual and intense and it’s going to make me think, and I don’t really look at it as entertainment first, I look at it as art first and then entertainment. We have no shame whatsoever — in fact, we’re quite proud of saying that our job is to entertain — but if you start watching the show, these themes begin to permeate."
"Damn it all," says Mary T. Kelly of last night's results show, "I’m always a sucker for this sentimental stuff. These goodbyes are sappier than a Hallmark commercial but I fall for it every time. With tears streaming down my face and Kleenex in hand, I suddenly felt guilty about any mean thing or criticism I had leveled at Big Mike. I suddenly loved Big Mike (even though he really did have to go)." PLUS: Is Lee DeWyze's advancement an attempt to 
So thinks Ann Powers, who was underwhelmed by this week's performance show: "2010's Final Four," she says, "seemed to be aiming beyond — or let's say below — the confines of this crucial week's theme. Their song choices were haphazard, idiosyncratic, even selfish. Two pop songs from films that many love to hate (I know, 'Caddyshack' is a cult classic), one favorite that nonetheless seemed like a desperate ploy, and one song so effectively parodied by Jack Black in 2007 that it should be eternally retired from the show: It was definitely a night to yell at the screen and Tweet, on repeat, 'WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?'"
