Piers Morgan's deal to replace Larry King is nearly complete
NBC has signaled that it is willing to share its "America's Got Talent" star with CNN, paving the way for a deal to be signed in the next few days.
Supergirl returns to "Smallville"
Laura Vandervoort will reprise her role for the final season.
John Stamos takes the stand, says nothing happened with 17-year-old girl
Stamos testified that he met one of his accused extortionists, Allison Coss, then 17, at an 18-and-over club and ended up "hanging out" and "socializing" with her in his hotel room. But nothing, he insists, happened. PLUS: Check out Stamos and the 17-year-old.
Parents TV Council outraged by the striking down of FCC indecency
The federal appeals court, says the conservative watchdog, "substituted its own opinion for that of the Supreme Court, the Congress of the United States, and the overwhelming majority of the American people."
Ryan Murphy on "Glee" Season 2: Rachel & Finn, plus Javier Bardem
In addition to confirming Bardem's cameo, Murphy says that previous guest-stars Neil Patrick Harris, Idina Menzel and Jonathan Groff may return, but Kristin Chenoweth definitely will be back.
VH1 gives a reality show to Mario Lopez and his pregnant girlfriend
The show will capture Lopez as he becomes a dad for the first time with fiancée Courtney Mazza.
Report: Bret Michaels gets engaged
Michaels popped the question to on-and-off girlfriend of 16 years Kristi Lynn Gibson over the 4th of July weekend, according to Star.
Vanessa Marcil weds a "CSI:NY" star
Marcil and Carmine Giovinazzo got married on Sunday night, with her son with Brian Austin Green in attendance.
Just like the David Simon masterpiece, "True Blood" is critiquing the war on drugs, says Jason Zinoman. "The substance of this show is in the metaphors, and this season is offering up a wide-ranging and cynical critique of the drug war," he says. "Trust me, this is not as nuts as it sounds." PLUS: 
Throughout Phil Harris' ordeal, the Discovery channel show "has brought old-school documentary sobriety to a genre more often known for shamelessness," says Matt Zoller Seitz. He adds:"It's hard to say how much of its blunt honesty comes from its makers' ethical sense and how much is bound up in its chosen subject– a hard job staffed by men who barely have time to eat and sleep, much less adopt fake, corny screen personas and sustain them over weeks. Either way, 'Deadliest Catch' is a Trojan Horse reality show, smuggling integrity into a morally bankrupt genre. It's as real as TV gets."
Tonight ends a taxing season that proved that Lauren Conrad was truly the show's glue, says Jon Caramanica. Without her, the show lost its warmth. "It's been a mighty fall for a show that, along with its predecessor, 'Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County,' helped cement the idea of reality TV as soap opera and also stretched the formal boundaries of the genre," he says, bemoaning the loss of "the long, meditative shots" in favor of quick-cut scenes.
USA's first female-driven show, "Covert Affairs" is about Every Woman Starting a New Job," says Mary McNamara. "Because of course it isn't just the bullets and the high-speed car chases that have Annie so frazzled, it's the internal politics, the possibly double-agent new colleagues and Annie's inability to forget That Guy. Action-thriller lite is a newish sub-genre and a high-wire act to maintain, especially when your hero's wearing Christian Louboutins."
