Want to know one of our secret skills? Reading between the lines. It’s a talent that comes in handy when translating what folks say and what they mean… even if they themselves aren’t aware of that. If you’re lacking in that particular skill, never fear. That’s why you’ve got us. Here are a few recent [...]

Good News: For Kristoffer Polaha, who has a lot to be thankful for this holiday season after signing a rich talent holding deal with CBS. Bad News: For LIFE UNEXPECTED fans, as Polaha’s talent deal effectively puts the final nail in the proverbial coffin. RIP LUX. [Source]

It’s been almost three days since FOX released their 2010-2011 Midseason Schedule and we’re not gonna lie, it hasn’t been easy. Yet after burying our feelings in thin crust Dominos pizza and coming to the conclusion that Network President Kevin Reilly probably isn’t a shapeshifter sent by Walternate to put an swift end to the FRINGE [...]

BIG LOVE’s Big Finish Under normal circumstances, we wouldn’t be celebrating the cancelation of one of the most interesting and unique shows to hit the small screen in years. That said, there was very little normal about HBO’s BIG LOVE. So rather than wallow in today’s news that the cult HBO favorite will call it [...]

After forcing stars Jordana Spiro and Kyle Howard to exit both LOVE BITES and PERFECT COUPLES respectively as a result of contractual obligations to their little watched comedy MY BOYS, TBS has officially done what everybody expected them to do months ago, cancel MY BOYS. In this week’s Entertainment Weekly Fall TV Preview, CASTLE executive [...]

And then there was one. First Paula, then Simon, next Ellen and now, finally, the news fans have been waiting for since July. Kara DioGuardi is officially exiting AMERICAN IDOL after a mere two seasons at the judges table. Full press release — complete with obligatory effusive quotes from numerous parties involved despite FOX’s obvious [...]

Good News: In lieu of the recent X FACTOR scandal, AMERICAN IDOL producers have released a statement claiming that they’ve never used auto-tune, the popular pitch-correcting technology, to enhance their contestants. Bad News: Said one loyal IDOL viewer, “Most unnecessary clarification ever!” [Source]

We challenge AMERICAN IDOL to revamp its judging process. Rather than allowing the judges to trot out the same old tired catchphrases every week (“It was just alright for me, dawg”), they need to watch a few episodes of the far superior SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE and see what actual critiques look like.  [...]

Hell hath no fury like a vampire scorned. Just ask Russell Edgington, the bloodsucker who, after interrupting a TBBN telecast and declaring to the world “We will eat you, after we eat your children”, changed the game as it is played in the TRUE BLOOD universe. From the beginning, the show existed in an alternate [...]

The subject of this week’s ‘Blogger Beat Down’ is… Entertainment Weekly TV Critic extraordinaire Ken Tucker, who last week put forth the opinion that hot on the heels of Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres’ exit, it might behoove FOX to cancel AMERICAN IDOL, “since it’s looking more and more as though it’s going to be [...]