Wentworth Miller
What stars need a show now? AOL has some suggestions.
News of Scott Foley's casting in an upcoming episode of Law & Order: SVU inspired AOL to compile a list of other stars who deserve another chance to shine — including several who starred in much-loved but little watched shows that went to their deaths last season. ...
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Don Hewitt
Don Hewitt, the CBS News legend who created many of the hallmarks of television news, including its most successful show, 60 Minutes, has died, CBS News reported Tuesday. He was 86.
Over a career lasting more than six decades, Hewitt directed Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, the most influential newsmen of their era, and helped shape coverage of moments historic both for television and the country, including the first presidential debate, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, in 1960.
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Mercy
Why so many nursing shows lately? It may be the economy's fault.
Showtime's Nurse Jackie and TNT's HawthoRNe will soon be joined by NBC's new drama Mercy. It's just another sign that the recession has turned networks' attention from upscale doctors and lawyers to the pink-collar workers who didn't always get their due on the air.
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Jeanine Mason
So You Think You Can Dance winner Jeanine Mason knows she can dance — so what's she going to do about it? With her talent confirmed by her win last week, the 18-year-old Miami native has two big plans ahead: touring for the show, and starting college at UCLA. Mason talked to us about the moment she was crowned the winner, her favorite routine, and the week she says wasn't her best. Thinking long-term, she also told us about her lifelong dream.
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Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul
Aaron Paul says he looks up to his Breaking Bad co-star, Bryan Cranston, and now he's found a perfect way to emulate him. Paul, who plays Jesse Pinkman, Walter White's partner-in-meth on the AMC drama, just earned his first Emmy nomination, for best supporting dramatic actor. Cranston received his second nod in the lead dramatic actor category, which he won last year. We talked to Paul about the future of the show, how close Jesse might get to Walt, and what it's like to play Scott, the anti-Jesse, on Big Love.
TVGuide.com: You really got to shine this season on Breaking Bad.
Aaron Paul: Thanks, man. Running around with Bryan Cranston is always fun and I wish I could work with some of the...
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Victoria Beckham, Katy Perry
American Idol may be losing Paula Abdul, but it's gaining Katy Perry and Victoria Beckham as guest judges, Fox announced Thursday.
No dates have been set for the pop stars' appearances, but more big names are to come, Fox entertainment chairman Peter Rice said at Thursday's Television Critics Association fall TV tour.
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Skeet Ulrich
Skeet Ulrich will guest for three episodes of CSI: NY as a complex and deeply disturbed killer, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
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Jay Leno
Jay Leno says his new 10 o'clock show will feature fast cars, jokes, and Brian Williams — telling more jokes.
"If we go down in flames, we'll be laughing on the way," Leno said at Wednesday's Television Critics Association fall-TV tour. He said he isn't worried about people who say they won't watch his show.
"Research says people are against pornography," he said. "That's why it's a $60 billion-dollar business."
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Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien isn't the king of late night after all.
NBC issued a news release calling O'Brien "the new king of late night" after O'Brien's Tonight Show, in its first week, beat The Late Show with David Letterman in ratings.
Since then, Letterman has bounced back...
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Paula Abdul, Nigel Lythgoe
So You Think You Can Dance will "certainly" invite Paula Abdul to the show's finale, judge and executive producer Nigel Lythgoe exclusively told TVGuide.com Wednesday. The former American Idol producer has wanted Abdul on Dance for years, and her sudden departure from Idol on Tuesday leaves her "no excuse" not to appear, he said. (Abdul's rep didn't return a call for comment.) Talking and walking through the Kodak Theatre during rehearsals for Dance, Lythgoe didn't reveal what's to come on Wednesday and Thursday's two-part Dance finale. But we did catch a bouncy, rollicking Slumdog Millionaire-inspired number we loved.
Read the full Q&A after the jump.
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