Hell's Kitchen
Some recent ratings highlights:
Monday
• The Bachelorette's "Men Tell All" special spoke to 7.98 million total viewers, up a hair from the show's previous Monday outing. ABC's Dating in the Dark held onto 77 percent of that lead-in, premiering to 6.34 mil.
Tuesday
• America's Got Talent topped the night with 13.64 million viewers, up 470K from last week.
• The Hell's Kitchen season-opener served up an audience of 6.47 mil over its two-hour run, and bested its rivals in certain demographics. The series' two previous premieres, both of which benefited from an American Idol lead-in, delivered 11.08 mil and 12.55 mil.
• Big Brother 11 (5.8 mil) dipped 7 percent from last week.
• Look, it's Medium — on CBS! The Eye's repeat airing of an episode of the NBC castoff drew 4.03 mil. New episodes arrive Friday, Sept. 25, at 9/8 CT.
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Katherine Heigl on Grey's Anatomy
Dr. Izzie Stevens could be in a coma or even dead when Grey's Anatomy resolves its Season 5 cliffhanger on Sept. 24, says Katherine Heigl.
"You last saw Izzie flat-lining, so... I'm either there as a ghost 'on the other side,' or I survived a disease [stage IV metastatic melanoma] no one survives," the actress said during a Monday visit to Late Show with David Letterman.
Video: Katherine Heigl shows some skin
When Letterman asked how she could be pulling 17-hour workdays — as Heigl had shared earlier in the sit-down — if Izzie isn't alive and kicking, she countered, "What if I ...
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Paula Abdul with Simon Cowell
Paula Abdul has the support of her American Idol foil, Simon Cowell, as well as scores of fans and Idol alumni, as her fate with the hit reality show remains in limbo.
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Not long after Abdul's manager, David Sonenberg, told the Los Angeles Times that the producers of Idol had yet to make his "hurt' and "angry" client an offer to return for Season 9, Cowell told Extra, "She'll be on the show."
"I don't get a lot of say," added Cowell ...
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Melina Kanakaredes and Gary Sinise, CSI: NY
Now playing in this week's Mitovich Mega Minute:
• On the heels of Danny and Lindsay finding wedded bliss — and yes, Flack and Angell being hit with heartbreak — might CSI: NY's Stella and Mac be the next to turn their professional partnership into something more? Melina Kanakaredes weighs in on that hot topic.
• Saving Grace's Ham could find himself in a lather when a sexy soap opera alum guest-stars on the TNT series and sets her sights on Grace's guy. Find out who's entering the mix, and for how long. (Related: Read Kenneth Johnson's Saving Grace celebrity blog.)
Watch and discuss the new MMM after the jump.
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President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama will hold a press conference Wednesday night, the White House announced on Twitter.
Among the Big 4 TV networks, ABC, CBS and NBC will all carry the press conference live at 8/7 CT, while Fox is sticking with a regularly scheduled broadcast of So You Think You Can Dance and directing viewers to its coverage on sister networks Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network via an on-screen graphic.
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Fox adopted the same approach for Obama's April 29 prime-time address to the nation, a decision that came in the wake of the Big 4's increasingly loud grumblings that ...
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This week on TNT's The Closer, Brenda butts heads once again with the FID's Capt. Raydor, when two cops and a civilian are shot dead during a pull-over. On with the recap...
An LAPD chopper circles the site of a street shootout. Two officers are down, slain by an onslaught of bullets, while a young man lay dead in front of their patrol car, felled by return fire.
The mood is somber as the MCD arrives to survey the scene. The numbered tags for the bullet casings reach well into the double digits. The black-and-white had turned the corner for a "routine" pull-over, only to get mercilessly ambushed ...
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Alexa Vega with David Cassidy in Ruby & the Rockits
In ABC Family's Ruby & the Rockits (premiering Tuesday at 8:30/7:30 CT), former Spy Kid Alexa Vega plays a teen who introduces herself to David Gallagher, the father she never knew. But since Dad (played by Partridge Family front man David Cassidy) is busy living off the fumes of his once-ago success ...
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Joanne Kelly with Eddie McClintock, Warehouse 13
Among the myriad familiar elements of Syfy's Warehouse 13 (Tuesdays at 9/8 CT), there is the push-me-pull-you nature of Pete and Myka's working relationship. Could the special agents' bickering lead to a Bones/Booth or Scully/Mulder sort of romantic tension?
"There may be a few hints," Joanne Kelly teases in her TVGuide.com video Q&A. In the episodes ahead, she says, "There are a couple of those moments."
Watch Eddie McClintock discuss Warehouse's wilder wares
Kelly also reveals what she likes most about ...
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