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Will the secret that the Five rigged the presidential election come out on Scandal? — Hailee
NATALIE: That's what the — oh my goodness, I love what Shonda Rhimes calls them — Illuminati will hope to prevent in the coming episodes. "There's a splintering of the Illuminati in terms of everyone's agendas and what they're willing to do and who they feel is to blame," she says. "It becomes more fractured as it goes along, and it starts to feel like, for Olivia, that this is the one problem that she can't fix." Ruh-roh.
Got any scoop on Booth from Bones? — Whitney
ADAM: When I asked David Boreanaz about the nagging mystery of Booth's big secret — you know, the one between him and God — I was a bit surprised by the answer...
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Long before she met her Prince Charming in a man named Mr. Big, Carrie Bradshaw's adolescent life was still something of a swoon-inducing Cinderella story. That's the first impression from the CW's new The Carrie Diaries (8/7c, repeated an hour later), a likeably schmaltzy "prequel" to Sex and the City that finds the CW hewing closely to the ABC Family model that has lately stolen much of the channel's young-adult thunder.
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Bones is back. The long-running Fox series has been renewed for next season, which will mark the fan favorite show's ninth year on the air.
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The Bones producers freely admit that when they conceived Monday's episode, they had no idea it would wind up being the Fox drama's milestone 150th episode. But they're pleased with the happy accident.
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The episode, "The Ghost in the Machine," was originally written and shot last season as one of four "bonus" episodes the show produced when they were given a shortened season because of Emily Deschanel's pregnancy.
"We had to shoot four episodes that didn't fit into the timeline of the Bones timeline, and at first we were very, very cranky about that," creator and executive producer Hart Hanson tells TVGuide.com. "Then we realized it gave us an advantage in that we could do stuff we hadn't done before...
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Bones' Booth and Brennan (David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel) will soon discuss spending eternity together — not necessarily as a husband and wife, but as corpses. When two bodies are found together in a single grave — in a January episode involving...
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