The guest stars and events that the networks have planned for the last week of November sweeps:
Monday, Nov. 22
8/7c
Dancing With the Stars (ABC)
Alaska's first daughter Bristol Palin, Dirty Dancing star Jennifer Grey and Disney's Kyle Massey are the final three in the season's ultimate dance-off. But not Brandy. Please register your conspiracy theory in the comments section below.
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Forget polished oak floors and mirror ball trophies. Think cold, hard ice and blades of glory. ABC is hoping that their latest reality show — Skating With the Stars (not to be confused with Fox's failed 2006 show Skating With Celebrities), premiering November 22 — will do for the toe loop what...
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The most desperate housewife in soaps — The Young and the Restless' Nikki Newman — has secretly gone off the wagon after years of sobriety. But on October 21 she'll get busted! This vodka-sluggin' mama, played by the blazingly brilliant Melody Thomas Scott, didn't mean to relapse. Blame it on her nogoodnik secretary Meggie (Sean Young) who got Nikki hooked again by quietly spiking her fruit smoothies. Now Meggie, who wants to get her mitts on Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) and his moolah, has joined forces with town pariah Deacon (Sean Kanan) to ruin the upcoming Nikki-Victor nuptials. Will they succeed? Will Nikki end up in Deacon's bed? TV Guide Magazine got the scoop from Thomas Scott.
TV Guide Magazine: Best. Storyline. Ever. There's nothing like our Nikki back on the sauce! It's been too long!
Thomas Scott: I was never happy with the way her initial addiction to drinking and pills ended so unrealistically years ago. She just woke up one morning and was fine. I mentioned that to [current Y&R head writer] Maria Bell at lunch ...
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Sean Young has taken a liking to Genoa City.
The 50-year-old actress, who appeared in five episodes of The Young and the Restless in June, will return to the daytime drama beginning July 14, a show rep says.
Eric Roberts joining the cast of The Young and the Restless
Her return is open-ended and she is expected to stick around through...
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This I am passing along if only to type it out loud: Paris Hilton and 24 alumna Elisha Cuthbert on Tuesday night were spied "all over each other and making out" at NYC's Tejune club, a source tells Us. Cuthbert's rep denies the Sapphic slip.... Diving Bell director Julian Schnabel has forgiven Sean Young (who was since admitted to rehab) for drunkenly heckling him at Saturday's DGA Awards. It was really fine," he tells USA Today. "I'm sorry she got taken out of there".... The 15th-annual SAG Awards have been scheduled for Jan. 25, 2009.
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