Natalie White
If you ever doubt Survivor is a game of social skills as much as strength, remember Natalie White. From the beginning of Survivor: Samoa, the odds seemed stacked against the 26-year-old southern belle and out-of-work pharmaceutical saleswoman. But she made it to the end by forming a key alliance with self-proclaimed "puppet master" Russell, whose manipulative ways got him into the final two, but made him too many enemies on the jury. How well did she play the social game? So well that one of her key supporters turned out to be Erik, a competitor whose elimination she had helped orchestrate. Natalie talked to TVGuide.com about her strategy, surprises in the final vote, and why she'll soon be returning to another warm climate...
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Jeff Probst
Survivor is looking back for its new season.
Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains will reunite 20 cast members from the past 19 seasons of the reality series. The new installment will premiere Thursday, Feb. 11, at 8/7c. The show's cast has not yet been announced.
Survivor: Samoa winner unveiled
This will be the second Survivor to bring back former ...
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The Good Wife
The Good Wife headed into its winter hiatus on the strength of its largest audience to date, helping CBS land yet another Tuesday night ratings win.
The freshman legal drama pulled in 14.1 million viewers, handily defeating The Jay Leno Show (5.2 million viewers) and a repeat of The Forgotten (3.3 million viewers), capping off a characteristically strong Tuesday showing for CBS. New holiday episodes of NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles were watched by 20.5 million viewers and 17.4 million viewers, respectively.
Putting up the best fight was NBC's The Sing-Off, which averaged...
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Sandra Oh, Kiefer Sutherland, Regina King
Every week, editors Mickey O'Connor and Adam Bryant answer your burning questions. Want some TV scoop? Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
Any news on what's ahead for Cristina and Owen on Grey's Anatomy? — Lisa
ADAM: If there's one thing we know about Dr. Yang, it's that her career always comes first. Has her time with Owen changed that? We'll find out when Cristina gets stuck with a very difficult decision that could drastically affect not only her future, but also one of her closest relationships.
I'm dying for 24 to start again. What will the new cast members be up to? — Cassandra
MICKEY: You've probably heard Cole Ortiz (Freddie Prinze Jr.) described as
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On this week's episode of Two and a Half Men, Charlie schools Jake on the finer points of cheating, but forgets one tiny, but very important, detail.
Ah, it's holiday time at the Harper house and it has everything you'd expect—booze, singing, womanizing, and an old man soiling himself (warning: it's disturbing). This year, Alan has written the Harper Christmas newsletter to send out. Now, I sometimes get newsletters in lieu of a Christmas card and for me it just seems a little too impersonal. Unfortunately, there was nothing impersonal about this newsletter. In it we learn that Jake passed his class by the skin of his ass, Charlie is single no more after getting engaged to a lady, not a whore, and Evelyn rejuvenated her secret garden—turns out nothing rhymes with vulva. I think the best part of the scene, besides the poem of course, was Alan's responses, in his best Oliver Twist accent, to Charlie's bah-humbug attitude. I'm not sure if Alan was hitting the sauce or if the holidays just puts him in a jolly mood, but he was downright witty!
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NCIS
On Tuesday's holiday episode of NCIS, Gibbs (Mark Harmon) will get a special visit from his father (guest star Ralph Waite), and the family connections won't stop there.
Check out photos of the NCIS cast
Waite, 81, first visited the CBS hit procedural in Season 6. This time around, he will exhibit some unusual behavior that leaves Gibbs perplexed as he and the team investigate the possible hate-crime killing of the son of a retired colonel turned preacher.
Even though the episode has Christmas themes, Rocky Carroll warns that it's not exactly a heartwarming hour...
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Modern Family - Ed O'Neill
Fox's Glee and ABC's Modern Family hit the awards scene strong, both breaking their way into the best comedy category for the 2010 Writers Guild Awards.
The shows also grabbed nominations for...
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Alyson Hannigan
Is a baby on the way for How I Met Your Mother's Lily? Well, eventually.
"It's definitely something that they're thinking about, but it would ...
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Ugly Betty
Several Friday night shows saw a slight uptick this week, with Ugly Betty pulling in its largest audience all season.
Ugly Betty moving to Wednesdays
On its final Friday night showing — the ABC series moves to Wednesdays starting Jan. 6 — Betty brought in...
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Glee
Glee's midseason finale — and final episode until April 2010 — held a high note in the ratings.
Wednesday night's showing of the Fox musical series attracted some 8.13 million viewers — just slightly less than last week's season high.
Before Glee, Fox's So You Think You Can Dance brought in 6.66 million.
Check out our recap of Glee's finale episode of 2009
ABC's Modern Family returned with 9.62 million viewers, while other half-hour comedies...
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