Tonight's TV Hot List: Sunday, July 5, 2009

• Jul 5, 2009 04:00 AM ET
• by TV Guide News

Next Food Network Star

Hannah Montana
8 pm/ET Disney
Brooke Shields reprises her role as Miley's late mom in this extended one-hour episode. Miley starts dating Jake Ryan (Cody Linley) again, but she keeps the news from Robby, who is still upset over how Jake broke his daughter's heart. To make her dad appreciate Jake, Miley pretends to date a bad-boy musician. But things get way out of control.

Read on for previews of Next Food Network Star, Angel and the Badman, Expedition Africa and Z Rock. read more

From Politics to Pop Culture: What's Next for Sarah Palin?

• Jul 4, 2009 02:38 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

Sarah Palin

What's next for Sarah Palin following her unexpected resignation from Alaska's top job and serving as a favorite pop-culture target?

Even though the freshman governor gave no details on her future plans other than "looking forward to serving the public outside the governor's chair," she has given us plenty to talk about for the past year.

Just last month she publicly feuded with David Letterman, who ultimately apologized for poking fun at one of the governor's teenage daughters.

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Palin was repeatedly spoofed on Saturday Night Live by ... read more

Tonight's TV Hot List: Saturday, July 4, 2009

• Jul 4, 2009 04:00 AM ET
• by TV Guide News

Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular

Tour de France
9:30 am/ET Versus
After a nearly four-year absence, seven-time champion and American cycling icon Lance Armstrong returns to the Tour de France, which kicks off its three-week whirlwind trek through France, Spain, Switzerland and Italy, covering 3500km. Despite his prolonged sabbatical from racing, Armstrong looks to be one of the top contenders, but he'll have to hold off the past two champions, Carlos Sastre (2008) and Alberto Contador (2007), as well as Cadel Evans, who was the runner-up the last two years.

Read on for previews of Hot Dog Eating Contest, Capitol Fourth, Macy's 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular and Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular. read more

She's a Mother: Cobie Smulders Welcomes Baby Girl

• Jul 3, 2009 02:10 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

Cobie Smulders

Shaelyn Cado Killam has met her mother — and it's actress Cobie Smulders.

Smulders, a star of CBS' How I Met Your Mother, gave birth to her daughter on May 16, People reports. It is the first child for Smulders and her fiancé Taran Killam.

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Smulders announced her pregnancy ... read more

Online Lottery Announced for Jackson's Public Memorial

• Jul 3, 2009 01:03 PM ET
• by Mickey O'Connor

Michael Jackson

An online lottery will distribute only 17,500 tickets for Michael Jackson's public memorial service at Los Angeles' Staples Center on Tuesday.

About 1.6 million people registered for the lottery during the weekend. Each of the 8,750 people selected will get an exclusive code and instructions on how to obtain two free tickets. read more

Piper Perabo Spies Covert Role in New USA Series

• Jul 3, 2009 11:22 AM ET
• by Matt Mitovich

Piper Perabo

Piper Perabo has landed the lead role in Covert Affairs, a USA Network spy-thriller pilot expected to be ordered to series later this month.

Perabo will play Annie Walker, a top-shelf CIA trainee who excels at every skill, says the Hollywood Reporter.

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Tonight's TV Hot List: Friday, July 3, 2009

• Jul 3, 2009 04:00 AM ET
• by TV Guide News

Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader

Good Morning America
7 am/ET ABC
Water, water everywhere — that's where country fans can expect to hear "Water," the second single from Brad Paisley's new American Saturday Night CD, this summer. It shouldn't come as a surprise, seeing as how Paisley's coming off yet another No 1 hit with "Then" (his 10th No. 1 single in a row), not to mention two CMA awards last November and three CMT awards last month. And be very surprised if he doesn't play "Water" on this morning's GMA Central Park concert.

Read on for previews of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Degrassi: The Next Generation, The Goode Family and Mental. read more

Behind the Scenes of Bon Jovi's Iran Video

• Jul 2, 2009 10:17 PM ET
• by Mickey O'Connor

Jon Bon Jovi, Stand By Me

"It was fate," music producer Don Was says of the recording of a special version of "Stand By Me" by Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and Iranian musician Andy Madadian as a tribute to the people of Iran in the wake of their turbulent national elections.

Ed McMahon Remembered at Special Tribute

• Jul 2, 2009 04:16 PM ET
• by Adam Bryant

Ed McMahon

Ed McMahon was honored by dozens of friends, family and celebrities, including Tom Arnold, who said the late Tonight Show sidekick was someone "100 percent of the people liked."

Arnold, who worked with McMahon on the 1997 WB sitcom The Tom Show, joked about McMahon's reunion with talk-show king Johnny Carson in heaven.

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"Hey, Johnny, great news: I brought Farrah (Fawcett) and Michael Jackson with me. We're gonna have a hell of a show tonight," Arnold said at the Television Academy of Arts & Sciences tribute in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Other celebrities in attendance included ... read more

Wentworth Miller's Latest Break? Law & Order: SVU

• Jul 2, 2009 03:40 PM ET
• by Adam Bryant

Wentworth Miller

Prison Break star Wentworth Miller will guest star in the Season 11 premiere of Law & Order: SVU, TVGuide.com has confirmed.

Miller, who spent years running from the police on Prison Break, will be on the other side of the law this time around. He will play a NYPD cop named Nate Kendal, who saves a rape victim and crosses paths with Benson and Stabler.

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Alas, Miller's run ... read more