Desperate Housewives by Ron Tom/ABC
When ABCs Desperate Housewives returns Sunday at 9 pmET viewers finally will get some answers to the big questions raised by the season-ending five-year jump Bree and Andrew are chummy Gabys no longer a size double-zero And a mom And why is Susan no longer with Mike but instead kissing Gale Harold Executive producer Bob Daily tackles those and other burning Qs Matt MitovichTVGuidecom As you got down to the business of actually writing the new episodes did you realize any unforeseen benefit of the five-year jumpBob Daily We have an episode where we fill people in on some of the details from the past five years some of which are serious and some of which are just funny and frivolous It gives us this great well that we can dip into periodically for back story Fleshing out those five years is proving to be really funTVGuidecom Which housewife would you say is most differentDaily Gabys circumstances have changed the most shes gone from bei
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Luke Russert by Paul Morigi/WireImage.com
Newbie NBC News reporter Luke Russert took to the blogosphere Wednesday afternoon to right what he called a "dumb" misstatement he made regarding Barack Obama and students at the University of Virginia on the Today show.According to The Associated Press, Russert, son of late Meet the Press host Tim Russert, reported on campaign activity at UVA, then followed his report with a live conversation with Matt Lauer. In that conversation, Russert said, "The smartest kids in the state go there so it is leaning a little bit toward Obama."Russert took abuse on the Web for his doubly insulting statement, which could either imply that the students at other Virginia schools aren't as smart or that only less intelligent people would not support Obama. Tim Graham of the conservative Media Research Center said Russert was an "untrained reporter" who represents the "unspoken beliefs of the liberal media" on the NewsBusters blog.Russert responded via his own blog to say that he misspoke and "made wh...
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Leighton Meester by Shawn Ehlers/ WireImage.com
Nearly a month after news surfaced that she was born in prison, Leighton Meester is breaking her silence on her family's past."It makes me very nonjudgmental and open-minded," Meester told Us Weekly. "And I think it just makes me appreciate the things that I have now."The actress' parents, Connie and Doug, were involved in a drug ring that smuggled 1,200-pound shipments of marijuana from Jamaica into the United States, Us reported. Both of them served time for the operation, and it was during the beginning of Connie's sentence that she gave birth to Leighton in a Texas federal prison in 1986.Connie — who was sentenced to 10 years, but was released after 16 months — now works as a screenwriter. Doug, who split from her in 1992, is in construction. Though her parents' past is "questionable," as Doug puts it, the Gossip Girl's relationship with them is anything but, especially with Connie."She's always there for me no matter what," Meester said. "I swear, that woman knows eve...
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Gary Sinise in CSI: NY by Eric Liebowitz/CBS
Wednesday's ratings rundown:8 pm/ETDancing with the Stars' second results show of the week delivered 15.7 million total viewers, topping the hour in demos as well. Bones dipped only a bit, placing second with 9.6 million. Knight Rider (7.3 million) slowed down from its TV-movie try-put, shedding 42 percent of that February audience.The New Adventures of Old Christine faced a new problem — its Wednesday time slot — drawing 6.7 million, a far cry from the 12 million or so it got on Mondays. (Lead-out Gary Unmarried debuted to 6.84 million, showing 102 percent retention.)9 pmCriminal Minds returned to 15.1 million viewers, a 19 percent surge from its previous premiere. America's Got Talent dropped nearly 2 million to place second with 10.2 million. Back-to-back 'Til Deaths averaged 4.08 million (down another million week-to-week), trailing ABC's David Blaine thing.10 pmCSI: NY dominated with an audience of 15.55 million, a 22 percent leap from its year-ago opener. Though it f...
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In this video, Christopher Knight first talks about the "insidiously difficult" job of hosting a game show, as he does with the brand-new and syndicated Trivial Pursuit: America Plays. "The producers saw something in me," he shrugs. "But it isn't easy."At the 3:15 mark, I ask Christopher about the feud he was subject to earlier this year, when Brady Bunch mom Florence Henderson broadcast her disapproval of his choice of wife, former Top Model Adrianne Curry. Reflecting on Flo's rant, Knight says, "I don't know what she was thinking," deeming Henderson determined to "be public with her disbelief of my marriage." In the end, Knight was forced to choose, and he goes into detail about that decision at the video's end. — Matt Mitovich
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Tyra Banks by Danny Moloshok/The CW
Warning: This post contains spoilers about the outcome of the most recent episode of America's Next Top Model.Isis, the first transgendered model in the history of America's Next Top Model, was sent home this week — and Tyra Banks made it clear that her being transgendered had nothing to do with it.Isis found herself competing for the last photo with Samantha, who earned a spot in the bottom two by pulling up her skirt slightly while walking a runway blindfolded. Isis put herself in jeopardy, Banks said, by looking "sleepier and sleepier and sleepier" each week — like someone afraid to stand out.Earlier in the episode, fellow contestant Clark had whispered that it was time for Isis to go home, and that parts of her body were too manly for her to get modeling jobs. Also sent home this episode was Hannah, the Alaska resident who pushed Isis two weeks ago for backing into her personal space. Isis said when she was announced as a contestant that she was there to win, not just ...
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Ralph Macchio will turn to Ugly Betty for some beautifying when he pays Hilda's salon a visit on the Oct. 30 episode of the ABC comedy. The Karate Kid? Beauty salon? Insert your own "Wax on, wax off" joke here.Macchio will be playing a city official named Archie Rodriguez, and could appear in more than one episode. TVGuide.com's Erin Fox spoke to Macchio about his Betty gig Wednesday night at a Showtime soiree. Watch that video here.
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Thomas Gibson in Criminal Minds by Sonja Flemming/CBS
The following contains spoiler information from Wednesday night's Criminal Minds premiere.Criminal Minds fans got their answer on Wednesday night, when it was revealed that SSA Kate Joyner was the agent critically, and eventually fatally, injured by the exploding SUV. But Thomas Gibson's Hotchner didn't escape the tragedy scot-free. No, not by a stretch. "In the aftermath of Kate's death, Hotch will ignore medical advice and continue to work with his post-explosion injuries, putting himself in danger of permanent injury," executive producer Ed Bernero tells TVGuide.com. "The team will then slowly realize that Hotch is working almost non-stop, and begin to worry further about his health." Of course, Minds' even bigger bang came when the ambulance driven into the clear by Derek Morgan went kaboom in the middle of Central Park. Shemar Moore obviously had only one take to get that scene right, as his character was revealed to have ducked out the driver door just seconds before the expl...
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John McCain, you don't mess with David Letterman.The Republican presidential hopeful was supposed to appear on The Late Show Wednesday, but Letterman opened the show by telling his audience that the Arizona senator was suspending his campaign and "racing to the airport" to fly back to Washington and help with the economic crisis. Rolling with the punches, Letterman brought on MSNBC's Keith Olbermann at the last minute to fill in. But that's when things got sticky. During a commercial break between Olbermann's segments, the control room noticed video of McCain being miked up for an interview with Katie Couric for the CBS Evening News, and of course, Letterman ran with it. "He doesn't seem to be racing to the airport, does he?" Letterman asked as the live feed continued, later joking, "the road to the White House runs right through me."Olbermann got in on the fun, too. "I think he dissed you," he said. "Or the other possibility is that [Couric] has all the money that's required to fix...
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Shenae Grimes by Michael Desmond/The CW
If Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley was looking for a feud when he told the 90210 girls to "eat a cheeseburger," Shenae Grimes isn't biting.Into the feud, that is. No word on the cheeseburger.The actress, who plays Annie on 90210, had this to say to Extra about complaints she's too thin: "Shake it off, baby!"Grimes and castmate AnnaLynne McCord also sidestepped talk of a clothing rivalry with the Gossip girls. “We beat the makeup by far, I’ll tell ya that! But oh my god, Leighton [Meester] — I love her. She rocks that show," McCord said.Everyone's getting along so well that Grimes is down for a crossover with her fellow CWers: "We have been talking about that since day one," she said.What do you think? Should the Gossip cast stop off at the Peach Pit for cheesburgers? — Tim MolloyRelated:• 90210 Planning Intervention for "Too-Skinny" Starlets?Check out the casts of Gossip Girl and 90210 — separately, for now — on our Online Video Guide.
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