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Saving Grace: Get Ready for Grace's Final Showdown with God

At the beginning of Saving Grace's final season, Grace Hanadarko's secret is out.TNT sets premiere date for Saving Grace's final seasonFor three seasons, the heavy-drinking and promiscuous Grace (Holly Hunter) has been under the watchful eye of her "last-chance" angel, Earl (Leon Rippy), who wants Grace to give her life over to God. After surviving a 12-story fall without a scratch in the Season 3 finale, Grace has her share of questions, including one she must ask herself: Does my life have a divine purpose?

Mon, Mar 29, 2010

Saving Grace: Get Ready for Grace's Final Showdown with God

Will Castle's Explosive Cliff-Hanger Create Sparks for Castle and Beckett?

Castle (Nathan Fillion) watched an explosion destroy Detective Beckett's apartment in last week's Castle cliff-hanger, but could that disaster further kindle the flames between Castle and his crime-fighting muse?Castle: Can Beckett survive a serial killer and an FBI nemesis?That's assuming, creator and executive producer Andrew W. Marlowe coyly tells TVGuide.com, that Beckett (Stana Katic) is still alive. Marlowe hints that the conclusion to the two-part event puts Special Agent Jordan Shaw (guest star Dana Delany) in her own share of trouble."Everyone has to redouble their efforts in order to make sure everyone stays alive," Marlowe says. "The case certainly does take a turn, and there are complications. Jordan Shaw is in the thick of it and by virtue of redoubling her effort to go after the serial killer, she becomes a target herself."As for Beckett...

Mon, Mar 29, 2010

Will Castle's Explosive Cliff-Hanger Create Sparks for Castle and Beckett?

Breaking Bad: Can Walt Repair His Broken Marriage?

The consequences of Walt's actions are really about to pile up on Breaking Bad.In the season opener (warning: minor spoilers follow) Skyler (Anna Gunn) filed for divorce after learning that Walt (Bryan Cranston) has become a crystal meth manufacturer. On Sunday's episode (10/9c, AMC), Walt gets his first taste of how serious Skyler really is.Breaking Bad: Is Walter White TV's biggest liar?"She's trying to maintain distance and Walt's agenda is to bring them back [together]," Cranston tells TVGuide.com. "They're working at counter-purposes here, and all in the interest of what they think is best for the family. It gets very contentious throughout the season."Walt will get some support from his son (RJ Mitte), who shows up at Walt's apartment complex no longer wanting to live at home with Skyler. Walt seizes...

Sat, Mar 27, 2010

Breaking Bad: Can Walt Repair His Broken Marriage?

Ratings: American Idol Wins Again; Parenthood Improves

American Idol continued its Tuesday night dominance, while NBC's newcomer Parenthood and ABC's Lost both showed improvement with CBS airing repeats. A two-hour Idol drew...

Thu, Mar 25, 2010

Ratings: American Idol Wins Again; Parenthood Improves

Mad Men's Bryan Batt: "I Hope There's More to Sal"

For Mad Men's Bryan Batt, looking back at the AMC drama's third season is bittersweet.Mad Men: What's next for Sal?Yes, Batt's character, closeted art director Salvatore Romano, received ample screen time and emotional story lines. It's just that the most gripping episode of his arc may have been his very last on the show.In the episode, Sal refused the advances of the son of Sterling Cooper's largest client. In the fallout, he was fired, and his character did not appear in the remainder of the season. Batt says he hasn't been approached about returning for Season 4, which begins airing this summer."I don't know what's happening with my character," Batt tells TVGuide.com...

Wed, Mar 24, 2010

Mad Men's Bryan Batt: "I Hope There's More to Sal"

Ratings: Castle Explodes to New Series Highs

Castle beat time-slot rival CSI: Miami for the first time ever Monday, pulling in the ABC procedural dramedy's biggest audience so far. The episode — the first half of a two-parter that ended with Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) being blown up in her apartment — drew...

Tue, Mar 23, 2010

Ratings: Castle Explodes to New Series Highs

Justified: Walton Goggins Breaks Down the Role That Almost Wasn't

Walton Goggins' portrayal of Justified's church-bombing white supremacist Boyd Crowder is a ball of menacing, psychopathic fun. And it almost didn't happen.Six reasons you should be watching Justified"I said no," Goggins tells TVGuide.com. "I wanted to be very careful about how I was seen on FX again. And I did not want to perpetuate a Southern stereotype. ... I said, 'I want this guy to be one of the smartest guys in the room.'"That was certainly never true of Detective Shane Vendrell, the character Goggins so memorably played on FX's The Shield. "Boyd Crowder is much smarter than Shane — Boyd's IQ is off the chart," Goggins says...

Tue, Mar 23, 2010

Justified: Walton Goggins Breaks Down the Role That Almost Wasn't

Ratings: Breaking Bad Hits Series High, Undercover Boss Leads CBS to Win

The third-season premiere of AMC's critically acclaimed Breaking Bad was the show's most-watched episode ever, the network said Monday. Bad drew...

Tue, Mar 23, 2010

Ratings: Breaking Bad Hits Series High, Undercover Boss Leads CBS to Win

6 Reasons You Should Be Watching Justified

FX's Justified is my favorite new show of the spring. And based on its premiere's big ratings, others obviously dig Raylan Givens' brand of gun-toting justice. A few reasons why the show (Tuesdays at 10/9c) is worth your time:FX shoots to kill with Justified 1. Elmore Leonard Inspired ItHollywood's love affair with the prolific Leonard has ranged from excellent adaptations (Get Shorty, Jackie Brown) to bad (TV's Karen Sisco and Shorty sequel Be Cool). Justified borrowed all the best Leonard elements (cool characters and muscular dialogue) for its pilot...

Mon, Mar 22, 2010

6 Reasons You Should Be Watching Justified

Castle: Can Beckett Survive a Serial Killer and an FBI Nemesis?

Monday's explosive Castle puts Detective Kate Beckett in serious danger, but is her biggest threat a visiting agent from the FBI?Check out photos of the Castle castWhen a serial killer begins leaving notes at crime scenes for Nikki Heat — the fictional detective Castle (Nathan Fillion) based on Beckett (Stana Katic) in his new book — the FBI's Jordan Shaw (guest star Dana Delany) shows up in New York."She comes along and basically sweeps that case out of Beckett's hands," Katic tells TVGuide.com. "That's kind of strange for Beckett to deal with. She's used to being the one in charge of any case."Shaw and her team show up with loads of technology, and the shiny new toys catch Castle's eye. Though Shaw initially dismisses Castle...

Mon, Mar 22, 2010

Castle: Can Beckett Survive a Serial Killer and an FBI Nemesis?

Nurse Jackie's Merritt Wever: Zoey's Breaking Out of Her Shell

Season 1 of Nurse Jackie focused on the wreckage of Jackie's personal life. But in Season 2, there's plenty of mess to go around. "I think, for all the characters, the writers laid great foundations for them last year," says Merritt Wever, whose quirky nurse Zoey is one of the characters who will grab more attention. "For everybody this season, you're just learning a lot more about who they are specifically."Nurse Jackie: The story behind Mo-Mo's exitFor Zoey, that means no longer only playing Jackie's lovable sidekick...

Mon, Mar 22, 2010

Nurse Jackie's Merritt Wever: Zoey's Breaking Out of Her Shell

Breaking Bad: Is Walter White TV's Biggest Liar?

Breaking Bad's Walter White might be television's all-time greatest liar."I didn't set out with that in mind, but when you lead a double life, you have to lie constantly," Vince Gilligan, the creator and executive producer of the AMC drama, tells TVGuide.com. "It's just something you have to do. Otherwise the rest of it isn't going to work."Check out photos of the Breaking Bad castIn the early episodes of the show's searing third season, which begins Sunday at 10/9c, the person Walt (Bryan Cranston) lies to the most is himself. Several of Walt's decisions and actions last season culminated in a mid-air plane collision that rained debris over his own house. Stricken with guilt over the two planes' 167 casualties, Walt begins Season 3 by telling himself that he's done cooking meth, and that he's not a criminal...

Fri, Mar 19, 2010

Breaking Bad: Is Walter White TV's Biggest Liar?

Leno's Tonight Show Still Beating Letterman, But Not Like Before

In his second week back behind the desk of The Tonight Show, Jay Leno continues to be No. 1 in late night. But the success isn't as sweet as it was before CoCo-gate.Between March 8 and 12, Leno averaged 4.4 million viewers, trumping David Letterman's The Late Show, which averaged 3.8 million viewers. Leno also won out among the adults-18-to-49 demographic.The downside: Leno's averages are down 13 percent in the demo and 3 percent in total viewers from the same week a year ago. Worse ...

Fri, Mar 19, 2010

Leno's Tonight Show Still Beating Letterman, But Not Like Before

Ratings: Idol, Human Target Lead to Another Fox Win

American Idol's first top 12 elimination helped Fox win an extremely weak Wednesday night permeated with repeats.Idol drew 20.1 million viewers and was up 5 percent over the previous week's results show among adults 18 to 49. Its lead-in, Human Target (8 million viewers), was down a bit in the demo, but remained steady with its competition.NBC took second place overall against CBS and ABC, which mostly aired repeats. Mercy (5.6 million viewers) was down in total viewers and in the demo, but Law & Order: SVU (9.5 million viewers) easily won the 10/9c timeslot.CBS' only new show, Gary Unmarried, drew 5.9 million viewers...

Thu, Mar 18, 2010

Ratings: Idol, Human Target Lead to Another Fox Win

Ratings: Justified Rides High; Idol Wins Again

Justified drew 4.2 million viewers Tuesday night, making it FX's biggest series premiere since The Shield debuted to 4.8 million viewers in 2002, the network said. The new drama ranked No. 1 on cable for the night in overall viewers and even beat the broadcast networks at 10/9c among men 18-to-49. Fox won a slow night for the networks as American Idol's two-hour top 12 performance program drew 22.6 million viewers and continued its dominance among all 18-to-49-year-olds, according to Nielsen overnight estimates. CBS placed second for the night, but saw all its shows fall in the demo versus their last new episodes...

Thu, Mar 18, 2010

Ratings: Justified Rides High; Idol Wins Again

FX Shoots to Kill with Justified

What would Elmore do?That's the question Graham Yost (Boomtown) kept asking himself while creating Justified, the new FX drama based on one of Elmore Leonard's characters, Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens."It sounds so cliché in Hollywood to say I've always been a big fan of Elmore Leonard, but it's true," Yost tells TVGuide.com. "I always loved his writing, his approach to his characters, the humor, the danger, the tension, the sudden violence. It just all appealed to me. And I liked Raylan Givens."Givens appears in two of Leonard's books — Pronto and Riding the Rap — and the short story "Fire in the Hole" on which Yost, the series' executive producer, based the pilot. Leonard's work has inspired such big-screen hits as Out of Sight, 3:10 to Yuma and Get Shorty. The Givens character that Leonard created on the page — a modern-day lawman with a Wyatt Earp sense of justice — is ...

Tue, Mar 16, 2010

Exclusive: Louise Lombard Checks Into Miami Medical

Louise Lombard will guest-star on an upcoming episode of Jerry Bruckheimer's new CBS drama Miami Medical, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. Check out photos of LombardLombard will play Karen, a woman who's rushed to the hospital with her husband Frank (George Newbern) when the balcony of their apartment collapses. Once the doctors have a look, they learn her condition is worse than expected, but she mysteriously refuses treatment.Lombard is best known...

Mon, Mar 15, 2010

Exclusive: Louise Lombard Checks Into Miami Medical

Numb3rs: Will Charlie and Amita's Happy Ending Also Be the Show's?

After overcoming multiple kidnappings, outside entanglements and disapproving families, Numb3rs' Charlie (David Krumholtz) and Amita (Navi Rawat) are finally getting their happy ending.But the couple's long-awaited wedding in Friday's Season 6 finale (10/9c, CBS) is overshadowed by the ever-growing possibility that the show won't be back after the honeymoon's over. Earlier this season, CBS' math-driven procedural had its episode order reduced by six hours. The result:  Writers scrambled to produce an ending that could double as a series finale.Look back at photos from the show's six seasonsPlans for Charlie and Amita's ornate wedding went out the window...

Fri, Mar 12, 2010

Numb3rs: Will Charlie and Amita's Happy Ending Also Be the Show's?

CSI: The Hunt for Dr. Jekyll Heats Up

The mysterious Dr. Jekyll serial killer hasn't shown up lately on CSI, but the show's producers haven't forgotten about him — and neither has Ray Langston. Check out photos of the CSI castConveniently, on Thursday's episode (9/8c, CBS), "Neverland," Langston (Laurence Fishburne) comes across a familiar name: Nate Haskell. "It's just a little callback to him, which is kind of eerie and could be a sign of things to come," Tom Mularz, who wrote the episode, tells TVGuide.com.Haskell (Bill Irwin), of course, is better known as the Dick & Jane killer, who was first introduced...

Thu, Mar 11, 2010

Exclusive: Mad Men's Bryan Batt to Guest-Star on Ugly Betty

Those still mourning the firing of Mad Men's Salvatore Romano, chin up: Bryan Batt will guest-star on Ugly Betty, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.Mad Men: What's next for Sal?Batt will play Spencer Cannon, a handsome soap opera actor in his mid-40s who Amanda (Becki Newton) tries to set up with Marc (Michael Urie). Batt is the second...

Wed, Mar 10, 2010

Exclusive: Mad Men's Bryan Batt to Guest-Star on Ugly Betty

Exclusive: Numb3rs' Navi Rawat to Guest-Star on Castle

Numb3rs star Navi Rawat has been tapped for a guest-starring role on ABC's Castle, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.Check out photos of RawatRawat will trade in her math textbooks to play Rachel Walters, a mummification expert who crosses paths with Beckett (Stana Katic) and Castle (Nathan Fillion) when the Natural History Museum's assistant curator, Will Medina, is found murdered. Rachel informs the team that Will might have been cursed because he disturbed ancient Mayan tombs to create the museum's newest exhibit...

Wed, Mar 10, 2010

Exclusive: Numb3rs' Navi Rawat to Guest-Star on Castle

Ratings: Oscars Pull Biggest Audience in Five Years

The 82nd Academy Awards drew its largest audience since 2005, capping off an awards season that saw ratings growth for every major awards show.See our take on the Oscars' top momentsThe Oscars were watched by 41.3 million viewers, improving 13 percent over last year's audience and posting significant gains for the second year in a row, according to Nielsen estimates. The telecast clobbered the competition, which mostly consisted of repeats or movies.Before the Oscars, Barbara Walters' final Oscars special drew 15 million viewers, its biggest audience since 2002. The half-hour red carpet show drew its largest audience (25.1 million viewers) in three years...

Mon, Mar 8, 2010

Ratings: Oscars Pull Biggest Audience in Five Years