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Survivor Champ Yul Kwon Takes on a New TV Adventure With America Revealed

Winning 2006's Survivor: Cook Islands was pretty tough for Yul Kwon — he beat out Ozzy Lusth! — but it wasn't nearly as stomach-churning as his new hosting gig on the four-part PBS series America Revealed (premiering Wednesday at 10/9c). Based on Britain From Above, the spectacularly filmed show takes a mostly birds-eye view of the U.S. as it tracks the systems that provide the U.S. population with food, energy, transportation and other stuff that makes the country run. "I'm scared of heights and I'm claustrophobic, and I also get severe motion sickness on planes so half the time we were filming I'm scared out of my mind," Kwon says with a laugh. "But it was worth it. This is a big epic series about America." We spoke with the Yale Law School grad, one of the most popular Survivor champs, about his new series, what he's been up to, and whether he'd give the reality show another chance.

Wed, Apr 11, 2012

Survivor Champ Yul Kwon Takes on a New TV Adventure With America Revealed

On the Set: The Killing Returns With More Twists

You'd think they'd killed somebody.After a season crammed with multiple suspects and red herrings, AMC's moody cop drama The Killing signed off without revealing who strangled teen beauty Rosie Larsen, and many fans and critics cried foul.The producers were blindsided by the reaction.

Fri, Mar 30, 2012

On the Set: The Killing Returns With More Twists

Lindsay Lohan: Confirmation of Elizabeth Taylor Role is Imminent

It looks like Lifetime will finally officially announce that Lindsay Lohan will star as Elizabeth Taylor in their upcoming movie, Liz and Dick.Sources tell TV Guide Magazine that Lifetime has been waiting for the actress's legal trouble to be wrapped up before confirming her casting. Lohan is scheduled ...

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Lindsay Lohan: Confirmation of Elizabeth Taylor Role is Imminent

Special Report: How Book-to-TV Adaptations Handle Spoilers

Producers of serialized dramas hate spoilers and famously put cast and crew on lockdown to keep juicy plot points under wraps. But how do you avoid spoilers when your hit show — like Pretty Little Liars, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries, Dexter, True Blood and The Secret Circle, all known for shocking twists — is based on a series of books? Your options: either mislead viewers, change up the story just a bit or take...

Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Special Report: How Book-to-TV Adaptations Handle Spoilers

Sneak Peek: Matthew Perry Meets The Good Wife

On March 25, Matthew Perry begins a multi-episode arc on CBS' The Good Wife as hotshot Chicago attorney Mike Kresteva. Producers Robert and Michelle King wanted the character "to be more charming and charismatic than Alicia's previous adversaries" and Perry, a self-professed fan of the show, was on the top of their list.

Tue, Mar 13, 2012

Sneak Peek: Matthew Perry Meets The Good Wife

First Look: Misha Collins Returns to Supernatural

Castiel has risen! The beloved Supernatural character played by Misha Collins will make his long-awaited return to The CW series on March 23 for the first of at least three episodes — and we've got your ...

Thu, Mar 8, 2012

First Look: Misha Collins Returns to Supernatural

On the Set: Behind the Magic of ABC's Once Upon a Time

There's definitely a chill in the air on the Once Upon a Time set. It's hard to keep warm as a cold winter rain falls on a picturesque town square an hour from Vancouver that's doubling for Storybrooke, Maine. But no weather, even in Canada, can match the cold contempt with which Storybrooke's mayor, Regina (Lana Parrilla), treats constituent Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin) in today's scene at a town fair.

Tue, Mar 6, 2012

On the Set: Behind the Magic of ABC's Once Upon a Time

BBC America's Being Human Returns With Major Cast Changes

BBC America's Being Human — the beguiling original version of the vampire/werewolf/ghost roommate supernatural drama — is back on Saturday. But it's not the same old. Tortured bloodsucker Mitchell (Aidan Turner) is gone staked by his wolfman buddy George (Russell Tovey) in last season's shocking finale. And there is more shakeup and tragedy to come. The show's creator...

Fri, Feb 24, 2012

BBC America's Being Human Returns With Major Cast Changes

Blue Bloods' Donnie Wahlberg is Hangin' Tough

Taking a break between scenes, Blue Bloods' Donnie Wahlberg places two smartphones within easy reach. The onetime teen heartthrob is so connected to social media that instead of watching his hit cop show on Fridays at 10, he reads real-time Tweets to gauge what viewers like or don't. Happily for the actor who plays Det. Danny Reagan, the "likes" win — Blue Bloods and Wahlberg rule the night...

Fri, Feb 24, 2012

Blue Bloods' Donnie Wahlberg is Hangin' Tough

First Look: Being Human's Aidan Can't Get Bishop Out of His Mind

What could be sweeter than a father and child reunion? Well, if Dad is Being Human's brutal bloodsucker Bishop (Mark Pellegrino) then, basically anything! Bishop may have been decapitated last season by Aidan (Sam Witwer), the vampire he sired centuries ago, but dead or not, on Feb. 20 he's back. The onetime Boston vampire capo returns to Syfy's addictive supernatural show as a hallucination to haunt the troubled Aidan. He's also seen in flashbacks, including during World War I, as pictured above.

Fri, Feb 10, 2012

First Look: Being Human's Aidan Can't Get Bishop Out of His Mind

On the Set: Jane Curtin Is Ready For Prime Time in Unforgettable

You can hear a pin drop in the Queens homicide squad as Det. Carrie Wells calls a cellphone that could belong to a serial killer she's tracking. When a drug dealer answers, she hangs up, disappointed. A familiar face in the corner makes a wisecrack and the Unforgettable cast hold back their laughs. Live from New York... it's Jane Curtin!

Tue, Feb 7, 2012

On the Set: Jane Curtin Is Ready For Prime Time in Unforgettable

Downton Abbey Finale Preview: Love Among the Ruins

"It's good to remind people, love is love," says Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. And more than 15 million viewers in the U.S. and U.K. are having a love affair with the palace-size hit, which has reinvigorated period drama and earned raves around the world (100 countries have acquired rights to air the show). Far from a sophomore slump, Season 2 of the sumptuous series about life among the British gentry and their servants during World War I has broadened the story's scope to take in the violence of the battlefields and the impact of the conflict on the residents both upstairs and down.

Tue, Jan 31, 2012

Downton Abbey Finale Preview: Love Among the Ruins

Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm Joins Current TV with The War Room

Former two-term Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm would quite possibly have been on the list for future Presidential candidates — had she been born in the U.S. Instead the Canadian-born Democrat is going on TV. Starting tonight at 9/8c on Current TV, she will host The War Room With Jennifer Granholm, a live political show based in San Francisco. Her first guests: consumer advocate and Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. TV Guide Magazine caught up with Granholm to find out what battles The War Room will pick.

Mon, Jan 30, 2012

Former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm Joins Current TV with The War Room

Tribute: Lost in Space's Dick Tufeld

Actor Dick Tufeld, who voiced the Robot on the 1960s sci-fi series Lost In Space, died January 22 at age 85 while watching the NFL playoffs. You may not know his name, but Tufeld created two of TV's most enduring pop culture catch phrases — "Danger, Will Robinson, danger" and "That does not compute." In 2004, TV Guide Magazine caught up with Tufeld, who was still doing voice-over work. He had recently recovered from a paralyzed vocal chord, which kept him from speaking above a whisper until a rare operation returned his familiar voice. TV Guide Magazine:  It's nice to talk to the character that gave so many generations so much pleasure. Dick Tufeld: You know there was a guy inside the...

Thu, Jan 26, 2012

Jim Beaver Says Goodbye to Supernatural

Supernatural's beloved Bobby Singer died last Friday, thanks to a bullet in the brain from a shape-shifting Leviathan. Veteran actor Jim Beaver, who played the crotchety mentor to demon hunting ...

Thu, Jan 12, 2012

The Good Wife Team on Football, Romance and How the Show Will End

CBS' award-winning drama The Good Wife was the first panel to sell out at the star-heavy New York Times Arts & Leisure Weekend this past Friday. One hot topic for stars Julianna Margulies, Christine Baranski, Josh Charles, and executive producers ...

Mon, Jan 9, 2012

The Good Wife Team on Football, Romance and How the Show Will End

Exclusive: Oprah Winfrey Talks About OWN 2.0

Oprah's Next Chapter, Oprah Winfrey's long-anticipated weekly interview show, will finally debut on OWN on January 1, the first anniversary of the fledgling network. Winfrey shares her plans for the cable channel and what she'd "do over."

Tue, Dec 13, 2011

Exclusive: Oprah Winfrey Talks About OWN 2.0

First Look: Torrey DeVitto on The Vampire Diaries

Torrey DeVitto loves her role as Melissa on Pretty Little Liars, and she's thrilled with her guest arc on The CW's The Vampire Diaries, which begins ...

Tue, Dec 13, 2011

First Look: Torrey DeVitto on The Vampire Diaries

First Look: Jennifer Carpenter on The Good Wife

There are no guns in sight and nary a cuss word to be heard when Jennifer Carpenter — best known as Dexter's foulmouthed cop sister Debra — guest stars as a religious Republican professor on the December 4 episode of CBS' The Good Wife.

Tue, Nov 15, 2011

First Look: Jennifer Carpenter on The Good Wife

Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton Preview American Horror Story's Upcoming Scares

FX's American Horror Story is arguably the season's sexiest, scariest, strangest show — and it's about to get even weirder. Yep, that means fans can expect more Rubber Man, more ghosts of tenants past, more on Constance's creepy kids and — finally! — the truth behind the baby-daddy mystery. At the heart of the sex-and-screams series are Ben (Dylan McDermott) and Vivien Harmon (Connie Britton), the tenuously married couple who buy the wicked old mansion in L.A. known as "The Murder House." Britton and McDermott take us inside the don't-watch-it-alone thriller...

Wed, Nov 9, 2011

Dylan McDermott and Connie Britton Preview American Horror Story's Upcoming Scares

Ardor in the Court: Behind the Scenes with The Good Wife's Hot Couple

You might say a love affair that kicks into high gear with a steamy embrace in an elevator is predestined to have its share of ups and downs. And sure enough, as external pressures start to close in on The Good Wife's Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) and Will Gardner (Josh Charles), their clandestine courtship is in for a very bumpy ride. After two seasons of anticipation, Willicia supporters — as opposed to those who continue rooting for a reunion of Alicia and her estranged philandering politician hubby Peter Florrick (Chris Noth) — are finally being rewarded for their patience with a passionate payoff each week. The once dutiful spouse at the center of the drama has been transformed into a woman who giggles(!) and says yes to lunchtime lust with her fellow lawyer — but there's still plenty working against the fledgling couple.

Tue, Nov 1, 2011

Ardor in the Court: Behind the Scenes with The Good Wife's Hot Couple

Homeland: On the Set of Showtime's Twisty New Thriller

In Homeland, terrorist plots aren't dismantled in 24 hours and the hero doesn't save the day by slaughtering suspects. Ten years after the horror of 9/11, good and evil are sometimes far from black-and-white. "This is not 24, which had a muscular response to what happened on 9/11," says British actor Damian Lewis, who plays Sgt. Nicholas Brody, the Marine who's become a hero after eight years of imprisonment by Al Qaeda, on the set near Charlotte. "It was a show for its time. Now we live in a world where people are divided about the best way to wage war on terror."

Fri, Oct 21, 2011

Homeland: On the Set of Showtime's Twisty New Thriller