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Heroes' Mohinder Previews a Bleak (Yet Thrilling) Future

If you thought the return of NBC's Heroes last week served up the series' most riveting episode to date, brace yourself for a bit of future shock. Tonight's episode (airing at 9 pm/ET) follows Hiro, Ando and others five years into what we have seen is a very bleak future. There, unexpected alliances have formed and life-and-death decisions hang in the balance. Sendhil Ramamurthy, who plays Mohinder, calls this latest outing his personal favorite of them all. Now, the actor tells us more about it, lets slip a taste of Season 2, and details the onus of being deemed "sexy" by TV Guide. TVGuide.com: I have to say, there's leaving people hanging with a cliff-hanger, and then there is leaving people, like Mohinder, literally hanging....Sendhil Ramamurthy: Well, clearly, yeah! You have no idea how many p

Mon, Apr 30, 2007

Heroes' Mohinder Previews a Bleak (Yet Thrilling) Future

Miss America Plays "Innocent" to Catch Sexual Predators

This Saturday on America's Most Wanted (9 pm/ET on Fox), viewers will see Lauren Nelson use her Miss America powers for good, as a "special investigator" enlisted to snare online predators in a very different Web. Nelson, who has dedicated her reign to promoting Internet safety for kids, posed in chat rooms as a 14-year-old girl, and found herself on the receiving end of overtures at first plain and genteel, but for the most part ultimately graphic and sexually perverse in nature. The end game? To give a would-be predator enough rope with which to hang himself, by arranging for an in-person "meeting" with Nelson's underage alter ego. The perv would instead, however, be greeted by AMW host

Fri, Apr 27, 2007

Miss America Plays "Innocent" to Catch Sexual Predators

Mickey Rooney Celebrates a Big Night at the Museum

There's a man small of stature but incredibly big on talent and Hollywood luster at the center of the box-office blockbuster Night at the Museum, which to date has raked in more than $563 million globally. Just before reuniting with ol' Rexy, Mickey Rooney — who in the Ben Stiller-fronted comedy plays Gus, a night watchman with a surprising agenda — gave TVGuide.com a call to tout Museum's Tuesday DVD release. TVGuide.com: I understand you're on your way to the Museum of Natural History to bid "Rexy" [Night at the Museum's two-ton, 13-foot-tall T-rex model] farewell.Mickey Rooney: That's right. [Chuckles] He's going on a cross-country trip. TVGuide.com: I wonder if he thinks to himself, "Meh, I'm too

Tue, Apr 24, 2007

Mickey Rooney Celebrates a Big Night at the Museum

Live Wire Kelly Ripa Takes on the TV Land Awards

When it comes to the increasingly large small-screen, Kelly Ripa has done it all. Soap opera? Check. Daytime talker? Check. Prime-time comedy? Check. Saturday Night Live stop-bys? Check. So who better to oversee this Sunday's TV Land Awards (9 pm/ET) than one of this reporter's most favorite funny girls? TVGuide.com relished the chance to speak with the Live with Regis and Kelly cohost about "remaking" Laverne & Shirley, boogying with the Brady Bunch, stealing someone else's belly button and much, much more. TVGuide.com: I'm nervous to talk to you, because I always get afraid that Q&Aing a funny person won't yield appropriately funny material. Do you ever have that same concern on Live?Kelly Ripa: I do, I do. I have what I like to refer to as "posttraumatic talk-show disorder," where I'm like, "Oh, that didn't go well. I should have done this this way and that that way...." It'

Fri, Apr 20, 2007

Live Wire Kelly Ripa Takes on the TV Land Awards

Idol Chat: Will Country Week Find Someone Singin' the Blues?

Blake, Chris R., Jordin, LaKisha, Melinda, Phil and Sanjaya are American Idol's lucky seven, having made it — in some instances, barely — through Latino-music week. Who most needs to bounce back tonight? What tricks might Sanjaya have up his sleeve? And is this year's crop of finalists as mediocre as Simon has said? We asked

Tue, Apr 17, 2007

Idol Chat: Will Country Week Find Someone Singin' the Blues?

Joey Lawrence Dances with the Devil on CSI: NY

You've seen him rock his mop on Blossom and rule the parquet on Dancing with the Stars, but you've never seen Joey Lawrence the way he is as a guest star on the April 25 episode of CSI: NY (Wednesdays at 10 pm, on CBS). As Clay Dobson, a chrome-domed killer once nabbed by Gary Sinise's Detective Mac Taylor and now set free, he delivers a chilling turn that will not only make you say, "Whoa," but also set Mac up for a dramatic fall. TVGuide.com asked Lawrence about the bold gig, his bald pate and the whereabouts of his boogie shoes. TVGuide.com: So, you do the "dancing monkey" act and you get your career jump-started, eh?Joey L

Tue, Apr 17, 2007

Joey Lawrence Dances with the Devil on CSI: NY

Kristine and Heidi Question Apprentice's "Split" Decision

Two golden Trump towers are going up in Las Vegas, and accordingly, two players went down on last week's The Apprentice, albeit not in the way the Donald foretold. Rather than boot one entire team of two, Trump picked one player each from the non-winning teams, surprising all and perhaps robbing the game of two of its best bets. TVGuide.com spoke with Heidi Androl and Kristine Lefebvre about their exits. TVGuide.com: I can't help but feel like The Apprentice's two strongest women got booted last night....Kristine: We did, we did, and it's all my damn fault.Heidi: Aw, thanks! [Laughs] Well, it was what it was. I basically blew it. TVGuide.com: What do you think about Trump zagging when he was supposed to zig, firing one person from each of the two worst teams, instead of firing a whole team?Heidi: Yeah, that just made it worse. Then it was every man or wom

Fri, Apr 13, 2007

Kristine and Heidi Question Apprentice's "Split" Decision

Drive Time! Angel's Tim Minear Starts an Amazing Race

Rob and Amber wouldn't survive a day in this sprawling journey. Premiering Sunday at 8 pm/ET before settling into its Mondays-at-8 time slot, Fox's Drive takes a wide swatch of types — played by  Nathan Fillion, Dylan Baker, Kevin Alejandro, Taryn Manning and Kristin Lehman, to name only a few — then raises the flag on a super-mysterious, super-secret underground cross-country race. Giving the assorted strangers their driving papers (in the form of compelling if not always life-threatening reasons to race) is a man known only as Mr. Bright (played by

Fri, Apr 13, 2007

Drive Time! Angel's Tim Minear Starts an Amazing Race

Rex Lee, Entourage: Just How Low Will Lloyd Go for Ari?

While Vince avails himself of a shiny new agent (in the form of Carla Gugino, no less), Lloyd is left with an extra-cranky and insult-hurling Ari (albeit a boss man played by an Emmy winner, Jeremy Piven). As HBO's Entourage (Sundays at 10 pm/ET) continues its new stretch of episodes and delivers an episode in which the all-too-loyal Lloyd goes to the mat for his master, TVGuide.com invited Rex Lee to survey his sassy assistant's end game. TVGuide.com: Things are a bit different with the Entourage gang this year, Ari and Vince being on the outs....Rex Lee: Yeah, well, you've got to change things up every now and then, see what happens.

Fri, Apr 13, 2007

Rex Lee, Entourage: Just How Low Will Lloyd Go for Ari?

Idol Chat Looks at Gina's Exit, Phil's Unsung Skills and More

Call 'em the Great Eight. As Blake, Chris R., Haley, Jordin, LaKisha, Melinda, Phil and Sanjaya move a big step closer to the finish line, TVGuide.com has questions. Like, did rocker gal Gina Glocksen get punk'd? Is Phil perhaps better than we think? Can Haley's pins earn her another free pass? W

Tue, Apr 10, 2007

Idol Chat Looks at Gina's Exit, Phil's Unsung Skills and More

How CBS' Mother Met with Sitcom Success

How I Met Your Mother: At its best, it's one of TV's tangiest, highest laugh-per-minute ratio comedies, populated by one of the brightest and most crackling casts out there. In its less-than-two years on our screens, it has taught us to "Suit up," fear the slap bet and never, ever call Lily a, um, "grinch." It gave TV back Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan, and treated us to the arrival of relative newbies Josh Radnor, Jason Segel and Cobie Smulders. To celebrate the CBS sitcom's funnily serious litany of accomplishments, TVGuide.com invited cocre

Mon, Apr 9, 2007

Apprentice's Tim: 'Tis Better to Have Loved and Lost...?

It may seem like Tim Urban is all mouthwashed up, but he did get the girl in the end, right? Right...?! The day after his dismissal from NBC's The Apprentice (Sundays at 10 pm/ET), Tim called TVGuide.com to kiss-and-tell about his on-screen romance, share his take on the remaining contenders (Nicole included), and reveal a never-seen "high"-light of one reward. TVGuide.com: What's the saying? "'Tis better to have loved and lost The Apprentice?" Is that how it goes?Tim Urban: Yeah, I think so! [Laughs] TVGuide.com: Are you regretting trying to help Nicole by whispering through the hedges a few weeks ago?Tim: I don't regret much about the Nicole situation, but that was pretty stupid. It

Fri, Apr 6, 2007

Apprentice's Tim: 'Tis Better to Have Loved and Lost...?

CSI: NY Alum Braves Tarantino's Bloody-good Grindhouse

Two acclaimed directors with crazy amounts of cult-film cache. A whole lotta gorgeous women. Some outrageous movie trailers. And Kurt Russell. Add it all together and you get Grindhouse, the long-anticipated double feature hitting theaters this weekend and composed of Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof and Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror. Striving to survive in the former flick is Vanessa Ferlito, familiar to TV audiences from her runs on 24 and then CSI: NY. TVGuide.com welcomed the chance to ask the actress what a pretty girl like her is doing in a blood-soaked mess like this. TVGuide.com: I humbly confess that I was battling a cold Wednesday night, and didn't get to catch the Grindhouse screening....Vanessa Ferlito: Aw, you're crazy! Are you crazy? You should have gone

Fri, Apr 6, 2007

CSI: NY Alum Braves Tarantino's Bloody-good Grindhouse

Rashida Jones, The Office: Is Karen Fated to Lose Jim?

When last we tuned in to NBC's The Office — which airs at a special time tonight, at 8 pm/ET — Jim seemed to be in harm's way, as Roy, finally clued into fiancée Pam's longings, declared Halpert "a dead man." Subsequent promos have suggested a follow-up more akin to a Law & Order squad-room brawl than our usual fun-loving Dunder-Mifflin gang. Just before TV Guide's Sexy Stars issue hit newsstands, we invited Rashida Jones (aka pages 52-53) to share a sneak peek. Plus, her take on SNL's Office spoof, and the NBC hitcom's parade of big-name directors. TVGuide.com: Tell me about the photo shoot you did for TV Guide's "Sexy" issue....Ras

Thu, Apr 5, 2007

Rashida Jones, The Office: Is Karen Fated to Lose Jim?

Jonathan Silverman Makes a Case for His Sitcom's Success

At the time this interview with Jonathan Silverman was set up, tonight at 9:30 pm/ET was supposed to present the season finale of ABC's In Case of Emergency. But just before Silverman called, ABC extended his sitcom's run, pushing its freshman finale to April 18. Regardless, TVGuide.com wasn't about to pass on the chance to chat up the funnyman who in addition to his role as ICE's Harry, is about to visit fiancée Jennifer Finnigan's Close to Home. TVGuide.com: Just to be clear, I'm speaking to Jonathan Silverman and not Jason Schwartzman, right? I get yo

Wed, Apr 4, 2007

Jonathan Silverman Makes a Case for His Sitcom's Success

Idol Boss Talks of "Quitters," Vote Tampering and Sanjaya

Did one of this season's American Idol wannabes almost call it quits? Are those seeking to rock the vote succeeding? And is Sanjaya's "success" a liability for the popular singing competition? Idol executive producer Ken Warwick addressed those topics and more in a Tuesday conference call with reporters. Late last week, upon Chris Sligh's ouster, the big story was that the big guy had allegedly inquired into dropping out of the competition a few weeks prior. TVGuide.com asked Warwick if he was in the loop on that possible departure — and his answer might surprise you. "Um, Chris Sligh sometimes talks out of turn, to be absolutely honest," Warwick told us. "I was neve

Wed, Apr 4, 2007

Idol Boss Talks of "Quitters," Vote Tampering and Sanjaya

Idol Chat: Who's on Fire as the Competition Heats Up?

Was Chris Sligh the architect of his own undoing? Which of American Idol's nine finalists has the most momentum heading into "American Classics" week? And is an early favorite not doing what she needs to do for success? TVGuide.com asked Kimberly Caldwell and Rosanna Tavarez, the hosts of TV Guide Channel's Idol Chat, Idol Tonight and Reality Chat, for their expert takes on what's next for the most popular television show

Tue, Apr 3, 2007

Idol Chat: Who's on Fire as the Competition Heats Up?

Chris Sligh on Quitting, Sanjaya and How He'd Change Idol

Ah, the best-laid plans... South Carolinian Chris Sligh had planned to sing "Give a Little Bit" (first proffered by Supertramp and later covered by the Goo Goo Dolls) on last Tuesday's American Idol, but changed gears relatively late in the game — the previous Friday afternoon — by instead cueing up The Police's "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic." Explaining his perhaps critical misstep, 29-year-old Chris told TVGuide.com, "I wanted to challenge myself a little bit more. I just didn't realize it was going to be quite that much of a challenge." Indeed, Chris had difficulty "staying in the pocket," offering an off-rhythm rendition that wowed neither

Mon, Apr 2, 2007

Chris Sligh on Quitting, Sanjaya and How He'd Change Idol

Dave Annable, Brothers & Sisters: Is Justin Doomed?

After too long a break, ABC's Brothers & Sisters — which has since been picked up for a second season — returns with a new episode this Sunday at 10 pm/ET. TVGuide.com went to Dave Annable, who plays Justin, the addiction-kicking, Afghanistan-bound baby of the Walker clan, for a preview of what's ahead. Plus, the scoop on how Fox's tragically truncated Reunion would have ended! TVGuide.com: With all the last-minute backstage changes and recasts, some people seemed ready to read Brothers & Sisters its last rites before it even premiered. Has it therefore been satisfying to see it be as successful as it has been?Dave Annable: Oh, absolutely. A lot of that sort of "bad press" was unwarranted. Wha

Fri, Mar 30, 2007

Dave Annable, Brothers & Sisters: Is Justin Doomed?

Bummer Games! Apprentice Olympian Says Cheaters Prospered

"Apprentice Olympian Lacks Universal Appeal"? "Olympian Angela Doesn’t Have the Mettle to Win"? "Hockey Star Can't Skate Through Tough Boardroom"? No matter how you put it, no matter what puns are employed, the story is the same: Olympic hockey star Angela Ruggerio took one for the team on NBC's The Apprentice (Sundays at 10 pm/ET) when she got fired for failing to drum up enough ticket sales outside the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park. But was the gold medalist a victim of brazen rule-breaking? A casualty of the Nicole-Tim romance? TVGuide.com invited Angela to share her side of the story. Plus, the next reality series she may lace up for! TVGuide.com: In the boardroom, were you surprised to see the tide turn the way it did? And by "tide" I mean your team mates Kristine and Heidi.

Thu, Mar 29, 2007

Bummer Games! Apprentice Olympian Says Cheaters Prospered

Lost's Michael Emerson Ponders Ben's End Game

Last week, ABC's Lost (Wednesdays at 10 pm/ET) ended with a whopper, as Ben revealed to Locke that the former paraplegic's papa is on the island and in the Others' custody. What happens next? TVGuide.com invited Michael Emerson, creepy Ben's compelling portrayer, to share a preview. TVGuide.com: So we have now learned that Ben was born on the island, and is as loath to leave it as Locke is.Michael Emerson: Yeah... what's interesting is in neither case do we know why they're so attached to the island. Interesting.... TVGuide.com: Terry [O'Quinn] and I t

Wed, Mar 28, 2007

Lost's Michael Emerson Ponders Ben's End Game

Idol Chat Looks at the Most Improved, Gwen's Visit and More

And then there were 10. The British invasion was very, very good to most of the wannabe American Idols, yet not kind enough to Stephanie Edwards, the latest to be sent packing.  As the action picks up tonight, TVGuide.com asked Kimberly Caldwell and Rosanna Tavarez, the hosts of TV Guide Channel's Idol Chat, Idol Tonight and Reality Chat, for their expert takes on the most-improved singers,

Tue, Mar 27, 2007

Idol Chat Looks at the Most Improved, Gwen's Visit and More