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PBS

Wait a minute, is this the BBC or the MMA (er, that is, if the MMA smelled of Earl Grey tea and used impeccably crafted highbrow barbs in lieu of body slams)?

In any case, Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch has taken a cue from his newly BAFTA-nominated character and made a brilliant, if rather cutting, deduction about his fellow Masterpiece-embraced export: Downtown Abbey's second season. Bit of a stinkfest.

You heard correctly. Now grab your pistols and brace for dawn...

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Giuliana and Bill Rancic have shed more than their share of sad tears on their lengthy and often rocky road to baby. Now it's time for some happy ones.

While the stellar couple officially announced this morning that they're expecting their first child this summer via a gestational surrogate, Style Network cameras were present for the tear-jerking moment that the reality show stars discovered the life-changing news.

Get your tissues ready.

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Courtesy: Struck by Lightning

Meet Hollywood's newest hyphenate. Except you've already met him!

Yep, it's Glee star Chris Colfer, who wrote and starred in Struck by Lightning, the dark, irreverent coming-of-age comedy that premiered Saturday night at the Tribeca Film Festival.

"It was insane. It was really crazy," he said. "It was easily one of the best nights of my life."

He was also "shocked" and elated by the all-star cast that signed on to the project, including Allison Janney, Dermot Mulroney, Polly Bergen, Christina Hendricks, Angela Kinsey, Sarah Hyland and Bridesmaids' Rebel Wilson.

In Struck by Lightning, Colfer plays Carson, a high school senior fiercely determined to attend Northwestern University and become a famous writer. To set himself apart from the competition, he starts a literary magazine and blackmails his classmates into writing for it.

So is Colfer, 21, the real-life version of the ruthless character he plays on the silver screen?

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At this point, it's hard to keep track of just exactly how many threats Selena Gomez is: singer, dancer, actor, do-gooder, preeminent secret spiller? Check, check, check, check and…check.

While chatting with E!'s own Ryan Seacrest this morning, the "Love You Like a Love Song" singer showed off the latter two talents in her arsenal, not only being named an ambassador to the radio host's charitable foundation, but also managed to let loose some more details about the long-teased duet between BFF Taylor Swift and boyfriend Justin Bieber.

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Some celebrities take career advice from mentors, others model their choices on those of fellow celebs, still others rely on their management team for guidance through the treacherous waters of pop culture. But Nicki Minaj?

Well, she's pinning the blame for her recent headline-grabbing behavior on one person thing only: "the voice in my head."

Hey, it could be worse. She could have said voices.

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Ryan Seacrest was getting ready for last night's live taping of American Idol when he heard the news that his longtime friend and mentor Dick Clark had died.

"He was such a good friend," Seacrest tells E! News' Giuliana Rancic today. "He was a teacher to me and I felt like a student. I was always in awe of him, just wanted to please him every time I got a chance to work with him."

Seacrest recalled being "so scared" when Clark invited him to cohost New Year's Rockin' Eve with him in 2005, a year after Clark suffered a stroke and missed his only countdown in 32 years.

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Parenthood ain't easy, even for the Material Mom.

In an interview with NBC's Rock Center with Brian Williams, a preview of which aired on The Today Show, Madonna talked about the difficulties of balancing her pop career—her latest album MDNA debuted atop the charts though second week sales suffered a huge drop—with raising four children.

Needless to say, it hasn't been a holiday.

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Do we smell a feud brewin'?

A specific comment  Katy Perry said in her interview for Teen Vogue's May issue didn't sit well with the ladies of The Talk, who gave their (not-so-nice) two cents about the remark on today's program.

So what did Perry say that got them worked up? And what does she have to say now?

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Roadside Attractions

This isn't the PETA Jennifer Lawrence wants to be messing around with.

The animal-rights organization was rather annoyed by the actress saying "screw PETA" in response to Rolling Stone's questions about the infamous squirrel-skinning scene in her breakout film, Winter's Bone.

"I should say it wasn't real, for PETA—but screw PETA," joked Lawrence, whose fake hunting skills also took center stage in The Hunger Games.

But now People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is out to remind her that even just the idea of killing furry creatures is no laughing matter.

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Don't call her Gaga Reloaded.

Nicki Minaj, whose performance at the Grammys this year was meant to shock and get people talking (let's see, where have we seen that before...), didn't appear to take kindly during her sit-down with Nightline to questions about the inevitable comparisons made between her and Lady Gaga.

At least, the interviewer certainly seemed to think the comparison was inevitable.

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