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This Just In: See Gaga Sing on Gossip Girl
• Gossip Girl: Don't want to wait until Monday to see Lady Gaga's guest gig on Gossip Girl's "Last Days of Disco Stick"? Press play above for a sneak peek of the showy pop star's big musical number.
• Curb Your Enthusiasm: As it turns out, super-Jew Larry David is 37 percent Native American, or so say the geneticists employed by the Lopez Tonight show.
• Private Practice: Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice boss Shonda Rhimes announced that Kate Walsh has joined Twitter, if you're into that kind of thing. You can follow her at @k8_walsh.
• Charlie's New Angels: This sounds strangely fun. Sarah Connor Chronicles boss Josh Friedman and multihyphenate cutie Drew Barrymore are collaborating on a possible new Charlie's Angels series for ABC. Got any sexy casting ideas?
• Caprica: The Battlestar Galactica spinoff Caprica has been cut back by one hour to save money. The series, which stars Eric Stoltz and Esai Morales, premieres Jan. 22 on Syfy.
Spoiler Chat: House and Office Romance Scoop!
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OK, OK, we hear you!
Apparently all you TV fans want to know about is:
- House and Cuddy and the possibility of hanky-panky
- The Office's new Jim and Pam (is it blasphemy to call them that?)
We've done some digging with inside sources (and a couple of castmembers themselves) to come up with inside info for you.
Read on for our latest roundup of exclusive TV scoop...
Sherrie in Louisiana: Forget Jam. I'm digging this Erin and Andy flirtation on The Office! Will they actually hook up?
Larry David Makes Jesus Cry, Angers Catholics
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Should Larry David have curbed his urine stream on last week's Curb Your Enthusiasm?
The plot thread in which Larry's midriff-showing assistant thinks her mom's painting of Jesus is crying because of Larry's bathroom backsplash has a couple of Catholic groups on the offensive against what they perceive as a tasteless, persecutorial jab against their religion.
"I don't think it's funny," InsideCatholic.com publisher Deal Hudson told FoxNews.com. "Why is it that people are allowed to publicly show that level of disrespect for Christian symbols? If the same thing was done to a symbol of any other religions—Jewish or Muslim—there'd be a huge outcry. It's simply not a level playing field."
Hudson thinks an apology is in order.
But Curb is indeed an equal-opportunity lampooner. No character is safe from being made to look like an ass.
Jeff Garlin's Enthusiasm for McHale Curbed
It's always a thrill when a nonbasic-cable celebrity stops by The Soup for a little back and forth with Joel, but when Curb's Jeff Garlin made the scene, who knew some McHale hero worship would be on the menu?
Catch this and even more gushing tonight at 10 p.m. ET/PT with a delicious batch of Soup.
Sneak Peeks: Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Yada Yada Yada
The seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm is looking pret-ty, pret-ty good.
With the Seinfeld cast reuniting for the first time in more than a decade, Curb is sure to draw a record number of viewers. "It will be our most popular season," Jeff Garlin told us at the HBO premiere. "I know that."
Most important of all, though? The Blacks are back! But for how long? Will Loretta's cancer diagnosis ruin Larry's hopes of another reunion—with his ex, Cheryl? No matter what happens, Leon isn't leaving anytime soon. J.B. Smoove assured us, "Leon knows a good thing when he sees it. He'll be hanging around a little bit."
Click in for more clips of Larry hanging with the Seinfeld cast, along with some juicy tidbits from the first episode, "Funkhouser's Crazy Sister."
Spoiler Chat: What Brings Boone Back to Lost?
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Is it true that Ian Somerhalder will join the rest of the Lost gang on the beach this season? And if so, what's driving the actor to return?
Jump to the spoiler section for the exclusive scoop on Boone's return. Plus, get dish on Desperate Housewives' newest resident, scoop on what the suicide bomber does to Godric's nest on True Blood, a surprising character turn on Grey's Anatomy and news about which character didn't survive the Chuck finale.
Marie in Boston: Mad Men is almost here! What's the skinny on the new season?
Spoiler Chat: Is Eric Getting His Fangs Into Sookie Stackhouse on True Blood?
Jamie Trueblood/HBO; John P. Johnson/HBO; Jamie Trueblood/HBO
Was that Eric racing to Sookie's rescue last night on True Blood? And what might Ms. Stackhouse's current damsel-in-distress situation mean for her romance with Bill and her connection to Eric?
We've got True Blood dish in the spoiler section, along with some great goodies on fan faves like One Tree Hill, Dexter and Mad Men. Read on for this week's juicy TV scoop:
Lexi in Las Vegas: Got any True Blood goodies about my beloved Alexander Skarsgård?
HBO Picks Up True Blood, Entourage and Hung
Jamie Trueblood/HBO
Not that we thought they were going anywhere, but today at the Television Critics Association press tour, HBO officially announced that True Blood and Entourage have been picked up for another season. The news of an early Hung pickup, however, was a wee bit surprising as that show is still finding its legs and is getting mixed reviews from the critics.
"One of the reasons we brought [True Blood] back as soon as we did was it always felt like a summer show. The hope and expectation is to try to bring it back next summer as well," Michael Lombardo, HBO's president of programming, told the crowd.
Now that we know Sookie and the gang will continue to glamour us for another season, what about your other HBO faves, such as Big Love, Flight of the Conchords, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and Eastbound & Down?
Here's what we learned today...
Larry David Spills Seinfeld Reunion Secrets
NBC; Lisa O'Connor/ZUMA Press
It's been months since the news broke that the cast of Seinfeld was reuniting on Curb Your Enthusiasm. However, no plot details were released until executive producer and star Larry David sat down with reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour earlier today.
Finally we know how Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards reunite for the first time in more than 11 years. It's basically a show within a show, where the cast is actually doing a reunion episode in the Curb universe.
We'll let Larry explain...
Exclusive
Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Seinfeld Reunion Seems Just Like Old Times
NBC; Lisa O'Connor/ZUMA Press
The Seinfeld reunion has begun.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus says that she and her famous costars—Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards—began shooting their multiple-episode appearance on Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm last month.
"It was really fun to get together with everybody," Louis-Dreyfus told me today. "Frankly, it was as if we never left."
And there’s more fun to come. "We're shooting again this month and in May," she said. "We have a lot more work to do."
No surprise, everyone has been sworn to secrecy...
Seinfeld Stars Reunite With Enthusiasm
NBC; Lisa O'Connor/ZUMA Press
Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer are preparing to meet their maker.
Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and a probably pretty grateful Michael Richards will show up for a multi-episode arc on Seinfeld creator Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm this season.
The funnymen-and-woman will play Curb-style versions of themselves (aka more neurotic and self-absorbed) on the critically acclaimed life-reflects-art series, which is returning to HBO for a 10-week seventh season.
This will be Richards' first time on the show, while the rest of the quirky quartet have previous cameos—but it will be the first time Richards, Louis-Dreyfus, Alexander and Seinfeld have shared a soundstage since their Seinfeld incarnations were sent up the river in 1998.
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