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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?
Should Fox Have Messed With Fringe?
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Should NBC have opted for Lipstick Jungle over Jay Leno? Should the CW have uprooted steady Smallville for The Vampire Diaries? And should Fox have fiddled with Fringe's time slot?
With the first month of the 2009-10 TV season in the books, it's time to look at how the new shows—and the old shows in new time slots—are faring compared to last fall's lineup.
Beware of some surprising answers in the latest ratings quiz.
1. And the winner is…Lipstick Jungle or Jay Leno? Leno. At this point, the comic's averaging about 2 million more people on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. than the late Brooke Shields series was. And, yes, while Leno's ahead because of his big premiere week, big premiere weeks count.
Spoiler Chat: Can the New Gossip Girl Be Trusted?
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We've got the dish on Bree Buckley's bad intentions on Gossip Girl. (Did you really think she was as good as she seemed?) Plus, read on to find out which couple is due for some devastating news on One Tree Hill, Lisa Edelstein talking Jen Morrison's House exit, Lo Bosworth spilling on the future of The Hills, and Lance Reddick on an Observer-centric ep of Fringe...
Kelly in Ft. Myers, Fla.: I've heard that our favorite Dollhouse may be in danger. Does it help the rating if people watch on iTunes or Hulu? I always try to do my best.
House Is Heartbreaking
The premiere for House is just a few short weeks away, but the clips coming out for the new season are just plain heartbreaking sans the comedic introduction by Glee's Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch).
House (Hugh Laurie) has his work cut out for him this season. We always love the drama, but we just feel bad for this leading man, trying to get better in the mental institute.
In the clip above, there's a brand-new glimpse of House interacting with the patients. His method of "reaching out" to people is quite different now that he's the one being treated.
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Spoiler Chat: Are Dan and Georgina Really Hooking Up on Gossip Girl?
Patrick Harbron/The CW
Hold the phone! Is Gossip Girl's newest twosome really Dan Humphrey and Georgina Sparks? We've got the inside scoop on that hot pairing in today's Spoiler Chat, along with dish on Chuck's Awesome future, Dexter's Trinity Killer and major marriage trouble for a favorite couple on Brothers & Sisters...
Mike in Indianapolis: Fringe scoop, please.
Spoiler Chat: Will Brooke and Julian Make It on One Tree Hill?
Fred Norris/The CW
When One Tree Hill returns in the fall, what's in store for Sophia Bush's Brooke and Austin Nichols' Julian? Will they hook up or break down? Plus, how far forward is this season's time jump?
We've got the scoop on the future of OTH and much more dish in this week's Spoiler Chat. Read on to find out:
• How does the "kung fu" download change Chuck?
• How does Kristen Bell return to Party Down?
• What does Juliet's end mean for Ben on Lost?
• What happened to the Fringe writing staff over the summer?
• Who's getting wasted on Smallville?
Fox Sets Dates for House, Bones, Fringe & More
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Fox is the latest network to get all of its fall programming ducks in a row and set premiere dates for September.
Among the highlights, House is kicking off with a two-hour premiere that finds Hugh Laurie still in the mental institute. New on the schedule this year are the musical comedy Glee, the animated Family Guy spinoff The Cleveland Show, Brothers and Wanda Sykes' new late-night talk show. Get all the details about the new shows here.
Read on to see the Fox's rundown for the fall...
Breaking News
Fox Gives Fringe an Early Season Two Pickup
Craig Blankenhorn/FOX
Fox has announced that hit sci-fi series Fringe will definitely be coming back for a second season of approximately 22 episodes.
The pickup was widely expected, seeing as how (a) Fringe is running more or less even with The Mentalist for top-rated new series of the year, (b) Fringe is freaky-deaky fun and (c) Fringe comes from the generally acclaimed wunderkinds at Bad Robot—you know, the ones who make Lost and the upcoming Star Trek movie.
Secrets Revealed About Fringe's Final Three Eps
Barbara Nitke/FOX
One of the nicest TV gangs in town—the cast and producers of Fox's Fringe—gathered at Paley Fest last week to discuss season one, including what we can expect from the three remaining episodes (the first of which airs tonight).
Read on to find out what they revealed to us exclusively about who got the coveted scene with Leonard Nimoy's William Bell, about which villains return for an encore and which shocking secret about Peter is revealed way ahead of schedule...
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Fringe & Trek: Dish on Leonard Nimoy's Big New Gigs
Rena Durham/ZUMAPress.com; Albert L. Ortega / Getty Images; Dominique Charriau/Getty Images
As you may have heard earlier today, Leonard Nimoy will guest on Fox's Fringe as the infamous mad scientist William Bell, but what you haven't heard is everything we just learned about Nimoy's work in Fringe and Star Trek from Roberto Orci.
Orci, who cocreated Fringe with partner Alex Kurtzman and J.J. Abrams and who cowrote two of this summer's blockbusters-to-be, Star Trek and Transformers 2, just gave us the exclusive deets on when Bell will ring in, what questions he knows the answer to and why he might be trying to destroy the world.
Plus, how does Nimoy fit into this summer's Trek, where do things currently stand on the sequel and what are the prospects for a second season of Fringe?
Get the exclusive answers inside...
Breaking News
Fringe: Leonard Nimoy to Guest as William Bell
George Holz/FOX; Albert L. Ortega/Getty Images; George Holz/FOX
Love this! Sources confirm that Leonard Nimoy is guesting as William Bell on the season finale of Fringe , the much-discussed but heretofore unseen Massive Dynamic mogul.
And what does he do in that finale?
Fringe More Mainstream Than the Osbournes
Craig Blankenhron/FOX
Fringe, back with its first new episode last night in about two months, proved a better, bigger companion for American Idol than the Osbournes' much-maligned variety special.
From 9 to 10 p.m., which saw the final nine minutes of Idol bleed into Fringe, Fox scored 11.9 million viewers, per preliminary Nielsen estimates, and bested Dancing With the Stars and The Mentalist among adults 18-49.
Osbournes: Reloaded, which aired after last week's Idol performance show, averaged about as many viewers (8.4 million) as opt-outs from local Fox affiliates.
Elsewhere Tuesday:
• From 8 to 9 p.m., Idol's Top 8 show averaged 22 million viewers, down from the 24 million Idol's Top 9 entertained in the same hour last week. The show's final number may go up once its last nine minutes are averaged in.
• NCIS (17.6 million) was the top scripted series. The Mentalist (16.8 million) wasn't too shabby, either.
• Try not to take it personally, David Alan Grier, but your dismissal from Dancing With the Stars goosed the show by about 1 million viewers: last night's 14.3 million versus last week's 13.5 million.
• In the jam-packed 9 p.m. hour, The Biggest Loser (8 million) ran second only to Idol/Fringe among adults 18-49.
• Law & Order: SVU (9.1 million), Reaper (2.3 million) and 90210 (2.1 million) were about even with last week.
• Cupid (6.2 million) lost about 2 million viewers from its DWTS-boosted first half-hour to its last.
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