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Good News: Mia Michaels Will Be Back on TV!
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Attention, Mia Michaels lovers! All hope is not lost. Even though the star choreographer doesn't have any immediate plans to return to So You Think You Can Dance, she is coming back to TV before you know it. We just spoke to her, and her message to her fans is this: "Be patient, because you're gonna get a lot more Mia than you expect."
So what's the deal with her new in-the-works choreography show? Here's what we learned from chatting up the divine Ms. Michaels...
So You Think You Can Dance Backstage Scoop: Why the "Stunned" Judges Sent Bianca Home
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It was a tough night for the tappers on So You Think You Can Dance. Both Bianca Revels and Phillip Attmore were sent home, but we caught up with the judges backstage and learned it didn't have to be that way.
In fact, Bianca's fate wasn't sealed until the final minutes of tonight's episode, when two judges outvoted the third and sent home Bianca, saving Noelle Marsh to dance another day.
What made the difference? Here's what we learned...
Evening News: See the First Official Promo for Lost Season Six
• Lost: Press play above to see the first teaser trailer for the final season of Lost. There's no new footage, but we got goosebumps just the same. (In other Lost news, 24 producer Jon Cassar just tweeted, "News that I will be directing a #LOST in November is not totally accurate. I am potentially going to direct an episode in the new year.")
• So You Think You Can Dance: Season four SYTYCD runner-up "tWitch" Boss is going to star as the bad guy in Stomp the Yard 2. (Studio 60 actor and former Britney Spears boyfriend Columbus Short starred in the original.)
• Better Off Ted: The bitingly funny, charmingly weird and very severely ratings-challenged Better Off Ted is scheduled to return to ABC on Dec. 8 at 9:30 p.m. The holiday season is a time for charity, so you'll watch, right?
• Grey's Anatomy: Frankie Faison is set to play Miranda Bailey's (Chandra Wilson) dad in the Nov. 19 episode of Grey's Anatomy. Who else is imagining a clash of the titans?
Now, what are you most hoping to see in season six of Lost, and how long do you think you can endure this rumored alt-timeline business? Tell us in the comments!
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This Just In: Mia Michaels Finally Explains SYTYCD Departure
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• So You Think You Can Dance: Mia Michaels finally did an interview about her sudden departure from SYTYCD, and she says it wasn't because she's got cancer or is going crazy, but rather, "When I was working on the show, I wasn't able to really focus on anything else. Now I'm really focusing on these other projects that I can't pass up. I think that’s pretty much the main reason why I left the show." Hmph. On the good side, however, Michaels also revealed, "Right now [I'm] in talks [to do] my own choreography show." Holler!
• Melrose Place: The first promo of Heather Locklear on Melrose Place is out. The 21-second commercial features shots of Locklear stalking through Ella's PR firm intercut with the tagline, "Amanda's back...you better watch yours."
• Lost: Carlton Cuse revealed via a series of Twitter riddles that creepy character actor William Atherton is guest starring on Lost this season.
So You Think You Can Dance: One Day You're In, and the Next Day You're Out
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This reality-contestant merry-go-round is dizzying. Can we get off?
Thanks to baseball playoffs wreaking havoc on Fox's schedule, So You Think You Can Dance is all mixed up this season. Usually the two-hour competition episode would air on Tuesday, fans would vote overnight and an elimination episode would air Wednesday, but until the World Series is done, competition and elimination happens on the same night, and there's no fan voting to save couples from elimination. The judges decide among themselves who's going home.
Here's what happened during tonight's Top 20 competition, complete with pairings, dances and the identities of the two eliminees who got the full Cat Deeley precious-darling treatment on the way out:
So You Think You Can Dance: Wait, So Paula Abdul Is Actually an Empty Chair?
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Nigel Lythgoe is a tease!
The So You Think You Can Dance executive producer got us all excited last week when he tweeted, "All you Paula Abdul fans please check out next Monday's show." So, we waited tonight, with bated breath, for the erstwhile American Idol judge to pop up on tonight's installment of So You Think You Can Dance...but we waited in vain.
Instead of delivering the real deal, Nigel presented only an empty judge's chair with Paula's name on it, saying, "I've asked somebody to come along and be a guest judge whenever they can, so I've asked [the crew] to put a chair next to me just in case [Paula Abdul] ever turns up. It'd be lovely to see her. I'm putting the pressure on her!" OK then. (This is apparently Nigel's passive-aggressive version of emotional blackmail.)
Still, even with the Paula Abdul anticlimax leading off the episode, tonight's first-ever showcase show was a doozy, and we must discuss what went down, as well as a little late-breaking (and tragic) news about this season's top 20.
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Tom Cruise: So They Think He Can Judge
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Mary Murphy isn't the only one who would like to see Tom Cruise as a guest judge on So You Think You Can Dance.
"Tom loves the show, so I hope so," new permanent judge Adam Shankman says. "I happen to love Tom, and Tom loves dancing, so it would be great."
SYTYCD host Cat Deeley says Cruise already impressed them when wifey Katie Holmes performed on the show last season.
"I'd never met him before so I had no idea what to expect." Deeley remembers. "He was an absolute sweetheart. He was taking videos of his little girl and wife. Just like any guy, he was incredibly proud of his spouse."
Hmmm, does that mean Holmes might make a return engagement?
Update
Teens, Tappers & a Twist: Meet Your SYTYCD Top 20!
Here they are, America—your top 20!
On tonight's So You Think You Can Dance, "Your...judges!" settled on their favorite contenders to take the show into its sixth—but first with the chill of fall in the air—season of competition.
One by one, a bevy of contemporary dancers, a few ballroom specialists, a couple of hip-hop types, a few wild cards and—could it be?—a tapper or two (or three) got the news that will turn them from hardworking artists anonymously honing their craft to network TV stars whose legs and abs will be ogled by millions.
As usual, the process started with the first contender making that long, solitary walk to the room where Nigel Lythgoe, Mary Murphy, Adam Shankman (who will be starting his tenure as a permanent judge on the panel next week), Debbie Allen, Tyce Diorio and a freshly shorn Mia Michaels (who, unlike Shankman, is on her way out) were waiting to tell 18-year-old Nathan Trasoras his fate.
And you know how those judges like to make it sound as if they're going to say no.
New Moon's World Premiere: Countdown Begins!
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New Moon doesn't hit theaters until Nov. 20, but the red carpet will be rolled out four days prior for its star-studded world premiere.
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner and many others are expected at the invite-only event Nov. 16. Just as Summit did with Twilight’s premiere, there will be two screenings happening simultaneously at the Mann Village and Bruin Theatres in the Westwood neighborhood of L.A.
No Twi-fans have been spotted camping out in front of the theaters just yet, but why do we have a feeling that'll start happening sooner than later?
Meanwhile, we got some more deets on director David Slade taking a dark turn with Eclipse, the third installment of the Twilight franchise...
Michael Jackson's Executors Have Poor Taste in TV Dance Shows
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Hey, remember earlier this summer when Michael Jackson died and So You Think You Can Dance producer Nigel Lythgoe asked Janet Jackson's old choreographer Paula Abdul to participate in a Jackson-dance-tribute episode of SYTYCD, but then someone Jackson lackey put the kibosh on the whole thing?
No, you don't remember? Well, that happened, and at the time of the rejection, Lythgoe told reporters, "We put the music through to Sony and said, 'Sony, can we clear this music?' Yesterday, we got a note back—whether it's Sony or the [Jackson] family estate, I don't know—but they would not clear the music for us. It's very sad...for some reason, we can't do the show."
Well, it turns out that the kibosh was just temporary, because next week another popular TV dance series, ABC's Dancing With the Stars, is putting on a show dedicated to Jackson's fancy footwork. Read on to find out why Jacko's team went with DWTS instead of with SYTYCD (the show that totally called first dibs!) and why that was the wrong call...
Update
So You Think You Can Dance Boss Confirms Mia Michaels' Exit
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Update, 2:47 p.m.:
It's all true, dammit.
So You Think You Can Dance executive producer Nigel Lythgoe just released a statement about choreographer Mia Michaels' Twitter-telegraphed exit: "We are thrilled to have given a talent such as Mia Michaels a platform to create Emmy Award-winning choreography. During the auditions this season she has helped choose the best, most diverse top 20 we have ever had. She knows that she is always welcome to return later this season or next. She's chosen to move on to new challenges and we will continue to support her and wish her all the best."
OK, so now that this is real (argh!), we have to start wondering: Why is she really leaving?
Many of you seem to think this has something to do with the elevation of Adam Shankman as a permanent judge. Could that be it, or might there be something else afoot? Why do you think Mia's leaving us?
Post your take in the comments...
Soup Week: Chicken Tetrazzini. What Else Do You Need?
Want to hear all the sexy inside poop on the Kardashian/Odom wedding? Look somewhere else. What we've got here is the bliss of holy Soup.
• Finally, the dish that can't be stopped moves from the kitchen to the dance floor. Yes, chicken tetrazzini served up as never before.
• One can only imagine what the groom did in a past life to deserve this Bridezilla.
• The search for true amore on Real Chance of Love 2 is fueled by more than just massive honkers.
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