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Mariska Hargitay Returning to Law & Order: SVU for Season 15

Sadie Gennis — Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:00 -0400

Fans can finally breathe a sigh of relief: Mariska Hargitay says she is returning to Law & Order: SVU.

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Brad Pitt Says He Has Face Blindness

Sadie Gennis — Sat, 25 May 2013 10:51:00 -0400

Brad Pitt seems to have it all — except the ability to remember who you are.

In a recent interview with Esquire, the actor revealed he believes he has prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness.

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Charlie Sheen Changes Name Back to Carlos Estevez

Sadie Gennis — Sat, 25 May 2013 10:41:00 -0400

Charlie Sheen is going back to his roots for Machete Kills. According to a screengrab obtained by TMZ, Sheen will be billed by his birth name, Carlos Estevez, for the upcoming film.

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Jimmy Kimmel Did Not Buy Nude Bea Arthur Portrait

Sadie Gennis — Sat, 25 May 2013 10:38:00 -0400

Jimmy Kimmel is a notorious prankster, but it turns out his biggest one yet was only an accident.

Contrary to reports, it turns out the comedian was only joking about purchasing the nearly $2 million nude Bea Arthur portrait.

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Did Jimmy Kimmel Pay Nearly $2 Million for the Nude Bea Arthur Painting?

Nicholas White — Fri, 24 May 2013 20:06:00 -0400

Apparently Jimmy Kimmel is a very generous friend.

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Q&A: Fox Reality Kingpin Mike Darnell on Why He's Leaving, and What's Next

Michael Schneider — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:23:00 -0400

There's a reason why they call Mike Darnell the "dark prince" of reality TV. Darnell, who on Friday announced his exit as the president of alternative entertainment at Fox, is still best known for his in-your-face fare like Joe Millionaire, Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction, The Swan, When Animals Attack and Man vs. Beast.

Some of those shows, like Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire and Temptation Island, led to juicy TV scandals. (It's why the New York Times once billed him as TV's "point man for perversity.") But Darnell also oversaw the biggest TV phenomenon of the past decade: American Idol, a show that was unbeatable in its prime...

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January Jones Says She Was "Excited" to Be a Single Mom

Nicholas White — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:22:00 -0400

January Jones rarely speaks about parenthood — but she says in a new interview she feels "healthy and peaceful" as a single mother.

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Fox's Longtime Reality Boss Mike Darnell to Exit After 18 Years

Nicholas White — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:12:00 -0400

Fox's longtime head of alternative programming Mike Darnell, who helped launch American Idol and Joe Millionaire, is leaving his post after 18 years, he announced Friday.

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Tim Curry Suffers a Stroke

Nicholas White — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:37:00 -0400

The Rocky Horror Picture Show star Tim Curry is recovering after suffering a major stroke, the UK's Daily Mail reports.

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NBC to Air Star-Studded Oklahoma Tornado Relief Concert Hosted by Blake Shelton

Nicholas White — Fri, 24 May 2013 16:17:00 -0400

Blake Shelton is once bringing attention to his home state, Oklahoma, to help raise money for the victims of the tornado that ripped through the state earlier this week.

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Frances Bean Cobain Bashes Kendall Jenner on Twitter

Nicholas White — Fri, 24 May 2013 15:51:00 -0400

Nothing like a good old fashioned Hollywood dustup on Twitter — especially when they're the kids of famous people.

"Just wish things could be easier sometimes mann," Kendall Jenner, 17, wrote to her more than five million Twitter followers on Tuesday night, prompting the ire of Frances Bean Cobain, the daughter of rockers Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.

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The Glades Exclusive Sneak Peek: Is the Killer a Ghost?!

Joyce Eng — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:31:00 -0400

Will Callie accept Jim's proposal?

We won't know her immediate response yet when Season 4 of The Glades premieres Monday (9/8c, A&E) — Callie (Kiele Sanchez) needs to think it over — but Jim's (Matt Passmore) new case is bizarre enough to take his mind off of her indecision a bit. After an ...

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Which TV Shows Are You Giving Up on Next Season?

TV Guide News — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:27:00 -0400

The TV season just ended, but it's never too early to start thinking about the next one.

With a shiny new slate of highly anticipated shows on deck, the freshman class will undoubtedly compete for coveted DVR space with your old favorites — some of which, let's face it, have lost their way. So we want to know: Which shows are you giving up on next season?

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14 Things We Want to See on Arrested Development

Sadie Gennis — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:24:00 -0400

While we hope the new season of Arrested Development has its own set of tricks illusions, there are still a few recurring jokes we hope to see when the show returns Sunday on Netflix.

Check out 14 things we'll be looking for this Sunday.

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VIDEO: Mariah Carey Suffers Wardrobe Malfunction, Curses on Good Morning America

Sadie Gennis — Fri, 24 May 2013 11:54:00 -0400

Mariah Carey's Friday morning got off to a rough start. During an appearance on Good Morning America, the singer suffered a nearly catastrophic wardrobe malfunction.

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VIDEO: Was American Idol's Angie Miller as Surprised as Viewers Were By Her Elimination?

Liz Raftery — Fri, 24 May 2013 10:56:00 -0400

Many American Idol viewers had Angie Miller penciled in for the finale, if not the win. But after competing against Candice Glover and Kree Harrison, Angie was shockingly eliminated in third place. And she was just as surprised as the audience.

"I felt confident in my songs Top 3 week. I thought I was going to make it," she tells TVGuide.com. "When they said that Kree was safe, it was just kind of like, 'Oh, wow, that really just happened. Oh, wow, that's what it feels like.'"

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Disney XD Assembles the Avengers for New Animated Series

Megan Walsh-Boyle — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:57:00 -0400

The big screen isn't the only place to find your favorite superheroes this summer. Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Hawkeye and Black Widow will kick some bad-guy butt as the stars of a new animated series, Disney XD's Marvel's Avengers Assemble. "People will be blown away," promises Jeph Loeb, the head of Marvel Television, who stresses that these episodes have been made with passion and care. "Our job is to create stories that make your heart race, to re-create that feeling you get when you first open the comic book."

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Holiday Weekend Playlist: Garish Candelabra, Earnest Ring

Matt Roush — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:57:00 -0400

No one saves face in director Steven Soderbergh's ghoulishly entertaining, opulently produced Behind the Candelabra (Sunday, 9/8c), HBO's grandest, gaudiest and most fascinating movie in quite a long while — probably since last year's Game Change, in which Julianne Moore's uncanny impersonation of Sarah Palin swept the awards the way Michael Douglas is likely to repeat with his equally astonishing transformation into the flamboyant but closeted "Mr. Showmanship" Liberace.

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The Bachelorette's Desiree: This Is Definitely a Sexy Season

Robyn Ross — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:57:00 -0400

Sean Lowe was not afraid to take his shirt off during The Bachelor and new Bachelorette Desiree hopes her men have the same lack of modesty.

"It will definitely be a sexy season because the men are so sexy!" Desiree told TVGuide.com in the video below. "I wanted their shirts off all the time because they all looked so good. Hot tub, pool — any outdoor activity that requires shirts off. "

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Memorial Day Weekend Marathon Roundup

Robyn Ross — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:57:00 -0400

It's Memorial Day Weekend -- the official start of summer! What better way to celebrate than to watch endless hours of TV! Check out your options:

(All times are ET/PT)

Saturday, May 25
Bridezillas (10 a.m.-5 a.m. Sunday, WE tv)
Defiance (4 p.m.-6 a.m. Sunday, SyFy)
Hoarding: Buried Alive (7 a.m.-2 a.m. Sunday, Discovery Fit & Health)
Iyanla: Fix My Life (10 a.m.-8 p.m., OWN)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (10 a.m.-2 a.m. Sunday, USA)

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Amanda Bynes Arrested After Throwing Bong Out the Window

Sadie Gennis — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:55:00 -0400

Amanda Bynes was arrested in her Manhattan apartment Thursday night after she threw a bong out of the window, police told The Associated Press.

Police were called to Bynes' apartment when a building official spotted the increasingly erratic star in the lobby with a joint and talking to herself. When law enforcement arrived at her apartment and spotted a bong, Bynes, 27, threw the water pipe out the window, police said.

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VIDEO: Jennifer Aniston Plays a Stripper in We're the Millers

Sadie Gennis — Fri, 24 May 2013 09:38:00 -0400

Eat your heart out, Brad Pitt. In the first trailer for We're the Millers, Jennifer Aniston shakes her stuff as a jaded stripper.

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Bret Michaels Transforms Transportation on Rock My RV

Joe Rhodes — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:00:00 -0400

Well-known bandanna enthusiast Bret Michaels — front man of Poison, former reality-show Lothario, Celebrity Apprentice champion and composer of drunk-girl karaoke classic "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" — hardly seems like the kind of guy who'd get excited talking about RV countertops.

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Michael Douglas and Matt Damon Go Behind the Candelabra

Bruce Fretts — Fri, 24 May 2013 06:03:00 -0400

It all started, oddly enough, on the set of director Steven Soderbergh's gritty, Oscar-winning 2000 drama Traffic. "Steven said to me, 'You ever think of playing Liberace?'" remembers Michael Douglas of the first time he was approached to portray the ultra-effeminate yet closeted pianist who was the world's highest-paid entertainer for decades. "And I thought, 'This guy's f---ing with me. I'm playing the drug czar! Is this some kind of director's trick?'"

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On the Set: Arrested Development Returns on Netflix

Margy Rochlin — Fri, 24 May 2013 06:03:00 -0400

From the outside, soundstage No. 7 at Los Angeles's Culver Studios looks like an unremarkable airplane hangar. Inside? The fourth-season resurrection of the cult comedy Arrested Development rages in full eccentric swing as Cinco de Quatro — a fictional holiday meant to upstage the May 5 Mexican fiesta — is being celebrated noisily.

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Top Moments: Ellen Stages a Friends Reunion, SVU Goes Out with a Bang

Joyce Eng and Kate Stanhope — Thu, 23 May 2013 21:01:00 -0400

Our top moments of the week:

12. Oh, Baby Award: Babies, babies, babies. That's pretty much the theme of the Chicago Fire season finale, in which Hermann becomes a dad after his wife and newborn baby endure life-threatening labor, and Shay finds out she's not pregnant, much to her dismay. Although Shay and Severide get to be godparents to Hermann's new bundle of...

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Jennifer Hudson in Talks to Join American Idol

Natalie Abrams — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:58:00 -0400

Jennifer Hudson may be returning to American Idol.

After news broke that American Idol may employ alumni as judges next season...

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A Message to Game of Thrones Haters

Sadie Gennis and Hanh Nguyen — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:40:00 -0400

Are you baffled by the love for Game of Thrones?

The fantasy drama has been an unqualified success for HBO, but even as it's entering the home stretch of its third season, not everybody is on board the Westerosi train. Take, for example, this Thrillist writer who insists that women hate Game of Thrones. Crazy as Mad King Aerys, right? Her points are so ridiculous, we're tempted to think this is supposed to be satire, except it's neither clever nor funny. Of course, this far more eloquent and learned New York Times writer offers a similar argument in her review of Game of Thrones when it first debuted.

As bona fide women, TVGuide.com's Hanh Nguyen and Sadie Gennis (of the Game of Thrones By the Book chat series) would like to very respectfully discuss some of the biggest issues that the detractors have with the series.

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The 20 Most Absurd Moments in Hemlock Grove (And Why You Need to Watch)

Sadie Gennis — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:40:00 -0400

Hemlock Grove isn't good by any means, but it is great (just not if you watch earnestly). The Netflix original series is unfocused, over-dramatic, convoluted and stagnant all at once — which is exactly why you need to watch. Because Hemlock Grove doesn't even attempt coherence, it's impossible to predict what's coming, making every episode an exhilarating surprise. The mad scientist has super-strength? Weird. What's this secret Catholic werewolf hunter society? Bizarre. Are we ever going to find out why Roman has mind-control powers? Who cares!

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