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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...
This Just In: Kim Kardashian to Guest on CSI: NY
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• Keeping Up With the Kardashians: Kourtney is pregnant, Khloé is married, and Kim...got a job? Yep, Kim Kardashian tweeted this morning, "Up and on my way to the set of CSI Wish me luck! Have the best day guys! xo." CBS reps confirm that today is Kim's first day of shooting for the Dec. 16 episode of CSI: NY. Kim and fellow guest star Vanessa Minnillo play a pair of hot would-be criminal masterminds.
• Mark Your Calendars: Showtime has announced premiere dates for the new seasons of three excellent series. Crazy mamas Edie Falco and Toni Collette are back at it when Nurse Jackie and The United States of Tara return Mar. 22. The final season of The Tudors, starring Joely Richardson as the last wife of a finally fat Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), premieres April 11. Oh, and for the five remaining humans who haven't seen Twilight, the TV premiere is set for Jan. 23 on Showtime.
• Top Chef: For those who felt defrauded by the lack of a new episode of Top Chef this week, we offer you this exciting (but profane, thanks to Mike Voltaggio) sneak peek of next week's episode, featuring that notorious layabout Padma Lakshmi.
Sammie in Omaha, Neb.: Is there any hope for Trauma? I'm loving the show! It's an entertaining, action-packed drama, plus Rabbit-Nancy is awesome! It's been staying almost even with Heroes in ratings, and the latest episode actually had more overall viewers.
Conan Apologizes, Antagonizes After Levi Johnston Twitter Shat Storm
Shat happens.
Most recently, on Wednesday night, when William Shatner gifted the viral video gods with yet another dramatic interpretation of awe-inspiring tweets, this time seemingly from the mind and keyboard of pro leg-spreader Levi Johnston.
Only they weren't.
"We'd been following Levi on Twitter and felt his gift for the written word needed to be shared with the world," Conan O'Brien explained. "Today I wake up, very late, I sleep in, and I got some shocking news: Apparently the tweets that we read are counterfeit. They were written by a clever imposter posing as the witty Levi Johnston.
"And the real Levi is angry with us now."
So what better way to redress the balance than by inviting the beat poet extraordinaire back out to the stage to reinterpret some bonafide Johnston sound bites.
"The first thing Sarah said to me at the hotel was, you gotta cut your hair," the Shatman recited. "I told her, I didn't want to. I had a mullet at the time.
"Guess what? I shot a big ass bear," he went on. "I just get naked, that's what I do."
On second thought, he might have been better off laying claim to the counterfeit quotes.
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Want more funny videos? Check out the offerings from resident funnylady Chelsea Handler!
Kourtney Kardashian: I'm Sick of Gaining Weight
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Khloé Kardashian isn't the only member of her family facing weighty issues.
Big sis Kourtney Kardashian, 30, admits she's nervous about gaining too many pounds during pregnancy. "I weigh myself everyday," she told us Monday at the Kardashian Charity Knock Out event in L.A. "I've gained 26 pounds since getting pregnant, except I gained three pounds since yesterday."
Being eight months pregnant and understandably bigger than usual hasn't stopped the E! reality starlet from conquering a red carpet in heels. But it sounds like Monday's event could be Kourt's last until after she gives birth...
The Real Housewives of Orange County Bitchfest Is Back!
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Move over, Atlanta, Bravo's original leading ladies are back!
The Real Housewives of Orange County hotties return tonight, and the premiere gets so heated you'll be wondering why everyone made such a big fuss over those other two—you know, Miss "Tardy for the Party" Kim and her lifelong frenemy NeNe.
It's safe to say that season five will be more drama-filled than ever—and not just between the usual suspects. More marriages are falling apart, the newbies are clashing with the classics, and bitter feuds are boiling over.
We caught up with the O.C.'s kinda-but-not-really-housewife Gretchen Rossi last week, and she gave us the goods on what's up in season five...
Maksim Chmerkovskiy: Kym's In, Karina's Out
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy and his then fiancé Karina Smirnoff made their Broadway debut last summer in Burn the Floor.
But Chmerkovskiy says producers have only asked him to return, which he'll do right after Thanksgiving.
The hunky hoofer says there's no way he would have gone back if Smirnoff was part of the deal. The two called off their engagement just days before they danced together on the Emmys in September.
"I wouldn't do it if she was asked back," Chmerkovskiy told us last night at the Sony Cierge event at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Instead, another one of DWTS' pros will be joining him...
Law & Order Rips David Letterman's Sexcapades From the Headlines
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What took so long?
After taking a shot at the Gosselins, the Law & Order brain trust has now set its sights on a certain late-night dog, plotting a ripped-from-the-headlines scenario based on David Letterman's personal life.
The casting call has just gone out for the episode, which per The Wrap, will revolve around a "well-known celebrity talk-show host, married with children," who has engaged in "a series of short-lived affairs with some of the employees on the show and up until now has managed to keep them off the radar."
Until, that is, the host is approached by an email- and photo-equipped blackmailer who demands $3 million in hush money.
Sounds familiar enough. But it wouldn't be Law & Order without a twist, and this one's a doozy…
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Khloé Packs On Love Pounds After Marriage
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Is Khloé Kardashian already too comfortable with new hubby and notorious sugar junkie Lamar Odom?
The 25-year-old E! reality starlet shed 25 pounds prior to tying the knot with her basketball beau on Sept. 27. But since meeting Lamar, Khloé has found it tougher to stay focused.
"I stopped my QuickTrim diet for a little bit around the time I met Lamar," Khloé told us yesterday at the Kardashian Charity Knock Out event at L.A.'s Commerce Casino. "I was so in love, and I was at my perfect weight, and I didn't want to do it anymore. Since marriage, I've gained about five pounds."
But Khloé assures us she's ready to get serious again...
Retweeting a Twit: Shatner Does Levi
If we were Bristol Palin, we'd shut down our Twitter account now. After all, getting mocked dramatically reinterpreted by William Shatner has turned into a family affair for Alaska's former first family, as estranged baby-daddy turned professional trou-dropper Levi Johnston is the latest tweeter to get caught in Captain Kirk's crosshairs.
As he did with Sarah Palin (twice) before, the Shat man grabbed his bongos, his bass and his never-bland delivery, and gifted the Tonight Show audience with a beat-tastic reading of Johnston's 140-character musings.
Let's just say, he makes Palin look like a veritable wordsmith.
"Maybe I'm a genius and not even know it," Shatner recited. "Maybe I don't exist and it only seems like I do. Maybe this is a parallel universe where I don't. Anybody know where I can get some good weed?"
Turns out, you can take the hick out of Wasilla, but not out of tweets.
"What's the deal with taxi drivers not speaking English, is it a law against it?" he mused. The blissfully ignorant questions didn't stop there.
"Is it true that fat kids never get kidnapped?"
And no tweet reenactment would be complete without touching on his upcoming, highly unanticipated Playgirl spread.
"You know you're a celebrity when strangers want to see your penis. LMAO."
Yes, Levi. But only to L their own AO.
Joke's on Them: Seinfeld, Rock Honor Cosby
Last week, comedy's heavyweights donned their finest embarrassing dad sweaters, broke out the bubbly—and the clip reel—and paid tribute to Bill Cosby, who was on the receiving end of the exceedingly prestigious 12th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
On hand to present the longtime-coming award (the family-friendly Cos had twice turned down the honor in objection to the 1998 profanity-laced inaugural ceremony honoring Richard Pryor) were Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, former Cosby Show costars Phylicia Rashad and Malcolm-Jamal Warner and fellow comedian and longtime pal Dick Gregory.
The erstwhile Huxtable's 45-year career was retold via show highlights, memories and, of course, jokes.
When Seinfeld and Rock took the stage together at the Kennedy Center, they recounted the 72-year-old's recent show at the Apollo Theater. Or at least they would have if they hadn't been so sartorially distracted.
Could Crazy Puritans Take Away our Highly Anticipated Gossip Girl Threesome?
Bianca in Palm Beach, Fla.: OMFG! Please help! I am now just hearing of this ridiculous complaint that the Parent Television Council is making against next Monday's episode of Gossip Girl, because of the threesome storyline. I hope this is just for publicity, but can you reassure us that the episode will indeed air? Please?! Thank youuu!!!
In case you haven't heard, TV fans, the self-appointed band of media moralizers known as the Parents Television Council has gotten wind of the Gossip Girl threesome set for this coming Monday, and boy, are their granny panties in a bunch! The PTC is sending sternly worded faxes hither and yon in protest, but does this squawky bunch of cultural conservatives actually have any power?
Could they be persuading the CW to step back from the threesome storyline? We've done a little digging and here's the word on the street:
Modern Family Is Even Funnier Than 30 Rock (There, We Said It!)
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OK, we know 30 Rock is genius and has more Emmys than God and even smoking-hot movie stars—like, quite possibly Julianne Moore—want to be a part of it. But based on the emails and comments we're getting from you TV fans, it's another show that has you in hysterics this season:
Modern Family.
"Modern Family is the best show on TV right now...Dare I say funnier than 30 Rock?" a user named tc1982 wrote right here.
As someone who had to breathe into a paper bag to stop convulsing with laughter after the latest episode in which baby Lily bumped her head and then got locked in the car (OK, maybe you had to be there), I gleefully accepted the assignment to infiltrate the set of our favorite new comedy to get scoop on what's ahead.
And what did we find? Well, for starters, a big scandal: Baby Lily is missing!
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