“There’s a little more character development at the offset than usual,” promises Law & Order: Los Angeles executive producer Rene Balcer. So if you’re champing at the bit to learn about the cops and lawyers that will populate the West Coast entry of the venerable franchise this fall, here’s some exclusive scoop direct from Balcer, a longtime showrunner for the franchise’s mother ship… Read More... 

The CW announced plans to add more commercials to the episodes of its shows that are streamed online — and unlike on your DVR, you won’t be able to fast-forward through any of them. Dawn Ostroff , the network’s entertainment president, likened the plan to the amount of commercials that currently air on television and called it “a blueprint for the industry.” She added that testing by the network revealed that viewers... 

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Baby Mama star Tina Fey will play the baby of a mama played by Meryl Streep in an upcoming film, according to The Hollywood Reporter . Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Meryl Streep Stanley Tucci The Devil Wears Prada 30 Rock Baby Mama Julie And Julia Date Night  Read More →

How did the most angelic woman in soap history give birth to a monster? We might get an answer when Signy Coleman appears on The Young and the Restless August 13 and 16 as blind heroine Hope Wilson. The character, who died in 2008, will return in flashbacks and a dream sequence that will shed some light on her son, Adam, and why he turned into such a conniving psychopath. Since we last saw Coleman, she’s been crazy-busy… Read More... 

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MasterChef (premiering tonight at 9/8c on Fox) is kinda like American Idol but with a tasty twist: Amateur chefs compete for $250,000 and the chance to have their own cookbook published. Serving up the critiques to the home cooks, who’ll be whittled down from 50 to 30 in the first two episodes? Caustic British culinary mastermind Gordon Ramsay , the sharp-tongued star of Hell’s Kitchen . Here, he gives us the  Read More →

Glee is parting ways with actor Patrick Gallagher , who is not expected to reprise … Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Dot Jones Patrick Gallagher Glee  Read More →

Nigel Lythgoe is nearing a deal to return to American Idol as an executive producer, according to The Hollywood Reporter . The So You Think You Can Dance executive producer and judge is being brought back to revamp Idol following Simon Cowell’s exit earlier this year. The 61—year-old producer, who helped launch the original Pop Idol in England along with creator Simon Fuller , also worked on American Idol for the… Read More... 

CSI: Miami star Emily Procter, 41, is expecting her first child with musician Paul Bryan, 43, her rep confirms exclusively to TV Guide Magazine . According to CBS, Procter’s pregnancy will… Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com CSI: Miami Emily Procter  Read More →

Salt spiced up the weekend box office, but it couldn’t knock Inception from the top spot. Watch clips from Salt With $43.5 million, Christopher Nolan ’s mindbender stayed at No. 1 for the second week in a row, edging out … Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Angelina Jolie Steve Carell Christopher Nolan Despicable Me Inception Ramona And Beezus Salt  Read More →

Guess who’s coming to Bon Temps on Sunday’s episode of True Blood ? Russell, the King of Louisiana, and it’s clear that he’s not welcome in Sophie-Anne’s territory. Lorena and Sookie battle for Bill’s attention. Lafayette and Jason face obstacles with their newfound flirtations. Jessica and Pam bond, vampire-style. Tara attempts to resist Franklin’s bizarre charms, and the rift between Tommy and his... 

For the Fringe team, meeting their alternate selves in the series’ second season finale was only the beginning. The tug-of-war between this world and the other world will be even further explored as Season 3 deals with the themes of duality, duplicity and the road not taken. “We want to see how our universe would have evolved had different choices been made along the way,” executive producer J.H. Wyman said at the series’... 

Now that Chuck ( Zachary Levi ) has “given up” being a spy, per Ellie’s request, Chuck ’s Season 4 will focus on the hunt for Mama Bartowski—who will be played by Terminator star Linda Hamilton , it was announced at Saturday’s Comic-Con That’s not the only Bartowski coming to town either: Someone is pregnant! Get the very spoilery scoop below: Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Linda Hamilton Sarah... 

Vampire Diaries ‘ sexy leading lady Nina Dobrev has a confession: “I actually auditioned for Glee .” The 21-year-old star gushed to TVGuide.com at the Warner Bros. party on Friday night about her love of Glee — and revealed that she… Read More > Other Links From TVGuide.com Javier Bardem Glee Jenna Ushkowitz Vampire Diaries  Read More →