Less than 24 hours after Ryan Murphy announced to a Comic-Con audience that Glee will be tackling the first ever Prom King & King relationship on television next season, it seems that the Fox series may have finally cast Kurt's boyfriend. After the jump, Movieline theorizes why the show's newest addition, Chord Overstreet, will most likely be playing Kurt's better half.
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We're days away from Jersey Shore's second season premiere, and already the power struggles and melanoma-tinged backbiting have begun. According to the NY Post, the cast of Jersey Shore is sick of Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino. What, they don't appreciate good, traditional Guido rap?
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Comic-Con audiences received a special treat this weekend in the form of Dexter's season five trailer, which begins immediately where the last season's bloody bathtub finale left off. Spoilerphobes beware.
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Last night on True Blood, we watched a rose-giving ceremony that will surely result in a sexless coupling wrecked by gay rumors, infidelity, and emotional abuse -- basically, it was a condensed version of this season of The Bachelorette (complete with all the gratuitous shirtlessness that implies). Does that mean that sex finally triumphed over violence this week? Let's find out!
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While superheroes like the Green Lantern and the Green Hornet ruled Comic-Con this weekend, one unlikely '90s antihero held court outside of the San Diego convention center, hoping to reintroduce himself to the world. Behold, the reemergence of Pacey Witter -- the Dawson's Creek crush object played by Joshua Jackson.
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So much for Beatlemania. The season premiere of Mad Men arrived Sunday night with most of 1964 behind it and Don Draper having bitten off more than he can chew in the office, at home, on a date, in the media, you name it. Independence has elevated our man from mini-celebrity to major cultural influencer, and he will not be pushed around by mere fads. Slapped around by a whore, OK. But that's where he draws the line. Let's explore.
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In this morning's other TV Bites: Family Guy plans to insult Sarah Palin again... a Simpsons producer slams Seth MacFarlane... and Michael Chiklis Comic-Cons his way out of a nasty recasting rumor.
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Mix up your best Sally Draper-inspired Tom Collins, everyone -- the season four premiere of Mad Men begins in a matter of hours. The questions have been asked, the office pool has been filled out and all that's left is to see how many spoilers have really been leaked already. As prepared as you are, however, it never hurts to have a refresher. Ahead, watch a recap of the first three seasons of Mad Men in less than five minutes. Oh Jon Hamm, you were so young in season one!
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As if casting Justin Bieber in an upcoming episode of CSI was not enough torture for CBS viewers, the network unveiled a new marketing campaign at Comic-Con today that will inevitably end when thousands of Americans throw their television sets out the window this fall during the first twenty seconds of Hawaii Five-O's season premiere.
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Cut the summer in half and you'd chop down right on this weekend. I've said it before: There's a beauty to moviewatching with the seasons, and so there's still opportunity to soak in summer movie-ness, on cable...
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In case it's not abundantly clear by now, The Real World's Ryan Leslie is a peach. A peach that will call you a f*cking f*g and say he'd rather die than have a gay person touch him. That kind of peach. Well, unfortunately he understands Twitter now and spews slurs for your RT-able pleasure. Damage follows.
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Matthew Weiner might need to re-watch the season three finale of Mad Men. The series' mercurial creator is up-in-arms about NYT television critic Alessandra Stanley's allegedly spoiler-heavy review of the season premiere because it reveals -- spoiler? -- that Don and Betty are no longer married. How dare she?
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The provocatively named new episode of Friday Night Lights is tearing me apart. In addition to Tami's controversial shenanigans, they're treating us to some challenges that disorient the team members. Get nervous with me after the jump.
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Alan Ball has cast Bright Star actor Ben Whishaw as the lead in his newest mortality-related series for HBO, All Signs of Death. Whishaw will play a "twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder mystery, a femme fatale and the loose ends of his own past." Sounds intriguing...but not quite as intriguing as the role he could have had on Broadway. [Deadline]
I assume Tracy Morgan's continuous run-ins with insanity are a part of the performance art that is his "Mr. Hyde and Mr. Hyde" relationship with his unhinged 30 Rock character Tracy Jordan. TMZ reports that the gap between the two entities has lessened again -- the real Tracy Morgan just bought one of Michael Jackson's discarded rhinestone gloves. Of course, right? And he'd be a fool not to let Tracy Jordan don it too, no? Join us as we suggest scenarios for the glove's greatest 30 Rock potential.
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