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Dancing's Maks: Brandy is "very capable of winning" http://bit.ly/c6qBD3 @MaksimC @4EVERBRANDY

New CBS drama series Blue Bloods has completed assembling its team following the recent departure of executive producer & showrnner Ken Sanzel. Two new producers have joined the show: helmer Fred Keller (Boomtown, 24, House) as producer & director and writer Linda Gase (Standoff, The District) as consulting producer. Keller's deal came after he directed episode 3 of the cop/family drama starring Tom Selleck. His work on the episode, which coincided with Sanzel's departure, got solid marks from the show's executive producers: creators Mitchell Burgess and Robin Green and Leonard Goldberg. As for the show, "it is running really smoothly and is coming in even better," an insider said. Keller is with Kaplan Stahler and Fineman Entertainment.

@tbrick_2 Don Draper is kind of an ass, so it may have the opposite effect. It will, however, make you appreciate how talented Hamm is.

http://blastr.com/2010/09/jane-espenson-talks-about.php

In an interview with Blastr, she talks about how she got the gig for the fourth season, coming in 2011 on Starz. She says how this will be a different experience from working on Caprica or Buffy, and what she hopes to do. She's expected to write a third of the fourth-season scripts.

If you missed it earlier this week... 10 Questions for the Fall 2010 TV Season - http://bit.ly/cYzVKZ What questions are on your mind?

@tbrick_2 I almost didn't recognize him. His superpower is in his hair.

Exclusive: Tricia Helfer to Crush on Lie to Me's Lightman: http://bit.ly/ckTBd1 (by @adam_bryant)

@denisemartin I assume the Reality Blurred thing? Indicated that this am in my write-up. Am hoping it's a mislead. #topchef

@mbcurtis Oh no, what happened?

Scoop: Melrose Place's @ThomasCalabro to Guest-Star on #CSINY: http://bit.ly/bJbP4r (by @adam_bryant)

Watch Jack Hodgins name check all 25 FOX series while telling his life story.

Vadå skärpning, Louie är hör och häpna gjord för en amerikansk publik. Det vore märkligt om Louie stod på scenen och bröt en massa svenska tabun och skämtade om t.ex puritansk narkotika lagstiftning eller att påstått onationalistiska skandinaver går bananas över sina kungahus. Visst hade det varit kul, men någon svensk kanske skulle göra det.

Ibland står onekligen den europeiska självgodheten en upp i halsen.

The stars of Mad Men on the cover of Rolling Stone. Complete with exclusive behind-the-scenes photos. http://bit.ly/aQBmrx

But can Clark Kent become Superman without Lois Lane?

We’re off to the congressional races! In a light-hearted but meaty report tonight, WESH-Channel 2’s Greg Fox tonight weighed the veracity of an oft-repeated commercial for Rep. Alan Grayson.

Democrat Grayson uses the Led Zeppelin classic “Stairway to Heaven” to bash Republican opponent Dan Webster’s time as speaker of the Florida House. Fox put the ad to WESH’s Truth Test and found that Grayson sometimes missed the factual target.

“Grayson claims Webster wasted $32,000 of our tax money on a spiral staircase for his office,” Fox said.

Webster did build a spiral staircase in 1997 when he renovated as part of a $350,000 renovation on his House speaker’s office, Fox agreed. The $350,000 figure was more startling than the focus on the stairway.

The staircase actually cost $22,000 in the end, WESH confirmed. The actual staircase looked nothing like the one in the Grayson ad. Webster had a basic metal staircase put in, not the more lavish one in the Grayson ad.

But Grayson accurately complains in the ad that it’s “a stairway to nowhere,” because Marco Rubio had it taken out a decade later.

And Webster did bill taxpayers for 68 private jet flights, Fox said, confirming another Grayson claim.  The bill came to nearly $12,000, Fox added, and most of those flights were between Orlando and Tallahassee when Webster was Senate majority leader.

Yet how wise is it to use “Stairway to Heaven” in a commercial?  Fox didn’t go there.

Fox noted the irony that the Grayson commercial appeared shortly after the congressman used $73,000 in taxpayer money to send out a DVD touting his accomplishments to 100,000 voters.

How unusual was the report? Fox ended by singing a line from “Stairway to Heaven”: “ooooh, it makes me wonder.” Will the report be another prize winner for Fox? Stay tuned.

http://twitter.com/Rickafox/status/22836080026

Eliza Dushku's boyfriend, LA Lakers legend Rick Fox (who had a cameo in Dollhouse), is competing on season 11 of "Dancing With The Stars". Today he tweeted a reply to Mo Tancharoen how he hopes his run on the show makes the Whedonverse proud. Good luck Rick!

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Slightly late to the party on this, but I'm really pretty excited to hear Bryan Cranston is hosting "SNL": http://bit.ly/cxEwVj

@tbrick_2 I am disturbed by the short hair.

Jonathan Ross says that negative press coverage was a factor in his decision to leave the BBC.

Time Warner Cable, the nation's fourth largest video programming distributor, and programmer Walt Disney Co. have reached a multiple year carriage agreement, Bloomberg reports.TW Cable, with 12.8 million basic subscribers (just behind Comcast, DirecTV and Dish Network in number of subs), agreed to add Disney Junior, ESPN 3D and ESPN3.com, the article says, adding that financial terms were not disclosed.However, the article says that  "Disney was probably seeking at least 50 cents per subscriber a month for ABC, and as much as a 10 percent increase in its cable fees, said Andrew Kim, an analyst at Macquarie Capital in New York."Furthermore, according to the article, "Disney requested 10 cents a month per Web customer for ESPN3.com, said [a] person with knowledge of the negotiations, who declined to be identified because the talks are private. ESPN, the most expensive channel on the dial, received $4.08 per customer on average a month from pay-TV operators last year, while the Disney Channel brought in 88 cents a month per subscriber, according to researcher SNL Kagan."