Doctor Who: Planet of the Ood

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(S04E04) The Ood return.The race was seen last year in the two-parter "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit" as a servant race. In this episode, we learn exactly why they're so good at being servile. Here's a hint: it's not by choice.

Arriving on the planet known as the Ood-Sphere in the year 4126, the Doctor and Donna find the planet's Ood-production factory which prepares them for shipping throughout the three human-occupied galaxies.

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Ellen DeGeneres Predicts A Girl For Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba is expecting a baby girl, according to talk show host Ellen DeGEneres' mystic prediction. The eight months pregnant actress has found out the sex of her unborn baby, but is refusing to reveal it to the world - even after DeGeneres grilled her on her talk show on Friday.[...] Read more!

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WALKING THROUGH PINE VALLEY IN THE SHADOW OF
DEATH

Every Friday, Caroline Hinsey has an article in the TV section of the New York Daily News about soap operas. Yesterday's column gave me a bit of whiplash:

Don't rule out a permanent return someday if "AMC's" ratings rise with Dixie's return. After all, Jesse Hubbard just made a triumphant return 20 years after being killed.

"Even if they cut your head off on camera, you can come back," (Cady) McClain says with a laugh. "Seriously, I think the fact that they just brought back Jesse makes things trickier, so I understand why this might not happen now. But it doesn't mean it will never happen.

I don't follow the soaps that closely, but I had seen the news reports that Darnell Williams and Debbi Morgan were returning to Pine Valley on 'All My Children' as their extremely popular super-couple, Jesse and Angela Baxter Hubbard. What intrigued most of those reporting the story was that Jesse had been killed back in 1988.

So when I saw the quote by Cady McClain, for alls I knew Jesse Hubbard really did have his head cut off! Now that would have been a cool challenge for Toobworld Central! However, Jesse had been shot dead while protecting a wealthy man whose life had been threatened.

Still and all, the character was dead. He even came back as a ghostly angel twice over in the series! Now he's back again in the flesh, and the excuse the writers are using is that he never died in the first place; that he faked his death so that he could better protect his family. Which means he let Angie move to Corinth and then to New York City and remarry, first to Charles Harrison (whom she divorced) and then his identical cousin Jacob Foster (whom she also divorced).

Why did she divorce Jacob when he was the exact duplicate of her late husband (both played by Darnell Williams? Maybe he wasn't exactly identical in every department......

Nudge Nudge Wink Wink!

Jesse came up with a story about what really happened when he supposedly "died" back in 1988: he was kidnapped and his abductors faked his death. One of his captors took him to the woods and dug a grave in which Jesse was about to be buried. But instead, the captor ended up in that grave instead.
And yet, Jesse was seen expiring in his hospital bed, with Angie's head resting on his chest. Uh - huh.

And that story doesn't splain how Jesse came back in spirit form in 1994 and in 2001!

It's only my theory, but as 'Monk' would say, "Here's what happened":

Jesse Hubbard did die in his hospital bed. He was allowed to twice come back in angelic form to help out his family and his friend Tad Martin. But it wasn't enough for Jesse. He wanted to be reunited with them in corporeal form on Earth. So just as Hell has its escaped souls, so does Heaven - Jesse hightailed it out of the Fields of Elysium and back to Pine Valley. It's not exactly a story anyone would really believe (except Fox Mulder or the Winchester Brothers), so Jesse came up with the other story to cover up the truth.
Mulling over these details, it led me to add "escaped souls" to the splainin category for recastaways in soap operas. I don't know how many times it's happened in the soaps, but every so often a character dies in a plane crash, but the body is never recovered. And then lo and behold! A few months later, the character returns alive, but is oftentimes recast with a new actor.

So I'm thinking they really did die and are now back as escaped souls from Hell. (Come on, you may like them, but most of these soap characters did commit some kind of crime when they were last on the show!) And as for the new look to their faces? It's one of the powers they have as souls. We saw this happen with Leon Czolgosz who killed President McKinley when he escaped from Hell on 'Reaper'. Only he now looked like Spence Olchin from 'The King of Queens'.
["Leon" Czolgosz is pictured here with Sam Oliver on 'Reaper'. He's probably discussing the... shortcomings of Jacob Foster.....]

One last thing I got out of this story - Angie Hubbard and her son by Jesse, Frankie Hubbard, have been on 'All My Children', 'Loving', and 'The City'. And therefore the two of them are eligible for induction into the TV Crossover Hall Of Fame.

BCnU!
Toby OB


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Rewind: This Week's Buzz

• The week kicked off with a trailer bonanza as new previews for both The Dark Knight and Indiana Jones hit the Web. Also there's the chihuahua movie. And Twilight fans got their first look as well!
• Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer may get together to do something for HBO. Programming news aside, I'm curious how these two men grow to resemble each other more and more with each passing year.
• We mourn the passing of Men in Trees (kinda) and await the birth of Swingtown. Meanwhile The Hills refuses to die.
• I'm proud to introduce a new weekly feature: What to Download! Also if you're feeling musically inspired, check out a contest to help Zack Braff make a music video.
• Finally! America put Jason Castro out of his misery. Were you sad to see him go or sort of relieved for him?
• Casting news: it's official, Lindsay Lohan is joining the cast of Ugly Betty, Ellen Page will play Jane Eyre, and Natalie Portman will no longer star in Wuthering Heights.
• Do you have big plans for Mother's Day? I was curious this week what you like to watch with your mom and I have a special Mother's Day movie recommendation for this weekend.
• I have to say, I kinda liked Ashton and Cameron as the romantic leads of What Happens in Vegas opening this weekend. Speaking of romance, tell me who you'd cast as the leads in Sleepless in Seattle to win a t-shirt!

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Report: "American Idol" Bans Archuleta's
Super-Annoying Dad

All season reports have been surfacing about "American Idol" cutebot David Archuleta's father, Jeff, who's apparently the stage dad from hell despite his cheerful grinning mug in the aud ience on telecast nights. Now TMZ reports that the show has...

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America's Next Top Model: Ready for My Close-Up

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(S10E12) This cycle of America's Top Model has made me want to start up a debilitating heroin addiction.

Week after week my favorites have flown out the door starting with the "excitable" Amis and ending with that travesty of an episode two weeks ago when the distractingly beautiful Kataryzna was yanked for "too being vapid." My words, not theirs.

I can't seem to figure out what the hell the judges are looking for this go around, but I sure can tell you what they got. Want to hear it? Here it goes.

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Dirty Sexy Money - Spoilers

Episode 2.01 ? The Little Boy: Nick believes Terry Deramian, a 50-year-old Texas lawyer with a 100% success rate, is the best person to represent Letita during her trial. The ordeal will be presided by Judge Alexis Emerson, a new recurring character, who is said to be elegant but not your typical judge. Another recurring character introduced in this episode is 20-year-old Verona Banks, a British paparazzi who catches Jeremy?s eye. Police officers take Clark?s missing person?s report about Carmelita but are not concerned about locating her. Source: SpoilerFix.com

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Criminal Minds - Spoilers

Episodes 3.19 & 4.01: Sarah Matthew, a leading profiling specialist from Scotland Yard in England, is in the NY FBI field office as part of a joint task force with Hotch and the team. She is about the same level as Hotchner and runs the NY FBI office. While she is here, she flirts with one of the members of the team. Source: SpoilerFix.com

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CSI: New York - Spoilers

Episode 4.21 ? Hostage (Season finale airing May 21): A bank robbery goes terribly wrong: someone dies and the robber takes everyone hostage (including a three-month pregnant woman). One of the robber?s demands is that a CSI team proves he didn?t kill the deceased. It is possible the robber appears in another episode next season. Source: SpoilerFix.com

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BSG Saturdays, Season Four, Episode 6, "Faith"

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