Tyro helmers to cover London Sundance

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News Corp. acts on foreign ownership

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House - Dolly

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We Need the Eggs: House is shopping for a new prostitute, and the patient of the week has a realistic sex doll. Seems like the two plots could have come together, right?

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'Jersey Shore': Vinny Guadagnino releases new
book, talks anxiety issues

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Vinny Guadagnino has already found plenty of success for himself courtesy of "Jersey Shore," but he does not want to stop with his reputation solely being a guy who gets paid millions to party hard on the beach...

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The Voice - Wanted: Dead Not Alive

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Live Quarterfinals Eliminations, Week 1 : The Wanted and Bieber show up, much to the delight of screaming girls everywhere. And two more people get sent home.

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Chelsea Handler, 'Saturday Night Live's' Kristen
Wiig receive Time honors

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Earlier Wednesday, we first revealed that Matt Lauer was one of the people being recognized by Time as one of the "100 Most Influential People of 2012," and now we have the full list when it pertains to...

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Glee-Ful Highlights From Episode "Saturday Night
Glee-ver"

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It turns out that disco isn't dead after all - it's alive and kicking on this week's episode of Glee. In search of an assignment and a way to get through to a few of his troubled students, Mr. Schue finds the answer in the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. So what does that mean for us? A little Bee Gees, a little hustle, and a lot of white polyester.

As we get closer to McKinley High's graduation day, the seniors are getting more antsy about their future plans. Even Mr. Schue is starting to get worried about a select three - Finn, Santana, and Mercedes - because they don't have anything set in motion yet. Ready to break down all the big moments? Just

Disco isn't exactly my favorite genre (is it anyone's anymore?), but the episode kicks things off on a good note with a performance of "You Should Be Dancing." Even if it seemingly comes from nowhere, the number got my attention thanks to featuring the three best dancers - Blaine, Mike, and Brittany - in an upbeat number.
If you were missing Mr. Schue's sweet, sweet falsetto, then this episode provides a special treat. Not only does Will lend his pipes to "Night Fever," but we also get to sample some of Sue's moves. I know that Sue is on Team New Directions now, but something about her smiling and grooving out on the dance floor felt bizarre.
Mercedes uses a performance of "Disco Inferno" to prove that she's not just a wayward sheep: she's got big dreams of following in the footsteps of the likes of Mariah and Aretha. The only problem is that she's too scared to act. Luckily, Sam's there to be her white knight with an iPhone. He takes a video of her performing and puts it on YouTube, which gives her a much needed self-esteem boost. It also wins Sam a big smooch for being so supportive. It's about time those two crazy kids got back together!
My favorite performance of the night doesn't even come from the gleeks. It's courtesy of Wade (played by The Glee Project's Alex Newell), who worships Mercedes and Kurt. After he meets them, he decides to perform at Regionals as his female alter ego, "Unique." Oh, and did I mention that he's a member of Vocal Adrenaline? Kurt and Mercedes are conflicted about whether or not they should let Wade go through with it, but in the end he takes the bull by the horns and brings the house down with "Boogie Shoes." Jesse St. James is not pleased, but something tells me that Unique will be the new secret weapon of Vocal Adrenaline.
Mercedes isn't the only one with someone in her corner. Santana's dead set on becoming famous, but Mr. Schue is skeptical about how she'll get there. Brittany steps in to help, except for Brittany, "helping" means making a sex tape that's hilariously called "Two Girls One Cat," featuring Lord Tubbington of course. Santana's a little peeved, but I was surprised at how well she takes the news that everyone in school is talking about her. The whole mess gets cleaned up in no time, because Brittany and Sue have conspired to get Santana a full cheerleading scholarship in college. That's two gleeks who have gotten someone else to fill out college applications for them. Just once, I would like to see that happen in real life.
Rachel and Finn recover from their fight about the future, but Finn's still having serious doubts about whether or not he can make it in the real world as anything other than a competitive eater. He's basically convinced that he peaked in high school, but all it takes is one magical viewing of Saturday Night Fever to make him realize his dream of going inside the actors studio. He tells Rachel that he's ready to go to New York with her, and struts around to "Stayin' Alive" to show off his newfound confidence.

Though this isn't my favorite episode, the scenes for next week's Glee already have me looking forward to a whole lotta Whitney Houston. How'd you feel about the disco flashback?

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Comedians On The TIME 100 List

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TIME Magazine released their list of 100 Most Influential People for 2012, and four comedians, two men and two women, made the list: Louis C.K., Stephen Colbert, Chelsea Handler and Kristen Wiig.

Each comedian included has had a particularly notable year, not only performing at the top of his or her game comedically but influencing culture and changing their industry. For C.K., Handler and Wiig, this year marks the first time they have been included on the list. Colbert was last included in 2006, the year after "The Colbert Report" debuted on Comedy Central.

The list was selected by TIME's editors. Comedians Aziz Ansari, Marc Maron and Melissa McCarthy also made the short list of finalists for TIME 100.

THE WINNERS:

Stephen Colbert's busy year has been marked by not only producing possibly the most consistently funny television show in America four nights a week, but providing a public service by educating Americans about Super PACs through the elaborate public stunt that is Colbert Super PAC, Americans For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow. Hours upon hours of the "Report," not to mention Colbert's time outside the show, has been spent in the service of using comedy to explain to viewers why unlimited corporate campaign donations can be harmful, and ultimately won a Peabody for his coverage. (Read our timeline of Colbert's foray into the 2012 election here.)

In Colbert's TIME 100 entry, "Doonesbury" cartoonist Garry Trudeau summed up Colbert's main comedic thrust: "On 'The Colbert Report,' every day is Opposite Day. Because of how his humor works, the audience finds meaning through sustained inference, which is a lot more fun than it sounds." Well-deserved, Mr. Colbert.

Even if she never made "Bridesmaids," Kristen Wiig would certainly be remembered as one of the most memorable cast members that "Saturday Night Live" has ever seen. But then she went ahead and co-wrote and starred in one of the biggest hits of last year, and earned a place on the TIME 100 list by doing so. For all the noise the film made as a capital-s Statement about funny women, lost in the shuffle was that Wiig was the key ingredient that made a damn funny movie what it was.

Judd Apatow, who produced "Bridesmaids" and also gave Wiig her first big film role in "Knocked Up," sang her praises for TIME. "I guess coming fast out of the gate requires years of hard work that nobody but me gets to see. I am the lucky one."

Louis C.K. has been a consistently brilliant stand-up comedian for nearly all of his two-decade career. So why does he just now get included in TIME's list of influential people? Simple: Not only has C.K. been doing everything but craft services on his excellent FX show "Louie" for two seasons (and, hell, he might do that, too), he added to his innovator credentials last October by releasing a stand-up special through the Internet, implementing the groundbreaking idea that audiences are happy to buy a quality product free of corporate fingerprints at an affordable price -- shocker. And his experiment worked. Not only did he made a boatload of money, but within only a few months, comedians Jim Gaffigan and Aziz Ansari have copied the model.

Joan Rivers, who worked with C.K. on an episode of "Louie," says in TIME of the 44-year-old comic: "No one can learn how to be funny. What you can learn is how to trust yourself, to have enough self-confidence to say, 'I think this is funny -- they will too.' Louis gets that. There's no downside to him. He's the next Big One."

For years, Chelsea Handler has been slowly building an empire that most comedians can only dream of. After becoming a wildly successful stand-up built for the gals-night-out crowd and becoming a successful author, she scored a talk show "Chelsea Lately," which today is competitive with the likes of Jon Stewart and Conan O'Brien for drawing in a cable audience. On the show, she gives a platform to scores of funny comedians who normally wouldn't see TV exposure with her round table, possibly doing more to expose stand-ups to America since Johnny Carson. This year, she expanded her reach to network TV with a sitcom, "Are You There, Chelsea?", in which Laura Prepon plays a fictionalized version of the mega-busy comedian.

Kathy Griffin wrote about Handler for TIME: "Few women in comedy have gotten the attention and respect of the Establishment. Chelsea has, while being raw, hilarious and unafraid to cross the line -- and take it from me, that combination doesn't always go over."

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'Melissa & Joey' star Melissa Joan Hart pregnant
with third child

Melissa Joan Hart has already been rather busy as of late trying to juggle being a mom to two children along with filming her ABC Family series "Melissa & Joey" several months a year. Now, she is also...

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WATCH: Katie Couric Shows Off Her Assets On
'Wendy'

Katie Couric visited talk show host Wendy Williams Wednesday morning and chatted about her workout routine, upcoming talk show, her stint on "Good Morning America," and Matt Lauer's major new contract with NBC.

As Couric sat down on the couch, Williams complimented her outfit and toned physique. "Good guns!" Williams gushed while looking at Couric's arms. Couric showed off her bicep muscles, which are huge, and attributed it all to spinning. "You should come with me one time!" Couric said to Williams.

Williams steered the conversation to Couric's week-long gig hosting ABC's "Good Morning America" while Robin Roberts was on vacation. ABC's decision to put Couric, who hosted NBC's "Today" for fifteen years, on "GMA" brought the long-running morning show wars to fever pitch. NBC retaliated by inviting Sarah Palin to guest host for a day. The week after Couric guest-hosted, "GMA" topped "Today" in the ratings, breaking NBC's 16-year winning streak as the number one morning show on television.

Couric described the experience as fun but "a little odd" because of her former role at NBC. "So I felt like a little divided loyalties," she said. When asked how it felt to return to working the morning TV grind, Couric compared the experience to an ex-boyfriend. "You remember why you fell in love and you remember why you broke up," she said.

Williams asked Couric about Lauer's reported $25 million contract with NBC. "He's a great person and a lot of things get printed that aren't true, and I know he's a very valuable member of that that team," Couric said of her former co-host. "I think Matt feels a lot of loyalty to that show, which I really admire and respect. He feels as if he's the caretaker and wants to really be there for the show when the show needs him."

On the topic of her upcoming daytime talk show, Couric said that it will have "a little bit of everything." She said that she wanted to have a show where she could be herself â€

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