News Roundup: Half of May is Over!

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

If you're looking to find out which broadcast network shows were renewed or cancelled, try here instead. A few new additions include CBS renewing Two and a Half Men and canceling Unforgettable, Rob, and NYC 22 and FOX canceling Napoleon Dynamite and renewing Bob's Burgers.

We'll also be doing a post or two about the new pick-ups later in the week, so be on the lookout for that. The below will focus on cable shows with renewals/cancellations and leave off some "shows in development," but will otherwise give you a nice round-up of what's been announced recently. 

Renewals, Cancellations, & Scheduling:
HBO has renewed Real Time with Bill Maher for two more seasons.

ABCFamily has renewed The Lying Game for a second season. The network has canceled Make It or Break It, with the series finale airing tonight, May 14th. 

The NBC Sports Network has renewed NFL Turning Point for the 2012, 1013, and 2014 seasons.

E! has renewed Keeping Up with the Kardashians for three more seasons, with the seventh beginning May 20th.

True Justice, REELZ's Steven Seagal show, has been renewed for a second season of thirteen episodes.

HBO has renewed Girls and Veep.

TLC has renewed Long Island Medium for a THIRD season!

Showtime has renewed The Borgias for three seasons.

Southland has been renewed for a fifth season on TNT. Maybe NBC should have kept it after all, huh?

WEtv has renewed Mary Mary for a second season.

Mob Wives has been renewed for a third season on VH1.

AMC has renewed Comic Book Men and Talking Dead.

Flashpoint will end after this season, its fifth on ION.

Lifetime's The Client List has been renewed for a second season of 15 episodes.

ABC has renewed Shark Tank, Dancing with the Stars, and The Bachelor. Plus, America's Funniest Home Videos and Wife Swap.

NBC has canceled Fear Factor, Minute to Win It, Who Do You Think You Are?, The Marriage Ref, and The Sing Off. Their renewal of 30 Rock will be its final season.

History has renewed Top Gear for a third season.

Bravo's Pregnant in Heels is back tomorrow, Tuesday, May 15th at 10pm ET/PT.

TLC has two specials premiering on Thursday, May 17th. At 9pm ET/PT we have Obese & Expecting, and at 10pm ET/PT we have Birth Moms.

Current's The Gavin Newsom Show debuts Friday, May 18th at 10pm ET.

TLC's long-awaited On The Fly begins Thursday, May 24th at 9pm.

Remember How to Be a Gentleman? CBS pulled it back in October, but they're going to burn off the episodes this summer, beginning at 8pm on Saturday, May 26th.

A&E's Gene Simmons Family Jewels will be back on Monday, May 29th at 9pm ET/PT.

Comedy Central's Workaholics is back Tuesday, May 29th at 10:30pm.

Dogs in the City will premiere on CBS on Wednesday, May 30th at 8pm ET/PT.

Mountain Men on History begins Thursday, May 31st at 10pm.

Drop Dead Diva's fourth season will begin on Sunday, June 3rd at 9pm.

Also on Sunday, June 3rd, you can catch Head Games on the Discovery Channel at 10pm ET/PT. It's an interactive series where "both viewers and on-screen subjects are challenged with brain games, mind puzzles and social experiments." It's a three-part series.

FOX's Hell's Kitchen will begin the summer at 9pm ET/PT on Monday, June 4th, followed immediately by Masterchef at 10pm ET/PT.

Storage Wars is back June 5th at 10pm ET/PT.

SyFy's Haunted Collector begins its second season on Wednesday, June 6th, at 9pm.

The Choice premieres 9pm ET/PT Thursday, June 7th on FOX. 

A&E's Barter Kings will premiere Tuesday, June 12th at 9pm ET/PT.

Ready for another competition series? ABC has The Glass House beginning Monday, June 18th at 10pm ET/PT, where 14 contestants will live together, trying to win $250,000. It's going to be really interactive, using social networking to decide what players wear or where they sleep, for starters.

Monday, June 18th will also be the premiere of Bravo's Miss Advised, a docuseries about three single relationship experts.

Spike's new Diamond Divers, an unscripted series, will begin on Wednesday, June 20th at 10pm ET/PT.

Comedy Central's Futurama will return on Wednesday, June 20th at 10pm ET/PT.

Bad Girls Club: Mexico premiered Monday, July 9th at 10pm on Oxygen.

Travel Channel will premiere season six of Bizarre Foods America on Monday, July 9th at 8pm ET/PT.

ABCFamily's Beverly Hills Nannies will begin Wednesday, July 11th at 8pm ET/PT.

Big Brother will be back on Thursday, July 12th at 9pm ET/PT.

3, CBS' new dating series, will begin Sunday, July 22nd at 9pm ET/PT.

Cast & Plot Updates:
Jennifer Morrison's Dr. Cameron will be appearing on House's series finale.

Betty White will appear in June 10th's season finale of The Client List, playing a character who gives marriage advice.

Not only will Ryan Seacrest be coming back for American Idol, but he's also joining Today as a special correspondent for two years.

Teen Mom 2's Jenelle Evans is trying to sell photos of her new 34C chest.

Teen Mom's Amber Portwood is back in jail, having been caught lying to get out of her drug test and court date.

Pregnant in Heels' Rosie Pope live-tweeted her labor yesterday.

Mitchell Guist of History's Swamp People died after a seizure today.

Shows in Development & Other Fun Stuff:
While not everyone would consider it a "fun fact," the CW's debut of LA Complex managed to get the very lowest broadcast drama premiere EVER, at just 646,000 viewers.

ABC's got Tony Danza and Vince Vaughn working on a multi-camera comedy about "three old friends whose lives have taken them down very different roads."

SyFy will be making Stephen King's Eyes of the Dragon into a movie or miniseries.

Axe Cop will be joining FOX's late-night cartoon block that launches in 2013. Five episodes aired in January 2010, but another six 15-minute episodes have been ordered now.

Oxygen will be adding My Shopping Addiction (folks obsessed with shopping), I'm Having Their Baby (women deciding if they'll place their babies up for adoption), All the Right Moves (following So You Think You Can Dance's Travis Wall and friends), and NYC and LA editions of Girlfriend Confidential to the fall slate.

E! has some new one-hour series in development, including Amy Devlin Mysteries (a procedural about a twentysomething detective), Anne of Hollywood (the story of Anne Boleyn), Dorothy (a modern Wizard of Oz), Fascination Street (two brothers in a band), The 400 (following the Vanderbilt dynasty), Juror #9 (a twisted trial show), King David (a billionaire playboy in Washington, DC), Upstarts (three guys trying to gain power and money during the dot-com boom), and the Untitled Assistant Project (some office assistants want more power).

truTV has some new series in the works as well. Killer Karaoke is singing with physical challenges. Guinness World Records Gone Wild has folks setting out to break dangerous records. Container Wars is like Storage Wars but with shipping containers. Hardcore Pawn: Fort Bragg is another pawn shop show. There's also a possible Shaquille O'Neal show, a weight loss show with a comedy duo, and a game show where contestants fly around the country.

There's a possibility that Murphy Brown will be back on the air in a series of specials full of political commentary.

Netflix is interested in reviving Jericho, which CBS canceled in 2008.

Amazon is jumping into the television business, inviting original ideas for primetime comedy and children's series!

Starz is getting Michael Bay to develop Black Sails, an eight-episode season show about Captain Flint and his pirate adventures.

CMT is working with Stone Cold Steve Austin for a ten-episode series called Redneck Island, which will have 12 Southerners competing for $100,000.

TNT's new medical show, originally known as Chelsea General, will now be known as Monday Mornings, and the 10-episode first season will debut in summer 2013.

A fan of Burn Notice? You can vote on the new main title sequence! Head to the official website or the facebook page.

TLC has two more specials of Virgin Diaries to air later this summer.

A&E is working on Southie Rules, about the iconic working class of South Boston.

DirecTV's first original series will be ten episodes of the drama Rogue, which will focus on a cop who lost her son.

Was it Canceled?

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

When I was a kid, I didn't understand much of why a show was canceled or renewed. I generally thought that the writers had no more stories for a specific set of characters, and that's why so many series finales were big, all-out episodes. The randomness of Michelle's amnesia on Full House comes to mind. Later, I thought that they ended shows when the characters got past the age that the show was designed to portray - like when the Saved by the Bell gang graduated from high school. That made perfect sense to me, especially because Saved by the Bell: The College Years was a completely separate show, as was Good Morning, Miss Bliss, when Zack, Screech, and Lisa were in middle school. When I got to high school, however, I started to learn (the hard way, of course), that it wasn't so much to do with the writers or the characters - it was the ratings. Somewhere around 1998 I began to "try out" new shows, as opposed to catching ones that were already established and joining the crowd. I loved a show I've written about before, which was so forgettable that nobody has ever been able to tell me what it was called... I suspect it lasted about five episodes, and was about teenagers going to high school while pursuing Olympic dreams. In 1999 I thought that Get Real was an awesome show, and I became a fan of Anne Hathaway even before The Princess Diaries. It lasted a single season. Just like last year's Better with You. A lot of shows don't last that long, though... 10-13 episodes are all they get, like Miami Medical, Sons of Tucson, and The Goode Family.

But, the time has come and the hammer is down... the majority of the 2011-2012 shows on the broadcast networks have now been renewed. We knew that the time was coming, what with the network up-fronts this coming week, but the vast majority of renewals and cancellations have already been announced, so here ya go. Hope you're not too upset! After the announcements I'll post a few thoughts.

First, the cancellations. Because, otherwise, you'll just scroll down to read those first anyway. I know you. :)

NBC really has the boatload of cancellations. Chuck is the only show that "just ended" while they have also pulled The Playboy Club, Free Agents, Awake, Bent, Best Friends Forever, The Firm, Harry's Law, Prime Suspect, and Are You There, Chelsea?. If you haven't heard of some of them, you're not alone. Many are blaming poor marketing and bad timeslot placement for several of these shows failing, particularly Bent.

From ABC, many of these were already known, but they've canceled Charlie's Angels, Man Up, Pan Am, Work It, Missing, GCB, and The River. Desperate Housewives has ended as well.

FOX has canceled Allen Gregory, Terra Nova, Breaking In, Alcatraz, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, and The Finder. They've also pulled the plug on House. They have not yet announced the futures for Napoleon Dynamite or Bob's Burgers.

CBS is holding onto the announcements for seven of their shows (including both CSI spin-offs and Two and a Half Men), so stay tuned for more on those, but they've actually canceled A Gifted Man and How to be a Gentleman.

If you care about the CW, they've canceled The Secret Circle and Ringer, and One Tree Hill is also finally ending. An announcement is pending for The LA Complex.


Now, onto the renewals!
On NBC, you'll see more of 30 Rock, Whitney, Up All Night, Smash, The Office, Grimm, Community, Parenthood, Parks & Recreation, and Law and Order: SVU.

ABC will bring you more Modern Family, The Middle, Suburgatory, Once Upon a Time, Last Man Standing, Grey's Anatomy, Castle, Body of Proof, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, Happy Endings, Private Practice, Revenge, and Scandal. Cougar Town has not been canceled, but you'll have to have TBS to watch new episodes next season.

FOX has decided to renew Bones, Glee, Fringe, New Girl, Raising Hope, Touch, American Dad, The Cleveland Show, Family Guy, and The Simpsons.

Over on CBS, look forward to more NCIS, NCIS: LA, CSI, How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, Mike & Molly, The Big Bang Theory, Criminal Minds, Person of Interest, Hawaii Five-0, Blue Bloods, The Good Wife, and The Mentalist.

And, if you're a CW person, have fun with additonal 90210, Gossip Girl, Hart of Dixie, Nikita, Supernatural, and The Vampire Diaries.


Now, some thoughts...
None of the announced cancellations truly upset me this year. Perhaps if ABC would have officially canceled Pan Am a few months ago I would have cared more, but I've made my peace with it by this point. I'm a tad bummed that Terra Nova won't see the light of day again, but I didn't think it would get renewed so I wasn't crossing my fingers there. Alcatraz's cancellation does bum me out a bit, and I was hoping for an eleventh-hour renewal, but I can handle it going away, too. I'm downright thrilled that GCB is off the air and I'll wave goodbye as House finishes up in a few weeks. I do think that Bent deserved more of a chance, but it's too late now, anyway. I hope you're able to make your peace with the future of your favorite show (and hang in there, folks banking on one of the remaining few to be saved!), but we're going to have a lot to look forward to with the rest of the new pick-ups coming this week!

Theme Song Trivia

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

Another short, internet-inspired post today. It's Easter Weekend and all, so between traveling and cooking (and dyeing eggs), I figured you'd enjoy something short and sweet. Tomorrow, we'll post a new giveaway, so look forward to that as well.

This video came my way in mid-January, about two weeks after it was posted. I thought that it was pretty cute, especially the split-screen video throughout and the reenactments.You may have come across it before, but it only has 232K views, so the chances aren't that high. Enjoy!

Now, the trick is to name each of the television theme songs that are heard in this two-minute compilation.If you clicked over to YouTube to watch it there, someone has provided a list of sixteen songs in there, which is probably correct because the title claims "more than 15." Personally, I can identify 14, and that's after listening to it five times, so give it a try and see what you come up with. Answers after the jump.

News Roundup: Early 2012 Cast & Plot Updates

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

This is the second part of our first news round-up of the year, so it covers nearly three weeks of entertainment fun facts. As mentioned before, there has been a TON of news in the past three weeks, so we split the post into three topics to be more digestible (though you may notice that this is the smallest section of the bunch). Next week we plan to return to our normal, one-news-post-per-week schedule.

Cast & Plot Updates:
Carl Reiner will guest on Parks and Recreation. So will Paul Rudd.

Whoopi Goldberg will play Sue's guidance counselor on The Middle.

Emma Stone will be on 30 Rock on January 26th.

Brian Stokes Mitchell and Jeff Goldblum will play Rachel's dads on Glee.

Howard Stern is the newest judge on America's Got Talent. [NBC Universal Press Release]
Word around the tabloids is that Leah from Teen Mom 2 is pregnant again... AND engaged. But that's not all. Jenelle has been charged with making harassing phone calls and communicating threats. She was released on bond. Later that same week, she was arrested again, this time for violating a domestic protective order.

The new season of Who Do You Think You Are? premieres February 3rd. But, more importantly, it will feature Martin Sheen, Maris Tomei, Helen Hunt, Reba McEntire, Rob Lowe, and more.

Next fall's The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" episode is already underway. Showrunner Al Jean has said that, "It deals with in no particular order, The Mayan calendar's prophecy of the end of the world, black holes, Paranormal Activity and what would've happened if Homer and Marge hadn't gotten ready."

Mike & Molly's eponymous stars will likely get married for May sweeps.

News Roundup: New Projects for Aaron Sorkin & Ellen DeGeneres; Changes on Lifetime...

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

Renewals, Cancellations, & Scheduling:
30 Rock will be on five nights a week starting Monday the 19th on NBC affiliates nationwide. Take a look and see when it will play in your area! [source: NBC Universal Media Village]

Lifetime has cancelled The Protector.

Lifetime has picked up America's Most Wanted, which was cancelled by FOX last May.

ION will start airing episodes of Leverage next summer.

Cast & Plot Updates:
Stick Stickly is going to make a comeback on the "90s are All That" block on TeenNick, starting October 7th.

Who knows how true it is, but Two and a Half Men joked about underwater scenes and outer space scenes. [and what's with Jon Cryer's shirt in this clip??]

Shows in Development & Other Fun Stuff:
USA is working on two half-hour comedies. Paging Dr. Freed is about two brothers taking over their father's medical practice when he passes away unexpectedly. The Untitled Douglas McGrath Project (possibly On We Go) is about an aspiring actor in New York who heads home to Texas when his father becomes seriously ill. [source: NBC Universal Media Village]

Lifetime has ordered ten episodes of a new fashion competition series called 24 Hour Catwalk.

Due to some rough weather, several extras were injured on the set of Game of Thrones.

Do you watch House? Do you enjoy guessing the patients' afflictions? If so, you can enter to win a season-long contest by predicting some of the diagnoses that will appear in the new season.

What might be showing up on television come Fall 2012? The Carrie Diaries, a Sex and the City prequel show.

Portia de Rossi (Lindsay from Arrested Development) and wife Ellen DeGeneres are teaming up for a half-hour comedy project for NBC.

HBO has picked up a new Aaron Sorkin project. What do we know about the show? It chronicles "a television anchor and his staff as they 'set out on a patriotic and quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements.'" Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Olivia Munn, and Sam Waterston are among the cast.

2011 Primetime Emmys, Part 1: Comedies

Today we begin with the (non-Creative Arts) 2011 Primetime Emmy Nominations and my picks! You may be aware that I don't have the best record for predicting award winners... but it's still fun! And I know that the nominations have been out for two months now, so you've probably had a chance to see who got nominated for what and start predicting the winners. But, as I mentioned last week at the start of my Creative Arts predictions, I think some people pick winners too early. Anyway, be sure to let me know how my picks measure up to who and what you think deserves the prestigious award this year!

Outstanding Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory
Glee
Modern Family
The Office
Parks and Recreation
30 Rock
- Big money is going to be on Modern Family. But I just don't find the show to be funny... much like I don't care for the humor in The Office. For me, the only true choice for Outstanding Comedy Series is The Big Bang Theory.

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
"Episode 107" from Episodes by David Crane, Jeffrey Klarik
"Poker/Divorce" from Louie by Louis C.K.
"Caught in the Act" from Modern Family by Steve Levitan, Jeffrey Richman
"Good-Bye Michael" from The Office by Greg Daniels
"Reaganing" from 30 Rock by Matt Hubbard
- I'm not very well-versed in Episodes, so perhaps I am ignoring a very worthy candidate, but I'm going to give the Writing award to The Office.

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
How I Met Your Mother "Subway Wars" by Pamela Fryman
Modern Family "Halloween" by Michael Alan Spiller
Modern Family "Slow Down Your Neighbors" by Gail Mancuso
Modern Family "See You Next Fall" by Steve Levitan

30 Rock "Live Show" by Beth McCarthy-Miller
- I just can't shut up about how well How I Met Your Mother's "Subway Wars" was done! Though, I wouldn't be too surprised if "Halloween" pulls it out.

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Jim Parsons as Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory
Johnny Galecki as Leonard Hofstadter in The Big Bang Theory
Matt LeBlanc as Matt LeBlanc in Episodes
Louis C. K. as Louie in LouieSteve Carell as Michael Scott in The Office
Alec Baldwin as Jack Donaghy in 30 Rock- So much amazing talent in this category! I think that Johnny Galecki does an exceptional job on The Big Bang Theory, though.

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Laura Linney as Cathy Jamison in The Big C
Melissa McCarthy as Molly Flynn in Mike & Molly
Edie Falco as Jackie Peyton in Nurse Jackie
Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope in Parks and Rereation
Martha Plimpton as Virginia Chance in Raising Hope
Tina Fey as Liz Lemon in 30 Rock- I didn't see every episode of the season's Parks and Recreation, but Amy Poehler's acting did stand out to me, and though I've heard a great deal of buzz over Laura Linney for this category, I'm going to stick with Poehler.

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Chris Colfer as Kurt Hummel in Glee
Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett in Modern Family
Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett in Modern Family

Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker in Modern Family
Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy in Modern Family
Jon Cryer as Alan Harper in Two and a Half Men- Four out of six nominees are from Modern Family. Too bad I can't stand that show! Jon Cryer is always my favorite on Two and a Half Men, so I'm favoring him here, too.

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester in Glee
Betty White as Elka Ostrosky in Hot in Cleveland
Julie Bowen as Calire Dunphy in Modern Family
Sofia Vergara as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in Modern Family
Kristen Wiig as various characters in Saturday Night Live
Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney in 30 Rock- From the moment she was announced as a candidate in this category, I've been backing Betty White for her role on Hot in Cleveland. Maybe that's too cliche and smart money would be on Jane Lynch or Kristen Wiig, but I'm staying with the veteran actor.

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Idris Elba on The Big C
Nathan Lane as Pepper Saltzman on Modern Family
Zach Galifianakis, Host on Saturday Night Live
Justin Timberlake, Host on Saturday Night Live
Matt Damon as Carol on 30 Rock

Will Arnett as Devin Banks on 30 Rock- I'm actually a little surprised by the nominees here. I was expecting to see one or two folks who didn't make the cut, apparently. I'm between Justin Timberlake and Matt Damon, and the more I ponder the two, the more I lean toward the latter, for his role on 30 Rock.

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Kristin Chenoweth as April Rhodes in Glee
Fot-Marie Jones as Coach Beiste in Glee
Gwyneth Paltrow as Holly Holliday in Glee
Cloris Leachman as Maw Maw in Raising Hope
Tina Fey, Host in Saturday Night Live
Elizabeth Banks as Avery in 30 Rock- I've complained about Glee before. A lot. But I thought that Kristin Chenoweth really shined last year.

Stay tuned for tomorrow's Emmy predictions: Dramas.

The Creative Arts Primetime Emmys, Part 4

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

Today we're at the end of our posts previewing the Creative Arts Emmys. They air tonight on the Reelz channel (which, unfortunately, does not seem to allow DVRing). The Creative Arts awards do not receive the same recognition that the other Primetime Emmys do, primarily because the awards are generally for the people and work done behind-the-scenes and behind-the-camera. Still, the effort put forth in these areas is extremely important to the success of these television programs, and I believe that they deserve just as much exposure. After looking at all of the Emmys that fall mostly under broad categories, today we go over the remaining awards.

Outstanding Voice-Over Performance
Desperate Housewives "Come On Over for Dinner" - Brenda Strong
Futurama "Lrrreconciable Ndndifferences" - Maurice LaMarche
The Looney Tunes Show "Jailbird and Jailbunny" - Bob Bergen
Moguls & Movie Stars "The Birth of Hollywood" - Christopher Plummer

Robot Chicken "Catch Me if you Kangaroo Jack" - Seth Green
The Simpsons "Donnie Fatso" - Dan Castellaneta
- Voices amaze me. Truly, they do. Perhaps it's because I personally don't have much talent in this area, but great voice-overs are like artwork to me. I think that there are some wonderful candidates here, and I'm going to support Futurama for the win.

Outstanding Animated Program
The Cleveland Show
Futurama
Robot Chicken "Star Wars Episode III"
The Simpsons
South Park- I honestly don't understand how The Cleveland Show was nominated - it can't hold a candle to some of the other nominees. I think that the past season of South Park was one of the more memorable, so it gets my vote.

Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program
Adventure Time "It Came from the Nightosphere"
Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa
Regular Show "Mordecai and the Rigbys"
Robot Chicken "DP Christmas Special"
SpongeBob SquarePants "That Sinking Feeling"
-Sometimes the Emmy categories get me giddy with excitement. This is one of those times! Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa was brilliant last year, and a highlight of the holidays.

Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media
ABC's Grey's Anatomy Sync
Conan O'Brien Presents: Team Coco
Fringe : Division
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Oscar Digital Experience- I think there are two selections which stand out above the rest, but I am struggling to choose between them. I guess I'll go with Oscar Digital Experience, though I'm not 100% sure.

Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series
Boardwalk Empire "Pilot"
The Borgias "The Poisoned Chalice / The Assassin"
Game of Thrones "Fire and Blood"
Stargate Universe "Awakening"
The Walking Dead "Days Gone Bye"
- The visual effects in Game of Thrones are exhilarating!

Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special
Gettysburg
Mildred Pierce "Part Five"
The Pillars of the Earth "Witchcraft"
Sherlock "A Study in Pink"
- Gettysburg is such an obvious choice to me that I hardly feel the need to finish the list. (Yes, I realize I may have put my foot in my mouth...)

Outstanding Stunt Coordination
Game of Thrones "The Wolf and the Lion" - Paul Jennings, Stunt Coordinator
Hawaii Five-0 "Ua Hiki Mai Kapalena Pau" - Jeff David Cadiente, Stunt Coordinator
Southland "Graduation Day" - PeeWee Piemonte, Stunt Coordinator
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena "The Bitter End"
- Hoorah for categories where I'm fairly knowledgeable enough to make a reasonable hypothesis! The award goes to Spartacus, though I almost gave it to Game of Thrones. 

Outstanding Main Title Design
Any Human Heart - Paul McDonnell, Designer; Hugo Moss, Art Director; Justin Lowings, Animator
Boardwalk Empire
Game of Thrones
Rubicon
Too Big to Fail- For someone who loved the premise and beginnings of Boardwalk Empire, I sure haven't picked it too often in its categories. But, here is stands alone, I think.

Outstanding Choreography
Dancing with the Stars Routines: Jive "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" - Mark Ballas, Choreographer
So You Think You Can Dance Routines: Alice in Mia-Land "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" - Mia Michaels, Choreographer
So You Think You Can Dance Routines: "Mad World" - Stacey Tookey, Choreographer
So You Think You Can Dance Routines: "Collide" - Travis Wall, Choreographer
So You Think You Can Dance Routines: "Scars" - Tabitha D'umo, Napoleon D'umo, Choreographers

So You Think You Can Dance Routines:"Oh Yeah" - Mandy Jo Moore, Choreographer
- You're kidding me, right? While it wouldn't be the most difficult thing to do, I'm just not going to go watch a bunch of So You Think You Can Dance episodes. So, I'll just go with the Dancing with the Stars option, which I'm sure has oomph.

Outstanding Technical Direction Camerawork, Video Control for a Series
American Idol "Finale"
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart "Episode 15135"
Dancing with the Stars "Episode 1104A"
Saturday Night Live "Host: Justin Timberlake"
30 Rock "Live Show (West Coast)"
- A lot happened on the Justin Timberlake-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live, so I'm going to award it for the technical direction there.

Outstanding Technical Direction Camerawork, Video Control for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special
83rd Annual Academy Awards
Don Pasquale (Great Performances at the Met)
The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards
The Kennedy Center Honors
Lady GaGa Presents the Monster Ball Tour: at Madison Square Garden- I'm not well-informed on this one, either, but I'll support The Kennedy Center Honors for the award.

Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special
Bette Midler: The Showgirl Must Go On 
Carrie Fisher in Wishful Drinking
The Kennedy Center Honors
Lady GaGa Presents The Monster Ball Tour: at Madison Square Garden
The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway- Bette Midler, guys. How can you not?

Outstanding Special Class Programs
83rd Annual Academy Awards
The 68th Annual Golden Globe Awards
The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards
64th Annual Tony Awards- This category kind of weirds me out a bit. Essentially, we're dedicating part of an awards ceremony to recognizing another awards ceremony. I mean, I guess it's okay to do, but it's still a bit odd. Plus, they cover such different things, so I find it awkward to compare them side-by-side. All of that said, I think that the 64th Annual Tony Awards deserves it!

Outstanding Special Class - Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Programs
The Daily Show Correspondents Explain
30 Rock: The Webisodes- I think that webisodes in general are doing a lot in promotions of various programs. Ergo, 30 Rock it is in this case.

Outstanding Children's Program
A Child's Garden of Poetry
Degrassi "My Body is a Cage, Part 2"
iCarly "iGot a Hot Room"
Victorious "Freak the Freak Out"
Wizards of Waverly Place "Wizards vs. Angels"
- I don't know that these are the very best representatives of children's programming, but I suppose that I'll pick Victorious out of this crowd.

Outstanding Children's Nonfiction, Reality or Reality-Competition Program
Masterclass
Nick News with Linda Ellerbee "Under the Influence: Kids of Alcoholics"
- I've always thought that the Nick News series has been wonderful. I believe that they do wonderful things in areas that aren't approached objectively by many. Cheers to their special on "Kids of Alcoholics."

News Roundup: Cancellations, Renewals, Reboots, and More

by Amy K. Bredemeyer

They have indeed recast Lily on Modern Family. Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, age 4, will take over the role for the upcoming season. Her natural acting talent combined with how closely she resembles Jaden and Ella Hiller  should work out great! (Entertainment Weekly)

Kate Plus Eight got canceled. There may be a few specials done in the future, but we're at the end of regular episodes. The current season airing on TLC will finish - 4 episodes to go. After a two-year stint on late-night television, TBS has canceled Lopez Tonight. I don't know about you, but I'm pretty glad. In Plain Sight will be canceled after its 8-episode fifth season. Breaking Bad only has 16 episodes to go.

CBS is rebooting Bewitched... look for it Fall 2012? Roseanne is working on another blue-collar family show, titled Downwardly Mobile. Apparently there's a possibility that Sex and the City will be returning to television. bleh.

SyFy's Haven is incorporating a Twitter storyline into the current 7-ep arc. If you like the series and use Twitter, go find out more about they they're working together.

If Oprah can have her own network, so can Tyler Perry. He's working with Lionsgate to make it happen!

Ashton Kutcher and Hugh Laurie both make $700,000 for each episode of their respective shows. Jon Cryer makes $600k an episode, Mark Harmon makes $500k an episode, and Tina Fey makes $350k an episode. Tim Allen's new show will net him $225,000 per episode. For more info on these numbers, check TVGuide.

Seth MacFarlane will be the Roast Master for Charlie Sheen's upcoming roast.

True Blood got renewed for a 12-episode fifth season. MTV's strange show, Awkward, has been renewed for a second season. Leverage got renewed as well, for a fifth season on TNT. Lastly, Warehouse 13 on SyFy will get a 4th season.