...because Brett Ratner is co-producing! Just about the strangest combination since James Franco and Anne Hathaway hosted, but I'll bite. A couple car chases and some small fires during the Academy Awards? It would be the best (and most exciting) thing that ever happened to a show that wasn't hosted by Billy Crystal.

So it begins -- The X Factor has officially announced its schedule. The show will kick off on September 21st, and announce a winner on December 22nd. Welcome back, Simon! After this past season of American Idol, you can't imagine how much we've missed you.

According to the latest Q Ratings, the most popular actor on primetime right now is NCIS' Pauley Perrette. I love this. Geeky girls for the win, always.

Brandy is joining 90210 for a major Season Four arc -- and she's going to be playing a politician. About as believable as TR Knight playing a rapist.

Syfy has committed to a six-episode sixth season of Eureka, which doesn't exactly bode well for the show's future. Sorry, fans.

MTV has added a new category to the Video Music Awards, titled "Best Video With a Message." The nominees include Lady Gaga's "Born This Way." Sorry, but what was the message of that video? I understand the message of the song...but the video was basically some creature (Gaga?) giving birth, and then a bunch of half-naked people doing dance routines.

Fox has green-lit Seth MacFarlane's Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey, a 13-part docu-series designed to be a successor to Carl Sagan's 1980s PBS series. Not sure how good MacFarlane is going to be at taking something seriously, but we'll have to wait and see.

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