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Jason Lee Cop-Rocks to a Memphis Beat: A Q & A With the Show's Creators

Fans of Jason Lee, the city of Memphis and old-school cop shows rejoice -- Memphis Beat is nearly here. The My Name is Earl star has taken on the new role of Detective Dwight Hendricks, a Memphis cop with a deep appreciation for the city and its musical heritage. How deep? He also performs on stage at night, crooning Elvis tunes. But this isn't Cop Rock -- this is a new crime drama on TNT, with a light-and-dark mix of gritty real crime and quirky character exploration. To find out more about the show's origins and destination, we talked to the creators and head writers, Liz Garcia and Joshua Harto, who also happen to be married.

Bethenny Frankel: Has a New Show, Still Hates Jill Zarin

Bethenny Frankel's Real Housewives of New York spin-off Bethenny Getting Married? begins tonight (with the goddamn stupidest question mark in the history of television), and while I'm on the fence as to whether it will be awesome or unforgivably boring, I do know that the media call Bethenny participated in to promote the show ended up being all about how Jill Zarin is the devil and how Kelly Bensimon is the mayor of crazytown, which is definitely awesome. I mean, I only posted like a tenth of it, because it got pretty redundant. Read on for the gloriously catty highlights.

Mel B Welcomes You to a Second Season of Dance Your Ass Off

Dance Your Ass Off. You won't admit that you watch it, but you do. I can admit it. I have that luxury because I've been published saying I watch The Bachelor and Police Women of Memphis so clearly I have no shame. So yay! Dance Your Ass Off Season 2! Because I'm obviously excited about the show's premiere tonight, I got on a conference call with its new and better host Mel B to get her answers to some riveting questions like "Are they going to dance to Spice Girls songs?" Just some really hard-hitting journalism. Get ready to have your mind blown and click through for highlights.

Idol's Runner-Up: Crystal Pulls Herself Up by her Bowersox

This is it: the last American Idol exit interview! Last week, we talked to Lee DeWyze about winning the competition, and now we've got runner-up Crystal Bowersox, who talked to a conference call full of people about the quitting rumors, the break-up, the "girls' season" theories, Simon's replacement and why she knew it was going to be Lee in that winner's confetti.

Jillian Michaels Discusses Invading Fat People's Homes, Being Perceived Like a Screaming Lunatic

Love her or hate her, Jillian Michaels can scare an obese person thin like nobody else on weight loss television, and now she is taking her game to people's homes in Losing It with Jillian. In anticipation for Tuesday's premiere, Dr. Phillian herself participated in a media call to discuss the new show, how she hopes it will repair her crazy, screaming image, how she used to be fat, and how the show is more realistic than The Biggest Loser. Read on for highlights.

Lee DeWyze Discuss His Win, Simon Upstaging Him and Meeting Former Idols

Lee DeWyze is our nation's new official Idol, and while that may be difficult to get thrilled about, at least it means this season is over. Mr. DeWyze got on a conference call today to discuss his win and journalists across the nation called in, trying desperately to come up with things to ask the least exciting American Idol winner in the show's history. Read highlights below.

Biggest Loser Michael Talks Weight, Love, and the Fun Kind of Rollercoasters

While this cycle of The Biggest Loser had its share of absurd moments, 526 lb Michael's victory has made us feel justified in watching all 38 hours of the show this season. Even though we were all a little mad at the guy for divvying up the Black and Blue Teams so unevenly, we were still rooting for him, because let's face it: He has a sweet personality, was generally not a game player and went relatively light on the motivational speeches (at least compared to all of the other contestants). In celebration of winning the $250,000 and being this season's Biggest Loser, Michael took a media call and opened up about life on and off the ranch. Below are the highlights.

Idol's Casey James Doesn't Own a TV, and He Doesn't Regret Stripping for Kara Either

You know who's a lot more tolerable in interview-form than he is on a televised singing competition? Casey James, surprisingly. The Eddie Vedder impersonator has been cast off Idol, but he's keeping it all in perspective, and frankly, I wish I'd seen more of this side of him when he was actually on the show. But too late! Now we must move on and read highlights from Mr. James's Idol elimination media call and await the reign of Lee DeWyze. Try not to hold the fact that Casey doesn't own a TV (freak!) against him.

Ali Fedotowsky Dishes About Her Drama with Vienna and (Less Interestingly) This Season of The Bachelorette

It's Bachelorette time! This season, we're stuck with the "sweet" and "natural" Converse-wearing Ali Fedotowsky as the object of affection, and as such the work-leaving love-aholic promoted the May 24 season premiere by taking part in a media conference call. Below are the highlights -- and by "highlights," I of course mean all of the things she said about Jake and/or Vienna, because everything else was the typical B.S. about how excited and hopeful Ali was about finding true love and companionship on a reality show. Enjoy!

Fringe: Leonard Nimoy Talks the Finale, Star Trek and Retirement

We're sure this won't be Leonard Nimoy's last interview ever, but it may very well be his last interview about acting. The thespian formerly known as Spock has announced his retirement from acting after 60 years, and will cap his career with a swan song as mysterious genius William Bell in tonight's season finale of Fringe. He was only able to give us a few key details about the episode, including whether we'll see an Alternate Bell and whether he'll resolve his relationship with Walter Bishop, but he also weighed in on Star Trek and on his long, storied career over the course of his conference call. So until we start covering his erotic photography exhibitions, enjoy these last words from the man, and live long and prosper, Mr. Nimoy.

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