It's a good day for TV nerd news. Vampire Diaries, Fringe, Smallville, Dollhouse, Firefly, Charmed, Terminator, Doctor Who -- all magnificently nerdy, and all tied into nerd-newsworthy announcements.

Tags: Arrested Development, Castle, Charmed, Doctor Who, Dollhouse, Firefly, Fringe, Nathan Fillion, Rex is Not Your Lawyer, Smallville, Terminator, The Vampire Diaries

Normally Mother's Day is a time to celebrate television's great moms, like Tammy on Friday Night Lights or Marge Simpson, but where's the fun in that? Instead, we pulled together a list of the bad TV moms who are currently wreaking havoc on their offspring on a regular basis. Happy Mother's Day! Hopefully your mom doesn't suck as hard as these people.

Tags: celebrity apprentice, desperate housewives, heroes, joan rivers, kate Gosselin, lost, prison break, Real Housewives of New York, terminator, ugly betty

We've already put out our plea for bubble show Chuck to return next fall, but plenty more of our favorites are in danger of falling through the network programming cracks. Here's nine more series that deserve another season, but may not get one. We know, we know, wishin' and hopin' didn't do Pushing Daisies any good, but we're sending out a prayer to the TV powers-that-be anyway: when upfront time rolls around in a month or so, please let at least some of these shows reappear on your schedules.

Tags: better off ted, celebrity apprentice, chuck, dollhouse, fringe, kings, life, rock of love, southland, terminator, the unusuals