With another Fourth of July upon us, it's time to celebrate our freedom, and for us TV junkies, that means freedom from crappy shows and, more specifically, certain awful characters. Some of these people were on blissfully canceled shows, while others were recently ousted from halfway decent programs. Let's toast our independence from these most dreadful creations:

Tags: friday night lights, game of thrones, gossip girl, hellcats, house, Scotty McCreery, smallville, the office, two and a half men, v

With another regular television season coming to a close just in time for the Memorial Day weekend, we'd like to hold a memorial of our own for all of the characters and other elements that we'll miss the most from this year's ridiculously robust round of cancelled and concluded shows. Important note, however: This list is just about shows from the 2010-2011 season, so no putting, like, Firefly people or whatever in the comments, please. We know you'll want to, but just try to resist.

Tags: $#*! My Dad Says, Breaking In, Brothers & Sisters, Detroit 187, Hellcats, Off the Matt, Outsourced, Smallville, The Event, V

OMG more Hellcats!

Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Blood & Chrome, Caprica, David Eick, Hellcats, Jamie Foxx, Jersey Shore, Kristin Davis, Life Unexpected, NBC, Nikita, One Tree Hill, Ronald D. Moore, Selma Blair, The CW, The Happiness Project, The Real Housewives of O.C., Tommy's Little Girl

A female football coach will replace Glee's Coach Ken Tanaka and SYTYCD EP and judge Nigel Lythgoe may return to Idol to get rid of the current judges...this isn't just wishful thinking, this is today's news...

Tags: American Idol, Common, Dot Jones, Glee, Hell on Wheels, Hellcats, Jason Priestley, Jeff Hephner, Jersey Shore, Leah Remini, Luke Perry, Nigel Lythgoe, Patrick Gallagher, Susan Sarandon, The Miraculous Year

It was hard to concentrate at The CW's 2010-11 upfront presentation because I was still riding high from the news that next year will be the final season of Smallville and and that One Tree Hill and Life Unexpected will move to Tuesdays, which means that I can ignore the network entirely on that evening. I was jolted out of my reverie by Katy Perry on stage, screaming about being hot and cold and daisy dukes and whatnot. Glad I perked up, though, because it was just in time to see her wig nearly slip off. I also got to check out her signature "dance" move: inching her skirt up while walking. You don't see technique like that on So You Think You Can Dance, that's for sure. As for the actual upfront, it was short and to the point, marred only by some awkward banter between stars of different shows airing on the same nights (Chace Crawford and AnneLynne McCord should never have to read live from a Teleprompter ever again). As for The CW's two new fall shows... well, at least they have pretty people in them.

Tags: cw, hellcats, nikita

The short answer to that question is yes. Zombies make everything better. But unfortunately this week's episode of Hellcats was only good during the course of the zombie movie, and the rest of it was an awkward disaster. It's a secret shame of mine that I've been watching this show since the beginning, but n my defense, it's an awful trainwreck that I just can't take my eyes off of. The show's about a cheerleading law student who gets people out of jail and gets laws overturned, but who loves wearing half-shirts and appears to spend the majority of her time in a bar obsessing over boys instead of studying. In other words, it's mesmerizingly absurd and I was hoping that the addition of zombies would push the preposterousness into full-on guilty pleasure mode. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.

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When we heard about some recent developments in the world of television, we truly thought -- or at least hoped -- that they were actually just early April Fool's Day jokes. Alas, as far as we know, all of these are really happening, or have already occurred, much to our dismay.

Tags: betty white, Good Christian Bitches, good wife, Hellcats, mad men, survivor, twop 10, will arnett, wonder woman

There's been a lot of debate recently about whether MTV's Skins actually represents "real" teenage life and what sort of supposedly terrible example it's setting, but judging by the rest of the television landscape, there could be a lot worse places to send your fictional children to school. Here's our ranking of TV's least educational institutions of learning:

Tags: 90210, degrassi, glee, gossip girl, hellcats, modern family, no ordinary family, pretty little liars, twop 10