If tonight’s season premiere of the prime-time Deal or No Deal (8 pm/ET, NBC) reignites your hunger for cash-filled suitcases, glam models and Howie Mandel’s sexy-smooth dome, you’re about to be sated quite nicely. Starting Monday, Sept. 8, a syndicated dailyversion of the red-hot game show hits the airwaves, streamlining the game play, yet serving up even more of [...]

Just in time for Prison Break’s two-hour season premiere (tonight at 8 pm/ET, Fox), the show’s cast has some lingering questions for exec producer Matt Olmstead. TV Guide was happy to serve as middlemen.
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We knew this day would come, and the SCI FI Channel has officially announced that Stargate Atlantis is airing its fifth and final season.
However, all is not lost for diehard fans of Atlantis, with SCI FI similarly announcing that a 2-hour Atlantis movie would also be coming our way in 2009.
(Geeks of Doom)
 

TV chiefs are desperately trying to keep the plot of the new “Beverly Hills, 90210″ spin-off show under wraps.
Bosses at the CW have refused to release any footage of the new program ahead of its debut on September 2.
And critics have been banned from reviewing the show, with no advance screenings planned before it airs [...]

“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” has solved the mystery of who will replace departing CBS series star William Petersen: It’s Laurence Fishburne.
Fishburne, an Emmy and Tony winner, will be introduced in the ninth episode of the upcoming 10th season, the network told The Associated Press on Monday. He’ll play a forensics scientist with a secret.
Fishburne is [...]

Iconic 1970s crime series “Hawaii Five-O” is to return to US television screens in an update of the hit franchise, entertainment industry press reported on Tuesday.
The Hollywood Reporter said the show, which ran for 12 seasons and 270 episodes between 1968 and 1980, would revolve around the adventures of the fictional Hawaii State Police department.
While [...]

“Gutter balls only, please!” someone yells during a rehearsal at the Lucky Strike bowling alley for the CW’s new series “90210.” So co-stars Jessica Stroup and Shenae Grimes downplay their bowling skills.
The spin-off on the fabled ’90s teen drama premieres Sept. 2 (8 p.m. EDT). If the show mimics the hot bodies, hip fashion and [...]

In 1974, in between creating The Godfather and The Godfather, Part 2, Oscar-winning writer-director Francis Ford Coppola made a film that was just as seminal as the Mafia dramas: The Conversation.
It was in many ways a small picture, starring Gene Hackman (in a brilliant performance), and including some people on the brink of stardom, Cindy [...]

If you were to go out and look for the quintessential pin-up California sunshine girl, you couldn’t do better than Pamela Anderson.
With a mane of bouncing blonde hair, a Barbie doll shape and perfectly plucked eyebrows, Anderson still fits the bill at 41.
Yet she wants the world to know she is Madam Ordinary, the type [...]

“Mad Men” is back, and did I ever need it.
Even if you haven’t watched the AMC drama about Madison Avenue ad men in the 1960s, you’ve probably heard about its 16 Emmy nominations. I’m here to tell you: It’s worth all the hype.
“Mad Men” feels like a show for adults. No, it’s not full of [...]