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"Ah, that’s the great puzzle."
Ten episodes in, four more to go. With the silly season of television finales straight ahead, everything seems to be falling into place for Lost’s three-part (!!!) end-of-season blowout following the most recent installment, entitled "Something Nice Back Home". Which is nice to see, because I’m not falling into place - a lot is going on with university at the moment, so you’re getting a concise and mostly jumbled recap this week. Let’s make with the quickness, then!
1. Jate is fate (but it’s also doomed from the start)
So, there we have it - Kate chose Jack.
But, seeing as this is Lost, it’s never ever that simple, seeing how Jack didn’t choose Kate. Jack, as always, ended up choosing Jack in his off-island life. What I mean by this is that Jack couldn’t really live a proper, satisfied life, plagued incessantly by both his time on the island and his soul-crushing relationship with his Drinky Doctor Dad (trademarks pending). Watch his face when he’s asking Kate for her hand in marriage - it seems as if he wants her to say yes just so someone will want to keep him about, as if he’s marrying for a sense of his own security. And his only way to get out of this conundrum… well, we saw the results of it in "Through the Looking Glass".
Y’see, Jack Shephard is very much a quintessential 21st Century Man. On the outside, he’s both an example of masculinity and honesty; the problem is he’s never really been honest with anyone other than himself, keeping everything stored on the inside. That’s why he thinks he knows best by watching his own appendix get removed (which was… yechhh). That’s why he has a massive savior complex. In the off-island future, he could have easily told Kate about his fears concerning his father - hell, any of the fears he has - but he ends up alone and back where he started. When he shouts "we have to go back!" to Kate in the season three finale, you can hear it in his voice, see it in his eyes: the man just wants to be wanted.

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Palo Alto, California, U.S.Spouse(s) Marcus Leithold (1988 - 1989: divorced)
Jon Tenney (1994 - 2003: divorced), 1 childAwardsGolden Globe AwardsBest Actress in a Television Comedy or Musical
2005 Desperate HousewivesScreen Actors Guild AwardsBest Actress - Comedy Series
Best Ensemble - Comedy Series
Teri Lynn Hatcher (born December 8, 1964) is an Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress and author. She gained attention for her role as Lois Lane in the television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman co-starring with Dean Cain. Hatcher is also well-known for portraying Susan Mayer, in Desperate Housewives, an accident-prone divorcee. She is also a “Bond Girl”, having played Paris Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997.
2 Film and television roles
Hatcher was born in Palo Alto, California, the daughter of Esther (Beshur), a computer programmer, and Owen W. Hatcher, a nuclear physicist.[1] She grew up in Sunnyvale, California. An only child, she attended Mango Junior High (now Sunnyvale Middle School), Fremont High School in Sunnyvale and De Anza College in Cupertino.
In March 2006, Hatcher revealed to Vanity Fair that she was sexually abused from the age of five by Richard Hayes Stone, an uncle by marriage who was later divorced by Hatcher’s aunt. Her parents, she said, were unaware of the abuse at the time. In 2002, she assisted Santa Clara County prosecutors in indicting Stone for a more recent molestation that led his female victim to commit suicide at the age of 14. Stone pleaded guilty to four counts of child molestation and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.[2] In an interview appearing in Vanity Fair, Hatcher said she told the prosecutors about her own abuse because she was haunted by thoughts of the 14-year-old girl who shot herself, and feared Stone might escape conviction.
Hatcher began her performing career as a young girl taking ballet lessons at the San Juan Girls’ Ballet Studio in downtown Los Altos, California. She later studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater. One of her early jobs (in 1984) was as a cheerleader with the San Francisco 49ers. During this time she also appeared as one of the mermaids on the show The Love Boat in its final season.

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Did Patrick Dempsey go commando for the big screen?
The McDreamy doc dons a mini-kilt in a scene in his latest rom-com Made of Honor and reveals he tried his best to follow the upstanding Scottish tradition of wearing nada underneath.
“For a short time [I was],” he tells AOL. “I tried it out and I realized that this is not the kilt I want to be doing that in. Yeah, I didn’t need to show that.”
Unfortunately for fans, it may be a while before Patrick will try it again as he must scrub up for Grey’s Anatomy. With the season finale fast approaching on May 22, the 42-year-old star drops some hints as to what the future holds for Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) and Derek.
“I have like a rainbow color of pages in front of me that I’m trying to put together in my script, and I just got to the final scene. And it’s a beautiful scene where we get back together,” he says. “It’s really quite something. It’s unexpected, I think, the way it plays itself out. It kind of gets back to the essence of what made this show so great.”
Calling it a “good” decision by creator Shonda Rhimes to rekindle the achy lovebirds’ relationship, Patrick hopes the storyline will keep viewers’ interest well into next season – the show’s fifth.
“I hope we just keep entertaining people. I think that’s the key here,” he says. “And hopefully, we don’t get stuck in a rut and we don’t repeat ourselves. I just want the show to keep moving forward and hopefully stay fresh.”

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B uckle up for network TV’s version of a highway pileup.
Nine prime-time series end their seasons Thursday night. You could fry your remote trying to keep up.
Spare yourself the aggravation. Here’s a look at the departing shows, with some advice: See it as it airs, tape it for later or skip it.
“My Name is Earl” (Thursday night at 8 on WHDH, Ch. 7). Earl in prison, Earl in a coma, Earl with Alyssa Milano. What did we do wrong to deserve this season of hell? Where’s that sweet, funny show we fell in love with? Skip.
“Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?” (Thursday at 8 p.m. on WFXT, Ch. 25). More apt title: “60 Minutes and Four Brain Cells of Your Life You’ll Never Get Back.” Skip.
“Smallville” (Thursday at 8 p.m. on WLVI [website] , Ch. 56). Here’s the year’s best example of a series that collapsed on itself creatively. The moment I finally gave up: When Clark (Tom Welling) even refused to try to fly. Man of Steel? Man of Mopes is more like it. Kristin Kreuk and Michael Rosenbaum make their last appearances as series regulars. Oh, and Brainiac attacks. Again. Skip.
“Don’t Forget the Lyrics” (Thursday at 9 p.m. on WFXT, Ch. 25). I forgot this show is still on. Skip.
‘‘The Office” (Thursday at 9 p.m. on WHDH): Last week’s intern fair was a rare outing for “The Office”: a dud. That does nothing to quell expectations for this one-hour episode, expected to bring all sorts of life-changing news for our favorite cube dwellers. Is Toby really leaving Dunder Mifflin? Will Jim finally propose to Pam? Is Jan pregnant? Don’t make the mistake many did last year and skip the closing credit tag. See.
“Supernatural” (Thursday at 9 p.m. on WLVI): Is Dean (Jensen Ackles) going straight to hell? “Supernatural” has been on a tear since the writers strike ended, but it’s up against “The Office.” Tape.

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You know Fox hates your new comedy series when …
A) Fox cuts the episode order.
B) Fox schedules your show for Friday night, a dead night for broadcast TV.
C) Fox promises to launch your show after “American Idol” before sending it to Friday night Siberia, then changes its mind on the post-”Idol” launch, sticking you with nothing but that Friday death slot.
D) All of the above.
Alas, for Amy Sherman-Palladino, the answer is D. “The Return of Jezebel James” (8 p.m. tomorrow, WPGH) was supposed to mark the triumphant return of Sherman-Palladino, creator of the beloved “Gilmore Girls,” who left that series a year before it reached its conclusion. Instead, the show will launch with a whimper. Sadly, it deserves no better.
Miscast and only intermittently funny, “Jezebel James” misfires on all cylinders.
Indie film actress Parker Posey plays Sarah, a childless, more selfish Lorelai Gilmore. Sarah is another Sherman-Palladino woman who speaks in rat-a-tat-tat zingers. She’s sophisticated but daffy and not always likable.
Sarah works as a children’s book editor, and one of her books shares its title with this comedy series. Viewers learn in the pilot that Jezebel James was the imaginary friend of Sarah’s estranged sister, Coco (Lauren Ambrose).
If there’s a good reason for naming the show after this throwaway bit of trivia, it’s not clear from two episodes sent for review. It’s certainly doesn’t play into the main plot of the show: Sarah can’t conceive a child and asks Coco to be her surrogate.
At first, Coco is appalled, fearing a scene out of “Alien.” (Because this is a Sherman-Palladino show, pop culture references abound.)
“Not exactly like ‘Alien,’ ” Sarah says. “It’ll have a different exit strategy.”
Posey is curiously flat. Scenes only come to life in the pilot once Ambrose enters with her patented, angry-young-woman routine. Honed over the years on “Six Feet Under,” Ambrose’s fiery reactions give the show some spark, even if I never quite believe any of the characters as real people.

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The CW just released an official announcement that Supernatural, One Tree Hill, Smallville, Gossip Girl and America's Next Top Model have been picked up for next season. Yes, we will see all these shows in the fall for the 2008-09 season!
Happy Snoopy dance with me, will ya?
The episode orders for each of these series remains "TBD," but I can assure you that the cast of OTH is celebrating the pickup of its sixth season—most likely at Hilarie Burton's house—right now in Wilmington, North Carolina. I just ran into Sophia Bush at dinner in West Hollywood a few days ago and had a nice chat about how the show is really, as she put it, "in its groove" this season, and how she and the cast feel they have a good thing going and hope it continues. Word. Ask and ye shall receive.
I also just checked in with Gossip boss Josh Schwartz, and he tells me, "Didn't know [the pickup] was happening today but I guess—when the show is Gossip Girl—reading it online is as good! Stephanie and I couldn't be happier or more grateful to the CW for all their support. We've had a blast working with this cast and crew, and shooting in NYC has been awesome. We're excited about what's to come in the next five episodes and season two." Josh's other new show, Chuck, is also expected back this fall, so he's just on a roll. Whee!
And while Gossip Girl and Top Model seemed no-brainers for fall, Supernatural and Smallville fans are most assuredly breathing a huge sigh of relief at these pickups, since the fates of both series have been in limbo as of late. Super boss Eric Kripke knows he owes a great deal to you fans and your very vocal support efforts, especially in this here wacky world o' web. "Our online community is a rowdy and boisterous one," he says. "And we love them for it."

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VANCOUVER - With seven American dramatic series recently renewed for new seasons, B.C.’s television industry has started to rebound from the disastrous Writers Guild of America strike that silenced the industry over the winter.
This week, The CW network renewed big series Smallville for an eighth season and Supernatural for a fourth. They join ABC’s Men in Trees (season two), ABC Family’s Kyle XY (season three), SciFi Channel’s Stargate Atlantis (fifth season) and Eureka (third season) and USA Network’s Psych (third season) in the renewal column.
Decisions are yet to be made on American series The L Word (Showtime), Reaper (the CW) and the sitcom Aliens in America (the CW). Canadian series still up in the air include Intelligence, The Guard, Flash Gordon, Interns and Whistler.
In terms of employment, Smallville and Supernatural are the biggest of the locally shot series. In 2007, the two productions were shot over a 10-month period and employed more than 200 B.C. crew members, actors and drivers.
Each series provided full-time employment for 80 members of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees Local 891.
“We’re happy that there has been a successful resolution to the [Writers Guild] strike, and that many of our shows are returning,” said Kathleen Higgins, IATSE Local 891 business representative. All seven renewed American series are IATSE shoots, and Higgins said “these productions will continue with their previous employment numbers.”
Foreign television series account for more than one-third of the film and television industry’s annual revenues.
One area damaged by the WGA strike was the making of TV pilots for potential future series. The shortened pilot season coupled with dwindling viewers for network series means big networks like CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox are spending less on series pilots.
And fewer pilots will mean fewer series.
Don Cott, CEO and vice-president of the Canadian branch of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, thinks the province will weather the TV pilot storm.

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Mt. Hebron’s Kristen Bilney, right, celebrates with her teammates after Qiana Coleman scored the winning shot at the buzzer to give Mt. Hebron a 39-37 win over Gwynn Park March 7.
Quick pass. Open player. Easy basket. Buzzer. Regional championship.
That sums up the essence of Mt. Hebron’s first regional title since 1995. What the brief bottom line synopsis leaves out, though, is the utter disbelief of the Gwynn Park players, who were anticipating overtime, and the surge of Mt. Hebron’s student body who mobbed the court in celebration following the 39-37 Class 2A South thriller.
Mt. Hebron sophomore Aja Wallpher tied the game, 37-all, on a 3-point shot with 44 seconds remaining to play. It was the Vikings’ sixth triple of the night, a scoring pattern that ultimately helped set up the final outcome.
After Wallpher scored, Gwynn Park’s Lynnae Lampkins, a superb athlete who will play for Syracuse next year, missed a potential go-ahead basket. In the scramble for the rebound, Deanna Dydynski forced a jump ball. The possession arrow was in Mt. Hebron’s favor with just over 27 seconds left.
Mt. Hebron worked the ball to midcourt and called timeout to set up a final play. The clock read 10.5.

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Every year, it seems, there’s one artist who captures the popular imagination and becomes the de facto singer of choice at the American Idol auditions. It’s usually someone popular and it’s usually someone that no Idol wannabe, not even the eventual winner, can match for high notes.
This year, that singer was Celine Dion. Every time a would-be Idol walked in the door and answered the question, “What are you going to sing?” with, “Power of Love/I’m Your Angel/fill-in-the-blank by Celine Dion,” you could practically see Simon Cowell’s eye-roll before it happened.
Of course, Dion is the flavour of the moment.
Tonight, in Dion’s first concert since wrapping her five-year run in Sin City, Dion serenades the crowd at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles with some of her greatest hits, including The Power of Love, River Deep Mountain High and, from her new album, Taking Chances.
Tonight’s concert special is called Celine Dion: That’s Just the Woman in Me, and as the title suggests, it’s a little more intimate than the usual chest-thumping arena show. Dion even takes time to answer questions from the audience, though it’s a safe bet the questions won’t get too pushy. There’s only so much ground that can be covered in an hour, after all. 9 p.m., CTV, CBS
Nip/Tuck, FX’s cutting-edge cable drama that is easy to admire but hard to like, settles into its regular Friday home after debuting on a Sunday.
Tonight’s episode, the third of Nip/Tuck’s fifth and most recent season — 14 episodes will air in all — first aired on FX in November, and is being shown here for the first time.
Dr. Sean (Dylan Walsh) fends off the increasingly heated advances of Eden Lord (AnnaLynne McCord), while juggling Julia’s (Joely Richardson) emotional needs. Nip/Tuck has always been something of a high-wire act. It’s clever and well-written, but it might just be one of the most emotionally violent dramas on TV. Few programs are more sexually explicit, or disturbing, which makes it all the more remarkable that it is airing on a mainstream, mass-audience broadcast network. 10 p.m., CTV
Three to see:
- Wedding bells, they are a-ringin’ on a two-hour outing of Las Vegas that might be the five-year-old series’ last. It isn’t all roses and tiaras, however. This is a wedding Vegas-style, which means Danny (Josh Duhamel) and Piper (Camille Guaty) are taken hostage in an art heist gone wrong — don’t they always? — and before it’s over, one of the cast regulars is being fitted for a funeral suit. Bummer. 9 p.m., Global, NBC
- Turner Classic Movies continues its month-long salute to Oscar with the offbeat 1970 western Little Big Man, in which Salish Chief Dan George landed a supporting-actor Oscar nomination. A classy performance in a classic film. 5 p.m., TCM
- A beauty queen, Cassandra Whitehead tests her wits against 100 trivia buffs in tonight’s pop culture-themed 1 vs. 100. The supposed pop culture experts include Ross the Intern from The Tonight Show, Richard Rubin from Beauty and the Geek and a trio of Playboy Playmates. 8 p.m., E!, NBC