The world’s most delicious combination.

• The end of the strike is still tantalizingly close.
• Television Without Pity has a new Web TV show.
• E-Kristin has a Lost sneak peek.
• Human Giant is going on tour.
• The new Bachelor is British.
• Paris Hilton is going off the lesbian-o-meter these days, kissing Elisha Cuthbert and appearing on The L Word.
• Craig Ferguson will appear on the White House Correspondents Association dinner.
• Coming up: Mythbusters vs. MacGyver.

I like things that are bright.

• They’ve chosen a lucky lady to be the new Bachelorette.
• Grey’s Anatomy’s Justin Chambers could have nearly high-fived Britney on her way into the treatment center.
• Naveen Andrews talks Lost.
• Calm yourselves. The Bionic Woman is coming to DVD.
• Star Jones is once again out of the job.
• The folks from The New Adventures of Old Christine seem nice.
• The WGA won’t picket the CBS investor meeting.
• New York Magazine pits Cashmere Mafia and Lipstick Jungle against each other.
• Tyler Florence continues to torment me with his heterosexuality. He and his wife are expecting a second child.

I totally had sushi last night with Glowy Box Liz.

• The days of Montel Williams are over.
• Here’s a link to a crazy story about Scientology.  I’d say more, but I don’t want to get sued.
• Ellen Pompeo is letting it all hang out.
• The location where Weeds is shot has a real life Mary Jane farm.
• Tyra Banks has yet another show in the works.
• Animal Planet has Project Runway for dog groomers.
• Jeff Probst has dish on the new Survivor, saying that there are two love affairs, a lot of blindsides and that two memorable castmates said no to participation.

When I was of Bar Mitzvah age, that’s when the whole trash talk show trend really boomed. You had Ricki Lake, Jerry Springer, Sally Jessy Raphael and even Richard Bey. This was when Greg Kinnear wasn’t an Academy Award-nominated actor — just a struggling actor who was worrying he would peak with hosting Talk Soup on basic cable.

In any case, remember Jenny Jones? She was the bland blonde one whose guests were always way more outrageous than she could ever seem to handle.

Well, turns out Jenny Jones is a) still alive, and b) totally rich. So rich, in fact, that she’s giving away her money — a million bucks of it.

Under the my-wishes-came-true-let-me-help-you premise, she’s giving away a million bucks in $25,000 grants. All you have to do is fill out the application describing “your dream” and pray.

Sadly, I don’t think any of my dreams live up to the standard of “I want to buy computers for a handicapped school,” as they suggest on the site. Stupid do-gooders.
My dreams include:

• a live-in, professional chips and guacamole chef.
• a bed shaped like a spaceship with a built-in telescope.
• a surgical procedure to help me get to my “goal height” of 5′9.
• a puppy that doesn’t bark, urinate or need to be fed.

I’ve been told they’re worth the investment.

• No more pricey pilots for NBC.
• NPR interviewed the guy who plays Omar on The Wire.
• Zap2It has a list of the new Top Chef: Chicago contestants.
• Fox and the CW are scrapping new projects left and right.
• Name a celebrity you’d be less interested in watching a reality show about than Denise Richards.
• Thank God, Jenna Fischer isn’t dating David Spade.
• Breaking Bad did pretty well.
• TV Guide talks to one of of the loves of my life, Felicity Huffman, about the possibility of more death on Desperate Housewives.

If you’re going to see it, wait til it’s on video. I was dangerously close to vomiting the entire time.

• Looks like Yul from Survivor is all over the place. This time, unsuccessfully trying to open a yogurt shop.
• The WGA won’t picket the Grammys.
• In other strike news, the writers have dropped their demands to unionize reality and animation writers.
• No upfronts for NBC this year.
• Ask Ausiello has scoop on Lost and Veronica Mars (!).
• Sarah Michelle Gellard nixes a Buffy movie.
• They are looking for activists for the next Real World.
• The Real World/Road Rules Gauntlet 3 debuts tonight, despite God’s will.
• Here’s a video update from The Office picketers.
• Oxygen has renewed Tori Spelling’s Inn Love.

I need some Indian food. Stat.

• Holy crap. The Moldy Peaches were on The View. Watch their performance here.
• Strike talks are supposed to resume today.
• The gays have announced the GLAAD, honoring the gayest shows (Ugly Betty, Brothers and Sisters).
• Selma Blair and Molly Shannon will be in the US version of Kath and Kim.
• Trading Spaces’ Paige Davis tells all.
• The New York Times details why Friday Night Lights isn’t catching on.
• BBC’s The Smoke House has kids locking up their smoking parents.
• Hipster moms and dads love Yo Gabba Gabba!
• Somebody won The Amazing Race.
• CBS has cut 20 shows from its development schedule.
• Kristin from E! has a Terminator-centric video show.

What’s the appropriate amount of time between the airing of an episode and discussing it openly on the internets. I’m going with a one-day buffer.

• Nashville Star is moving to NBC this summer.
• Don’t get your hopes up for an Lively-Badgely wedding.
• There are photos of the next Survivor tribal council and of some challenges. If that means anything to you.
• The Directors Guild has a deal with the studios — is this nice foreshadowing? E-Kristin breaks it down.
• Reality Blurred has news on all sorts of new reality shows including a spin-off of My Super Sweet 16.
• The Oscars will go on no matter what.
• Kiefer’s getting out of the big house.
• E-Kristin talks to you-know-who from Project Runway about his/her auffing.
• Linda Cardellini of ER and Freaks and Geeks talks to The AV Club.
• Want to check out the next season of Jericho? Meh…
• Survivor’s Jonny Fairplay has reproduced.
• Is The Wire the sexiest show on TV?

It’s Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend!  Who wants a leather daddy?  I do, I do!

• Tracy Ullman turning to Showtime for her new sketch comedy show.
• Clay Aiken is going to be in Monty Python’s Spamalot.
• Angela and Oscar from The Office are spending their time off gestating babies and judging for Last Comic Standing.
• Joshua Malina discusses the fate of Big Shots.
• Kristin from E! talks Moonlight and asks whether the TV season is actually over.
• The costume designers have unveiled their nominees for their award show.
• Regarding the subject of this news post: no, I actually don’t.  Just to clear that up.  But if you want one, God bless…

Can anyone implant a chip in my brain to have me speak in a Cockney accent?

• The writers strike might screw with next season too.
• The TV Addict talks to Elizabeth Mitchell from Lost.
• Oprah is expanding her empire with a cable network.
• Want to be on the next Top Design or Shear Genius?  Have at it.
• NBC is re-making a British car show called Top Gear.
• Get ready for Flavor of Love with…  Emmanuel Lewis.
• A new Ask Ausiello has info on the eventual return of 24.
• E-Kristin talks about Mad Men — which you can now catch on Sundays at midnight.  Maggie, I’m guessing, still thinks you shouldn’t watch.