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Because if there’s one thing the entertainment world is lacking, it’s television adaptations of bestselling fantasy novels.

Justin Beiber’s star is rising and there’s nothing that can be done to stop it. But, at least, it can be stalled.

Andy Whitfield tragically cannot return to the role of Spartacus because his cancer has come out of remission, but producers are committed to finding a new actor.

AMC President Charlie Collier says season four of “Breaking Bad” will take it to the next level and be “truly phenomenal.” Also, where’s the zombie apocalypse headed from here?

Dude. Last night’s Mega Millions drawing boasted a $355 million jackpot, and a piece of that could have gone to you if you played the numbers from ‘Lost.’

Pepsi has won the war to inundate Simon Cowell’s new talent show, “The X Factor,” with their iconic branding. Tough titties, Coke.

Get some juicy intel from Det. Sammy Bryant himself.

Damian Lewis has been cast in Showtime’s “Homeland” as a soldier who returns home after ten years in Iraqi prison. He’ll star opposite the totally-believable-as-a-CIA-agent Claire Danes, who will be playing a CIA agent.

So while most Americans are struggling to make ends meet this holiday season, Morgan is out there buying new organs. Typical Hollywood.

Matthew Senreich comments on the latest batch of Star Wars jokes and gives us a preview of the show’s fifth season.

This is a touchy subject whenever I bring it up around here, but “Dexter” is an uneven show. Now, Scott Buck is ready to wash the turd-like taste of Season Five out of our mouths.

As it turns out, Huston is the grandson of famed director John Huston, and the nephew of actress Angelica Huston. Looking back, the resemblance is uncanny. You can really see it in his eye.

It’s been said that only Nixon could go to China. Well tell that to Big Bird, bitch.

They’ve taken television by storm with their hour-long dramas, and now AMC is preparing to run a train. The network gave a series order to “Hell On Wheels,” a drama about the construction of the transcontinental railroad.

Eminem a.k.a. Slim Shady a.k.a. Marshall Mathers is stepping into the ring with “Sons of Anarchy” creator Kurt Sutter for new boxing drama, “Southpaw.” Dreamworks bought the pitch in the room, and not just because the rapper stared at them intimidatingly.

Ethan Hawke is in talks to slum it on Fox with the procedural drama Exit Strategy. The high octane successor to “24″ will star Hawke as the leader of an elite team that helps retrieve CIA agents from missions gone awry.

And the winners are…

This show seems to write itself, as officers advise the producers of strange real cases they’ve investigated. Rookie officer Ben Sherman gets a surprise in a seemingly routine domestic disturbance.

David Hasselhoff will do anything. ANYTHING. So it came as no surprise when he scored a reality show on A&E. Now the network has pulled the show after only two episodes. Keep in mind that this is the channel that has found success with a show about raiding storage units.

When Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes earlier this year, he kept saying he’d never be invited back. He let loose with celebrity roasting, but now he is coming back to host again on January 16. Gervais told a conference call full of reporters that he plans to be even bolder with his jokes this time.

Will The Office bring in Billy Connolly or Sandy Duncan to take over Dunder Mifflin from Steve Carell? Creator of the British Office and executive producer of the American one, Ricky Gervais said we’re all thinking wrong.

Just to put it in perspective, remember that political blog you started back in college? It received six total clicks, four of which were from you at different machines around the computer lab. Multiply that times a million, and you’ve got the same numbers that AMC is putting up.

Good news for people who like serial killers and ridiculous plots (I kid because I love). Showtime has renewed “Dexter” for its sixth season.

If I had a dime for every project that Steve Carell has sold I’d have enough dimes to put into a sock and beat my mailman. Speaking of mailmen, Steve Carell has sold a post office comedy to NBC.

Dani Pudi plays the character on “Community” who provides most of the show’s self-referential meta humor. So it makes sense that Abed is responsible for a stop-motion animated episode in the tradition of the Rankin Bass specials.

Frank Darabont has liquidated the entire writing staff of “The Walking Dead” and plans on utilizing freelancers for the show’s second season.

Stoners, get ready to be happy. Adult Swim has picked up 12 episodes of “NTSF:SD:SUV” or National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle.”

When “Lost” was winding down, I had two big questions. Where the hell is Walt, and what embarrassing roles will Jorge Garcia have to play going forward? Hopefully, he won’t have to at all because there’s news this morning that he’s re-teaming with J.J. Abrams.

Remember the classic “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Christmas special with the herky-jerky animation? If you don’t, you’re a communist. Even so, you might appreciate that “Community” is planning a similar stop-motion animation holiday spoof.