Last night the Saints won the big game, but who won the competition for best commercial?

Everyone seems to agree that the the Jay Leno/Oprah Winfrey/David Letterman ad for The Late Show was the best, or at least the one most worth talking about at the water cooler today. In the ad, David Letterman and Oprah Winfrey reprise their Super Bowl ad from a few years ago where they sit on the couch and watch the game, only this year they’re joined by Jay.

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Just in time for Super Bowl week, House’s patient of the week is #77 on the field, #1 in your heart, a very large college football player who’s being scouted.  As the kid — Daryl–’s mother talks up her son to a scout in the stands.  Daryl is like a raging bull, charging across the field, plowing into everyone and everything in sight.  The aggression doesn’t stop there. Daryl takes off his helmet starts beating himself in the forehead with it, drawing blood. Lots of blood.  So much blood, in fact, that he’s whisked off to Princeton-Plainsboro for House and his team of crackerjack diagnosticians to figure out what’s wrong. 

The team attempts the clock to discover what’s wrong with Daryl before his mystery malady kills him, and all before Saturday, when Daryl has a tryout in front of scouts in the hopes to kick off his pro football career.  At over 6′5″ and 300+ lbs., House’s first reaction is that it’s a bad case of ‘roid rage or pituitary damage.  When nothing shows on the scans, House wonders if Daryl “got his hands on the good stuff,” possibly HGH.  As usual, the staff exhausts every possibility until House has his 11^th hour epiphany that Daryl has melanoma located on his foot.  Disguised by the fact that Daryl is black and melanoma rarely affects people of color, House sees the treatable spot on the football player’s foot.  Continue Reading

Sheryl Crow will join ABC’s Cougar Town for several episodes.

Crow will reportedly play the role of Grayson’s new girlfriend who is a wine distributor. Played by Josh Hopkins, Grayson is a newly-divorced neighbor to main character Courteney Cox’s Jules Cobb. Tapping Crow to be his girlfriend is a back-track since Grayson usually enjoys dating younger women and rubbing it in Jules’ face with hilarious consequences.

There is no other detail yet surrounding Crow’s guest appearance but it’s confirmed that she would be in a multiple-episode arc not playing herself.  Sheryl Crow made her last TV appearance on 30 Rock as herself. She, along with other musicians, joins Jack Donaghy’s (Alec Baldwin) charity concert to raise fund for his ailing father in musical episode “Kidney Now!”.

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NBC is currently considering airing the 62nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards with a tape delay after airing the 2010 Golden Globes live in all U.S. time zones for the first time last month.

The network is currently discussing the plan with affiliates.

Tape-delaying some entertainment programs on the West Coast has been a longtime practice, however, as fans continue to get their news through other non-TV sources like Twitter and Facebook, NBC wants to capture their full attention without spoilers.

The Grammys on CBS, which played to big ratings, were tape-delayed, but the awards show features an emphasis on performances rather than the actual award. The three-and-a-half hour program drew the biggest average audience for that kudofest since 2004, jumping 32% over last year in adults 18-49 to a 9.8 rating and up 35% among total viewers, to an average 25.8 million. The premiere music awards show, however, is different from the Emmys and the film industry’s Oscars because it is packed with performances and features far fewer awards over a longer stretch of primetime.

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Bill Geddie, executive producer of ABC’s Emmy award-winning talk show The View announced today that the colorful but controversial cast of MTV’s reality show, Jersey Shore, are scheduled to make their first-ever appearance on The View, live, TUESDAY, FEB. 23 to promote the same-day release of Jersey Shore: Season 1″ on DVD.

As the popularity of Jersey Shore continued to rise, so did the controversy. Whether it’s a debate over stereotyping, scrutiny from local residents or the safety of self-tanning, there is no denying that Jersey Shore catapulted eight housemates to instant stardom. Their outlandish behavior has been a frequent “Hot Topics” discussion amongst “The View” hosts. MTV announced on Jan. 29, 2010 that there would, indeed, be a second season. The cast of Jersey Shore: Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, Jenni “JWoww” Farley, Angelina “Jolie” Pivarnick, Michael “The Situation” Sorrentino, Vinny Guadagnino, Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, Sammi “Sweetheart” Giancola and Paul “DJ Pauly D” DelVecchio.

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News Corp’s Fox Soccer Channel drew its biggest audience ever in a match-up between English Premiere League powerhouses Manchester United and Arsenal last Sunday. Their coverage of Manchester United’s 3-1 triumph over the London-squad Arsenal on Jan. 31 at 11pm averaged 370,000 viewers, says Nielsen overnight data.

The Man U-Arsenal numbers move past the 369,000 viewers who watched the U.S.-Mexico CONCACAF Gold Cup Final during the summer of 2009.

The match between the Red Devils and Gunners tied for second among network airings relative to households since Fox Soccer Channel became a Nielsen-rated channel back in October of 2008, with an average of 0.7. FSC also came in third with men 18-to-49 (0.9) and with men 25-to-54 (0.8).

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TV stars Laura Prepon and Sarah Chalke may be returning to TV.

Prepon, who starred in the Fox hit That ’70s Show, is set to join Danny Wallace in the ABC comedy Awkward Situations for Men.

Awkward Situations for Men is adapted from the book by the same name, in which Wallace tells the cultural shock that the British author had while moving around in the United States. A shift which will cause him many problems with the daily newspaper along with “hilarious” predicaments with his American neighbors.

After 8 seasons of That ’70s Show,  Prepon had also appeared in the drama series October Road along with a nomination for Best New Series at the Teen Choice Award in 2007. In 2009, Prepon also appeared in How I Met Your Mother as the snobbish Karen, the first love of Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor).

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As ‘Jacksonville’ opens, the Fringe team heads to NYC after a building seems to merge with another after an earthquake. They find no survivors in the building except for a man who has four legs, four arms and a head growing out of his chest. (Where do they come up with this stuff?).

Olivia and Walter try to question him but he dies. Walter begins to think that the two buildings (one from this world and one from the alternate world) have merged. Olivia thinks Newton has to do with it too.

Walter thinks that a similar building went to the other universe too so things will be balanced. In order to save everyone inside, they need to figure out what building is going to move to the other side. Walter tells Olivia only she will be able to see which building it will be.

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“(500) Days of Summer” actress Zooey Deschanel is combining her two love’s’ acting and music, by starring as the title character in a pilot for HBO’s upcoming dramedy “I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie”.

Deschanel, who is well known for her roles in “Summer” and “Yes Man”", also sings in She and Him (along with Matt Ward). The duo describes themselves as musicians who “make music for an eternal springtime, when the temperature is warm enough to go riding with the top (or at least the windows) rolled down and the radio turned up. [And] occupy an alternate universe where the saddest of songs feel as warm as sun showers; the rain may be coming down, but somewhere nearby, everything looks bright.”

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Season 2 of RuPaul’s Drag Race kicks off, introducing the new batch of girls, upping the contestants to a solid 12 “girls.”  This time around, things seem a bit more heavy on the drama with friction brewing between many of the girls right off the bat, as opposed to the (mostly) friendly competitive camaraderie of Season One.  Additionally, many of the girls seem to lack the polish of the Season One ladies, although it’s still very early in the season and they have time to step up their individual game.

A brief run-down of the gals, there’s resident Southern belle, Nicole Paige Brooks from Atlanta.  (And yes, her full name must be said at all times!) 

Shangela LaQueefah Watley is a drag baby, having only been doing drag for a mere five months and is good friends and former college roommate with stately, Sahara Davenport from New York City. 

Jujubee is an adorable Asian who loves glitter and having a good time. 

Raven is the group’s self-proclaimed ice queen who doesn’t carry a purse (and needed to shave her pits with some unsightly stubble when the girls were introduced!)  Raven is best pals with mouthy (and potentially the biggest drama queen of the season) Morgan McMichaels, having done drag at the same club and are pretty much like sisters.  Continue Reading