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- The Screen Actors Guild recently had a shakeup in leadership when the previous alliance in charge, Membership First, was largely ousted during national SAG elections. Membership First is getting a little business done before they go, though.
On Wednesday, the union’s negotiating committee recommended in an 11-2 vote that the national board authorize a strike vote against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
However, the matter will go before the newly-configured national board on Oct. 12, and according to the Los Angeles Times, it’s highly unlikely that the board or even the membership after that would seriously pursue a …read more

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ABC: Dancing With The Stars — Jessica Simpson performs on the show. Hope that she won’t share the stage with Kim Kardashian, because that’s a lot of hot air and big, um, body parts.
Half Their Size: The People Magazine Weight Loss Challenge — The show chronicles the journey of eight Mississippi residents as they lose weight through nutrition and exercise, not surgery. Good for them! I’ll eat my takeout lo mein on their behalf.
CBS: The Mentalist –  The team looks for a Napa Valley waitress, but Patrick decides to do things his way using a team member as bait. I’m …read more

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ABC: Opportunity Knocks – A family is asked trivia questions about each other to win cash and prizes. If this were Fox, they’d be hooked up to a lie detector, too.
Dancing With the Stars — Ready for two more hours after last night’s premiere? Click here for more.
Fox: House — The team races to figure out why the people who received donor organs from a person who died in an industrial accident months before are dying. In the meantime, House uses a PI to snoop on Wilson and a colleague he’s considering to replace Wilson as his friend. I suspect …read more

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Courtesy of Mahalo Daily, here’s some attendees of ComicCon in San Diego talking about all the TV stars and directors they plan to see, along with a sneak peek at J.J. Abrams’ highly anticipated new series, “Fringe”.

On a completely gratuitous and personal note, if anyone goes to the “Doctor Who” and “Torchwood” panels and gets video, please email me. I’ll be happy to post it with credit and squees. (I’ve never properly introduced myself here, but I’m a HUGE UK TV fangirl.)

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