If there’s one thing Americans love, it’s gawking at heavily produced, heavily exploited versions of the lives of people that are different from our own. Although plenty of networks have found their niches in this brave new world, you’ve gotta hand it to TLC for its roster, featuring extreme couponers, extremely fecund Rick Santorum supporters  and Gosselins. And now, the network formerly known as “The Learning Channel” is giving one of its youngest characters her own show.

Chances are, your friends who watch Mad Men still haven’t stopped talking about how amazing / intense / dramatic / Drapetacular (a new adjective created by Mad Men fans solely for the purpose of describing this episode) this past week’s episode was. But one fan of the episode is pretty surprising: David Pryor, the Vice President of brand development at Jaguar USA.

If there's anything that makes me more exhausted than talking about Girls, a show that I actually very much enjoy, it is James Franco. Yes, James Franco: actor, artist, author, possible asshole, probable automaton, and various other words that begin with the letter A. Sadly, it has come to my attention that Franco has something to say about Girls and its creator, Lena Dunham.

There’s just one episode left in this season of Game of Thrones, which is a very sad state of affairs for all converted fantasy nerds. That said, interesting news abound! Today, showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss provided a partial list of characters who will be showing up in the next season. Season Three will be adapted from the third book, A Storm of Swords, which will be split into two seasons on account of how much exciting stuff happens.

After leaving a party hosted by Lady Bunny at Manhattan's XL nightclub this week, RuPaul's Drag Race season four winner Sharon Needles realized she had to pee. Badly! So, she went into what she thought was a graffiti-laden alleyway and relieved herself. But this was no ordinary alleyway...

On Thursday, TMZ reported that Britney Spears angrily walked off the X Factor set after a contestant butchered her song, "Hold It Against Me." This led to much speculation over Spears' reliability as a new judge on Simon Cowell's American Idol clone, but in a video message to TMZ today, both Cowell and Spears--who tells Harvey Levin to "Play nice"--deny any strife.

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Last Friday, Community creator Dan Harmon revealed that he was being replaced as showrunner of the struggling yet popular sitcom. In his place will be David Guarascio and Moses Port at the helm, whose TV comedy resumes include Happy Endings (yay!) and Just Shoot Me (oof!). Most of the cast expressed support for Harmon on Twitter, but their tweets were generally tame, probably at the behest of the company that produces the show, Sony Pictures Television.

That 70's Show ([sic], by the way—how am I just noticing that?) star Danny Masterson has a new sit-com on TBS called Men at Work. It doesn't look very good. But, ya know, most new sitcoms don't. (I mean, was That 70's Show any good?) But who cares about that stuff? Masterson is a Scientologist, so wouldn't we rather just hear him talk about that for a bit?

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