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Here are the entertainment news items for this week (October 5 to 9): NEWS ABC Family and Harlequin Enterprises Limited announced a new licensing agreement where Harlequin will publish four TEEN tie-in books for the ABC Family series Greek. Showtime officially picked up Californication for a fourth season. Flashpoint will have another 13 episodes air on CBS.   The drama, …

Our crime-fighting boys on cable are back tonight, so settle in for a long night of solving mysteries! Monk – USA 9/8c “Mr. Monk Goes To Group Therapy” – When Monk’s insurance company refuses to pay for more individual therapy sessions, Monk joins Dr. Bell’s therapy group, where somebody appears to be murdering his fellow patients. Dollhouse – FOX 9/8c …

We’re a few weeks into the new season, and the networks are beginning to decide what to keep and what to jettison. This week saw two new Nice Girls favorite get picked up for a full season: ABC’s Cougar Town and CBS’s The Good Wife both received orders for the back 9. ABC also picked up The Middle and Modern …

With Halloween just around the corner, everyone pulls out their top ten or top five favorite scary movies of all time. While I agree with most of them, I wanted to share my own personal top ten list of movies that I love to pull out of my stack o’ DVD’s during this time of year. It’s become a tradition, …

Comic Con was months ago, but we decided to hang on to this report until closer to Sanctuary’s premiere so the information would be fresh in our minds. What started out as a small internet project two years ago with only a small booth at Comic Con has become a full-fledged hit, filling a panel room full of over 2000 …

A couple of weeks in, how are we feeling about Courteney Cox’s return to the small screen? It can be a little OTT at times, but overall, it’s funny and sweet at the saem time. Glee – FOX 9/8c “Vitamin D” – Will challenges the kids to a healthy dose of competition with boys against girls in a mashup showdown. …

It’s a night of major guest stars as Leonard Nimoy returns to Fringe, Jasmine Guy appears on The Vampire Diaries, and Gabrielle Union turns up on FlashForward. The Vampire Diaries – the CW 8/7c “You’re Undead to Me” – Stefan is hopeful that his plan to get rid of Damon is working. Elena and Jenna are concerned about Jeremy’s relationship …

In her first big break on television, Amanda Righetti was introduced as Hailey Nichol, the black-sheep sister of Kirsten Cohen in The O.C. After a successful run of 12 episodes on The O.C., Righetti was then immediately cast as Tessa Lewis, a manipulative con artist, in the Hawaiian romp North Shore. Alas, North Shore only ran for one season. But …

When I was on a conference call with Robin Dunne and Amanda Tapping last week, I couldn’t help but wish I could spend just one day on the set of SyFy’s Sanctuary. He seems like the kind of guy that’s always looking for ways to have fun. Amanda said that he always makes her laugh and I’d like to know …

With it’s third season more than half complete, it seems like I should talk about Mad Men, which is one of the shows I love, but manage to not talk about here. I’ve been watching the show, at the urging of another friend, since the start of the second season (having mainlined all of season one via On Demand.) As …