Morning Meme: Seven Minutes In Heaven With Elijah Wood, T.R. Knight Returns To TV, and Cher Goes Off On Bachmann - Again

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T.R. Knight is set to return to television, at least as a guest star on Law & Order: SVU. He's set to play a suspected serial rapist who maintains his innocence in the face of overwhelming evidence.

Pictures have hit the web of Batman (Christian Bale) fighting Bane (Tom Hardy) on location in Pittsburgh. They're both overdressed.

Downtown Abbey Executive Producer Rebecca Eaton says that the Daily Mail fabricated the story about two hours of footage being cut from the series for American audiences. It was shorter, but it was mostly centered around advertising.

Nobody really knows how Ashton Kutcher will enter Two and a Half Men, but we do know that all of Charlie Harper's bimbos will parade through the premiere episode.

PBS is finally giving Mister Rogers' Neighborhood the spinoff I hope it deserves. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was my favorite show as a child, but I'm not sure that an animated spinoff based on Daniel Tiger is what I had in mind. Still, I have high hopes that the similarities don't end with the shoes being changed and him donning a sweater.

It's going to take until tonight to figure out if The Smurfs managed to best Cowboys & Aliens, as both are estimated to have raked in $36.2 million over the weekend, which the pundits are calling an overperformance by the little blue guys and underperformance by the Cowboys. Meanwhile, Crazy, Stupid, Love is being called a success at $19.3 million as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II roars past the billion dollar mark.

Ginger Spice says she doesn't have a date for release yet, but she's basically done with her new album. I'm curious if it gets much play in the States.

NBC just greenlit a new pilot from executive producer … Adam Levine? The comedy is set in a karaoke bar, which is about the most painful idea I've ever heard.

A new study says that thanks to us being conditioned that swearing is bad, saying swear words lights up our brain in a stressful way, and may actually make us more upset. Try telling that to me when I've just stubbed my toe in the dark.

Hawaii Five-0  just booked one of the sane Baldwin brothers for a recurring role. William Baldwin will play a former cop who is leading a crime wave with a gang of former dirty cops. As long as Scott Caan keeps taking his clothes off, I'm in.

According to Jerry Lewis, onetime funnyman who regularly spouts off misogynist and homophobic remarks, "The kids who are on American Idol, they’re all McDonalds wipeouts." I assume he's in hiding from Adam Lambert fans even as I write this.

Shockingly hunky 21-year-old Aaron Johnson is expecting his second child with his 44-year-old fiancee Sam Taylor-Wood. Having seen him move in the R.E.M. "Überlin" video, I can imagine they enjoy the process.

There's a new movement to bring GLBT surfers out of the closet and into the limelight. Out of the water, at least in San Diego, I found surfers to be some of the least judgmental and often sexually fluid of any group I've ever encountered, though this article says that's not always the case.

James Franco is not returning to General Hospital in the near future, and has no idea why they think he is.

Just go look at If Adult TV Shows Were Remade for Children.

Kevin Bacon has joined the (hopefully) Ryan Reynolds' project R.I.P.D. as a villain, but the details are scarce right now.

Andy Dick is going to have a trial for felony sexual abuse for groping a bouncer in nearby Huntington, WV. In all honesty, if you're going to go on trial for same-sex abuse in West Virginia, Huntington is about the best shot you have at an impartial jury.

Children's network The Hub is launching a new musical reality show, Majors & Minors in which big stars will mentor young musical talents. Big names already signed up include Avril Lavigne and Adam Lambert.

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