Every Friday our friend Colin over at NewNowNext tips us off to what's hot in popular music. Enjoy this family-sized dispatch to get you through the next week:

Listen to Madonna’s “4 Minutes” Ft. Justin Timberlake.
Check out the leak we’ve all been waiting for — our first taste of Madonna’s upcoming Hard Candy album.

Leona Lewis “Better in Time” Video
The X-Factor winner follows up her smash “Bleeding Love” track with another lovely power-ballad:

Vincent Cassel as the sexually confused Kirill in Eastern Promises

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• More proof that Canada is cooler than we are: Eastern Promises earned seven Genie Awards (the Canadian Oscar), including one for Best Original Screenplay.

• Big Brother 9 has managed to become even more vile, this time thanks to gay houseguest Joshuah.

• If these rumors about Torchwood and Doctor Who are true ... well, we'll always have Ianto.

• Is out Sex and the City creator Darren Star's new show Cashmere Mafia already on its way out?

• EW ran a readers' choice gallery of the 30 most datable TV characters. Sorry, but for some reason I just can't seem to click past "The Men of Friday Night Lights", for whatever reason... (oh, and Will Truman made the cut. Really?! High-maintenance city!)

• Just for fun, here's a remix of the moment from the Grammy's where Beyonce apparently stepped on Tina Turner's foot. (t/y Gary!)

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