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Our friend Joel McHale will be on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" tonight! [Photo of Joel at the 2010 PaleyFest "Community" night by Thomas Attila Lewis]
"Lost" Spoiler Alert: We could write about "Lost" all day, every day and not come close to the amount of theories the uber-pundit megafans seem to spew 24/7 so we won't even try to compete but last night can't pass without us saying something about it: holy shit.Is it good news or not that the "Lost" series finale will now run from 9-11:30pm on May 23rd? Does this extension mean that we will "lose" everyone? At this point, we just want to survive the rest of the week to see our friend Betty White hosting "SNL" on Saturday.
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Veteran actress Debra Winger will be joining what is now the 2nd most depressing show on television, HBO's "In Treatment". She'll be playing patient to Gabriel Byrne's psychotherapist in th upcoming season.
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Late night TV is pretty awesome tonight, check out Letterman and Fallon in particular.
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The TV Junkie Plan: "Web Soup", "Modern Family", "Top Chef Masters", "Chelsea Lately", Letterman (Jack Hanna, Willie Nelson), Fallon (Joel McHale [see our interview with Joel], Nina Dobrev [see our interview with Nina], Roger Waters, The New Pornographers)
8:00pm Web Soup G4 - More vid and popular culture, dissected and snarked up with @nerdist
8:00pm The New Adventures of Old Christine CBS - Christine mistakes a cop for a stripper; New Christine goes into labor.
8:00pm Secrets of the Dead: Japanese SuperSub PBS/KCET - Japan creates an aircraft carrier submarine to attack the U.S. and blow up the Panama Canal.
8:00pm America's Next Top Model The CW - The models meet with actress Sarah McLeod; Tyra photographs the final five models.
9:00pm Modern Family ABC - Gloria invites the whole family on a getaway to Hawaii for Jay's birthday.
9:00pm Live From Lincoln Center: Perlman, Ax and Ma at the Penthouse PBS/KCET - Violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Emanuel Ax and cellist Yo-Yo Ma perform together; host Alan Alda.
9:00pm Cougar Town ABC - Grayson and Jules consider being friends with benefits; Andy hires a nanny; Bobby's plan to make extra cash ends up benefiting Travis.
9:00pm American Idol Fox - The five finalists perform as a group; Harry Connick Jr. performs; Lady Gaga performs; another contestant is eliminated.
10:00pm In Plain Sight USA - Mary helps a paroled witness acclimate to life on the outside; Marshall helps out when one of Mary's witnesses becomes the victim of a revenge plot.
10:00pm Worst Case Scenario Discovery - Series Premiere. Bear Grylls shows us how he'd survive
10:00pm Top Chef Masters Bravo - The Masters compete in a blindfolded relay race; teams are challenged to cater a wedding out of mobile kitchens
10:00pm How'd You Get So Rich? TV Land - Joan Rivers returns to ask millionaires those tough questions
11:00pm Chelsea Lately E! - Singer Monica; round-table participants include Josh Wolf, Michael Yo and Jen Kirkman.
11:35pm Late Show With David Letterman CBS - Animal handler Jack Hanna; actress Kerry Washington; Willie Nelson performs.
11:35pm The Tonight Show With Jay Leno NBC - Actor Robert Downey Jr.
12:05am Jimmy Kimmel Live ABC - Actor Samuel L. Jackson; actress Christa Miller; Godsmack performs.
12:35am The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson CBS - Actress Scarlett Johansson; writer Seth MacFarlane.
12:35am Late Night With Jimmy Fallon NBC - Actor Joel McHale; actress Nina Dobrev; musician Roger Waters; The New Pornographers perform.
Bear Grylls' new show premieres on Discovery tonight at 10pm:
