Thomas Attila Lewis

"Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" is on VH1 at 10pm We spoke with John Irwin, a producer for VH1's "Celebrity Rehab" to have him give LAist's readers his Pitch on why you should watch the show (Thursdays @ 10pm). LAist: What are the top 3 reasons you would tell somebody to watch the show? John Irwin: I'd say that the first one is because of the nature of the topic it's pretty compelling television....

Voting for the People's Choice Awards has begun! Opinionated know-it-alls like ourselves are thrilled to see that the People's Choice Awards have begun accepting nominations and voting has started. The awards, hosted by Queen Latifah, will be broadcast on January 6th and between now and October 26th you can even vote on which Waterford Crystal design the winners' trophies will be based upon. The ballot casting process begins here. --- Marc Graboff, Chairman of...

Sylar features prominently in tonight's "Heroes" Ten days ago we bitched about NBC's cancellation of "Southland" and we had a lot of dialogue about that. Now the industry wonders if this move will result in creatives avoiding NBC because why work for a place that would cancel the best-reviewed and highest-rated freshman series in 2008-09? Oh yeah, and it was a series created by John Wells Productions, the guys that created, among other things,...

For "Dexter" Showtime has launched complimentary interactive games along with a new season On Friday we talked quite a bit about tonight's premiere of the documentary "Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)" on IFC but we don't want that to totally eclipse your other options this evening: "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Bored to Death", "Californication", "Mad Men", and, of course, "Dexter". Thankfully, these are all repeated at some point during the week but...

Laura Dern as Katherine Harris in HBO's "Recount" We're happy to see more advertisers pull themselves from FOX's Glenn Beck show. Hate speech isn't free speech. --- We're also happy to see two new female cast members for "Saturday Night Live": best of luck to you Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad (of Groundlings fame!). --- HBO is giving the green light to yet another comedy, this one starring Laura Dern as a woman whose...

Tonight is the season finale of "Tosh.0", speaking of which Comedy Central has ordered 6 more episodes of the program - the new ones will start running this October. In terms of shows that feature/spoof web shenanigans, which do you prefer: Comedy Central's "Tosh.0" or G4's "Web Soup"?

Thankfully some late night is back with new shows (see the listings) in an otherwise very dull week. Don't forget that the live broadcast of the Tour de France starts at 5:30am on Versus so set your Tivos - the live show is infinitely better than the obnoxiously repackaged evening edition. As of today's results it looks like we've got a real race on our hands already! | It was months ago that Disney signed on to support Hulu and now ABC's content will be available starting tonight.

Starting today, the Paley Center will be showing rare and vintage footage of Michael Jackson from TV shows dating back to 1971. We're talking episodes of "The Tonight Show", "The Flip Wilson Show", and the Jackson Five's own show "The Jacksons". Check out the Paley website for dates and times.

We're in the midst of a pretty dead week TV-wise and we're about to start a pretty dead month TV-wise. There is virtually no new programming this week and late night is in rerun mode. We guess this is why warm weather was invented. If you have some suggestions for programs to watch this week, please let us know. | SNL alum, Chris Kattan is getting his first series as a regular: the WB's "The Middle" which will air this Fall.

The TV Junkie is away (back on June 8th) but we'll give you some highlights of what to watch this week, another update will be posted next week: Other than Al Pacino slated to play Dr. Kevorkian in an HBO pic, the other big highlight is that this is the final week of "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" - catch it while you can. Wednesday: 8:00pm Season premiere of "Wipeout" (ABC) 9:00pm Series premiere of Mike Judge's "The Goode Family" (ABC)

"Dane Cook: ISolated INcident" airs commercial-free at 10pm on Comedy Central For every person that says they don't care for Dane Cook there has to be 100 that do - he sells out enormous arenas in every town he goes to. This is what makes tonight's premiere (Comedy Central @ 10pm) of "ISolated INcident" that much more interesting as the LA-based Cook decided to tape it in front of a couple hundred people at...

NCAA final on CBS, Go "S"!!!! Perhaps it's because of the NCAA final, but it seems like there isn't a heck of a lot of TV news to report, all of late night TV tonight is repeats and no one has given us any cool leaks lately. Do you have the inside scoop on some TV tidbits? Other than former "Charlie's Angels" angel Farrah Fawcette's cancer spreading, of course. We know we're going to...