How awesome is David Letterman?

Well, let me tell you. Yesterday, Dave announced to his staff, that is currently on hiatus until the Hollywood writers strike is resolved, that he will pay their salaries until the end of the year. Now the plot twist: the money is coming out of his own wallet!

When the writers went on strike last week, CBS stopped paying Dave's people because the show ceased producing new episodes, which is fine if you're pulling in Dave's salary, but not something you're thankful for on Thanksgiving if you're a production assistant making $400 a week.

Nice try channeling the Grinch, CBS, but it looks like Dave saved Christmas!

Looks like we've almost made it through another TV season. Lots has changed this past year: we have a Grey's Anatomy spin off about to launch, Lost has lost all its viewers and Rosie O'Donnell has dumped The View.

But with April showers brings May sweeps so over the next month we will find out if Gilmore Girls gets canned, if Dr. House gets it on with Dr. Cuddy and if Melinda will win American Idol... duh, that's the only thing I do know is gonna happen.

May sweeps is when you finally get to see all your hard work of watching your favorite tv shows for the past nine month pay off.

Personally I don't care what happens on my TV just as long as Friday Night Lights comes back... oh and Dr. House gets it on with Dr. Cuddy.

Are you dying to find out what happens to Jack Bauer, are there wedding bells for Lorelai and Luke, does Michael Scott ever smarten up? What do you think is going to happen on your favorite show this season? Discuss.

Are you guys sick of all the talent shows on TV yet? CBS hopes not as it just picked up another one starring the Jackson family. As in THE Jackson family.

Pop Dynasty is the tentative title of the show that will try to discover a family of singers like the Jacksons or my favorite family singers, the Von Trapps from The Sound of Music.

Jermaine, Tito and LaToya Jackson will be on the panel of judges. Michael and Janet are so far not involved. Michael is probably off being Michael and the last time Janet Jackson was on CBS she flashed her boob during the Superbowl half-time show, so they're probably not too keen on having her back.

I'm just gonna tune in because me thinks this family is crazy. No matter which members on are the show, they're gonna be a trainwreck. You heard it here first.

MSNBC has finally stepped up and ended Don Imus's radio simulcast yesterday after giving in to pressure from political and advertising giants.

It's about freakin' time.

Last week, Imus referred to the Rutgers University women's basketball team using a derogatory racial slur after they were lauded for making it into the NCAA finals against basketball powerhouse Tennessee.

MSNBC originally planned on suspending Imus for two weeks starting Monday, but were criticized because most people felt that wasn't enough of a punishment. So last night they pulled the plug and released this statement:

"This decision comes as a result of an ongoing review process ... It also takes into account many conversations with our own employees. What matters to us most is that the men and women of NBC Universal have confidence in the values we have set for this company."

I certainly hope Imus doesn't check into bigotry rehab like Isaiah Washington because that's so two months ago.

Update: CBS has also fired Imus!

When Bob Barker, long time host of The Price is Right retires this summer, who will be the lucky guy to fill his shoes?

The list has been narrowed down to three candidates including Entertainment Tonight co-host Mark Steines, George Hamilton and Mario Lopez who really has made an impressive comeback from child actor to... guy who will do anything to be on TV.

Sources say Mark is the front runner, but no answers will be known until test audiences view the audition tapes of all the guys still in the running.

If it were up to me, I'd pick Sanjaya for host. I'll pick him for anything these days though because I'm totally obsessed.

One of the saddest things to come out of the tragic death of Anna Nicole Smith is the loss of really funny jokes at her expense by Kathy Griffin. Kathy, the star of the hilarious Bravo show, My LIfe On The D-List, has almost made a living out of mocking Anna Nicole, but we won't see any of those jokes any more.

The New York Post is reporting that Bravo has shelved two of Kathy's specials and are re-editing two others to de-Anna Nicole-ify them. In one of the specials, Kathy talked about what it must be like to have Anna Nicole as a mother.

"You don't recover from your mother being Anna Nicole Smith," referring to Smith's son, the late Daniel Smith. "It's over. See you at Promises (the Malibu rehab center)."

Yeah, I can see why that might be offensive.

But no one is disagreeing with Bravo's decision to remove the material, least of all the firecracker comedian whom I worship: "They've got loads and loads of extra material [if they want to use that instead]," says Griffin, who just finished taping her fifth Bravo special called "Everybody Can Suck It."

I know everyone out there thinks Kathy is so mean, but she isn't. This proves that she does have a heart and is compassionate and boy, is she freaking funny.

The funniest movie star on the planet, Will Ferrell will be on the couch tonight over on The Late Show With David Letterman. You never know what to expect when Will's a guest.

The Riches 10P.M. on FX. This show is seriously twisted and seriously good. Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard are so damn awesome. What is it about British actors coming stateside and taking all our acting jobs?

Everyone who has a TV show on ABC and thinks their show got renewed yesterday for next seaon, step forward.

Not so fast Jim Belushi. And you're pretty much the only one.

Yesterday ABC announced it's renewing 14 of its current shows for the fall 2007 season. They include: Brothers & Sisters, Men in Trees, Ugly Betty, The Bachelor, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Dancing with the Stars, Desperate Housewives, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Lost, and Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Sorry George Lopez, looks like you're out of a job too!

Her short lived talk show hasn't even been off the air very long, but Will & Grace star Megan Mullally is already back on TV.

Check her out tonight on Boston Legal (10P.M. Eastern) where she plays a bride accused of murdering her husband-to-be. I'm psyched to see her in a totally different role and hopefullly without that annoying Karen Walker voice.

Tomorrow night over on Oxygen at 10:30pm, Tori Spelling's new reality show Tori And Dean: Inn Love premieres. Basically we're supposed to believe that Tori Spelling is broke and needs cash fast to open up her dream Bed and Breakfast outside Los Angeles.

Tori Spelling, broke? I thought this was supposed to be a reality show.

Good News: Access Hollywood is reporting that Liam Aaron McDermott was born March 13th at Cedars Sinai hospital to Tori Spelling and Dean McDermoot. Liam is healthy and weighed in at 6 pounds and 6 ounces.

Bad News: Your mom is Tori Spelling.

More Bad News: Your grandma is Candy Spelling.

If you consider a one time minor minor appearance on HBO's Entourage a career.

Radar.com has a screencap of Larry's big TV debut as one of Ari Gold's underling agents in charge of trying to jump start Johnny Drama's (Kevin Dillon) career.

Thanks to the wonderful world of DVR now no one can hide from any of us!

According to my bank account I'm not rich, but according to the shows I'm watching on TV, I'm loaded!

A media group recently analyzed Neilsen ratings to figure out what the rich are watching and it turns out they don't watch reality television and are not big fans of CBS. In fact America's wealthiest viewers are watching Scrubs, Friday Night Lights, Studio 60, 30 Rock, Desperate Housewives, What About Brian, Grey's Anatomy and The Office. Besides Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy, none of these shows are what I would call ratings juggernauts.

The study even broke down the average incomes for each network. Let's see where you fall.

"ABC’s audience has a median income of $64,000, based on adults 25-54 in fourth quarter, compared to NBC’s $60,000, CBS’s $59,000, Fox’s $53,000 and the CW’s $45,000.

Dawson's Creek star, James Van Der Beek has been cast in a new ABC pilot called Football Wives.

James will play a rookie on the show about the lives of the football wives and how they change when their men become gridiron superstars.

Do you believe The Beek as an NFL star? Talk back below.

Here's my theory on Posh Spice AKA Victoria Beckham: Girl gets whatever she wants.

She has the hottest husband on the planet, three perfect children, has more money than anyone I know, has a great body and now.... now I find out she's getting her own reality show on NBC !

"The show would focus on Beckham's move to America with her husband, international soccer star David Beckham, who will be plying his trade for the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer beginning this summer."

I just want one of the things she has, just one. Is that too much to ask?

Tonight on NBC in lieu of Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip will be the new show The Black Donnelly's. Why should you watch a show about four angry Irish brothers named Kevin, Sean, Jimmy and Tommy? Um, because of the four hot Irish guys Kevin, Sean, Jimmy and Tommy. Duh!

The series premieres tonight at 10 P.M.

Here are the top ten TIVO-ED shows from last week. I TIVO five of them. How many of these shows do you TIVO?

1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Desperate Housewives
3. American Idol
4. 24
5. House
6. Lost
7. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
8. Heroes
9. CSI: Miami
10. Oprah Winfrey

One question: Why are people still watching Desperate Housewives? Is it any good?

It appears Lost star and all around cutie pie, Matthew Fox, is trying to
shed his choir boy image. In an interview with Men’s Journal Fox calls himself a “a liar and a thief,” who “lies every day.” Yeah, right. Does he stand in front of the mirror and tell himself he’s NOT hot? Sorry, Matthew, I’m not buying it. (The story, not the magazine. I’ll be buying that magazine because there are pictures of you without your shirt on!)

On yesterday’s The View, Barbara Walters called Donald Trump a “poor pathetic man” who “just can’t move on.” I think none of you can move on because you’re obsessed with yourselves. But for the sake of the country, I beg of you... GET OVER IT!

American Idol judge, Paula Abdul told the NYPOST that Simon Cowell is “like a big brother or a lover,” and he “saved her” during the alleged sex scandal two years ago that almost got her kicked off the hit show... Snore. If you're trying to stir up some publicity for the upcoming AI season, Paula, you're gonna need to do better than this.

Why is Mario Lopez hosting the Miss America Pageant? I get it, he was on Dancing With The Stars and it was a major ratings winner, but the show was the ratings winner, not Mario freakin' Lopez! I could've been on the show and it would have pulled in the same big ratings.I'm so over this guy.

Is anyone really going to watch this pageant solely because Mario Lopez is hosting? I highly doubt it.

1. NCIS
2. Deal Or No Deal
3. Survivor - Finale
4. House
5. Criminal Minds
6. CSI: Miami
7. CSI: NY
8. Two and a Half Men
9. Sunday Night Football
10. CSI

Wow, I really need to start watching at least one of those CSI's. I have no excuse now that all three are in the top ten. If I had to pick one to tune into every week, which one should it be?

Want an American Idol performing at your next wedding, Bar Mitzvah or Sweet 16? If you have an extra $150,000 laying around Taylor Hicks is all yours. You can score Rubben Studdard for the bargain price of $75,000 and if you're really in the poor house, second season finalist Kimberly Caldwell will show up at your party for $3,000 ($2,000 if she's not singing) An appearance by one of these Idols might be just the gift you're looking for your friend who has everything.

Rosie O'Donnell wants to be the next host of The Price is Right, but unfortunately she's getting the old "Don't call us, we'll call you," silent treatment from the producers. She is so eager to be the next host that she even built an escape clause into her contract for The View stating that if she's offered the gig, she can leave the all-gal gab fest. Now if she could only get an escape clause to get away from that Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Remember every year stressing out over the holiday school break because your report card would be arriving in the mail at any moment? Remember making sure you were the one always getting the mail to either hide the report card from your parents if things didn’t go well that semester or bringing it to them as fast as possible in case they still hadn’t made up their mind about getting you that new computer you wanted for Christmas.

Well, it’s report card time of the year, but instead of you getting graded you will be the one doing the grading. It’s time to give out the mid-season grades for the class of 2006 fall TV shows. Each day for the next two weeks I’ll be posting a different show that premiered this fall and I’ll be asking you to give the grade you think it deserved. Check back every day to make sure you vote for all the shows and then we’ll narrow it down to the two best and you get to pick which is the best new show of the season.

The polls are now open:

Heroes

My Grade: A
Who knew a show about a bunch of people with super powers would rock so hard? The show even coined its own catch phrase: “Save The Cheerleader, Save The World,” after just a few episodes on the air, much quicker than how long it took “Whatcho Talking ‘Bout Willis?” to become popular.

'Tis the season to give. So ABC decided to give a bunch of their employees an early Christmas gift: pink slips. They announced on Friday that they're cancelling two of their new shows. Their gameshow Show Me The Money, which was their answer to NBC's hugely popular Deal or No Deal, has been taken off the air and replaced with repeats of the show that will never die, America's Funniest Home Videos.

Also getting canned are the employess over on the show Daybreak. The show was supposed to fill in for Lost while it's on winter hiatus, but was pulled due to it's low ratings. The Taye Diggs show will be replaced with repeats of the comedy According To Jim. Apparently they use the word "comedy" losely over there at ABC.

The 2007 Golden Globes Nominations were announced this morning and there were a few surprising newcomers on the lists includingHeroes and Ugly Betty. This is my favorite awards show because I like to see all the TV and movie people all glammed up in one room.

Best Drama Series
24
Big Love
Grey's Anatomy
Heroes
Lost

Best Comedy Series
Desperate Housewives
Entourage
The Office
Ugly Betty
Weeds

Well, it's that time of the year folks: Office holiday parties, regifting and the highlight of my year, Barbara Walters counting down the 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006. Sure it's hard to wrap, but this annual special is truly the best gift I get all year.

So who does Barbara think is fascinating this year? Once again the list is bizarre and haphazard just like every year. I'm sure you can't wait to find out so I'll get right to it:

Sacha Baron Cohen, also known as Borat: This interview should be really interesting because when Sacha was promoting his film, Borat, he would only be interviewed in character, so I’m eager to see what this guy is really like. Maybe he is in fact fascinating, I guess I’ll find out tomorrow night at 10 p.m.

Patrick Dempsey: Fascinating? Perhaps. Hottie? Most definitely. I’ll be honest, he’s the only reason I’m watching this special, then again I’m sure that’s the reason they chose him in the first place.

Andre Agassi: Really? He’s fascinating? I didn’t even know people cared about him any more. Did Barbara climb into a time machine and set it for 1992? Just because a guy retires from his job, doesn’t make him fascinating.

While we’ll have to wait and see who THE most fascinating person of 2006 is until the the show airs, here are the rest of the people to be featured on Barbara’s special: Anna Wintour, Jay Z, Joel Osteen, John Ramsey, Terri Irwin, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

Who do you think is going to the most fascinating person of 2006? Who did Barbara leave off the list? And didn't Barbara Walter retire like two years ago? What's she still doing on my TV?

Sex And The City boy toy Jason Lewis has been cast in a recurring role for the ABC freshman drama Brothers and Sisters. Damn, between him and Rob Lowe, another recent addition to the cast, I now know how I'm going to stay warm through the winter months.

ABC is moving Lost to 10pm Wednesday nights to protect it from the rating juggernaut American Idol when the hit drama returns from it's winter hiatus Feb. 7th.

The tribe has spoken. A military coup broke out in the capital city of Fiji where the CBS show Survivor is filming it's 14th season. Don't worry, Jeff Probst and his sun kissed face are fine.

Britney Spear's soon to be ex-hubby, K-Fed has been shopping a new reality show idea around Hollywood. It’s probably the only shopping K-Fed is doing these days as rumor has it, Britney cancelled his credit cards. According to US , K-Fed is in talks with House of Carters executive producer, Kenneth Crear, to develop his own reality series.

"Kevin came to me because he liked the way I shot the House of Carters series and the way I made Nick Carter look real and trustworthy. I gave people a different perspective of him and made people really respect him,” said Kenneth.

Yes, so true, I can’t tell you how much I respect Nick Carter now. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know who I respect more, Mother Theresa or Nick.

Will you watch K-Fed's new show?

The new CBS drama 3 Lbs. has been put on permanent hiatus effective immediately, reports Variety. The medical drama, that was pretty much a direct rip off of my fave TV show House, hasn't officially been cancelled, but the show won't be producing anymore episodes beyond the eight they already have in the can.

This season has been a blood bath. I'm curious to see what new shows will still be on the air when we cross the end of season finish line in may. Should be an interesting second half of the season.

Studio 60 Makes A Comeback: This week marks the first week that Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip did not lose viewers. In fact, the show gained some viewers back. Last week's episode pulled in 7.31 million viewers, but this week, 7.45 million tuned in to see the NBC drama. This is good news for me because I'm a fan of the show, although it took a while for me to get there.

Bill Gates To Caryoln Kepcher: You're Hired: Carolyn Kepcher, formerly known as the gal who always wore red and sat to Donald Trump's left, has been hired by Microsoft to be a judge for a contest to help Microsoft find the best small business deal in America.

Rosie To Britney Spears: Come Live With Me: Today on The View, Rosie invited Britney Spears to move in with her and her family and to provide a safe haven for Britney so she can get away from her new BFF's Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan. I think this is a great idea because I'm worried about her two babies. Hilton and Lohan have nary a care in the world, but Britney has two babies at home! Oh and I think Rosie is crazy today.

We now know all about Michael Richards racist rant that took place last weekend at a Los Angeles comedy club. He's been on the apology tour ever since and everyone is speculating that his career is over.

But now his rant might effect the rest of the Seinfeld group. Yesterday Jesse Jackson called for a boycott of the Seinfeld seventh season DVD that was released last week, yikes, and I thought I had bad timing. The DVD was expected to be a big stocking stuffer seller this holiday season.

What did Jerry, Elaine and George do to deserve this? I don't think it's fair to punish the entire cast and everyone else expected to financially benefit from the sales of the DVD. Am I wrong? It's not their fault Michael went off the deep end. Are you going to still buy the Seinfeld DVD or follow the boycott and why? Talk back below because I'm not feeling good about this new plot twist.