House

House, 8.30pm, Ten
In the series return, a year has passed since House crashed his car into Cuddy’s home, and we find House spending time behind bars at the East New Jersey Correctional Facility under the close watch of the prison warden.

Rules of Engagement, 7.30pm, TEN
Russell is forced to move into Timmy’s apartment after his mother cuts him off.

Young Guns, 10pm, GO!
A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor.

Drop Dead Diva, 7.33pm, GEM
Following the car accident that left Grayson in a coma, Jane finds herself struggling with her desire to reveal herself as Deb when he wakes up, despite warnings from Fred.

As it Happened: Bloody Omaha, 8.30pm, SBS ONE
More than 60 years ago, the fate of World War Two turned on five beaches in Normandy, France. D-Day was the greatest amphibious invasion ever attempted. History remembers it as a great victory, but it could have turned out alot differently.

In the week spanning October 9-15, Ten will ai the finale of The Renovators – bet they are glad that is over! – as well as the premiere of new US series Ringer and the second season of An Idiot Abroad, after the first season aired on ONE. New Australian factual Recruits Paramedics also premieres that week.

Here is the run down.

Sunday Oct 9
6.30 The Renovators – last episode before the finale Monday Oct 10
7.30 Junior Masterchef – first offsite challenge
8.30 Terra Nova continues
9.30 Ringer – new series premiere. Pilot: On the run from the mob, Bridget assumes the identity of her deceased twin sister, Siobhan, only to realize that her sister’s life was no less complicated than hers.

Monday Oct 10
7.30 Junior Masterchef – it’s all about Chocolate!
8.30 The Renovators – auction night and finale of the series.
10.30 Good News World

Tuesday Oct 11
7.30 Modern Family Rpt
8.00 Modern Family Rpt – yes, an hour of repeats when new eps have been airing in the US for a few weeks now. Maybe they’ll change their minds and put in new episodes?
8.30 NCIS new
9.30 NCIS: LA new

Wednesday Oct 12
7.30 TBA (Glee has a few weeks off in the US, so no new episodes until November for them and us)
8.30 Hawaii Five-O – moves to 8.30
9.30 An Idiot Abroad – Bucket List – Premiere. Season 2 of An Idiot Abroad, the first season aired on ONE.

Thursday Oct 13
7.30 Recruits Paramedics. New Australian factual.
8.30 Rush
9.30 Law & Order: SVU rpt – again – new episodes have aired in US – so why is it still in repeats?

Friday Oct 14
7.30 Rules Of Engagement – season return
8.30 House – season premiere (not a good night for House! Seriously?)
9.30 TBA – possibly a movie.

 This years Emmy nominees could read like the Oscars. With the cinema suffering, the big name stars are turning to TV, as are some who tried their luck on the silver screen before heading to our lounge rooms. Here is a list of some of this year’s nominees and the films they starred in before their TV success. Obviously some to continue to have film careers too.

Outstanding Actress in a Drama
Kathy Bates, Harry’s Law - Misery (Oscar win), About Schmidt (Oscar nominated), Primary Colors (Oscar nominated), Titanic.

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama
Kelly Macdonald, Boardwalk Empire – Trainspotting, No Country for Old Men.
Archie Panjabi, The Good Wife – Bend It Like Beckham, A Mighty Heart.
Christine Baranski, The Good Wife - Chicago, The Birdcage.

Outstanding Actor in a Drama
Steve Buscemi, Boardwalk Empire – Where do we start! Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Armageddon, The Wedding Singer and Resevoir Dogs to name a few.
Hugh Laurie, House - Stuart Little, Maybe Baby.

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama
Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones - The Station Agent, Elf, Death at a Funeral.
Josh Charles, The Good Wife - Threesome, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead,  
Alan Cumming, The Good Wife – GoldenEye, Spy Kids, X2, Josie and the Pussycats, Spice World and Circle of Friends.

Outstanding Actress in a Comedy
Laura Linney, The Big C - Primal Fear, The Truman Show, You Can Count On Me (Oscar nominated), The Savages (Oscar nominated) and Kinsey (Oscar nominated).
Martha Plimpton, Raising Hope – Parenthood (movie that inspired TV show), 200 cigarettes, The Goonies.

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy
Jane Lynch, Glee – Talladega Nights, The 40 year Old Virgin, Paul and Julie and Julia.
Julie Bowen, Modern Family - Happy Gilmore and Multiplicity.

Outstanding Actor in a Comedy
Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock – The Cooler (Oscar nominated), It’s Complicated, Beeetlejuice, Aviator and The Hunt For Red October.

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy
Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family - Almost Famous
Ty Burrell, Modern Family - Dawn of The Dead
Jon Cryer, Two and a Half Men - Pretty In Pink, Hot Shots – with ex-co star Charlie Sheen and Superman 4.

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Drama
Bruce Dern, Big Love – Monster, All the Pretty Horses and The Glass House.
Beau Bridges, Brothers and Sisters - The Fabulous Baker Boys, Max Payne and Charlotte’s Web.
Michael J. Fox, The Good Wife - Teen Wolf, The Secret of My Success and Back to the Fuuture Trilogy.

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy
Dot-Marie Jones, Glee – Patch Adams, Material Girls.
Gwyneth Paltrow, Glee - Oscar winner in Shakespeare in Love, Se7en, Iron Man series, Sliding Doors and Country Strong.
Cloris Leachman, Raising Hope – Young Frankenstein, Butch Cassidy and The Sundamce Kid and Scary Movie 4
Elizabeth Banks, 30 Rock - Zack and Miri Make A Porno, The Next Three Days, The 40 Year Old Virgin and Spiderman.

Outstanding Leading Actress in a Mini-series or Movie
Kate Winslet, Mildred Pierce - Oscar winner for The Reader, Titanic, Revolutionary Road, The Life of David Gale and Heavenly Creatures.
Elizabeth McGovern, Downton Abbey – She’s Having a Baby, Kick Ass, Clash of the Titans and Buffalo Soldiers.
Diane Lane, Cinema Verite – The Perfect Storm, Unfaithful, Must Love Dogs and The Outsiders.
Taraji P. Henson, Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story – The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Karate Kid (2010), Date Night and Hustle and Flow.

Outstanding Leading Actor in an Mini-Series or Movie
Greg Kinnear, The Kennedys - As Good As It Gets, Little Miss Sunshine, The Last Song and Ghost Town
Barry Pepper, The Kennedys - Saving Private Ryan, True Grit, The Green Mile and Seven Pounds
William Hurt, Too Big To Fail – Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Incredible Hulk and Syriana.
Laurence Fishburne, Thurgood - Mystic River, The Matrix and Event Horizon.

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Mini-series or Movie
Guy Pearce, Mildred Pierce - Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, Memento, LA Confidential and The Hurt Locker.
Tom Wilkinson, The Kennedys - Michael Clayton, Valkyrie and Shakespeare in Love.
Paul Giamatti, Too Big to Fail – Sideways, The Illusionist and Saving Private Ryan.
James Woods, Too Big to Fail - Casino, The Virgin Suicides and The Specialist.

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Mini-series or Movie
Evan Rachel Wood, Mildred Pierce – Thirteen, The Missing, The Wrestler and Running With Scissors.
Melissa Leo, Mildred Pierce - The Fighter, 21 Grams and Frozen River.
Mare Winningham, Mildred Pierce - Brothers, St Elmo’s Fire and Turner and Hooch.
Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey - Harry Potter franchise, Gosford Park, A Room With A View and Siter Act.

In even more news on The Good Wife, joining this season will be House’s star Peter Jacobsen (Dr Taub). That means he may cross paths with former co-star Lisa Edelstein who left the medical drama to head to the courtroom.

Jacobsen will be in the series premiere where his character will be involved in the trial of a Muslim student accused of murdering his Jewish classmate.

In other news from the set, there are reports that Broadway star Bill Heck has been cast as the “much younger Legal Aid” — and potential love interest to Christine Baranski’s Diane. Baranski will also reprise her role as Leonard’s mum on The Big Bang Theory in the seasons premiere.

The Good Wife will be back on Ten in 2012.

Desperate Housewives to end next year

Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry has confirmed that the series will end next year. Cherry says the drama series will conclude after its eighth season.

Wilde to play minimal role in House

House creator David Shore has confirmed that actress Olivia Wilde will play a minimal role in the eighth season of the medical drama. Wilde, who plays Dr. Remy ‘Thirteen’ Hadley, had a limited role in the seventh season also due to film commitments.

Lawrence close to TV return

Martin Lawrence is reportedly close to landing a starring role in a new sitcom for CBS in the US. The comedian made a name for himself on the small screen in the ‘80s sitcom What’s Happening Now!!.

Brandy to guest on 90210

R&B musician Brandy has landed a major arc in the fourth season of 90210. The singer recently made a guest appearance in Drop Dead Diva.

Awards for Modern Family, Mad Men, Friday Night Lights

Modern Family, Friday Night Lights and Mad Men were the big winners at the recent Television Critics Association Awards held over the weekend in LA. Modern Family won the ‘Outstanding Achievement in Comedy’ award while Mad Men claimed the ‘Outstanding Achievement in Drama’ title. Friday Night Lights was named ‘Programme of the Year’.

Two And A Half Men
From the set of Two and a Half Men, comes a picture that may give a hint to the prognosis of Chalie Harper. In the first picture from the set we see Holland Taylor-who plays Charlies mother, dressed all in black. Has she just attended a funeral? Reports also have a lot of tension on the set as the crew adjust to Kutcher, with some claiming he is a diva, while others feel very loyal to Sheen. Two and a Half Men airs on Channel Nine – no word on if they will “fast track” the new season that premieres on September 19 in the USA.

Wilfred
Wilfred has been renewed for a second season in the US, with 13 episodes being ordered. Star Jason Gann said “I’ve been around long enough in this business to know until it’s happening it’s not happening. Once, in Australia, I had two TV shows and a feature film up and they all fell over. I got one show back up, Wilfred, and then the complete ass feel out of my career and I was evicted from my house. It was awful. I went form hero to zero. In November this year, it will be 10 years since I wrote the short film [on which Wilfred is based] with [co-creator] Adam Zwar. Even though we only did 16 episodes in Australia, and already we’ve done 13 here and by the end of next season, this [the U.S.] version will be the Wilfred that is the show. For me, it is the show. It’s incredible that the character has stuck around that long.”
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia has been picked up for two more seasons as well. Wilfred airs on Eleven at 9.30pm on Tuesdays and It’s always Sunny…. airs on the comedy channel at 10pm on Wednesday nights.

House
House will start season 8 an entire year after the end of last season. “The advantage of going forward a year is that everything’s changed, and changed dramatically. ”series creator David Shore said.
We will see House is in prison, serving a sentence for inflicting armageddon on Cuddy’s house; there’s a new Dean of Medicine, and he/she is someone viewers know well; and House’s diagnostics team has undergone a facelift.
The big leap also gives House time to adjust to life after Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein – who is headed to The Mentalist). “I think it’s a smart idea [in light of the fact that] Lisa left the show,” noted Aussie co-star Jesse Spencer. “I think it was kind of necessary to do that. If we picked up right where we left off and Cuddy wasn’t there it [would be strange].”
House airs on Channel Ten and will be back in 2012, while The Mentalist airs on Channel Nine and is also scheduled for a 2012 return.

Fringe
Joshua Jackson has opened up about the Fringe final that saw his character Peter Bishop flicker out of existence. But now, in the wake of Peter’s season-ending act and its dire ramifications, his connection to Olivia (played by Aussie  Anna Torv) “is on an epic scale as well,” Jackson notes. “This guy sacrificed himself for the woman that he loves, which made that relationship more interesting and it launched us into the off-season with this ‘Holy s—t!’ moment.”
“Part of the reason they ended up making the decision to go with that cliff-hanger is because there’s a belief, given how passionate our fans are, that there is a level of trust in us — and we are all keenly aware of not violating that trust,” he shares. “So as much as there was a freak-out and panic, it was done with the hope that everyone understands that we’d never [mess] with our audience, which has been so faithful to us and kept us on the air.
“It was just a case of stealing a page out of [executive producer] J.J. Abrams’ playbook,” he continues, “and keeping people on their toes with anticipation… and then hopefully satisfying their desire.” Fringe airs on GO!

Kutcher’s character revealed

The name and background of Ashton Kutcher’s character on Two and a Half Men has been revealed. The actor will play Walden Schmidt, described as an “internet billionaire with a broken heart.”

Romano to guest on The Middle

Ray Romano will guest star on The Middle, joining former Everybody Loves Raymond co-star Patricia Heaton. Romano will play a character who has history with Heaton’s character Frankie.

Yi joins House

Actress Charlyne Yi, who has appeared in the likes of Knocked Up and Paper Heart, has joined the cast of House. Yi will play a junior doctor on the drama series.

Entourage sued by reality star

The creators of Entourage are being sued for copyright infringement by Johnny “Bananas” Devenanzio, a veteran of MTV’s Real World series, over the use of the name “Johnny’s Bananas”. Entourage is featuring a fictitious TV show featuring a cartoon ape which goes by the same name.

Baldwin to host SNL again

Alec Baldwin will host Saturday Night Live for a record 16th time later this year when the show returns for its 37th season.

How I Met Your Mother
Kal Penn, from House is set to join the cast of How I Met Your Mother this season as a love intrest for Robin. Penn left House to work in the Obama administration as an associate director in public liason. Penn’s arrival of course reunites him with Neil Patrick Harris, who played, well, “Neil Patrick Harris” to his Kumar in the Harold & Kumar films.
HIMYM exec producer Craig Thomas strongly hinted to TVLine in May that Robin would jump back into the dating scene, especially now that her maybe-soul mate Barney had moved on with Nora: “Robin didn’t do a hell of a lot of dating at all [last season]; she was more [immersed in] switching careers,” he said. “Now, Robin, who’s single and is looking forward a little bit, can’t help but wonder if what happened between her and Barney could have been something more had they been more ready.”
Barney growing up a bit via Nora “has not gone unnoticed by Robin, who did not have a serious love interest this past year. She’s definitely going to have to wrestle with that at the start of Season 7.”

Teen Wolf
Teen Wolf has been picked up for a second season by MTV in the United States. Airing here on Channel Seven at 10.30pm on Mondays – it has not had the same success here as it has there, even though reviews were posotive for the show that was a mild spin-off of the 1980′s film. Maybe a move to digital would be better for the teen targeted show.

Being Human
Being Human that debuted on Eleven earlier this month has also been picked up for a second season. It airs Mondays at 9.30pm. 

House
In other House news, Aussie Jesse Spencer has signed on for Season 8 of the medical drama. The producers were apparently desperate to keep him after the departure of Lisa Edelstein who is heading to “The Good Wife”.

Grey’s Anatomy
Even if Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey decide to leave the show at the end of this season, creator Shondra Rhimes says the show will still go on. “Just for the record: This is not the last season of [Grey's Anatomy],” Rhimes avowed on Twitter Wednesday, in response to a handful of followers suggesting it was. To underscore her resolve, she added: “Definitely. Not.” She later added that she hopes that Pompeo and Dempsey will stay on and that no new cast members will be added this season.

Castle
Penny Johnson Jerald, known as the wife of President Palmers wife on 24 (One, Mondays at 8.30pm) is to join the set of Castle as Captain Victoria Gates. Gates will be a no nonsense Internal Affairs investigator who clashes with Castle. Jerald replaces Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who played Captain Roy Montgomery. astle airs on Seven on Sundays.

How I Met Your Mother
Kal Penn, from House is set to join the cast of How I Met Your Mother this season as a love intrest for Robin. Penn left House to work in the Obama administration as an associate director in public liason. Penn’s arrival of course reunites him with Neil Patrick Harris, who played, well, “Neil Patrick Harris” to his Kumar in the Harold & Kumar films.
HIMYM exec producer Craig Thomas strongly hinted to TVLine in May that Robin would jump back into the dating scene, especially now that her maybe-soul mate Barney had moved on with Nora: “Robin didn’t do a hell of a lot of dating at all [last season]; she was more [immersed in] switching careers,” he said. “Now, Robin, who’s single and is looking forward a little bit, can’t help but wonder if what happened between her and Barney could have been something more had they been more ready.”
Barney growing up a bit via Nora “has not gone unnoticed by Robin, who did not have a serious love interest this past year. She’s definitely going to have to wrestle with that at the start of Season 7.”

Teen Wolf
Teen Wolf has been picked up for a second season by MTV in the United States. Airing here on Channel Seven at 10.30pm on Mondays – it has not had the same success here as it has there, even though reviews were posotive for the show that was a mild spin-off of the 1980′s film. Maybe a move to digital would be better for the teen targeted show.

Being Human
Being Human that debuted on Eleven earlier this month has also been picked up for a second season. It airs Mondays at 9.30pm.

House
In other House news, Aussie Jesse Spencer has signed on for Season 8 of the medical drama. The producers were apparently desperate to keep him after the departure of Lisa Edelstein who is heading to “The Good Wife”.

Grey’s Anatomy
Even if Ellen Pompeo and Patrick Dempsey decide to leave the show at the end of this season (8), creator Shondra Rhimes says the show will still go on. “Just for the record: This is not the last season of [Grey's Anatomy],” Rhimes avowed on Twitter Wednesday, in response to a handful of followers suggesting it was. To underscore her resolve, she added: “Definitely. Not.” She later added that she hopes that Pompeo and Dempsey will stay on and that no new cast members will be added this season.

Castle
Penny Johnson Jerald, known as the wife of President Palmers wife on 24 (One, Mondays at 8.30pm) is to join the set of Castle as Captain Victoria Gates. Gates will be a no nonsense Internal Affairs investigator who clashes with Castle. Jerald replaces Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who played Captain Roy Montgomery. astle airs on Seven on Sundays.

House, Ten, 9.30pm
In tonights final, the team treats an esteemed performance artist but discover that she wants to perform a new piece using House as her unwilling assistant.

Project Runway, ARENA, 8.30pm
The final three are given a suprise before the runway reveal. Watch to see who will take out the eighth season, before our season three starts with new host, Megan Gale.

The Amazing Race, Seven, 8.30pm
The teams tonight become Czech spies, but not all are as observant as they need to be. The teams also have to contend with the national ice hockey goalie and a local sausage sizzle.

An Idiot Abroad, ONE, 8.30pm
See Karl Pilkington trekking in the Amazon as he visits the seventh wonder of the world. The Englishman follows in the footsteps of those who have experienced Machu Picchu in Peru.

Secret Diary of a Call Girl, Gem, 10.40pm
Belle’s back! But with a new business proposition, an uninvited house guest in a new home, a challenging client and the all-important question hanging over her head – should she commit to best friend Ben?