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Are you tired of the sum­mer reruns of every­thing? Me too! Ready to plop your behind on your couch instead of lay­ing on the beach? Me too! Wait a minute, on sec­ond thought…

Well either way, luck­ily, I have the scoop on when our favorite time-wasting, bore­dom bust­ing favorites will be back on the tube.  Get out the Dor­ti­tos, your Snug­gie and fuzzy slip­pers folks — and don’t for­get to make sure your DVR is ready either!

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If you are like me, you are prob­a­bly chomp­ing at the bit for Chuck’s Sea­son 4 pre­miere — com­ing to your tv sets Sep­tem­ber 20th.

Comic-Con was won­der­ful for divulging details on what’s going down, along with some pretty nifty (and one not-so-nifty) guest stars. Here’s what to expect when this fan-frakkin-tastic sea­son gets under way:

• S4 will focus on the search for Mama Bar­towski. Play­ing said mama will be none other than Linda Hamilton.
• In Octo­ber, Nicole Richie will be repris­ing her role of Sarah’s high school neme­sis Heather Chan­dler. We hear that she will resur­face when a prison trans­fer goes awry and she ends up being stowed away at Cas­tle. Word on the street is that she will be cre­at­ing a rift in our beloved Chuck-Sarah romance. (Why wouldn’t it?)
• “Stone Cold” Steve Austin will also be reap­pear­ing in the same episode as bad­die Hugo Panzer. Stun­ner anyone?

Also inter­est­ing, Zachary Levi (Mr. Bar­towski him­self) told EW’s Michael Ausiello the fol­low­ing: “The Buy More has now been taken over by the CIA and it’s a fully func­tion­ing oper­a­tion by the gov­ern­ment, so there are these con­stant agents that are in the store.” Hmmm.…cool way to go. With this, we will have an Agent named Greta, who will be played by mul­ti­ple actors, both male and female. First up is my not-so-nifty ref­er­ence - Olivia Munn. (Sorry, I hate her with a pas­sion, for she lacks any dis­cern­able skills.) We will see her in the sea­son pre­miere. Yay. Also on tap is Old-Spice guy Isa­iah Mustafa as Greta V2.0 (really?) as well as for­mer WWE-Diva Stacy Keibler as Greta V3.0. I am inter­ested to see how this char­ac­ter is pulled off.

Newly announced as a guest star is The Incred­i­ble Hulk him­self, Lou Fer­rigno. Lou will be play­ing  the body­guard of an evil spy/model played by Victoria’s Secret Angel Karolina Kurkova. It wouldn’t be a sea­son with­out some eye-candy spies (more so than Yvonne Stra­hovski, who we get every episode. ) Both Lou and Karolina will appear in the sec­ond episode of the season.

So we have good guests and an inter­est­ing story arcs ahead. Sea­son 4 is shap­ing up to be another great one. I highly rec­om­mend that it become part of your Must-Watch List.

I’ll be the first to say that I do not watch prime­time ser­ial shows on reg­u­lar cable. Noth­ing has ever really grabbed my attention…until your illus­tri­ous host and I started watch­ing Burn Notice on USA. (Char­ac­ters wel­come, indeed.) Now, I sali­vate at the thought of another hour of spy-goodness on my tele­vi­sion (and also secretly wish to be a covert-op).

Cre­ated by Matt Nix, Burn Notice stars Jef­frey Dono­van as Michael Westen our hero spy who has been “burned”, Gabrielle Anwar as Michael’s ex-girlfriend and explo­sives fanatic Fiona Gle­nanne, Bruce Camp­bell as semi-retired intel­li­gence oper­a­tive and for­mer Navy SEAL Sam Axe and Sharon Gless as Michael’s mother, Made­line Westen.

About to pre­miere its fourth sea­son, the show cen­ters around Michael and his need to find out who burned him and to get back into the spy game. With a “burn notice”, a spy is wiped off the grid, with­out access to any­thing — a burned spy also has no prior work his­tory, no money, no con­tacts — no identity.

In between try­ing to find out why he was burned, Michael, accom­pa­nied by Fiona and Sam, sets out help­ing home­town res­i­dents with prob­lems only a spy can han­dle.  (Michael was left by  in the Miami, Florida when he was burned — which pro­vides a great back­drop for the show), He becomes sort of a pri­vate investigator/spy –for-hire for any­one who needs it, get­ting in and out of trou­ble along the way.

This show pro­vides excel­lent writ­ing filled with wit and sar­casm, which I love in all my shows. Westen could not have been bet­ter cast — Jef­frey Dono­van deliv­ers lines with per­fect tim­ing, and you grow to wish you had him in your con­tact list. The chem­istry between Michael and Fiona is pal­pa­ble, and you will really love them as a on-again-off-again cou­ple. Sam – or shall I call him by his fake name Chuck Fin­ley, pro­vides fan­tas­tic humor and is the needed cor­ner to this super-spy trifecta.

 If you do not have Burn Notice on your To-Watch List, get on it fast – Sea­son 4 begins this Thurs­day, June 3^rd at 9PM EST.  If not, now is the per­fect time to catch up on this great series –Get the first three sea­sons on DVD and check it out – I highly rec­om­mend it. USA  has already renewed the show for both a  fifth and a sixth season.

 “Covert intel­li­gence involves a lot of wait­ing around. You know what it’s like being a spy? Like sit­ting in your dentist’s recep­tion area 24 hours a day. You read mag­a­zines, sip cof­fee, and every so often some­one tries to kill you.” – Michael Westen

So, by now, if you fol­low UFC and have been watch­ing TUF-Team Lid­dell Vs. Team Ortiz this sea­son, you are aware that the grudge match that was set between the two leg­endary coaches ISN’T hap­pen­ing. (If not, be ashamed of your­self, as you are a sucky fan.)

Specual­tion and rumors be put to rest right now — here is Tito Ortiz’s offi­cial rea­son for pulling out of the fight.

Many of you are say­ing “Tell us a story we haven’t heard from you Tito”. What do you think? Do you believe the story Tito’s spin­ning? Hate him or love him, it’s not good to fight hurt. Unless you do this for a liv­ing, we as spec­ta­tors can­not fully com­pre­hend what these ath­letes go through train­ing day in and day out.

Being a loyal Tito fan and Team Pun­ish­ment sup­porter, I think if he really is hurt (and I think he is), he shouldn’t be try­ing to do any­thing but heal up. One day, I am hope­ful we will get the third fight in this epic rivalry. Sound off in the comments.

If you were lucky enough to go to the CW Upfronts, you got a chance to see some clips of their new fall shows. The only one I am semi-interested in, how­ever, is the La Femme Nikita reboot sim­ply called “Nikita”.

The series stars Mag­gie Q as the lead hero­ine, who is a spy and assas­sin gone rogue and out to bring down her for­mer agency, Divi­sion. The series also stars Shane West (ER), Melinda Clarke (The O.C., The Vam­pire Diaries) and Lyn­dsy Fon­seca (Katie in Kick Ass).

Nikita pre­mieres at 9PM Thurs­days this fall after The Vam­pire Diaries. Take a look at what is in store — will you be watching?

10 Sea­sons!

That’s what many of you are prob­a­bly say­ing. How the h-e-double hockey sticks did Smal­l­ville make it to ten sea­sons? Well folks, it has. But, sadly (or not) that’s all we are get­ting from our favorite not-really-Superman-yet Clark Kent. At the CW Upfronts (and leaked by The Blur him­self Tom Welling in an inter­view), it has been told to the world that Smal­l­ville will end it’s sucess­ful run with this com­ing season.

Also, we have learned that Alli­son Mack, who has played hero­ine Chloe Sul­li­van since Sea­son 1, has opted NOT to come back as a series reg­u­lar for the final sea­son. However, she will be in sev­eral episodes to wrap Chloe’s story. I am sure many of you die-hard enthu­si­asts will be happy to hear this, as Chloe is not a real char­ac­ter in the DC Universe.

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Get ready to say Say­onara – I am bring­ing you the shows have all got­ten the ax, cour­tesy of the Net­work Upfronts that occurred this week.

ABC

Say good­bye to Flash For­ward and Bet­ter Off Ted. Also gone is Law & Order –This show falls short of a record-breaking 21st sea­son (Gun­smoke is the record holder). The series finale will air on May 24.

NBC
Heroes is gone, although I will not miss it. Unfor­tu­nately it went to shit after Sea­son 1. Also booted were Mercy and Trauma.

CBS

Peace out Cold Case, Gary Unmar­ried, Ghost Whis­perer, Miami Med­ical and Numb3rs.

Now, I am not only the bearer of bad news, so here’s some good news. The fol­low­ing shows that were on the bub­ble ARE com­ing back…

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It’s hard to believe that The Ulti­mate Fighter has been grac­ing our tele­vi­sion sets on Spike TV since 2005. I credit TUF with being the show that made me a Mixed Mar­tial Arts fan. Hon­estly, I really didn’t know much about the sport before then, since obvi­ously it was not as main­stream as it has grown to be now. My knowl­edge of the UFC was sadly, only that of Ken Sham­rock and Dan Sev­ern – and that was solely based upon my being a WWE fan.

I’d like to take a look back at all of the sea­sons and refresh our mem­o­ries on what we have seen over the past five years. On top of all the MMA action, let’s not for­get things like the Coaches’ Chal­lenges, as well as all the drunken chaos and other enter­tain­ing stuff that has hap­pened in the TUF house.

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As you may or may not know, the Strike­force: Nashville event was held this past Sat­ur­day and was tele­vised on CBS. Unfor­tu­nately, a night of good MMA was sul­lied by a brawl that ended the night. It started off when Jason “May­hem” Miller entered the cage dur­ing Jake Shields’ post-fight inter­view. May­hem decided to ask for his rematch stem­ming from his Unan­i­mous Deci­sion loss in their fight from 2007 at the Strike­force: Fedor vs. Rogers event.

Intur­rupt­ing the inter­view, May­hem came up next to Jake, and said to him “Where’s my rematch buddy?”. Then, chaos ensued when sev­eral mem­bers of Jake’s cor­ner, includ­ing Nick and Nate Diaz (oh, those Diaz Broth­ers) and other guys from the Cesar Gra­cie camp, appar­ently took offense to this and ran to Shields’ side and began to push and shove Miller. They throw him to the ground, and con­tinue to punch, kick and stomp him. Bully Beat­down indeed. Media out­lets are already call­ing this brawl “one of the biggest black eyes the sport has ever suf­fered”. Keep in mind this was not on PPV peo­ple! Mil­lions of peo­ple saw this on live TV and prob­a­bly shook their heads in dis­gust. If you are a fan, you know MMA is already seen as noth­ing more than a “bar­baric” sport. In a time when Mixed Mar­tial Arts is try­ing to push itself to new heights, things like this only back up the claims that it is “glo­ri­fied street fight­ing” and sets every­one back a step in their accomplishments.

My per­sonal opin­ion is there was no need for this to occur. Yes, May­hem is brash, cocky and arro­gant — we all know this, but ask­ing for a rematch doesn’t enti­tle him to get­ting jumped — and that is exactly what occurred here. “Where’s my rematch buddy” is not a threat of any kind, and I do not under­stand how it turned sour so fast. PS –way to go, Nate and Nick, for mak­ing every­one believe even fur­ther that you belong in the ‘hood and not a cage.

Take a look for your­self –this is what happened:

Thoughts and com­ments are welcomed:

So by now, you all must know that there is a movie in the works for “The Avengers”. No news there. How­ever, mul­ti­ple sources are telling us that there may indeed be a direc­tor for this flick.

This direc­tor I speak of is none other than the fan-frigging-tastic Joss Whe­don!!!!! Yup, that’s right — the man behind such won­der­ous TV as Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer, Angel, Fire­fly and Doll­house as well as the author of the Dark Horse Comics minis­eries Fray, will take on a big role as direc­tor of this comic-to-movie plan.

Many peo­ple think that Whe­don is an inter­est­ing, maybe risky choice — despite his writing/producing cred­its, which are stel­lar, his only fea­ture direct­ing effort, Seren­ity, was not a block­buster by any means. (Although it has a HUGE cult fol­low­ing, which stands for some­thing in my book.)

The mega-spinoff that is the upcom­ing Avengers adap­ta­tion is lump­ing together Iron Man, Cap­tain Amer­ica, Thor, and more Mar­vel super­heroes into one (hope­fully) action-packed extrav­a­ganza that will more than likely rake in mil­lions of dol­lars. Thus far, we already have Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man, Chris Hemsworth as Thor, Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury, and the newly announced Chris Evans as Cap­tain Amer­ica on board for this flick. Let’s see who else they throw in there, and who the rest of the cast­ing choices are.

Mar­vel Comics has not com­mented on this direct­ing news as of yet, but hope­fully no news is good news. The ink’s got to dry first, I sup­pose. I for one, really hope this hap­pens, as I am a huge Joss Whe­don fan.

The Avengers, as of now, has a ten­ta­tive release slated to be in the first week­end of May, 2012. Will you be vis­it­ing the the­atres for this one? What do you think of Whe­don as direc­tor? Sound off below: