'House,' 'Dexter': Fresh spoilers!

Image Credit: Patrick Wymore/Fox; Randy Tepper/Showtime; Glenn Watson/USA Network; Liane Hentscher/FoxI’ve always said that if I had a crystal ball, I wouldn’t use it to see what my future holds, learn how I die, or to ask for lottery numbers — I’d demand to know what’s coming up on my favorite shows. That’s the only future that really matters. The bad news is I don’t have a crystal ball. (I’m working on it.) The good news: I do know what’s coming up on four of your favorite shows—and you get it free of charge. (…while supplies last. All sales final. Void where prohibited.)

HOUSE
(Nov. 15 episode, “A Pox on Our House”)

What you know:

A girl is admitted into Princeton Plainsboro with smallpox-like symptoms. And after a man from the Center for Disease Control prevents House’s team from getting close enough to work the case, House makes a move that puts him in great risk. Noticeably missing from much of the action? Wilson, who is busy having adorable scenes with a 6-year-old chemotherapy patient.

What you don’t know:

* House enlists the services of a Dutch woman who works in the online sex industry.
* New doc Masters (Amber Tamblyn) calls someone the “sexiest American man.”
* One character starts thinking about babies.
* House calls someone “a passive-aggressive bitch.”

DEXTER
(Nov. 7 episode, “Circle Us”)

What you know:

Dexter finds himself caught between helping Lumen (rock) and working an ongoing investigation (hard place). Also, the team’s work on the Santa Muerte case leads to a deadly confrontation.

What you don’t know:

* Two people die.
* The nanny does something that makes Dexter think about Harrison’s protection.
* A foe spots Lumen.
* A very shocking connection is revealed.

HUMAN TARGET
(Nov. 17 and Nov. 24 episodes, “Ilsa Pucci” and “The Wife’s Tale”)

What you know:

Chance works with the wife of a man he killed in the past, and newbie Ames (who we meet in the premiere) tries to get on Guerrero’s good side. Also, the team’s new boss gets a crash course on how they operate.

What you don’t know:

* Chance goes on an Internet date.
* Someone loses fingers.
* The office gets a high-tech makeover.
* A member of the team is shot.

BURN NOTICE
(Nov. 11 episode, “Eyes Open”)

What you know:

A still-recovering-but-still-badass Michael works to bring down a seriously disturbed bomb-maker.

What you don’t know:

* Michael moves in with his mom.
* Fiona suffers a loss…
* …because of a bold move made by Jesse.
* Something Michael thought was gone forever comes back into his life.

In a final act of kindness, I will answer ONE follow-up question within 24 hours from the time this is posted. Go.

UPDATE (as promised):
On Burn Notice- Is it that Michael’s father is not really dead ? — Kathy
No, that is not what Michael “thought was gone forever,” but good guess. Although, I hope that never turns out to be true. As “Nicotine” said, that would be very Chuck-like.

People die on Dexter, a show about a serial killer? NOOOOOO. Say it ain’t so. Useless spoiler. — Elizabeth
I know I said I would answer ONE follow-up, but 1) this isn’t a question and 2) you have an extremely valid point. So here’s a bonus: I can tell you that one death is a bad guy and the other is a good guy…erm…girl.

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Chiller’s 24-hour ‘Buffy’ marathon: Change your Sunday plans!

Image Credit: Jerry WolfeIn case you like waking up really early on Sunday mornings and were looking for something to do that involves vampires instead of football, this news is for you: Chiller announced via press release that they will be running a 24-hour marathon of the first season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer this Sunday, starting at the bright hour of 6 a.m. EST. Remember, vampires never sleep, so 6 a.m. is fine for them, but for us mortals, be sure to set your DVR to catch this marathon of amazingness. (Public Service Announcement: On Sunday the clocks fall back, so change your clock and enjoy the extra hour that may make an early morning Buffy marathon a bit more enjoyable.)

The marathon kicks off Buffy‘s daily run on Chiller — which begins Monday — and yes, the series will run in order, which is great for newbies and Buffy enthusiasts alike. I, for one, have been catching episodes of Buffy on LOGO, but I’d also really enjoy starting from the very beginning, if only to remind myself why the series was the most memorable show of my teenage years.

As excited as I am to see the first season and laugh at the ’90s fashion, the episode I’m most excited to see is “Angel,” because it’s the episode that got me hooked on Buffy in the first place. The first epic kiss! The star-crossed lovers! A vampire falling in love with a vampire slayer! Which episode of Buffy are you most excited to see, PopWatchers?

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In the year 2020: the future of Conan - Boston Globe

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This week, Conan O’Brien announced his next project, a TV show called “:-)’’set to premiere on C-SPAN3 this winter.

First, though, the host will finish his “Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Basic Cable Tour,’’ his grass-roots effort at Red Lobsters across the country to stay in touch with fans — and to process his own grief — after the Animal Planet debacle. You know the story, of course, which rocked the press for months after the network summarily dumped him for the return of “The Tonight Show With Bubbles the Chimp.’’

The critics had embraced O’Brien’s Animal Planet series, “Cirque du Coco,’’ which he co-hosted with the Masturbating Bear and which welcomed guests including Cloppy the Horse, Vomiting Kermit, the Coked-up Werewolf, Tomorry the Ostrich, and the Horny Manatee. Tom Shales exclaimed, “I’m cuckoo for Coco and his right-hand man,’’ and the New York Times paid especial notice to the Masturbating Bear, “a clever representative of American political disarray.’’ But with mediocre ratings among the pet-loving demo, Animal Planet dropped the show in only seven days and bought out O’Brien’s contract for $32,500.

Seriously, what does Bubbles have on those people?

The C-SPAN3 show, “:-),’’ will be O’Brien’s latest comeback, after his string of comebacks across the 2010s. After “Conan’’ on TBS got knocked off for “Dane Cook’’ in 2011, O’Brien found his way back with “Conan ’n’ Abe,’’ his 5 p.m. nightly buddy-talk show on TV Land with Abe Vigoda. When TV Land abruptly replaced them with “Federline and Danza,’’ O’Brien reinvented himself once again with his hair-centric talk show for the Style Network called “Pompadour Battle Spectacular,’’ on which he welcomed the likes of Amy Winehouse and Marge Simpson. Fashion icon Snooki Polizzi, too, was a frequent guest.

He’s a resilient guy, this Conan O’Brien, and now he’s rising from the ashes again, re-re-re-bearded and ready to puppet dance, hoping to promote his C-SPAN3 show by making guest appearances on everything from CNN’s “Spitzer Blagojevich’’ to “The Daily Show With Dennis Miller.’’ But we’ve known O’Brien is a fighter since back in the day, when he was the David to Jay Leno’s Goliath.

Leno, of course, is still a fixture on the small Web-only network ID-10-T.com, formerly known as NBC.

Sure, O’Brien has down moments, the tears of a clown and all. This summer, he let a touch of anger slip through his strong veneer when he said via Twitter, “I just want to say to the kids out there: You can do anything you want in life — unless Bubbles wants to do it, too.’’ Life hasn’t been easy for the likes of O’Brien since the late-night TV era died out, driving Jimmy Fallon to “The New Let’s Make a Deal,’’ Craig Ferguson to “Fergus and Kelly,’’ and David Letterman to his afternoon slot on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Young viewers are focused on anytime viral videos; who needs to watch late-night live with ads?

This week, the O’Brien camp — i.e., O’Brien and his manager-agent-publicist-writer Andy Richter — invited the press to a preview of “:-)’’ in New York, where they’ve set up an office since Animal Planet ran them out of Omaha. In the preview clips, Conan was in peak form, his non sequiturs as absurd and his irony as spiky as ever. He’s still the snarky college kid putting invisible quote marks around everything he says — even in miniature, in his new incarnation as a face-only button on the C-SPAN3 graphic.

O’Brien’s freckly little Howdy Doody head is scrunched in amid C-SPAN3’s visual maze of charts, knobs, and tickers, telling jokes during the long periods of dead air, right there between the Dow and the weather report. He delivers his daily jokes like a tiny trooper, an orange Lilliputian with a Gulliver-size tenacity.

Conan O’Brien’s new late-night talk show, “Conan,’’ premieres tomorrow night at 11 on TBS with guests Seth Rogen and Jack White.

Matthew Gilbert can be reached at gilbert@globe.com. For more on TV, visit www.boston.com/ae/tv/blog.

© Copyright 2010 Globe Newspaper Company.

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Miley Cyrus Wants Family 'To Be Together' For 18th Birthday - MTV.com

MADRID — On Thursday, minutes after rehearsing her performance for Sunday night's MTV Europe Music Awards, Miley Cyrus sat down with MTV News to discuss her plans, both for the big show (think lots of "angels and demons") and another, equally big event: her upcoming 18th birthday.

Given all of the hullabaloo that's been raised in the 24 hours since she sat down with us — Cyrus may have been photographed drinking underage in a Madrid nightclub — we figured that her 18th birthday was sort of newsworthy ... since, well, the legal drinking age in Spain is 18 and all.

And while Miley didn't tell us where she'd be celebrating her 18th (it's November 23 in case you wanted to send a card), she did mention that she hopes her whole family will be with her for the big day, something that's equally newsworthy, given everything that's been going on with her parents, Tish and Billy Ray Cyrus, in recent weeks.

"I'm not going to go crazy; [just] have a fun party and then maybe take a vacation with my family ... because that would be really cool. I think we need time to all be together," she said. "So that would be rad if we could all go to the beach or something. ... [I have] no idea [where we're going]; somewhere near water. I'm a water baby; I have to be near the water and I love doing scuba and going out and being on a boat."

Of course, there are plenty of boats in Spain, but we'd be willing to bet she won't be spending her 18th birthday here or in any other Spanish-speaking country, for that matter, because if there's one thing we've learned from chatting with her during EMA weekend, it's that Spanish most definitely is not her first language, nor her second or third, really.

"I failed Spanish," she laughed. "I'm really, really bad at it. It's not really the words; it's the pronunciation that's the hard part."

How do you think Miley should celebrate her 18th birthday? Tell us your ideas in the comments!

The 2010 EMAs will air on MTV2 on Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, and an edited, performance-heavy version will be broadcast Friday, November 12, at 9 p.m. ET on MTV.

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Michael Jackson's Kids To Be On Oprah - LANewsMonitor.com

Michael Jackson’s kids would be on a television talk show for the first time since the death of their legendary father as they share space with the great Oprah Winfrey on her patent Show. The episode will be telecasted on the 8th of November which happens to be this Monday.

If the father was the most iconic figure ever in the world of pop then the son as well as the daughters are bound to get a taste of stardom by themselves. And if that father was a certain somebody by the name of Michael Jackson then it becomes all the more obvious that his kids are going to get the attention of the entire world and it is somewhat baffling that they have not made it to the big league of starlets just yet.

After all they have crossed the threshold of 8 all of them, which is like the time that starlets start getting hyped on television talk shows and maybe sometimes even start getting shows of their own to carry on their tender shoulders. Perhaps not having to be burdened with all that has a lot to do with being the children of the legendary MJ as well.

Prince is the eldest child of the legendary singer and he is 13 years old now followed by Paris who is just a year younger. Blanket is the youngest of the three and she is just 8 years of age right now. Neither of them have been faced been any interviews with any source of any media since their father died in 2009; so this will be a first for them of sorts. The show being shot at the MJ residence involved a lot of chitter-chatter and much information about the parents of THE MICHAEL JACKSON.

The teaser of the episode looks pretty appealing for the audiences and to go by the teaser, the show shall offer emotions aplenty it seems wherein Katherine tells Oprah who passed the news of the demise of the pop legend to his children and MJ’s father is asked if he frightened the prodigal superstar. Miss what you may, this show is a must watch!

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'Megamind': Friday's No. 1 movie

Image Credit: DreamWorks AnimationParamount Pictures’ and DreamWorks Animation’s Megamind kicked off the holiday movie season by collecting $12.5 million on Friday, according to early estimates. That’s slightly more than the $12.1 million snared by DreamWorks’ last original CG-animated movie, How to Train Your Dragon, which opened in March. Megamind should see a big uptick on Saturday as kids will be out of school and singing that “Mega-Mega-Megamind” song until their parents crack. Figure a weekend total of about $45 million, which is right in line with what Paramount said they were anticipating for the $130 million film. (I was thinking the star-power of Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, and Tina Fey would knock the movie above $50 million, but we learned a valuable box-office equation today: Ferrell + Pitt + Fey = dragon).

Right behind Megamind was Warner Bros.’ Due Date, which lit up $12.2 million on Friday. The Legendary Pictures co-production is on track for about $35 million this weekend, which is a very solid number for an R-rated comedy. (By comparison, director Todd Phillips’ prior movie, The Hangover, opened to $45 million its first weekend last year). In third place was Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls, which took home an estimated $7.4 million. The R-rated drama should finish the weekend with around $20 million, which is lower than usual for Perry, but still a commendable result. In fourth place was Saw 3D, which dropped 75 percent from last Friday to snag $2.7 million. And Summit’s action comedy Red continues to age at a glacial speed, slipping only 27 percent for $2.5 million — enough for fifth place.

In limited release, Danny Boyle’s Oscar-hopeful 127 Hours, starring James Franco, made $77,000 from just four locations for an energetic $19,250 per-theater average. And Fair Game, directed by The Bourne Identity‘s Doug Liman, earned a quite respectable $180,000 from 46 theaters. Check back here on Sunday for the complete box office report.

1. Megamind — $12.5 mil
2. Due Date — $12.2 mil
3. For Colored Girls — $7.4 mil
4. Saw 3D — $2.7 mil
5. Red — $2.5 mil

Box office preview: Megamind to lead a monster weekend

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‘Friends With Benefits’ has Justin Timberlake bringing sexy back, but without any of that romantic stuff

When Harry Met Sally… posed the question of whether a man and a woman could just be friends without having to have sex. Two upcoming movies are reversing the formula and asking the much more titillating query of whether a couple of hot stars can just have meaningless sex without any emotional consequences. The trailer for No Strings Attached has Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman playing friends who hope their coitus won’t be interruptus by feelings or typical relationship hang-ups. Now, Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis are getting in on the obligation-free action in the red band trailer for Friends With Benefits. (Side Note: With the sex scene between Portman and Kunis in Black Swan, and Kunis with Kutcher on That 70’s Show, all we need is Kutcher and Timberlake to get down to complete this sex quadrangle. Make it happen, Hollywood.) Check out the trailer below. It’s dirty, so, parents, cover the young’uns’ eyes.

How does it look? Happy to hear the Third Eye Blind and Semisonic shout-outs? Do you think Timberlake’s, um, oral fixation might end up too raunchy?

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‘No Strings Attached’ trailer: Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher have lots of sex

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Excess Hollywood: Kyra Sedgwick joins ‘Man on a Ledge’

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