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What’s On: So You Think You Can Go On Without Alex Wong?

One of our favorites may have been eliminated on So You Think You Can Dance last week, but another of our choice twirlers is still in the running to take it all. Can he triumph over his competitors — and can he hold our attention while juicy episodes of The Real World and Big Brother fight for acknowledgment?

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Would You Pay $800,000 for a Censored Rerun of True Blood?

When HBO sold Sex and the City into syndication, pundits scoffed that there wouldn’t be much left in the episodes after timid basic-cable edits, but with some prudent trimming of Kim Cattrall’s most salacious scenes, the reruns did big business on TBS without too much of an outcry. Still, can HBO stablemate True Blood possibly survive to a syndicated version bowdlerized of its sex and violence — and is the network asking too much for it?

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MSNBC’s Witt: ‘I Got Chills’ Listening To Obama Immigration Speech

When it comes to Barack Obama, MSNBC is the network of thrills and chills . . . Chris Matthews famously felt a thrill going up his leg listening to an Obama speech. Now, MSNBC anchor Alex Witt has been similarly moved by Obamian oratory, declaring this morning “I got a few chills” listening to PBO’s “very powerful” speech on immigration. Witt described her sensations to MSNBC DC bureau chief Mark Whitaker. ALEX WITT: You know, Mark, I gotta say I got a few chills listening to him there. It was very powerful. But it was also pretty heavy on detail and direction.

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MSNBC’s Witt: ‘I Got Chills’ Listening To Obama Immigration Speech

MSNBC’s Witt: ‘I Got Chills’ Listening to ‘Very Powerful’ Obama Immigration Speech

When it comes to Barack Obama, MSNBC is the network of thrills and chills . . . Chris Matthews famously said he felt a thrill going up his leg listening to an Obama speech. MSNBC anchor Alex Witt was apparently similarly moved by Obamian oratory, declaring this morning “I got a few chills” listening to PBO’s “very powerful” speech on immigration. Witt described her sensations to MSNBC DC bureau chief Mark Whitaker. ALEX WITT: You know, Mark, I gotta say I got a few chills listening to him there. It was very powerful. But it was also pretty heavy on detail and direction.

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What Do the First 13 Minutes of Jersey Shore Season 2 Reveal?

With less than two months until MTV premieres its second season of Jersey Shore , the network has released a 13-minute sneak peak of the gang’s trip down to Miami. As predicted, it involves Pauly D and the Situation fleeing to South Beach with a body in the trunk of their car after a hot tub gangbang gone wrong. OK, no it doesn’t, but it does involve spray tans, fireworks and a lot of annoying MTV edits. So if you want to save 13 minutes of your life and still find out what is in store for America’s Guidos, click through for Movieline’s easy-to-stomach FAQ section.

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What the Nickelodeon Stars of Yesterday Look Like Today

It’s Friday, your day’s almost over…what better way to celebrate the imminent weekend than by feeling really, really old all of a sudden? Flavorwire can help; the site has rounded up a who’s who of former Nickelodeon stars (including The Adventures of Pete & Pete star Michael Maronna, above) for a “then and now” photo comparison that, if nothing else, confirms that we’re living in a post-splat world . At least Sam from Clarissa is still kinda cute. [ Flavorwire ]

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Lost finale schedule

“Lost” will air from 8:00-10:30. A KAKE News Special Edition, complete with an abbreviated version of KAKE Sports Overtime Live will follow. You can see the Jimmy Kimmel: Aloha To Lost special at 11:05. The series finale of “Lost” will change the Sunday TV schedule on KAKE. Tonight is the series finale of Lost and ABC is going all out, dedicating four hours of programming to the finale. The action isn’t just taking place on television, the network is getting into the live fanchat action too. S

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David Krumholtz and Vanessa Britting wedding photo

David Krumholtz, 32, is best known for his role as Professor Charlie Eppes on the recently canceled CBS series Numb3rs. He also appeared in both Harold and Kumar movies as well as The Santa Clause and its sequel. Vanessa Britting, 29, has appeared in The Young and the Restless, Without a Trace and a 2007 episode of Numb3rs. Numb3rs star David Krumholtz and actress Vanessa Britting have gotten married, according to People. The couple, who were engaged in July 2008 in Paris, had a non-denominati

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Charlie Sheen’s Sitcom Hardball Pays Off, Moves on to Prison Cigarette Negotiations

OK, Charlie Sheen. The world gets it. You are a negotiation extraordinaire. You followed your own sitcom hardball rules — you rejected the network’s first offer, bluffed that you would “not be fazed” if you did not return to your hit sitcom — and you were grandly rewarded. But now you are trying to negotiate the smoking terms of your jail sentence? That’s just showboating.

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Our Commenters of the Week Win NBC Gift Shop’s New ‘Actual Piece of Betty White’

Bettymania goes on and on. In case you find the NBC gift shop’s “Betty is my Homegirl” tee a little desperate , the network is providing Movieline’s commenters with a prototype product that rings with authenticity and has yet to hang alongside the Sam Waterston hoodies and Biggest Loser muumuus: It’s parts of the actual Betty White! The piecess aren’t specified quite yet, but the press release claims they’re “hilarious,” “gory,” “spry and in love with life.” Yahoo! She’s yours. So, which of our commenters this week go home with the prize?

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Our Commenters of the Week Win NBC Gift Shop’s New ‘Actual Piece of Betty White’