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CBS Reveals Cast of Amazing Race 13

The Amazing Race 13

For ’s next season, CBS will be taking viewers on a whole new set of adventures. Adventures not yet seen even after 12 installments of the Emmy-award winning series.

Although we’ll still get what we have come to know and love - 11 teams, five continents, 30,000 miles of travel - the producers of the reality hit promise us that Season 13 will be like no other.

Where can we expect to take us this year? After starting in Los Angeles, the duos will travel to Brazil, Bolivia, Russia and India. The crews will also hit Cambodia (where they visit a “real-life water world") and Kazakhstan for the very first time.

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Sara Gilbert Becomes a Big Bang Theory Regular

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, CBS, News

Johnny Galecki and Sara Gilbert in The Big Bang Theory

Good news, Roseanne fans. Sara Gilbert will be returning to next year.

Gilbert, who was married to Galecki on the hit ABC series, reignited sparks with former co-star when she guested last season. Sara played Leslie Winkle, a love interest of Leonard’s on the CBS comedy.

Although watchers were only teased with a three-episode stint last year, Gilbert will now become a permanent fixture of the show.

See if their relationship evolves into Darlene and David 2.0 when Big Bang premieres on September 22.

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Laurence Fishburne In Talks to Join CSI

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Drama, Prime Time, CBS, Gossip, News

Laurence FishburneUPDATE: Fishburne has been confirmed for the new season.

As previously announced, CBS’ top-rated show will be facing another major departure next season. Now it’s up to the network to find someone capable of maintaining the show’s ratings record.

Cue . The Matrix star is reportedly close to becoming the latest cast member of CSI. The actor, who would help to fill the void William Petersen eventually creates, is set to play an doctor/scientist with an interesting genetic background. Although he has the makeup of a serial killer, he has yet to act on any of his impulses. (I wonder if that’s something he mentions in his resume.)

John Malkovich and Kurt Russell were other names previously mentioned as possibles.

CSI‘s 9th season begins October 9. 

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Big Brother Competitors Feel Earthquake

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Prime Time, Reality, CBS, News, Video

Although CBS likes to isolate the competitors from the real world, the network can’t keep them from experiencing a natural disaster.

In this clip, you can see how the houseguests reacted during yesterday’s California earthquake. After watching the video, try to correctly guess how many times the phrase ‘Omigawd’ was used. Also, do your best to figure out why removal of clothing was deemed necessary.


How I Met Your Mother Publishes The Bro Code

Posted by Veronica Santiago
Categories: Comedy, Prime Time, CBS, Gossip, News

Neil Patrick HarrisForget Robin Sparkles videos. The creators of will soon be putting out something far more culturally significant: The Bro Code.

Those who followed Season 3 remember The Bro Code was something Barney Stimson () violated when he ended up sleeping with Ted’s ex. Hoping to repair the relationship with his “bro”, Barney seeks Marshall’s legal help.

In the episode, we learned more about Stimson’s “list of Dos and Don’ts for all bros.” (You can see that clip from “The Goat” after the jump.) Articles in the book - which supposedly originated from a conversation between George Washington and Benjamin Franklin - include:

Article #1: Bros before Hos.
Article #34: Bros can not make eye contact during a ‘Devil’s Three-Way.’ (Two dudes.)
Article #89: The mom of a bro is always off-limits but the stepmom of a bro is fair game if she initiates it and/or is wearing at least one article of leopard print clothing.

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Big Brother 10: Brian Evicted/Jessie is New HOH

Posted by Jacci Lewis
Categories: Prime Time, Reality, CBS, Editorial, Gossip, News

Brian out

He flew too close to the sun and got burned. Brian, the former Air Force crew chief from San Francisco, talked himself right out of the house. He wasn’t even nominated originally.

Jerry, the Head of Household, put Renny and Jessie up for nomination, but Jessie won the Power of Veto. This coincided with increasing suspicion of Brian’s attempts to control other house guests and tell them how to vote. At one point, Brian suggested he was “pulling all the strings” in the house. He’d originally formed an alliance with Dan and Ollie. But Ollie has formed a stronger alliance (like the physical kind) with April and April didn’t like Brian so Ollie turned on him.

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William Petersen Plans Exit from CSI

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Categories: Drama, Prime Time, CBS, News

William PetersenThe bleeding just won’t stop at .

In the past year, CBS has seen two actors (Gary Dourdan and Jorja Fox) leave its highest-rated show. Now the network will have to work around another major departure.

Although William Petersen signed a new contract earlier this year, it turns out that deal actually came with an exit plan. Entertainment Weekly reports Gil Grissom will only be with the team for part of the program’s 9th season. Petersen, though, won’t be going very far.

According to executive producer Carol Mendelsohn, “Billy is leaving. But he will remain throughout the run of the series an executive producer. And he will, whenever CBS asks, come back. I don’t think you’ve seen the last of Gil Grissom.”

As for how Grissom will leave is, of course, a secret. We do know though that - who will briefly return to the series - will somehow play a part.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation returns on October 9.

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Big Brother 10: Grandpa Got Game

Posted by Jacci Lewis
Categories: Prime Time, Reality, CBS, Editorial, News

BB10 Jerry

Maybe there is hope for presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain yet? Right now the hottest guy on right now is a muscle-shirt wearin’, gravelly voice talkin’ ex-Marine who just happens to be a 75-year-old great-grandfather.

The new season of ’ perennial fish-bowl reality show is proving that old doesn’t mean obsolete. In the premiere episode of Big Brother 10 Jerry, the oldest person to every compete on the show, not only became Head of Household but also copped a feel of one of the hottest girls in this season’s cast. (Before his wife of 54 years has a heart attack that girl, April, sort of forced Jerry to do it.) Still, it was a good strategic move for the Magnolia,Texas retiree. In that instant you could see his fellow house guests quickly shift their concept of Jerry from Depends and defibrillators to babes and booze.

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Big Brother 10 Cast Revealed

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Categories: Prime Time, Reality, CBS, Editorial, Gossip, News, Video

Big Brother 10 logo“Somebody for everyone.” That’s how executive producer Allison Grodner describes the cast of CBS’ .

After a slide in ratings in the past few installments of the long-running reality show, is returning to its roots of throwing actual strangers from all walks of life into one pretend house. This time around producers assure viewers there will be no ex-lovers, no secret father-daughter pairs or long-lost siblings. This is the first time house guests have been true strangers since the third season. (You can see a video clip with the latest contestants after the jump.)

Other than that though, the premise is the same. 13 people try to lie, cheat and steal their way to the $500,000 prize while their every move is monitored by 50 cameras for three months. The producers insist there will be twists, but past relationships aren’t among them.

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TBS Makes a Hit…or Mistake?

Posted by K.C. Morgan
Categories: Games, Reality, ABC, Cable, CBS, NBC, Editorial

TBS

Get Smart. Indiana Jones. Re-making old classics is the latest trend on movies…so why can’t the same technique be applied to TV? I’ll admit - I’m a huge fan. Any game, any time, I play along and I usually do quite well. True TV game-players know where the best action can be found: GSN. But in this age of old-is-new, where past ideas are suddenly no longer passé, the classics come alive. In this case, it’s Match Game.

A show with a long history that just got a little bit longer. Match Game originally hit the air in 1962 on NBC, running for seven seasons before cancellation. This is not the most famous version of the show. Match Game didn’t hit its real stride until it found a home on CBS in 1973. The episodes have resulted in some of the most popular programming GSN has ever ran, and for good reason.

I can summon this up for you in just two words: Richard Dawson. 

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