CBS has finally revealed the cast of the new season of Survivor which is due to air on September 25. It was originally slated for a September 18 debut, but has been pushed back a week now and will run as a special double episode. Jeff Probst will be hosting and asking all the usual insightful questions at Tribal Council.

The cast’s full bios aren’t available yet, but the video that shows them seems to suggest there’s at least some diversity in there. We have the usual range of cute girls of course, Jessica (an actress), Michelle, Paloma, Jacque and Kelly, but thankfully there’s a few older contestants in there too. Robert, Randy and Susie are all representing the over 40’s by the look of it so that’s a nice change. For the ladies of course are the mandatory handsome hunks such as Dan, Marcus, Matty, Ace and Danny. Other’s thrown in for good measure are Gillian, Crystal, Ken and Charlie.

It looks like it’ll be an interesting show with plenty of tensions set to flare. What do you think? Are you ready to get lost in Survivor again?

Tyler Perry can do no wrong these days it seems. He’s just signed a deal with TBS for a comedy series based on his hit movie Meet the Browns.

TBS have commissioned 10 half-hours of the show with Perry staying onboard as executive producer and director. It’ll star David Mann as Leroy Brown and should be filming in Atlanta where Perry currently films ‘House of Payne’.

The show is set to start in January 2009 and if the first 10 episodes are a success, they’ll be looking to sign on for another 90. Perry certainly seems to be going places and no doubt with the syndication success of House of Payne, it makes sense that Meet the Browns will eventually go the same way.

If any of you have been watching the new season of Australian Idol, you’ll notice that there are changes in the judging line up this year. Oh yeah, it’s not that there’s new judges, although to be fair there may as well be.

Marcia Hines, the usually congenial fence sitter of a judge has come out guns a blazing and taking direct shots at the contestant. Before the season aired, there were rumors that Marcia was to toughen up and quit being the easy judge and my word has she taken it on board.

Clearly Marcia is desperate to keep her prime slot on the judging panel and is hoping not to fall by the wayside like previous judge Mark Holden. She’s been bringing down contestants right, left and center and has even had a few in tears. Looks like this season Australian Idol has a few more sparks to it and it’s nice to see Marcia actually having a voice and swearing now and again, but I think I miss ‘nice Marcia’ as you have to have one nice judge. I guess the programmers are just thinking people love a good bit of swearing and nastiness in reality TV.

Fresh off the plane from her outstanding Olympics in Beijing, Australian swimming beauty Stephanie Rice has inked a deal with Channel 7, sure to make her even more of a household name and face.

Rice will be appearing on Make Me a Supermodel, where she’ll be giving the contestants advice on how to handle a rapid rise to fame and everything that goes along with it. Some are sceptical saying that Rice hasn’t been in the public eye long enough to be giving out this kind of advice, but it’s a role she’s relishing and Channel 7 are certainly trying to cash in on her Olympics appeal.

Looks like things are on the up for Rice out of the pool as well as in it. Not content with her three world-record-breaking swims, she reportedly had a bit of a smooch with Michael Phelps, which she has since vehemently denied. With this new deal, she’s sure to be news for some time yet.

Well there’s been speculation for weeks about who would feature on the next season of Dancing With the Stars and we even covered it here previously. Seems that most of the rumors were false anyway, so now we’re happy to reveal the actual line up for this season.

Lance Bass, who was one of the earliest rumored contestants, will indeed be appearing alongside Toni Braxton, Brooke Burke, Rocco DiSpirito, Maurice Greene, Kim Kardashian, Cloris Leachman, Cody Linley, Susan Lucci, Misty May-Treanor, Ted McGinley, Jeffrey Ross and Warren Sapp.

Yeah, there’s a heap of b-listers in there as expected, but there’s a few interesting contestants who should be fun to watch, not least of all 82 year old Cloris Leachman. The show will kick off on September 22 with a three night extravaganza, here’s hoping it’s a good one. What do you think of the line-up? Worth tuning in for or will you be voting it out before it even starts?

E! has canceled the Denise Richards reality TV show ‘It’s Complicated’ after it failed to set the ratings alight. Even though there were plans to film a second season and Richards was in contract negotiations, it looks like it’s all fallen through.

It sounded like a great idea for a show – Denise is followed around through her insanely up and down life, showing us the dramas of her fights with ex-hubby Charlie Sheen, her new loves who come and go and her attempts at maintaining a career. Sadly, it didn’t really show us anything other than how dull she was.

All we really got was episodes full of Denise’s family struggling with their own issues and Denise arguing with assistants. It wasn’t exactly must-see TV so E! have rightly canned it before the ratings dwindle away to nothing. Looks like Denise will be seeking out some other form of employment soon. We’ll keep you updated if she finds any.

Yup, that’s right, they’ve found her again. Michelle Rodriquez is returning to hit TV show Lost, even though her character Ana Lucia was killed in the second season (which in my opinion sucked!).

There’s not too much information as yet on how or why her character will be returning, but Rodriquez herself is an interesting character so she’ll no doubt bring some much needed spice back to the Lost world.

It looks like she may be appearing in the second episode of the season, most likely as a vision of some sort. Some are speculating that as Cheech Marin (who played Hurley’s father) appears in that episode also, it’s likely that Ana Lucia will be back in one of Hurley’s visions. I’m always happy to see Michelle Rodriquez on screen, so let’s hope her return provides the background to a juicy plot twist.

Don’t worry, we won’t be losing Randy, Paula or Simon from the judges table at American Idol, but we will be welcoming a fourth judge – Kara DioGuardi.

Yes, most of you are probably thinking, “who?” since DioGuardi is hardly a household name (at the moment). Even she was surprised to receive the call asking her to join the next season of the hit Fox reality show – “When I got the call, I thought they were calling the wrong person … I almost fell off the chair”.

As a successful singer/songwriter in her own right, DioGuardi seemed pretty overwhelmed at the press conference that announced her as a new judge, but she still managed to carry herself well and seems pretty smart and funny. No news yet on where she’ll sit, what her unique style will be or whether her and Paula will get along. With Paula being the staple female on the show all this time, it could be interesting. Stay tuned to find out what this means for the new season and whether DioGuardi has what it takes to make herself a star.

It seems that Channel 7 Australia don’t need the services of ever-present Anna Coren for much longer.

Coren has been given the go ahead to leave Today Tonight should she land the role she’s after with CNN in Atlanta. She completed a screen test for them in July and she’s in negotiations at the moment with Channel 7 over her contract. It looks like the current affairs boss at Seven, Peter Meakin is prepared to let her go.

She’s been looking for an overseas position for some time and sadly Channel 7 just don’t have that many available so it looks like she’ll be heading to CNN. She was previously based in Seven’s Los Angeles bureau, but was called in to host Today Tonight in 2006 when Naomi Robson quit. Although she’s been a good ratings winner for the show, there are plenty of people waiting to step up into her seat. It’ll be interesting to see how this goes and as soon as there’s any definite news, we’ll make sure you know about it. Oh and we’ll try not to sensationalise it to death, like Anna’s writers for Today Tonight generally seem to do.

There’s come a time in all of our lives when we’ve really wanted to shout and scream at Dannii Minogue, or maybe that’s just me. Seems that one contestant on the UK’s hit talent show X Factor has taken it upon himself to threaten the judge after she didn’t put him through to the next round of the show.

Apparently Minogue had to ‘flee the set in terror’ after she cast the deciding vote, sealing the contestants fate in the competition. The young male and his family weren’t too impressed with Minogue and tried to corner her at the audition. Simon Cowell loaned her his ever present hefty bodyguard Tony to make sure she felt safe.

There are a few more bodyguards dotted around the set now to ensure the judges are safe from crazy contestants – but with Cheryl Cole there, surely she’d just kick their ass?