This week I’ve spent some time catching up with a series that plenty of people had raved to me about, that show is The Secret Life of the American Teen. The series follows the character of Amy Juergens, a 15 year old girl who finds herself pregnant after her first and only sexual experience with the schools bad boy.

The series is your typical high school drama. There’s the usual cast of genre filling characters, the bad boy, the good boy, the bad girl, the good girl and all those in between. It hasn’t stood out to me in any way as being special, though I have to admit, I can’t stop watching.

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Neil Patrick Harris looks set to host the Emmy Awards. The 36 year old star of How I Met Your Mother host the Tony Awards this year and it helped the ratings based on last years figures. Seems the Emmy Awards liked that and are going with Harris as host of their show too.

You may recall hosting for the Emmy Awards last year fell to a roster of stars including Ryan Seacrest, Heidi Klum, Howie Mandel and Jeff Probst. The awards came off as a bit sloppy with this multi host deal and so it now falls to NPH to bring them back and I personally think he can do a good job. The 61st Primetime Emmy Awards will air September 20 on CBS.

New Lifetime comedy / drama series Drop Dead Diva just got its own dancing diva to guest spot for them. Paula Abdul will appear in the show long with a list of other celebs set to appear. Paula Abduls appearance will air some time in September.

Other celebs lined up to appear in the show include Tim Gunn, Nia Vardalos, Liza Minelli and Rosie O’Donnell. Drop Dead Diva follows the story of a model who dies only to find herself trapped in a plus-size female attorney’s body. Everyone gasp at such an awful thought!! Sounds lame, but who knows, there’s nothing like taking the mick out of big boned girls to get a laugh.

Actor Rocky Carroll is going to be one busy man. He’ll be appearing simultaneously on both NCIS and NCIS spinoff series NCIS: Los Angeles. Needless to say Carroll will be playing the same character on both series, that of NCIS director Leon Vance.

As the NCIS directors role covers multiple jurisdictions, so will Vance’s. We’ll be seeing team leader Special Agent Jethro Gibbs – played wonderfully by Mark Harmon – and team reporting to Vance, along with Special Agent’s Callen and Hanna (Chris O’Donnell and L. L. Cool J respectively) from NCIS: Lost Angeles. NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles will air back-to-back this fall on Tuesday nights.

Great news for science-fiction fans, looks like SyFy (That’s the new name of the SciFi Channel for those that missed it) are doing a reboot of classic scifi series Alien Nation. Tim Minear is said to be penning the series, which is fairly good news given his portfolio includes Dollhouse, Angel and Firefly.

I always thought the movie of Alien Nation (with Mandy Patinkin and James Caan) was way better than the TV series (with Eric Pierpoint and Gary Graham), but either way the cop / buddy / alien / drama thing works really well and lord knows cop shows are booming right now. We’ll definitely be covering this one as it grows.

Premiere dates for your favorite FX shows are on the table, starting with Sons of Anarchy which will be moved to a Tuesday night slot beginning September 10 at 10pm. There will be 13 episodes of Anarchy which sees the return of Charlie Hunnam, Ron Perlman and Katey Segal.

FX has placed It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia in a Thursday night slot at 10pm. Sunny in Philadephia returns to screens for its fifth season (really that many?) from September 8. Lastly the Sixth season of slice and beautify drama series Nip Tuck will premiere in October (that one is a run of 10 episodes).

This post contains spoilers for TV series Supernatural, so if you don’t want to know what old character is returning to the show, please don’t read any further, lest werewolves and demons come a knocking at your door. Right, so who was banished to hell in last seasons finale? That’s right it was Meg Masters.

Supernatural creator Eric Kripke says he really missed Meg Masters, so much so he wrote her back into his script. Fans of Nikki Aycox who originally held the role will be saddened to hear she couldn’t schedule it in to make the return, so actress Rachel Miner will take on the role.

Hilary Duff has joined the cast of Gossip Girl as a movie star named Olivia Burke. Duff will feature in a multi-episode arc in the teen series when she enrolls at NYU. The upcoming season is scheduled to air from October 5 in the US. Duff’s character Burke will become roommate of Jessica Szohr’s character Vanessa Abrams.

Duff has plenty on the boil at the moment including the upcoming The Story of Bonnie and Clyde with Michael Madsen and Lee Majors. She’s also finished filming Provinces of Night co-starring Val Kilmer and Kris Kristofferson.

Past Life is a new show from Fox that follows a pair of detectives who deal with reincarnated victims. Yeah, ‘reincarnated’. Strange premise, but the preview trailer actually looks pretty cool. Starring Kelli Giddish, Nicholas Bishop and Richard Schiff, Past Life delves into murder cases through the eyes of the victims, now reincarnated into other people. Judging from the trailer though, the victims didn’t always necessarily have to have died.

Check out the preview trailer below, it looks pretty cool. Past Life airs on Fox Spring 2010.

UK TV host Chris Tarrant has a new show in the offing called Tarrant Lets the Kids Loose. The host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire in the UK says he loves working with kids because “Kids are funny, magical and always surprising. What parent hasn’t told an anecdote about the funny things their children say?”.

That’s true. Tarrant Let’s the Kids Loose will feature kids put in adult positions, such as coffee shop manager, radio station manager and hairdressers. Hidden camera’s will capture how the kids cope with the pressures of the adult world, allegedly with hilarious outcomes. No word on an air date at time of writing.