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Stanley Chow, an artist living in Manchester, is obviously a big fan of pop culture. While browsing through the illustrations on his website, you’ll see superheroes, soccer players, musicians and Bill Murray alike.

However, TV fans sadly did not see any characters from good ol’ American television programming — that is until recently, when Chow unveiled his ‘Mad Men’ series.

Peggy, Don Draper and Miss Holloway are represented in both a familiar and playful manner with Chow’s unique sensibility. You won’t be able to help smiling at the Draper.

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Filed under: Reality-Free, TV Previews, Fall TV

The ‘Stargate’ franchise heads into uncharted territory with season 2 of ‘Stargate Universe,’ premiering Tue., Sept. 28 at 9PM ET on Syfy.

Flying into the unknown is nothing new for the venerable sci-fi brand, which got its start more than 15 years ago with the feature film starring Kurt Russell and James Spader.

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Filed under: Reality-Free, Fall TV, Midseason TV, Stay Tuned

This week, Ryan McGee and I are extremely pleased to bring you a special edition of the ‘Talking TV with Ryan & Ryan’ podcast. It’s more accurate to call it ‘Talking TV with Ryan & Ryan & Ryan’ because Shawn Ryan, executive producer of FX’s very enjoyable ‘Terriers’ and the mid-season Fox drama ‘Ride-Along,’ joined us for the hourlong chat.

Ryan, who created the landmark FX drama ‘The Shield’ and has also worked on ‘The Unit,’ ‘Lie to Me,’ ‘Angel’ and ‘Nash Bridges,’ gave us insight into the creative processes behind his past, current and upcoming shows, and talked about the general challenges of creating quality television (yes, Fox’s struggling drama ‘Lone Star’ did come up).

My favorite part of the podcast is his thought-provoking list of ‘Five Things That Bother Showrunners.’ I can pretty much guarantee that some things on that list will take you by surprise.

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The cast of ‘The Sound of Music’ will reunite on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ on Oct. 29.

According to Entertainment Weekly, this will be the first time the cast reunited in 45 years. Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer and the actors who played the Von Trapp children, Duane Chase, Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies-Urich, Angela Cartwright, Kym Karath and Debbie Turner, will all be in attendance.

Get ready for the hills to be alive with tears, joy and last but not least, music.

In other TV news …

o. Darren Criss has been cast on ‘Glee.’ TV audiences may recognize Criss from ‘Eastwick,’ but to Internet fans he’s the star of ‘A Very Potter Musical.’ Look for Criss to play Blaine, a charismatic gay student from a rival glee club. [Ausiello Files]

o. Ian Somerhalder wants to get musical! ‘The Vampire Diaries’ star said he’d love to do a musical episode of The CW series and that his character singing would be like the Barber from ‘Sweeney Todd.’ [Hollywood Crush]

o. The ‘Dexter’ season 5 premiere was the show’s highest rated ever. The show was seen by a combined total of 2.3 million viewers, Showtime’s biggest season premiere in 15 years. [Showtime]

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Filed under: Celebrity Interviews, Outside the Box

In our Outside the Box interview, ‘No Ordinary Family‘ stars Michael Chiklis, Julie Benz, Romany Malco, Autumn Reeser, Kay Panabaker, Jimmy Bennett and Stephen Collins answered fan questions and posed some of their own.

They talked about what it’s like to have super powers, their first celebrity crushes and what they splurged on after achieving success.

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Look for ‘The Good Wife’ to get a little naughty in season 2.

When the CBS hit returns Tue., Sept. 28 at 10PM ET, it will have a tremendous first season to live up to. Last year, ‘The Good Wife’ racked up both viewers (an average of 13.1 million per episode) and awards (including an Emmy nomination for Best Drama).

And the show aims to keep the momentum going by raising the stakes even more.

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You had to be careful going into today’s episode of ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show.’ Make sure there were no adorable kittens or puppies in the room, and it’s probably not a bad idea to keep any babies away too. Otherwise you might suffer a catastrophic cuteness overload, as DeGeneres had 7-year old rapper Lil P-Nut on as a special guest.

P-Nut has been blowing up all over the Internet thanks to th power of YouTube and his catchy first single, “You Might Be the One.”

When asked about his name, P-Nut told DeGeneres, “My uncle said my head looked like a peanut when I was born. But I don’t really believe it.” The name stuck and he’s grown to like it as well.

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CBS got a taste of Twitter with new sitcom ‘$#*! My Dad Says,’ and liked it. A lot. So much so that the network has another comedy based on a Twitter feed in development.

According to The Live Feed, Ashton Kutcher and CBS are teaming up to bring the Twitter account @ShhDontTellSteve to television. The account could just as easily be named ‘$#*! Steve Says,’ since it’s comprised of things a twentysomething guy named Steve utters, as Tweeted by his roommate without his knowledge.

The CBS version in development is about a man who deals with an immature roommate. Tweets from the feed include such gems as: “Steve, just now, yelling from our bathroom: ‘Total Asparagus pee bro! Come smell!’” and “Steve on TV Premiere Week: ‘You are not making me watch the Dancing Washed Up Stars results show. We’re watching NCIS.’”

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Last year, I did an article for New Jersey Monthly magazine about Garden State restaurants that had participated in Gordon Ramsay’s ‘Kitchen Nightmares.’ The participants met with varied amounts of success, but Joseph Cerniglia (right, pictured with Ramsay), owner of Campania restaurant in Fair Lawn, seemed to be one of the happiest to have undergone the change.

So I was surprised to hear that Cerniglia’s body was found floating in the Hudson River near the George Washington Bridge on Friday. No word of how he got there, but according to the Bergen Record, there were no signs of foul play and motorists reported someone jumping off the bridge just hours before Cerniglia’s body was found.

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If you haven’t watched the syndicated version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire’ lately, you might not recognize the show if you’ve tuned in since the tenth season began earlier this month.

Questions and dollar amounts in the first round are now randomized. And there’s also no more Hot Seat. Both the contestant and host Meredith Vieira both stand, either behind or around a ‘Deal or No Deal’ -style podium. When Vieira first heard about all the potential changes, she felt that they shouldn’t fix what wasn’t broken. But she quickly came around when she realized how much excitement it brought.

“I realized that I had become complacent, particularly (during) the first five questions,” she told me last week. “They were almost tedious. When you get in a game you want to be in the game. It was almost as if you were waiting for the game to begin.”

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