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My spider sense was tingling this morning as I perused the latest casting listings. Imagine my surprise when I had a full on geek attack upon noticing that, just days after Baby Buster landed recurring roles on both Chuck and Samantha Who , George Bluth Sr. himself was just cast in one of the few midseason pilots that I am eagerly anticipating. Apparently, it pays to be an Arrested Development vets these days. Jeffrey Tambor was cast in Rob Thomas' ABC dramedy pilot Good Behavior (based on the Kiwi series Outrageous Fortune ), where he'll guest star as Hy, Jackie West ( Catherine O'Hara )'s sleazy partner at a low-end pawn shop. I cannot wait to see Tambor and O'Hara face off against one another and hope that he'll stick around in a recurring capacity should the pilot get ordered to series. Also joining the cast of Good Behavior : Desperate Housewives' Gary Cole, who will play Jackie's no-good husband who is sentenced to five years in prison, leadin

It's that time of year again as the Television Critics Association has announced their nominations for the TCA Awards, which will be handed out on July 19th in Beverly Hills. Making headlines: AMC's Mad Men has tied HBO's The Wire with the top number of nominations. (For those of you looking for a sign that critics are clearly behind the itty-bitty cabler and the recent Golden Globe winner for Best Drama, there you go.) This year's group of nominees are quite exciting choices (as seen from the full list below), with some of Televisionary's favorite programs represented, including multiple nominations for Damages, 30 Rock, Lost, Pushing Daisies, and Flight of the Conchords , to name but a few. The full list of nominees for the TCA Awards is as follows: Program of the Year: John Adams Lost Mad Men Ken Burns' The War The Wire Comedy: 30 Rock The Colbert Report The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Flight of the Conchords The Office Drama: Damages Friday Nigh

Do you want the good news or the bad news first? The good news is that BBC import Torchwood WILL be back for a third season of Rift-related mayhem and saving the world next season though we'll have to wait until at least next spring in order to catch Season Three. (BBC America hasn't yet announced that it has acquired the third season or scheduled an airdate yet.) And John Barrowman's dashing ex-time agent Captain Jack Harkness will be back as well, leading the Torchwood team (whoever they might be, though I am keeping my fingers crossed that Eve Myles will return) into the fray once more. And now for the not-so-good news: Torchwood 's third season will be a greatly compacted one. Rather than the thirteen episodes Torchwood aired in its first two outings, Season Three will be comprised of one five one-hour installments. While this had been the rumor about the series' return, TV Guide has now confirmed this as fact : Season Three's five episode arc will compri

I can't help but get excited when an Arrested Development alum drops by a current television series, so imagine my pleasant surprise when said alum joins the cast of one of my favorite series. It seems like it's been forever (well, January, in fact) since we've even mentioned NBC's action/comedy series Chuck , which I've missed terribly since the series wrapped its freshman year way ahead of the normal timetable due to the writers strike. While the series will relaunch on NBC this fall (complete with, one hopes, a massive marketing and promotional campaign that ties into a DVD box set of the first 13 episodes of Chuck ), there is one notable cast addition for the sophomore season: Arrested Development 's Buster Bluth himself, Tony Hale. Hale, who has turned up on other series since Arrested Development (most notably as a co-star on the short-lived Andy Barker, P.I. ), will recur on Chuck next season as Emmett, the new assistant manager at the Buy More (filling

Now I'm confused... Much debate has been made in recent months about Battlestar Galactica 's Sharon "Athena" Agathon and Helo and their half-human/half-Cylon daughter Hera. Hera has been the subject of several visions, prophecies, and now, in light of Athena's paranoid kidnapping scenario by the "Natalie" Six, the motivation for Cylon-on-Cylon murder. (Side note: how sad was Natalie's death as she gripped Doc Cottle's hand and envisioned the deep forest before dying?) Over the past two seasons, Hera has been the source of much conflict, confusion, and worry, not to mention providing a temporary cure for Laura Roslin's cancer, thanks to her regenerative blood. Hera was also ground zero at a major Colonial conspiracy and cover-up by Roslin, Adama, and Doc Cottle to pretend that Hera died in childbirth; after lying to Athena and Helo, they shuttled her off to an adoptive mother and had her raised as a human child on New Caprica... only to see he

"You can go now, Michael." Truer words were never spoken than on last week's season finale of Lost , which saw cast returnee Harold Perrineau's Michael seemingly killed after the freighter exploded after he got a send off from the mysterious and ghostly Christian Shepherd. Perrineau's return to Lost --which he exited at the end of Season Two when he and Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) sailed off into the sunset after he betrayed his fellow castaways to secure freedom for himself and his son--seems phenomenally short-lived: his character's sole purpose in returning to the series was to be Benjamin Linus' man aboard the Kahana and to devise the plan to freeze the battery so as not to trigger a widespread C4 explosion. Perrineau, in an interview with TV Guide , says that he was "disappointed" by the fact that producers killed off his character after bringing him back and said it was "disappointing and a waste to come back, only to get beat up a few

Televisionary is proud to be a member of the TV Blog Coalition. At the end of each week, we'll feature a roundup of content from our sister sites for your delectation. The highlight of my week? The jaw-dropping and brilliant season ender of Lost (even if my thoughts about who was in that coffin didn't exactly pan out). The low point? Watching the pilot for the brutally awful US adaptation of Spaced . ( Lisa making it into the final four on Top Chef was a close second.) Elsewhere in the sophisticated TV-obsessed section of the blogosphere, members of the TV Blog Coalition were discussing the following items... According to one poll, Hugh Laurie and Pushing Daisies' Anna Friel are the Brits with the best American accents on TV. BuzzSugar wants to know who else does a good American accent. ( BuzzSugar ) Marcia and Fergus liveblogged Eurovision, the only music contest to feature Olympic ice skaters, knitting brides and pirates. Take that, American Idol. ( Pop Vultures ) Who