The Week in Television-Related Links.

General

The Best TV Shows on TV, Farewell Li’l Sebastian: This is a great site that tends to agree with me about what shows are awesome.

The GLAAD Wrap: More True Blood, a Peak at Torchwood and Bryan Safi Takes on the Housewives: Exactly what the title says and more, including a look at the next season of Pretty Little Liars. The Bryan Safi video is a hilarious and based around the thesis that Bravo should be known for single handedly ruining the relationship between straight women and gay men.

Final word from Fox: 9 new shows for 2011-12: Montreal Gazette article on Fox’s new season.

Previews to New Fox Shows: Ace Showbiz on Fox’s new season.

CW announces new shows and fall line up: She Knows has the info on The CW’s fall schedule.

The CW Renews ‘Nikita’, But Cancels ‘Hellcats’, ‘Life Unexpected’: Info on The CW’s new season that makes me feel terrible for not watching Hellcats.

CW Renews One Tree Hill and Nikita, Cancels Hellcats: More on The CW line-up, this time form E! On-line. How can One Tree Hill possibly still be going? That show is old as fuck.

CBS shifts ‘CSI’, ‘Good Wife’, adds 5 shows: News on CBS’s new schedule.

The Best and Worst Things About the New TV Schedule: TV.com blog on the outlook for next season.

Alcatraz

J.J. Abrams Talks Alcatraz: Entertainment Weekly interview.

American Idol

Haley Reinhart: ‘I don’t live in regret’: People Magazine interviews the third place Idol contestant.

Haley Reinhart Says ‘American Idol’ judges ‘Just Wanted to Push My Buttons’: Apparently Haley isn’t very happy with the Idol judges, which I completely understand since Randy seemed to hate her and Steven was too busy hitting on a teenager to notice her.

Haley says she wasn’t angry: One more piece on Haley, this one is from MSNBC.

‘America’s Next Top Model’ down for cycle 16 finale; ‘Cougar Town’ decimated: Examiner article that basically says American Idol’s phenomenal ratings crushed other Wednesday night shows.

Cougar Town

Cougar Town Review: Small Screen Scoop reviews Wednesday’s episode.

The Flinstones

Family Guy creator to revive The Flinstones: There is no good here.

Seth MacFarlane’s Flinstones, not so much a family affair?: Washington post blog on the subject.

Glee

An Interview with Naya Rivera: AfterEllen interviews Naya Rivera.

Listen to songs from “New York”, the season finale: Oh No They Didn’t! has leaked Glee tracks.

Glee Live! On Tour! Kicks on Saturday Night in Vegas: I’m a little bit delighted by how retro this feels.

Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark Writer joins Glee: They certainly could use more writers on that show.

Grey’s Anatomy

Pre-order Grey’s Anatomy Season 7: I may not like Grey’s Anatomy, but I will happily help out those who do by telling you that if you can pre-order you can save $10 with the promo code GREYS7.

Grey’s Anatomy Review: A Season Finale That Never Fails: A review of Grey’s Anatomy’s season finale from someone who enjoys the show more than I do.

The Good Wife

The Good Wife makes “Closing Arguments”: The Examiner on the season finale.

Hart of Dixie

CW 2011 Fall TV Premiere: Hart of Dixie: Information on The CW’s new show.

Hellcats

‘Hellcats’ Series Finale: ‘I’m Sick, Y’all’: MTV’s Aimee Curran expresses some love for Hellcats, but spells ‘pom-pon’ wrong. It’s cool. It’s a very common mistake.

infoMania

Video: Beauty products use science and technology to keep ladies looking super fuckable: I love Erin Gibson.

Jersey Shore

Jersey Shore’s Mike gets himself into a cosy situation with two women: I think secretly we all aspire to become so famous that there are articles about it every time we have a 3-way.

University of Chicago Hosting Academic Conference on Jersey Shore: I feel validated by this because I wanted to write a paper on Jersey Shore a couple of semesters ago and my teacher strongly suggested I pick a different topic.

Jimmy Kimmel Live

Rammstein Performs on Jimmy Kimmel Live: Video of exactly what the title says.

Christina Perri Rocks ‘Jar of Hearts’ on Jimmy Kimmel Live: And another one.

Jimmy Kimmel Asks Chaz Bono About the Possibility of Penis Transplants: I will always link to TV clips about penis envy.

Mad Men

‘Mad Men’ actor’s got game in ‘L.A. Noire’: Interview with Aaron Staton about his role in the new video game.

January Jones: “Everything Seems Kind of Pointless” Without Kids: I think the titular quote is a little bit extreme, but I’m glad she’s happy about being a soon-to-be mom.

More as This Story Develops

Olivia Munn joins Aaron Sorkin and HBO in More as This Story Develops: I am on board.

Olivia Munn joins Aaron Sorkin’s HBO pilot: Another article on the same subject.

Napoleon Dynamite

‘Napoleon Dynamite’ Comes to TV Just in Time for the World to End: Andy Khouri has some thoughts on the new TV show.

Fox’s 2011 Upfront Presentation: So Successful, Even Napoleon Dynamite Can’t Take Them Down: The title says it all.

The Office

Creed’s Management Skills: This is a slideshow where Creed presents tips on being a manager. Since Creed is involved, it’s pretty funny.

Poll: Who Do You Want to See as The Office’s New Boss?: This poll is just for fun, it’s not a thing NBC is doing, which is good because Jim Carrey is winning.

Jacques Souvenier, The Burn Victim: Video clip of one of the highlights of last night’s episode.

NBC’s Office bounces back with finale: I didn’t know that the ratings had gone down since Steve Carell left, but I guess it makes sense. The show really is just as good without him, with all due respect to Carell.

Parks and Recreation

Extended and Bonus Jean-Ralphio Scenes from Parks and Rec Finale: Exactly what it says and I couldn’t be happier.

Parks and Recreation: A Few Almost Cliffhangers and a Nearly Hairless Ron: A review of the finale.

Parks and Recreation’s “Traumatic” Finale: Interview with Nick Offerman.

Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars Exclusive: Meet Alison’s Mom: Article on the casting of Alison’s mom.

The Playboy Club

NBC 2011 Fall TV Premiere: The Playboy Club: Lots of info about the new show.

‘The Playboy Club’ star Amber Heard: ‘I don’t think it’s that racy’: Entertainment Weekly interview with Amber Heard.

The Real World: Las Vegas

Episode 11 Recap: Reality Wanted recaps the new episode.

Real World Bad Boy Adam Royer Seeks Redemption on MTV Spin-off: Video news story.

Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live: the embarrassing uncle of American comedy: Slate magazine’s thoughts on SNL.

The Simpsons

This weekend on TV: Ned Flanders dates Mrs. Krabappel: Info on Sunday’s episode.

Ricky Gervais Show clip to appear in Simpsons: I guess there’s going to be a crossover thing.

So Random!

Demi Lovato-less Sonny with a Chance is So Random! in June: Article on Sonny with a Chance turning into the spin-off So Random! I actually have high hopes for this. Some of the So Random! sketches you see on Sonny with a Chance are really funny.

Post-Demi Lovato Tween Comedy Spin-off: Article on the same thing.

South Park

Trey Parker and Matt Stone on Their Broadway Hit Musical ‘The Book of Mormon’: NPR interview with Trey and Matt.

Teen Wolf

Promo Pic: A picture MTV posted for their Teen Wolf reboot.

The Vampire Diaries

Style Superstar: ‘Vampire Diaries’ star Nina Dobrev Lights Up CW Upfront: Someone with a style crush on Nina Dobrev talks about CW Upfront.

Joseph Morgan becomes series regular as Klaus on Vampire Diaries: Apparently, the people behind that show decided they need more of their most boring character.

‘The Vampire Diaries’ in Chicago: Candice Accola and Steven R. McQueen: Video of Candice Accola and Steven R. McQueen.

The Voice

RPV teen shows off her singing on ‘The Voice’: Interview with contestant Julia Eason.

How NBC’s ‘The Voice’ is the anti-’American Idol’: NPR blog.

Wizards of Waverly Place

Selena Gomez says she’s starting a new chapter now that ‘Wizards’ has wrapped: Selena Gomez is an incredibly intelligent teen star. I’m happy to see her off that stupid show.

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