I get why ABC is hot to launch a High School Musical-related unscripted show this summer. I don't get why the prize is so lame.

On balance, it's hard for me to argue that receiving a couple hundred cable channels is a bad thing. I may only watch a fraction of them, but it's nice to know that if I wanted to get tips on refinishing furniture or watch a Premier League match, I could.

The return of Lost to ABC is only a day away from the time of this posting, and you can sort of feel the anticipation in the air.

Over the course of its 18 seasons, Law & Order has gone through more than a dozen cast changes, but it's almost never had a new character interact with the person he or she is replacing.

When The Office executive producer Greg Daniels and actor Rainn Wilson talked to reporters a couple weeks ago about the show's return, NBC had yet to announce that it will spin off the Emmy-winning comedy. Still, Wilson sounded up for the idea.

NBC's 30 Rock has had its share of big guest stars -- Jerry Seinfeld, Isabella Rossellini, Edie Falco -- over the course of its two seasons, something for which creator-star Tina Fey is more than a little grateful.

It is a chilly, wet Friday morning in New York, and I've just walked the only four blocks in Midtown without a Duane Reade drugstore, feeling the persistent drizzle seep into my coat, when I hear the first screams.

George Lucas knows how to make an entrance. The Star Wars mastermind walked in to Cartoon Network's upfront Thursday morning to the movie's theme music, with smoke machines billowing clouds of fog onto the stage. And, oh yeah, he was flanked by four clone troopers.

For all the talk about NBC doing a year-round schedule and it being a bold new way of doing business -- even though it isn't entirely new -- the schedules the network presented Wednesday look pretty conventional.

Count My Name Is Earl star Jason Lee and creator Greg Garcia among those excited at the prospect of scripted TV shows returning in the next couple weeks.

Stacey, the 26-year-old graduate student from Chicago who made a statement on this week's premiere of  The Bachelor: London Calling with her sparkly blue dress and inebriated antics -- including giving her underwear to bachelor Matt Grant before passing out in a nearby bedroom -- is philosophical about her 15 minutes of fame.