Spencer Shay from 'iCarly'

Since the dawn of TV time, whenever characters have been artists, they had to don a beret and vaguely French clothes.

Among the reasons to love Nickelodeon's iCarly, airing Saturdays, is that it doesn't stoop to cliches in writing, acting or wardrobe. Spencer (Jerry Trainor), Carly's guardian and older brother, is an artist.

Beverly Johnson continues to break barriers.

In 1974, she was the first black model to grace the cover of Vogue. On Thursday, July 30, Johnson helps pick the next winner of TV Land's She's Got the Look, the modeling contest for women over 35.

It takes time to develop an individual style, and Lauren Baldwin (Tracey Bregman) has had 24 years to refine it.Yes, Bregman has been playing Lauren on CBS' The Young and the Restless for that long. This week is the culmination of a special promotion. Viewers entered a contest, for which 2,600 were eligible, to have the soap pay for their Las Vegas wedding, complete with Bregman and her TV husband, Christian LeBlanc (Michael Baldwin), as witnesses.

If this article could spark a retail revolution, so be it. Let's force change so women in double-digit sized clothing aren't relegated to shapeless garments.

In Lifetime's Drop Dead Diva, premiering Sunday, July 12, the cliched battle of the sizes is waged: dumb, size-double-zero blonde versus brilliant, size-18 brunette. Both women die young on the same day. The blonde, Deb (Brooke D'Orsay), breaks the rules, and her soul winds up in the body of the brunette, Jane (Brooke Elliott), who gets a new lease on life.