Emily (Emily VanCamp) may have shown a moment of weakness in last night's episode of "Revenge" when she broke down in Aiden's (Barry Sloane) arms after the dramatic events of the evening, but VanCamp insists she'd much rather be fighting.

"I always feel like I'm playing a character when I'm in a beautiful dress, with my hair coiffed," VanCamp told GQ. "I like getting down and dirty. It's really fun. There's nothing better than setting an asshole's house on fire. It's those moments when I think 'I love my job!'"

She may love a good battle, but we've been warned by VanCamp herself that Emily will show her more vulnerable side this season.

"Going into Season 2, this is proving to be Emily's greatest challenge yet," VanCamp told Zap2it in September. "You see her unraveling a little bit. Emily's determination to find her mother becomes unhealthy, obsessive and really dangerous."

For more on VanCamp, head over to GQ.com.

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"Revenge" airs on Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on ABC.

"Homeland" has been renewed for a Season 3. The political thriller starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis has been picked up for a third season by Showtime.

According to the network, the Season 2 premiere had 5.2 million viewers across platforms in its first week. Season 3 will consist of 12 one-hour episodes and kick off in spring 2013.

"Homeland" swept the 2012 Emmys, with Danes, Lewis and the series as a whole taking home awards.

"The Emmy wins for 'Homeland' have certainly set the stage for a great second season," David Nevins, president of entertainment at Showtime, said in a statement. "The writers, cast and crew of 'Homeland' continue to create a remarkably entertaining and suspenseful roller coaster ride, growing audiences week after week. We can't wait for our viewers to experience what unfolds through the rest of season two. Our partners at Fox 21 have been tremendous, and we are thrilled to begin the planning for 'Homeland's' third season."

In addition to the Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actress and Actor in a Drama Series awards, "Homeland" won Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series at the 2012 Emmys.

Click through the slideshow below for more "Homeland" Season 2 stills.

NEW YORK -- If you like Ron Swanson on NBC's "Parks and Recreation," then you'll like Nick Offerman, the actor who plays him.

Swanson is the director of the parks department in the Indiana town of Pawnee where "Parks and Recreation" is set.

Offerman has the same deadpan delivery as his character, and he's a guy's guy, who loves carpentry. He has a woodshop in Los Angeles.

One way Offerman differs from his character: he's creative. Besides NBC's "Parks and Recreation," the 42-year-old actor has a live musical-comedy review, "American Ham," and a new independent film, "Smashed," starring Aaron Paul and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The film tells the story of a young alcoholic couple whose dynamic changes when one decides to become sober. Offerman's wife, Megan Mullally ("Will and Grace"), has a supporting role in the movie.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Offerman talked about working with his wife, his role on "Parks and Recreation" and co-star Amy Poehler, and why he likes independent films.

AP: So you share a love of meat with your "Parks and Recreation" character?

Offerman: I grew up in a part of the country where my dad every morning would get up and make us bacon and eggs. That was the fuel of life so long before I learned about cholesterol or my circulatory system in any way; I was already hooked on all pork and beef products.

AP: Some couples don't like to work together. How is it OK for you and your wife, Megan Mullally?

Offerman: I think the accepted rule of thumb is that you don't bring your marriage to the workplace, but we feel very lucky that for some reason I think it's important that we both are successful. If one of us wasn't succeeding, I think that would make a difference in the paradigm, but we both are getting to exercise our own weird muscles, and we're able to leave our egos out of it. We love working as a team and I love to see her succeed and I'm very aware of how that helps me in our household. I love to plug Megan because you know she deserves a lot of kudos, but also because it's all in the family. She's such a comedy hero to me.

AP: What makes Megan so great comically is she just goes for it.

Offerman: We met during a play in Los Angeles and I think that was our initial attraction to one another. ... That's where the best comedy lies, is making a total fool of yourself.

AP: Which of your cast mates on "Parks and Recreation" are so funny it's hard to do scenes with them?

Offerman: It's so hard not to laugh at Amy. She's just so wickedly funny and I've had to develop this psychological trick where I pretend she's my sister. I have a couple sisters and there are reasons when you hate your sisters' guts ... where like in high school everyone loves one of them for some reason so you hate them because of their popularity. I try to get into this mind-set where she's being so funny and I think to myself, "Oh, you're so funny. Everyone loves you so much." And I pretend she's my sister. It allows her humor to not affect me for a moment. But even that she batters through (laughs).

AP: What makes you enjoy independent film?

Offerman: I grew up in a wonderful, large farm family in Illinois where we all pitch in to get the work done and pitch in to have a party or a meal and my whole life I've enjoyed collaborating with a group. I come from Chicago theater where we were literally never paid a cent through all those years but we were paid so richly in experience and fellowship and craft. Independent film reminds me of where the crew and budget is small enough that you can feel all of you making this piece of art together.

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Were Emily Maynard and Jef Holm joking when they announced their split last week?!

The "Bachelorette" stars were spotted together over the weekend, just three days after confirming their breakup. Holm, 28, visited Maynard, 26, and her 7-year-old daughter, Ricki, in her hometown of Charlotte, N.C., on Oct. 20, tweeting yesterday, "Days like today are what life is all about."

Hmm, are these two just prolonging the inevitable or are they reconsidering their decision to call it quits?

Maynard, who has removed her engagement ring since ending things with Holm, was photographed with the PeopleWater founder, heading to her car with Ricki after spending the afternoon together.

"I am sorry to tell you that Jef and I have, indeed, parted ways," Maynard told People on Oct. 17. "It was a very difficult and heartbreaking decision. I'm excited and hopeful for the next chapter in my life with my daughter, Ricki," she added. "I do hope that you will respect our privacy and allow us the time we need to heal."

Well, it seems Maynard is being healed by Holm, who admits, "Emily and I are great friends and I hope we can continue to be friends forever."

It's a question I've seen bandied about the Internet regularly this fall: Why is "Revolution" a hit? Why this show?

Before I get to a few possible answers, I should say that I don't think the question is dumb. The last half-decade has seen dozens of high-concept TV shows fail, or half-fail for a season or two until they're put out of their misery. Ever since "Lost" was a hit, TV networks have been trying to replicate its weird DNA, but they have generally come up with a series of genetic experiments gone awry, not successful clones or upgrades. We're trained, by this point, to think that any broadcast network show that embraces genre elements is going to be more "Heroes" than Hurley.

"Revolution" has avoided this curse, and I have some ideas why it has helped NBC have its most successful fall since dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Over the past decade, I've seen almost every episode of every failed sci-fi/fantasy/high-concept show, and I have the "Terra Nova" velociraptor scars to prove it. Whatever you want to say about "Revolution's" flaws (and this earnest show has a few, plus one huge stumbling block), there's no doubt that it's successfully avoiding a number of traps and pitfalls in its quest to help NBC keep the lights on.

In my view, "Revolution" has succeeded because:

1. It kept the core concept simple. Four words: The power went out. That's all you need to know to watch any episode of the drama. There's a brief reminder about the power loss at the start of each episode, but the show wisely hasn't spent a ton of time on that aspect of the premise. Where are the scenes of scientists working in a secret lab on a formula that might use the orbit of the moon as power source? Where are the scenes of characters exchanging technobabble about surges and amps and solar energy? There aren't any. You can power down your brain when watching "Revolution," and that's not the end of the world if you're in search of an escapist hour with a big helping of crossbows.

Of course, the show hasn't completely avoided addressing its core mystery. It's not impossible for the electricity to come back under certain circumstances, we learned when a music player and phone briefly worked near a medallion one of the characters carries. But at this stage, the how and why of the outage hasn't been shoved to the foreground. As creator Eric Kripke told HuffPost TV, "Revolution" is a road-trip saga, not a story full of obscure hints and clues, a la "FlashForward" or "The Event." All you need to know is that 15 years ago, all power sources that use electricity stopped working. That's all. The end result is that it's far easier for viewers to jump in to "Revolution," and once they're there, the show doesn't toss out a lot of mumbo-jumbo or cryptic nonsense that might lose them.

One caveat (and this applies to the other points in this post): I'm not advocating that every genre-tinged show go with this approach or use the strategies here. It's all about execution, and if a show is able to establish a complex central premise and/or execute it in an admirably sophisticated way that doesn't get it canceled, that's great. But "Revolution" established in its pilot that it was going to be a streamlined show about a simple idea, and it has stuck to that plan. And to its credit, unlike the costly failure "Terra Nova," "Revolution" doesn't constantly back away from the idea it's quite possible for a radically changed society to bring out the worst in people.

2. Episodes are similar to each other. Perhaps the show will branch out more in future, but for now, there are only a few scenarios in each episode, and they don't stray far from the road-trip/rescue plot established in the pilot. The main storyline so far has seen Miles Matheson (Billy Burke), along with his niece Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) and a few others, tracking Charlie's brother Danny (Graham Rogers), who was captured by militia leader Tom Neville (Giancarlo Esposito). Viewers don't have to wrap their heads around new characters every week, or wonder (as they might when watching "Last Resort") how the pieces are ultimately going to fit together. Viewers know how the pieces fit together because "Revolution" takes pains to show them that every week. As is the case with "The Walking Dead," "Revolution" takes the same or similar scenarios and plays them out multiple times. Familiarity and suspense, not ambitious structures and deep characterizations, are the goals, and that seems to have worked out well for both show so far.

(By the way, I'm not trying to say "Last Resort" isn't as good as "Revolution"; far from it. I liked the ABC show's pilot very much and there are aspects of the submarine/Marcus Chaplin storyline that have worked well in subsequent episodes. But overall, not all the threads are resonating for me, and I find "Resort" a little choppy and frantic at times as it travels among its far-flung locales. Having said that, the well cast "Resort" is more ambitious than "Revolution," so I'm very willing to cut it a break and see where it goes.)

3. Character motivations are easy to follow. We know what the bad guy, militia leader Sebastian Monroe (David Lyons), wants: Intel that Danny's family might be able to provide about how the power went out. (Danny's dead dad did secret work that may have given him insight into the blackout, and Monroe is questioning Danny's imprisoned mother for information related to that project.) We know what Miles and his band want: Danny. The simple plots and motivations make it easy to understand what's happening and why in any given episode.

There are flashbacks, but they don't make things murkier; as with the early days of "Lost," they sometimes provide additional information or explanatory character backstories. Of course, these flashbacks aren't remotely as memorable as what we saw on "Lost"; that show's first Locke-centric episode, "Walkabout," is one of the greatest TV episodes of all time. The "Revolution" episode in which we saw the prosaic past of Neville was not.

Still, in accounting for the show's success, I can't discount the explanation that knowing what the Big Bad wants and knowing why the plucky rebels want to defeat him are enjoyable factors for the audience. As Kripke noted, the show's not chock full o' ambiguity -- who the good guys and the bad guys are is perfectly clear. NBC's stated goal this year was to go big and broad, and that might not have worked when it came to "Animal Practice," but turning Monroe into a fairly standard-issue villain may be a good example of that approach working.

4. The show is a series of cliffhangers. During the episode in which Charlie narrowly avoided being shot by an arrow rigged to a door handle -- if anyone tried to rescue her from the room she was locked in, they'd have killed her -- a thought struck me: "Revolution" is an old-time "Perils of Pauline" action serial. It might not feature a heroine tied to the railroad tracks, but it has featured a bound heroine narrowly avoiding an arrow in the eye, and the next week, just for good measure, there actually were a series of train adventures.

If you ever saw the original Buck Rogers serials on late-night TV or if you watched "The Lone Ranger" growing up, you'll recognize the kind of entertainment "Revolution" harkens back to. Each episode has a series of cliffhangers, but there isn't a bunch of storytelling baggage that accompanies those adventures; there's just a new set of adventures the next week. That's not to say that the story doesn't progress -- it does, but it does so gradually, and if you just want to sit down and watch an hour of uncomplicated, suspense-filled action and complications, "Revolution" often supplies that.

5. It's uncynical and family friendly. The more I think about it, the show "Revolution" reminds me of most is "Once Upon a Time," which uses its genre trappings not to explore the outer limits of connection and identity (a la "Fringe"), but to reinforce reassuring ideas about the importance of family, cooperation and hope. Despite its goriness and grim moments, even "The Walking Dead" does this a fair amount. Given the state of the modern world, there may not be a huge audience -- on cable or broadcast networks -- for a show that posits the idea that in the future, things will be a lot worse. (That's just one reason that "Breaking Bad," which depicts the worst-case scenario for human nature, takes place on a non-descript, present-day suburban street -- that's one version of the present, but in the future, we secretly want to believe we evolve into better people, an idea the "Star Trek" franchise certainly got a lot of mileage out of).

If there had been a cable version of "Revolution," it likely would have focused on the immediate aftermath of the power outage. With its flashbacks, "Revolution" has dipped its toe into those waters occasionally, but it's far more interested in its present-day scenario, in which basically good people go up against more-or-less ruthless oppressors. I'm not saying that cable version of this premise shouldn't exist at some point; I'm just saying that I can watch with this version of the apocalypse with my 10-year-old son and not send him to bed with nightmares.

6. It's aspirational. No, really! As I said in my original review, for those of us addicted to various bits and pieces of technology, the electricity-free version of the future we see on the show represents a kind of freedom. There are a number of people these days who seek vacation spots without Wi-Fi on purpose (I'm one of them), and this is a way to visit that mythical fantasy world without leaving your couch.

7. It made Billy Burke, Elizabeth Mitchell and Giancarlo Esposito series regulars. I don't think anyone thinks "Revolution" is television's next great character-driven drama. The people on this show usually hew to established types (innocent ingenue, grizzled gunslinger, arrogant villain, etc.), but damned if Burke doesn't make Miles' hangdog Han Solo qualities enjoyable to watch. Similar, as Mitchell and Esposito have proven in past gigs, they can make mediocre material good and they can make good material far better than it almost has a right to be. In fact, the work of these actors is almost -- not quite -- enough to make me overlook "Revolution's" most enormous and annoying fault.

Holy mother of iPads, the acting by Spiridakos is awful, and her limitations as a performer have only grown more apparent every week. In the Oct. 8 episode, after Maggie grimly declared that she was bleeding out, the reaction on Charlie's face actually made me laugh out loud. That's how clumsy and unsubtle it was.

"Revolution" makes the assumption that so many shows make: If there aren't a lot of pretty young people on the show, no one under the age of 25 will watch. Whether or not that's true, let's assume for the sake of argument that that's the case. What I still don't understand is why so many young/teen characters have to be annoying, whiny, stupid and generally drag scenes and storylines down. There's been an unceasing parade of Stupid Teenager Plots on any number of shows for years now (remember "24's" Kim Bauer meeting the cougar?), and the relentlessly dull, clueless Charlie unfortunately fits right into that tradition.

Not only is the character basically uninteresting, the actress playing her is seriously outclassed in almost every scene she's in. The actors playing Danny and Tom's son Jason aren't much better (I call them "the Abercrombies"), but Charlie's centrality in the story makes her limitations that much more problematic. During the first season of "Supernatural," Kripke's previous show, he realized that there was an interesting family mythology that could be built around the lead characters, and he also discovered he had two lead actors who could play the hell out of that kind of material. I don't see that happening here.

If Spiridakos has any strengths as an actress (and that's not at all apparent), the show's writers haven't learned to write to them, and every week, despite "Revolution's" general efficiency and the skills of its other cast members, there's a clunky Charlie moment that makes me want to delete the show's Season Pass from my DVR. There's room on the television landscape for a genre show that isn't necessarily atmospheric or ambitious and that just wants to tell an efficient adventure story. It's just my luck that a successful show like that finally arrives on the network that most needs a hit, and I end up spending half of most episodes hoping its wide-eyed, whiny lead character -- Not-Katniss, as I call her -- will be eaten by a pack of cougars.

For now, I'll keep gritting my teeth and hoping for the best; at this point, I'd be fine with the show marginalizing Charlie and letting even slightly more interesting characters have her screen time. If no changes are forthcoming in this arena, maybe I'll just wait for "Falling Skies" to come back. That TNT show also had some grating, "But think of the children" young characters, but tough-minded writing helped turn things around in that post-apocalyptic scenario.

Let's hope "Revolution" can embrace a similarly revolutionary change.

"Revolution" airs on Mondays at 10 p.m. ET on NBC.

Tuesdays are about to get a whole lot funnier. After an agonizingly long wait, ABC is debuting TV's most hilarious comedy double act in years by pairing "Happy Endings" with "Don't Trust The B---- In Apartment 23" (Season 2 premieres Tues., Oct. 23 from 9 p.m. ET).

Not only does HuffPost TV have Maggie Furlong's a hilarious interview with "Happy Endings" MVP Casey Wilson to whet your appetite, we also caught up with James Van Der Beek, who plays himself, Dreama Walker (June) and executive producer Nahnatchka Khan of "Apartment 23" to find out more about what's in store for our favorite gang of apartment-dwelling lunatics in Season 2.

Naturally, there are spoilers ahead, so turn back now if you want to be surprised by the show's upcoming insanity.

June Gets A Job
Farewell, coffee shop! "June finally, after a long struggle, gets a job back on Wall Street, which she moved to the city for and lost in a day," showrunner Nahnatchka Khan previewed. "She finally makes it back, so once she gets in, it's like, ‘How do I manage this for the first time?' and Chloe [Krysten Ritter] really helps her with that, surprisingly. June immediately makes an office nemesis and Chloe tells her how to deal with having a nemesis, basically like Hannibal Lecter, where she tells her what's in the nemesis' mind."

Dreama Walker was excited about the opportunity -- especially the costume: "Of course, everyone that I work with is quirky and very strange, and we'll see how long the job lasts," she teased. "I'm hoping it lasts for a while; I quite like pencil skirts, I didn't know this, but have come to find out I quite enjoy wearing a business suit every once in a while. I love the fact that my character's in finance because that's not a very feminine sort of industry, so I love that June is committed to that."

Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
Romance is apparently on the horizon for both June and Chloe this season: "Chloe is gonna meet a guy who finally shows her that men are for more than just sex, so that's gonna be interesting for her. She's like, 'Men are people? What? No!' So that's gonna mess with her mind," Khan said. "And Dreama's gonna start dating. She's dating a lot of guys in the city and moving on past her fiancé, and we have sort of a percolating thing with one of the main characters that we're gonna start to tease out."

Walker was happy to reveal the identity of said percolating suitor -- her coffee shop boss, Mark: "Mark [Eric André] is really moving in. Mark has all of a sudden decided he has a thing for me, so that's happening. There's one episode coming up that I'm particularly excited about, but we'll see what takes place. Apparently, there's a cute little love interest and it's introduced in an adorable way. Right now in the episode we're doing, Chloe and I are competing with the same guy in a game show that James is hosting. Chloe all of a sudden decided she wanted to date the guy I was dating -- it was only a matter of time before she was gonna jump in on that."

Yes, James Gets A Game Show
"We're shooting an episode now where I decide that the dating game show I hosted in Belgium -- the producers just won't listen to me -- so I decide to use Chloe and June as guinea pigs for my own game show," Van Der Beek explained. Khan described the show as along the same lines as "The Bachelor."

A Twisted Thanksgiving
"There is the most wrong Thanksgiving episode of anything ever shot which comes up; completely politically incorrect, totally up our alley," Van Der Beek teased. Walker explained: "June goes to Chloe's parents' house for Thanksgiving and fakes being in a wheelchair to earn back the sympathy and the respect of Chloe's mother, which is ludicrous and ridiculous and hilarious."

James Van Der Beek: World's Sexiest Man?
After wrapping up his "Dancing With The Stars" storyline (which Van Der Beek says "ends spectacularly; I'm not gonna tell you whether it ends spectacularly well or not ..."), James has set his sights a little higher this season.

"He's gonna try and get on the cover of People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive," Khan said. "Chloe takes over as managing editor of People for three days to try and get him on the cover. She just comes in and fires two people and says she's been transferred from the London office."

And More Madness ...

Van Der Beek: "We explore the realm of a Halloween party, which fake James throws, except he doesn't like to be scared, so he throws a positivity party -- only happy costumes are allowed. He's an angel, and Luther's a cherub ... Mark, in some terrible lapse of judgment, starts asking James for advice on relationships and life and love. The poor guy. So there's a lot of hijinks attached to that. Crissy (Nora Kirkpatrick) and Steven (Tate Ellington), who were in the wedding episode last year, they come back. We just finished shooting that. Crissy's got a bun in the oven, is it James'? We don't know ..."

Walker: "Chloe has an episode where she tries to be more demure like me and I teach her how to try and find a good man, the right kind of man who will put a ring on her finger one day. So she has an episode where she tries to wear cotton little sundresses and be like me. And of course, it fails miserably, but it's very funny to watch because it's super unnatural. We have some episodes from last season that are airing that I'm just still trying to remember, but they're all very, very funny."

"Don't Trust The B----- In Apartment 23" airs Tuesdays at 9:30 p.m. ET on ABC.

Michael J. Fox is shaking up Lockhart/Gardner again.

According to TVLine, the actor will be reprising his role as Louis Canning -- the head of Lockhart/Gardner's rival law firm -- on this season of "The Good Wife." Fox will appear on the show's eleventh episode, set to air in January 2013.

In other casting news...

Adam Baldwin is replacing Titus Welliver on "The Last Ship." Welliver has opted out of TNT's "Last Ship" pilot due to a health emergency, with Adam Baldwin taking his place. [Deadline]

Mark-Paul Gosselaar is stopping by "Men At Work" for a "Franklin & Bash" reunion. Gosselaar will team up with Breckin Meyer to play Tim, a handsome doctor who also happens to be Amy's (Meredith Hagner) ex-boyfriend. [THR]

"CSI:NY" has nabbed two "One Life To Live" vets. David Fumero will play Benny, a contact of Detective Lovato (Natalie Martinez), while Melissa Fumero will play a close friend of Adam's (A.J. Buckley). [TVLine]

The end has finally come. The battle rounds of Season 3 of "The Voice" came to a close this week, but not without a bang. We saw what Cee Lo and Adam deemed one of the best and most even battles ever, a background singer that stole the spotlight and the worst crimping job on the show yet. Poor Kelly, Crapa ... in more ways than one.

Read on to find out who the final three performers joining the knockout rounds are. Speaking of which, if you understand Carson's explanation of the knockout rounds better than we did -- Isn't it the battle rounds, but with different songs instead of duets? -- please share in the comments.

Adriana Louise vs. Jordan Pruitt
Team Christina
"Hot & Cold," Katy Perry

Former Disney darling Jordan is up against gang violence victim Adriana. Seems like a fair fight. When they step up to the piano for their first rehearsal, Adriana is the first contestant to genuinely be thrilled by Billie Joe Armstrong.

Billie Joe could hear the professionalism in Jordan and really liked the raspiness in her voice, while
X-Teens thinks Adriana is holding back and wants to hear more aggression.

Chelsey: "Why didn't Vajayjay Hudgens leave Jordan a message on the Sprint tablet?"
Jaimie: "That was way harsh, Baby V."

Struggling musician Adriana is threatened by Jordan's stage experience and at their final rehearsal, Christina thinks Jordan should venture out and take risks.

Chelsey: "X-Tina really is the only coadge who sings all the time. It's such a, 'No, you're doing it wrong. Listen to me do it right' thing."
Jaimie:  "Because she's an internationally renowned pop star."

"Because I worked with Disney for so long, it was kind of like a security blanket," Jordan says. But she thinks she has "an aggressive personality -- people just haven't seen it yet." Rawr.

Christina is really hoping to find a future pop superstar in one of these ladies and she thinks it'll all come down to the big battle night.

"I experienced success at such a young age and I feel like this is my second chance at success," Jordan says before she takes the stage. "I am not going home tonight. "It seems like a death wish, but moving on.

Will it be the "fearless New York waitress," Carson wonders, or "the singer who once toured with the Jonas Brothers?" Hard to say, Cars.

During the performance, Jordan is working some hairography, crowd clapping and impressive high heel jumping, but she seems to lack the genuine passion and real attitude Adriana brings to the performance.

As Christina takes time to mull over her "super tough decision," as Carson has deemed it, Cee Lo says theirs was "one of the best battles we've had." "You both are competitive vocalists," Cee Lo adds and compares this to an Olympic competition. But he liked Adriana's feist so he's go with her.

"I don't think that we've ever had a battle that's been so even," Adam says. He doesn't know how to help Christina make a decision, but ultimately, he says he'd go with Jordan because she peaked at the end.

Blake says he's "never heard a break in runs" like he did with Jordan so he's going with her too. He also wishes he had a steal left, but what's done is done, Shelton.

Ultimately, it's up to Christina. She says she bonded with Jordan due to their Disney upbringings and says she was surprised by the risks she took. But because of the notes Adriana hit, Christina says that the performer "went there" and X-Teens goes with the girl from the Bronx.

Chelsey: "Adriana went there. Like 'Degrassi.'"
Jaimie: "X-Teens is Team Nickelodeon. That would explain her decision."

Backstage, Adriana seems legitimately shocked by her coadge's choice, while on the stage, Jordan starts to tear up. "Ugh. Honey, please don't cry," X-Teens says as she holds on to her weave before half-rushing the stage to hug Ms. Pruitt.

Chelsey: "Christina waddles to the stage."
Jaimie: "She's trying to make sure her boobs don't hit her in the face."

Backstage, Jordan says she thought it was going to be her and it wasn't. Cue more tears.

Chelsey: "Ugh, Jordan. Even defeat couldn't un-cocky you."
Jaimie: "It's that Disney confidence. Mickey taught it to her."
Chelsey: "'If you can dream it, you can do it.' That is a Walt Disney quote and also my quote from my senior yearbook, I think."
Jaimie: "It would be."
Chelsey:  "Obviously."

Winner: Adriana Louise

Kelly Crapa vs. Michaela Page
Team: Blake
"I Hate Myself for Loving You," Joan Jett

We weren't formally introduced to either of these ladies during the blind auditions, but Kelly is a 15-year-old country singer from Connecticut (we weren't aware that Connecticut allows country music) and Michaela is a 16-year-old punk rock chick with a mohawk from Boca Raton, FL, a.k.a. the land of Jewish grandparents, so this is confusing as well. These girls belong in a Starbucks contradiction commercial.

Chelsey: "Crapa ... that is a silly last name."
Jaimie: "She looks like Ali Lohan."
Chelsey: "Of course Michaela sang P!nk during her blind audition. She is so un-Blake."
Jaimie: "SO UNBLAKE. She has Melanie Martinez hair though in the multi-colored-ness."

As the two girls practice the song for the first time around the grand white piano, Buble is very impressed by Michaela's pipes, stating that she is a "60 year old black woman trapped in the body of a punk girl." And that marks the second contestant this season to be compared to an elderly black woman (looking at you, Cody Belew). Blake tells Michaela not to oversing, and he tells Kelly that she needs to sing like a punk rocker.

During the final rehearsal, Kelly proves she's a force to be reckoned with as she ups the country flair to compete with Michaela's strong vocals. Coadge Blake is pleasantly surprised with Kelly and tells her that he is very impressed with her improvements.

Jaimie: "What do you think Michaela looks like when she wakes up?"
Chelsey: "Like, her hair? A train wreck."

As the two girls hit the stage, it appears that the hairstylist was either wasted or lazy while crimping Kelly's hair. Crimping should not be a thing this century regardless, but this situation is just offensive.

Jaimie: "This should be a lesson to all 15-year-old girls. Do not let someone bring a crimper to your head without your say so."
Chelsey: "JUST SAY NO."

The performance begins and it is a Team Christina-esque cat fight, taken up a few notches. Definitely not something we expect to see on Team Blake.

Jaimie: "Whoooooaaaaaa. I can't tell if they practiced this, but there is some serious sass."
Chelsey: "THROW ELBOWS! Also, all I hear is Katie Holmes."

The battle to end all battles continues to escalate throughout the performance, and we legitimately feel like these two girls are about to fight.

Chelsey: "Kelly has bitch face on like whoa."
Jaimie: "She learned it in Connecticut."
Chelsey: "True. Living life with her nose turned up."
Jaimie: "I'd go with Michaela."
Chelsey: "I think so too."
Jaimie: "No hug at the end of this performance, I'm guessing."

Christina and Cee Lo both think that Michaela is the winner of the battle. Adam refers to it as a "musical pillow fight," which is insulting and pervy all at once. Nice one, Levine. Coadge Blake is proud of both of the girls, but says that Michaela's one year of experience over Kelly makes her the winner of the battle.

Winner: Michaela Page

Avery Wilson vs. Chevonne
Team: Cee Lo
"Titanium," David Guetta ft. Sia

Cee Lo pairs Connecticut dancer-turned-singer Avery Wilson against Jersey back-up singer Chevonne. This is some tri-state area shit! Avery comes from a family of dancers, but his father told him that he's a singer. Chevonne toured with Gaga. 'Nuff said.

When they meet their celebrity mentor Rob Thomas, Chevonne freaks out, which is kind of hilarious. As rehearsals begin, she's is killing it, and Avery struggles. Rob Thomas praises Chevonne, and she freaks out even more.

Chelsey: "My god, she is still going on about Rob Thomas. This is hilarious"
Jaimie: "In general, the freakouts over Rob Thomas have been hilarious. The fact that they have occurred is hilarious."
Chelsey: "True. 'ROB THOMAS SINGING MY PRAISE!? I HAVE DREAMED OF THIS MOMENT!.' Like, girl. You toured with GAGA."
Jaimie: "GAGA"

At the final rehearsal, Avery has really stepped his game up.

Jaimie: "Ohhhhh. Avery sounds nice."
Chelsey: "He does. But he looks like he's wearing a pendant of life."

Chevonne is having trouble controlling her voice, but Cee Lo is also concerned about Avery's consistency. Perhaps he should give a temple guard his pendant to advance. It is clear that this a battle of raw talent vs. experience.

Chelsey: "Fat Dave Grohl is in the background, sipping on Starbucks. Guy's gotta stay awake! No snoozing!"
Jaimie: "Last one, DG! You can do it!"

As Avery and Chevonne prepare for battle, Chevonne says that she loves Avery, but she needs to win this as she bounces around backstage.

Chelsey: "I love how they've yet to refer to this as the final battle, like we don't know it's the last one and we don't know that X-Tina will be stealing the loser."

Carson gets over-excited as he announces the two contestants, and practically screams "Let the battle ... begin" at the top of his lungs. WE HEAR YOU, CARSON. You have a microphone.

The battle begins, as Carson told us it would, and the two sound great together, and much better than they sounded together during rehearsal.

Jaimie: "Cee Lo is so happy."
Chelsey: "Oh he has happy feet for sure."
Jaimie: "I love Avery's outfit. I don't like every note Chevonne sings, but some are just SO awesome."

Avery's dance moves flow much better than Chevonne's, whose moves seem forced and over-dramatic.

Chelsey: "Avery just glided like he was on roller blades."
Jaimie: "Christine is laughing at Chevonne. Because she is so NASTY."
Chelsey: "Totally. 'Haha, look at this silly girl! I'm so talented.'"
Jaimie: "'I'm gonna steal her because the producers said so!'"

The battle ends, and it feels fairly clear that Avery won it. Adam and Blake both say that Avery is the definite winner, while Christina is "amazed" by Chevonne's stage presence and thinks that she is the winner (a.k.a. this was the last battle and they made Christina use her final steal so the teams would be even). Chevonne starts speaking to Christina directly, and it's awkward.

Jaimie: "Why is Chevonne talking to Christina? 'Thank you. You so get me.'"
Chelsey: "Assless chaps, man. Assless chaps. I wonder if that's how Christina chooses people ... 'Can I get this girl to wear assless chaps? Probably. PUSHIN' MY BUTTON!'"

Cee Lo agrees with his boyz and chooses Avery as the winner, but soon enough, X-Tina comes in for the steal. WHOA! SURPRISE! But Chevonne is incredibly happy, as is her family, and it's cute. She then continues to talk to Christina directly and then refers to her backstage as "one of my idols of life." Can't wait to see you in them assless chaps, gurl!

Winner: Avery Wilson
Stolen: Chevonne, Team Christina

"The Voice" airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.

At last: our first glimpse of Louis C.K. as "Saturday Night Live" host is finally here!

After a few Halloween cracks with Bill Hader and Bobby Moynihan, the upcoming first-time host assures viewers that, "We're doing the show no matter what happens" in the promos above. It doesn't look like Hurricane Sandy was able to put the kibosh on this week's writing and rehearsal schedule, unlike C.K.'s stand-up show. How do you think he'll do as host?

Watch Louis host "SNL" with musical guest Fun this weekend, Nov. 3 at 11:30 p.m. EST on NBC.

It looks like Sarah Shahi is trading attorneys for firefighters.

According to TV Guide, the "Fairly Legal" actress has booked a multi-episode arc on NBC's "Chicago Fire" as Renee, a new love interest for Taylor Kinney's character.

There's no word on when her first episode will air, but rumor has it Shahi will be popping up on the series before the end of the year.

In addition to "Fairly Legal," Shahi has also appeared on "The L Word," "Life," "Psych" and more.

In other casting news...

Serinda Swan has joined the "Graceland" cast. The "Breakout Kings" alumna has joined the USA drama as an undercover DEA agent named Paige. [EW]

Abhi Sinha is headed to "Terminales." The "Social Network" actor had landed the lead role in the ABC Family pilot as a Harvard grad named Danny who constantly competes with his friend April, played by Italia Ricci. [THR]

Monique Gabriela Curnen is "Mentalist"-bound. The "Dark Knight" actress will play Tamsin Wade, an agent working in the gang division of CBI. [EW]

A "Californication" actor is headed to "Last Resort." Jason Beghe will play an ex-Navy SEAL on the ABC drama. [THR]

Jimmy Kimmel was delighted to welcome his first guest for his week of Brooklyn "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" shows on Tuesday, Howard Stern.

Stern was a big get for Kimmel, as Kimmel got his start in radio, the medium that Stern dominates. But as soon as Stern walked out, he playfully chided Kimmel for doing his shows during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

"I was hoping you'd cancel," Stern joked. "The whole week, you hear Jimmy carrying on about his girlfriend David Letterman." (The "Late Show" host, whom Kimmel has long spoken of as an idol, is tomorrow night's guest.)

Although Kimmel reluctantly canceled Monday's show due to Sandy, the rest of the week is scheduled to go as planned. Kimmel shows in Brooklyn, which is his hometown, are being filmed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Check out part 1 of the interview above, and parts 2 and 3 below.

WATCH: Part 2

WATCH: Part 3

The Los Angeles Press Club has nominated The Huffington Post for National Entertainment Journalism Awards in five categories, including best entertainment website, best critic and best business story. The winners will be announced at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 18.

Maureen Ryan was nominated for best critic, an award she took home last year.

And, as if to prove that there is literally nothing at which he cannot excel, HuffPost blogger James Franco was nominated for best entertainment blog by an individual.

Two of the site's nominations recognized articles that were written for Huffington., HuffPost's iPad-native magazine. Michael Hogan's profile of independent film producers Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy, nominated for best online feature or series, ran in the launch issue, and Michael Calderone's story on NBC's Olympic preparations, nominated for best business story on any media platform, was published in Issue 7.

According to its website, the nonprofit Los Angeles Press Club, founded at the start of the last century, "exists to support, promote and defend quality journalism in Southern California." The organization gives out two sets of awards each year: the Southern California Journalism Awards, presented in June, and the National Entertainment Journalism Awards.

The National Entertainment Journalism Awards became the subject of a minor controversy this week when Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood announced that her site would be boycotting this year's awards to protest what she called a lack of transparency and willingness to reward "checkbook journalism." In a statement, the LA Press Club's executive director and president suggested that Finke's real grievance had to do with their decision to honor her rival, Hollywood Reporter editor Janice Min, with a career achievement award at this year's ceremony. Finke, as usual, got the last word, however, telling Mediabistro, "The Los Angeles Press Club knows full well that I began raising my concerns about the integrity of its awards process right after last year's competition."

The end is near for Walter White and Jesse Pinkman.

On Tuesday, "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan spoke to Huffington Post TV about where he and his writing team are with the show's final set of episodes, which are scheduled to arrive on our TVs next summer.

There are no spoilers below -- despite a profound desire to know what comes after Hank's crucial discovery in Walt's bathroom, I avoid "Breaking Bad" spoilers like the plague, and Gilligan is similarly averse to tipping fans off about what's coming next.

Though the contents of the final eight episodes didn't come up, Gilligan was quite willing to talk about what episode the staff is working on and to discuss the process of bringing his acclaimed five-season story to a close. As free as ever of the kind of hubris that has come to define Walt in recent seasons, Gilligan compared the show to a game of chess then joked that "tiddlywinks is more my speed." But he speaks frankly here about the "terror" he feels trying to create the best possible endgame for the meth-dealing saga.

Where are you now in writing that final set of episodes?
We're plugging away on the fourth episode out of the final eight, and we're a little bit behind, because we're struggling to make it as good as we possibly can, and to think through all the consequences. It's sort of like playing a game of chess. You think, "Okay, if Walt does this, then what does this character do? What does that character do? What happens if this series of events occurs? What is the counter-move?" So it's sort of like thinking as a chess player, which is unfortunate because tiddlywinks is more my speed.

But you know what the ending's going to be at this point?
We have a strong feeling of what the ending's going to be. We have most of the major signposts in place, but there may be some details that we currently lack. And we're always on the lookout for something. We have some good stuff that we're excited about, but we're always open to something better that may come along.

As you are going through this final process, is the feeling sadness, terror or a mixture of all that? Is it excitement?
Yeah, it's a little everything. Mostly I'm starting to get nostalgic about it, but it's also terror about getting it right. It's mostly terror right now. I just want to get it right. And then once we break the bulk of the stories, once we really have them broken, the sadness will come in, and then I'll feel very sorry that it's over.

I was reading this really good article about the space shuttle, when they were moving it through Los Angeles a few weeks ago. Someone was quoted who worked for Boeing or Rockwell -- one of those big companies that helped build it -- and they said, "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." They were talking about the shuttle program, but I thought, "Wow, that's how I'm going to try to feel about 'Breaking Bad' being over."

"Breaking Bad" returns to AMC for its final season in the summer of 2013.

"Dancing With The Stars: All Stars" saw what may have been the most surprising elimination yet on Tuesday night.

After earning a perfect score on Monday night, the ABC series' judges were visibly shocked when Sabrina Bryan was eliminated, with Carrie Ann Inaba clutching her stomach.

Luckily, Sabrina was able to make a graceful exit.

“Every single person can understand what it feels like to get a second chance at something and this was my second chance," she said."‘Dancing With the Stars,' honestly, has been just an absolute dream.”

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George Wendt was hospitalized Sunday night, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The 64-year-old actor, who played the beer-guzzling "Norm" on the hit television series "Cheers," checked into the hospital due to chest pain.

The medical care has forced Wendt to leave his current role as Oscar Madison in the Northlight Theatre production of "The Odd Couple," in Chicago. He is expected to make a full recovery.

"George is family to us at Northlight and we wish him well for a complete and speedy recovery. He will be missed in the rehearsal room and on stage," "Odd Couple" director B.J. Jones told the publication in a statement.

It should be easy to write off "Boy Meets World" as a blip on the lengthy timeline of family-friendly sitcoms. The show opted for simplicity over a high concept hook: at the center was the "Boy," Cory Matthews, a regular kid who navigated the ups and downs of life along with his mom, dad, older brother Eric, younger sister Morgan, his best friend Shawn, romantic interest Topanga, and wise sage of a teacher Mr. Feeny. As a well-intentioned, by-the-books comedy, the conclusion of "Boy Meets World" should have spelled the end of the series in viewers' TV Guides and minds.

Throughout Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath, most people have gone out of their way to not politicize the storm, and focus on relief efforts.

Tracy Morgan is not most people.

"This storm came out of nowhere! New York never had no hurricanes," the "30 Rock" star told Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday night. "This got Republicans written all over it. This has Romney written all over it."

His suspicion? That Romney is controlling the weather to keep Democrats from voting.

"They're trying to suppress the Latino vote!" he joked. "But they have a lot of hurricanes in Puerto Rico. There ain't no Latinos afraid of hurricanes."

Before joking about the hurricane, Morgan swapped stories with Howard Stern about their shared love of their pet sharks.

"30 Rock" is airing on Wednesday this week instead of its normal Thursday time.

Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert may be country music's poster couple of the moment, so how do they do it?

People magazine has a new cover story with the "The Voice" judge and his country star wife, who reveal that they've spent just about 150 days with each other since marrying. "We don't' go more than two weeks without seeing each other," Lambert told the publication. Shelton confirmed this, saying that if they spent too much time together, "we'll kill each other!"

Okay then! After dating for six years, Shelton, 36, and Lambert, 28, married in May 2011 in a lavish Texas ceremony that included guests Kelly Clarkson, Reba McEntire, Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley. Shelton and Lambert are set to appear at the Country Music Association Awards this Thursday, where each is nominated for four awards.

Another week, another new episode, albeit on an unusual day this week. Welcome to this week's open comment thread for "There's No I In America," the Oct. 31 episode of "30 Rock" (Season 7, Episode 5). It will still air at its usual time slot at 8/7c.

Once you've seen the episode, the comment section below is here for you and all your ranting and praising needs. Tonight is the follow up to last week's dramatic realization that Jenna may be the deciding factor in the presidential election, so Jack and Liz will be doing everything in their power to woo her to their respective sides. Meanwhile, Kenneth learns about voting (which just seems silly because as we all know, choosing is a sin, so best to just write in the Lord's name).

Tell us what you thought below!

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Marissa Jaret Winokur is looking good!

The 39-year-old actress showed off her newly slim figure at the premiere of "Wreck-It Ralph" on Monday night. After months of hard work, dedicating herself to eating right and exercising she flaunted her new bod in a tight black skirt and long sleeve blue blouse.

Back in January, the former "Dancing With The Stars" contestant told People magazine that she was committed to getting her weight back on track after the always too-tempting holiday season.

It looks like she made good on her word.

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