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Veteran British actor Ian Carmichael - best known for his role as Bertie Wooster - has died at the age of 89.

Danii Minogue is filming a reality series about her pregancy.

Former Westlife star Brian McFadden will host a new TV show competition to make a boyband.

Big Love has been renewed for a fifth season.

The Grammys were watched by 35% more people in the US this year over last year and were the best ratings for the show since 2004.  Sadly, they weren't found live here on TV in New Zealand. 

Celebrity Big Brother has concluded in the UK, with Alex Reid crowned winner. 

Sky UK demonstrated its 3D service for a football match in nine pubs around the UK on the weekend. 

Elle Macpherson is the new host of Britain's Next Top Model. 

Photos of Carrie Underwood in How I Met Your Mother.

Jodi Gordon (Home and Away) has been offered a role in Aussie cop drama Cops LAC.

Jodi Gordon quits Home and Away - or was she fired?  Depends which report you believe.  Either case, it's bye bye Martha.

Martin Henderson will play the lead in Shonda Rhimes' new medical drama Off the Map. Will Martin be the new McDreamy?  Go him!

ABC will televise the wedding of the winners of The Bachelor in 2002 - Jason Mesnick and Molly Malaney.

New shows:

Mission: 2110 (BBC): Sci-fi gameshow from Doctor Who writer Phil Ford.

Joe Dirt (TBS): Animated version of the film

Untitled comedy (Fox): From Ron Howard and Brent Forrester (The Office) set in a tax department office.

How I Met Your Mother has been renewed for a sixth season.

The BBC is said to be planning six more episodes of Wallander.

Former Steps singer Ian "H" Watkins will guest star in Skins.

Breaking Bad Season 3 promo photos.

The upcoming Criminal Minds spin-off may star Forest Whitaker.

A House spin-off hasn't been ruled out.

Pernell Roberts (Bonanza) has died aged 81.

Spartacus gave Starz its best rated premiere to date.

New shows:

Livin' on a Prayer (CBS): from the makers of How I Met Your Mother.

Chaos (CBS): rogue CIA operatives fighting bureaucracy, incompetence and politics.

CBS has ordered two more seasons of Survivor and one more of The Amazing Race.

Billie Piper rules out a return to Doctor Who.

Liza Minnelli and Brian Stokes Mitchell are to guest star in a few episodes of Ugly Betty.

James Mitchell (All My Children) has died, aged 89.

Gary Coleman (Diff'rent Strokes) has been arrested for domestic violence reports TMZ. 

Todd Lasance (Home and Away) has plead guilty to a drugs charge and has been put on a good behavior bond.

Screen Actors' Guild Awards 2010:

Best Male Actor - Drama: Michael C. Hall - Dexter

Best Female Actor - Drama: Julianna Margulies - The Good Wife

Best Male Actor - Comedy: Alec Baldwin - 30 Rock

Best Female Actor - Comedy: Tina Fey - 30 Rock

Best Drama Acting - Mad Men

Best Comedy Acting - Glee

Best Stunt Acting - 24

New Lost Season 6 promo:

The Screen Actors Guild Awards screen later today.

New shows:

This Little Piggy (NBC): two adult siblings who, after falling on hard times, are forced to move back into their childhood home with their eldest brother and his family.  (Sounds a little like Packed to the Rafters?)

Nathan vs. Nurture (NBC): an overachieving heart surgeon reunites with his biological parents and underachieving siblings.

Pleading Guilty (Fox): an ex-cop-turned-attorney.

Traffic Light (Fox): three male friends in different relationship stages, adapted from the highest-rating comedy in Israel.

Breakout Kings (Fox): procedural about a team of marshals and ex-cons who work together to catch criminals who break out of prison.

Edgar Floats (ABC): police psychologist who becomes a bounty hunter.

Guest appearances:

New show news:

Carter MacIntyre has joined the cast of J.J. Abrams' Undercovers.

Cutthroat (ABC): drama/comedy about an ambitious single mother running an international drug cartel and courting Beverly Hills' high society.

Generation Y (ABC): documentary style drama about a group of people who have flashbacks to high school ten years ago.

The Whole Truth (ABC): chronicles building of a legal case from the perspective of both the defense and prosecution.