Pop Culture Checklist

Latest Pop Culture News

-The CW announced the following shows coming back in the fall: Smallville, Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, 90210, America’s Next Top Model, and Supernatural.

-The original Star Trek episodes and films are coming to Blu-ray. On April 28, “Star Trek: The Original Series — Season One” will be available on a 7-disc set that includes all 29 episodes from the 1966-67 season. On May 12, Paramount will release two Blu-ray boxed sets of the films based on the original series, the “Star Trek Original Motion Picture Collection” and the “Star Trek Motion Picture Trilogy.”

-LL Cool J will star in a CBS spinoff of NCIS. He’ll play a tough, but charming, former Navy SEAL who works undercover for the NCIS unit in Los Angeles and is an expert on the Middle East.

-USA will premiere “Law and Order: Criminal Intent” and “In Plain Sight” back-to-back starting April 19.

-MC Hammer, the famous rapper in the 90’s, will star in a reality show on A&E. He, along with his wife and five kids, will be the focus of the show called “Hammertime.” The 11-episode show premieres later this year.

-Lifetime has renewed “Army Wives” for a fourth season.

-ABC Family has canceled the comedy “The Middleman” ‘

-TBS announced that “My Boys” will return March 31 in a new 10:30 Tuesday timeslot.

-The State’s Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter will star in a new Comedy Central series called “Michael and Michael have issues.” It will premiere in July.

TV PREMIERES

Sunday — Celebrity Apprentice (NBC)

Monday — Rules of Engagement (CBS); Ax Men (History); Harlem Heights (BET); Saving Grace (TNT)

Tuesday — Reaper (CW)

Wednesday — Make Me A Supermodel (Bravo)   

TV FINALES

Sunday — HGTV Showdown (HGTV); Rich Bride, Poor Bride (WE)

Monday — The Bachelor (ABC) ‘

Tuesday — Dirty Jobs (Discovery); Nip/Tuck (FX); 10 Items or Less (TBS)

Wednesday — Knight Rider (NBC); Ghost Hunters International (Sci Fi); Wonderland (DirecTV)

MOVIES arriving Friday, Feb. 27

-Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience

-Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Limited: Echelon Conspiracy

DVDs coming out Tuesday, March 3

-Australia

-Beverly Hills Chihuahua

-I’ve Loved You So Long

-Ashes of Time Redux

-Lake City

-ER: Complete 10th Season

-Ace Ventura Jr.: Pet Detective

-7th Heaven: The 8th Season

-The Hills: Complete Fourth Season

-Stiletto

-Nash Bridges: Second Season

-Wonder Woman

-Wonder Woman (Two-Disc Special Edition)

-Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic

-The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.

ALBUMS arriving Tuesday, March 3

-U2, “New Line On The Horizon”

-The Prodigy, “Invaders Must Die”

-Soundtrack, “Watchmen”

-Grandmaster Flash, “The Bridge: Concept of a Culture”

-Neko Case, “Middle Cyclone”

-Raul Malo, “Lucky One”

-The Soundtrack of our Lives, “Communion”

-Buddy + Julie Miller, “Written in Chalk”

-Bell X1, “Blue Lights on the Runway”

-Justin Townes Earl, “Midnight at the Movies”

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