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The major broadcast networks all passed on Sarah Palin’s pitch for an Alaska-based reality show, but it looks like the show may happen on cable. Pundits are characterizing the show as an infomercial for Palin’s 2012 presidential run. Much was made of Palin’s visits to the major broadcast networks a few weeks ago, when she and producer Mark Burnett pitched …

Teen actor Mark Indelicato notched some LGBT history last night when his Ugly Betty character had his first kiss with a boy. The scene was appropriately awkward, cute, and full of potential heartbreak. Head over to After Elton where Michael Jensen already has a recap up.

What were your favorite TV shows as a kid? For this question, let’s define “kid” as up to the beginning of high school.

If you haven’t gotten around to Monday night’s episode, stay out of the comments on this post. If you have, let’s dish this week’s disastrous challenge and the elimination.

The third season of Celebrity Apprentice debuted last night and She Wired reports that contestant Cyndi Lauper is once again fighting for the LGBT community. The Grammy-winning singer debuted on NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice Sunday night and is creating a buzz about her LGBT charity, The True Colors Fund. One of the 56-year-old singer’s goals is to get the straight community …

Even if you aren’t a regular viewer of RuPaul’s Drag Race, you may want to set your DVR for tonight’s episode when Henry Rollins guest judges.

Television and movie star Peter Graves died at his home of an apparent heart attack yesterday at the age of 83. Graves had just returned from brunch with his wife and kids and collapsed before he made it into the house, Brokaw said. One of his daughters administered CPR but was unable to revive him. Graves’ family doctor visited the …

Last night I attended the 2010 NYC GLAAD Media Awards at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, where industry hotshots mingled with wealthy supporters as media contributions to LGBT equality were recognized in numerous categories. Joy Behar and Cynthia Nixon were honored for their outspoken activism and other top awards went to ABC’s Brothers & Sisters for Best Television Drama, …

An almost shot-for-shot copy of the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage.

The Facebook campaign for Betty White to host Saturday Night Live has been successful. Joining the Golden Girl for the special Mother’s Day episode are six former SNL players, most of whom are moms: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Molly Shannon, Maya Rudolph, Ana Gasteyer and Rachel Dratch. At 88, White will be the show’s oldest host ever, and the gig …

Don’t click on the comments if your tired buttocks haven’t gotten around to Monday’s episode. If you have, let’s dish the elimination and the challenge winner.

The New York Times reports: The dolls are part of a premium-price collectors’ series for adults that Mattel calls the Barbie Fashion Model Collection. Although there have been Barbies and Kens based on other TV series, among them “I Love Lucy” and “The X-Files,” the dolls will be the first licensed line for that collection, Mattel says, with a suggested …

Former teen idol and actor Corey Haim has been found dead of a drug overdose at the age of 38. Haim died at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental overdose, according to the LAPD’s North Hollywood Division. He was found unresponsive inside an Oakwood apartment, between Burbank and the Hollywood Hills, police said. His mother was at the home …

“Culture warrior” and infamous homophobe Janet Porter, the founder of the wacko Christianist group Faith2Action, is praying to the baby Jeebus for total Christian control of the American media. Enjoy the crazy! (Via – Right Wing Watch)

“I am who I am. I was never in, as they say. Never. I believe that nobody owes anything to anybody. Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don’t know somebody, then why would you explain to them how you live your life? “I feel like …

The image above was ABC7’s misleading final message to NYC last night just before their parent company Disney yanked their signal to Cablevision’s three million subscribers. Disney wants a $40M annual chunk of the dough that Cablevision collects for local/basic channels like ABC7 and the cable provider won’t pay it. So Disney pulled the plug, not Cablevision, despite what the …

Last night Craig Ferguson devoted his entire opening monologue to the Ashburn scandal to hilarious results. Too many great jokes, I’ll just tip you to one. (Paraphrasing) “Police knew Ashburn had been in a gay bar because he tested positive for appletinis.” The final joke is the best, though.

LOGO has rejiggered their casting call for their gay take on the Housewives phenomenon after their first concept about houseboys, Kept, resulted in few applicants. The new title: The Gay Socialites Of New York. Retch. (Via Brian Moylan @ Gawker)

Riding on the success of RuPaul’s Drag Race, in two weeks VH1 will launch Transform Me, a show in which women are madeover by the show’s transgender stars. VH1 and Left/Right Inc. have teamed up to create a new breed of fashion makeover show, Transform Me. Each half-hour episode follows the makeover of one woman badly in need of a …