BOB D’AMICO / ABC We can finally say that there is, indeed, an award for everything: on Oct. 15 the organization Human Rights First will award the first Award for Excellence in Television, presented by Sam Waterston. And by “excellence,” they mean “excellence in depicting torture.” (I’m picturing a statuette of a little gold man [...]

Good primer in today’s Variety about the impact of a possible Hollywood writers’ strike after the Guild contract expires at the end of the month. (In an extremely small nutshell, the writers are looking for a bigger share of revenue from all those non-TV ways in which you’ve been watching TV–downloads, DVDs and so on.) [...]

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, open the hilt of the samurai sword I’ve placed in your desk drawer. Boy, was it hard getting that thing past security! NBC Photo: Chris Haston So, Nikki Reed’s loss was Missy Peregrym’s gain was Candice Wilmer’s loss. Peregrym (the original illusionist-villainess Candice on Heroes) was cast over [...]