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Man, last night was uhg-leee on "American Idol." Dreadlocks Boy is definitely going home, unless there’s some sort of rift in the time-space-tweener girl continuum. So we’re counting down the minutes to the results show. In the meantime…

"Hannah Montana" ratings took a big hit this week. Could it really be that ginned-up Vanity Fair photo controversy? Does that at least give us an excuse to run the picture again? (TV By The Numbers)
Obsessive analysis of the identity of the last Cylon mole on "Battlestar Galactica." (Cellounge)
The "Veronica Mars" Cruise. Oh dear. (Cruise to Mars)
"Smallville" season finale spoilers. (TV Addict)
Josh Radnor reassures fans about the return of "How I Met Your Mother." (TV Squad)
Last night’s episode gives fresh evidence why "Reaper" must be renewed. More Gladys!!! (TV Squad)
Our friend Tim Goodman’s Monday column had some plain-talk common sense for network executives. Which will of course be ignored. Sigh. (SF Gate)

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Miley Cyrus got nothin’ on the nubiles in Disney-branded Chinese lingerie ads. Slate offers a thoughtful piece here, with a pic of a Beijing billboard. TMZ offers a somewhat giddier take, complete with a photo gallery of pix like the one at right. So maybe, Mickey Rat, you could be just a little less hypocritical about the whole Miley/Vanity Fair thing, eh?
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Saving "Reaper" from the cancellation scythe? (LA Times)Fixing CW in general. (Reuters)Gale Harold joining "Desperate Housewives." (Televisionista)I’m not the only one with a contrarian rant about the Miley Cyrus brouhaha. (Televisionista)"House" episode deconstructed. "Other hand!" Funny! (TV Squad)"Gossip Girl" recap - what are they saying about Miley? (Buddy TV)
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I really wasn’t going to write anything about this, but once they put it on all the evening newscasts, I just had to ask a few questions…
1) War in Iraq. War in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden still on the loose. Waterboarding. Secret CIA prisons.  Genocide and starvation in Darfur. Global warming. The economy cratering. Gas headed for $4 a gallon. A presidential election. AND THERE’S STILL TIME ON THE EVENING NEWS FOR HANNAH MONTANA???
2) Have you watched the behind-the-scenes video or looked at the behind-the-scenes slide show of the photo shoot on Vanity Fair’s site? Was 15-year-old Miley Cyrus a victim of an unscrupulous photog? Her dad, grandma, stylist, publicist and probably several Disney secret police agents were there, and even if dad left early, it’s highly unlikely that the group would have let even Annie Leibovitz talk them into anything they didn’t want Miley to do. And c’mon, look […]

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Shows like "High School Musical," "Zoey 101," "The Naked Brothers Band," and "Hannah Montana" have gotten a lot of love from parents and young viewers in the past couple of years. They’re not very dirty, which is a real relief to parents, but they also don’t talk down to kids. Wholesome entertainment isn’t much good if it isn’t actually entertaining, and the latest explosion in youth media seems to do a pretty good job of satisfying everyone.
But how wholesome are they, really? And can they satisfy absolutely everyone? OneNewsNow, a media outlet sponsored by the American Family Association, investigated, and found that "High School Musical" mentioned such works of the devil as evolution and yoga, and included hand-holding, lingering glances, and even kisses between unmarried couples. And of course, it also features dancing.
Similarly, while the other shows get praise for not including sex and nudity, they still show boys […]

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Shopping with Mindy Kaling, aka Kelly Kapoor of "The Office" (right). (NY Times)
"The Colbert Report" to broadcast from Philly all week in effort to make Pennsylvania primary even more ironic. (AP)
Meanwhile ABC’s Charlie Gibson is prepping for Wednesday’s Clinton-Obama debate in Philly, which he’ll moderate. (Hollywood Reporter)
Advance word on the Disney Channel ‘08-09 sked. They’ll, um, probably renew "Hannah Montana." (Buddy TV)
"High School Musical" star Zac Efron to play gay twins? I think somebody’s dreaming. (Buddy TV)
Did "Gossip Girl" flacks try a little trickery to stir up buzz? Duh. (TV Addict)
All the news on scheduling of "Lost" and "Grey’s" season finales, including those extra hours. (TV Guide)

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Miley Cyrus may be a good influence on her young fans, but Miley-branded products - manufactured in China for Disney and sold at Wal*Mart - are loaded with lead, according to CNN and the Center For Environmental Health. Oops.
Sweet niblets! Keep your mouth off that vinyl Hannah Montana purse!
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After sellout crowds at every "Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best Of Both Worlds" show, Disney made a 3D, limited-engagement concert movie (the poster, at left, features Miley and her alter ego), which opened this weekend and kicked everything else out of the way.
The "Best Of Both Worlds" movie snagged double the box office take of its nearest competitor, sold more advance tickets than any other concert movie offered through online ticket systems, and may even become the top selling concert movie of all time. Miley Cyrus herself, some say, could be a billionaire before she’s twenty.
She’s certainly making all the right moves to do it.  Celebitchy says there’s a second movie in the works, this one a feature film based on the "Hannah Montana" TV show. Filming is set for this summer, and mania is scheduled to begin six weeks before the film’s release.
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Teenagers are not just big business but gi-normous. And there’s lots of news from the youth front in Hollywood…

The opening spot on the Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana tour has been an awesome launch pad for the career of the Jonas Brothers. They’ve signed a deal with LiveNation to headline they’re own tour beginning soon after this month’s end to the current gig. (Buddy TV)
By the way, word is that Joe Jonas may be dating teen pop sensation JoJo Levesque. (Boston Globe)
"High School Musical 3"
will start shooting in Utah in April. About seven weeks of shooting are
scheduled to begin April 21, with the movie hitting theaters - not TV -
later this year. (Salt Lake Tribune)
And - SPOILER ALERT - here’s a recap of Friday’s season-ending cliffhanger episode of "Zoey 101," starring Jamie Lynn Spears. Fans were left wondering just how things will work out between London-bound Zoey and her "best guy friend" […]

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Junior Celebs sent some fan questions to "Hannah Montana" star Miley Cyrus. Young Miss Cyrus is nearly universally popular: Just yesterday I had to explain the difference between Miley Cyrus and Miley Stewart to someone who doesn’t even have kids.The Gossip Girls have a whole bunch of photos of Vanessa Hudgens from her recent appearance in Washington D.C.
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