Tonight is it!  The Top 12 is revealed and a MAJOR UPSET is coming.  This is important because this is the last week the sexes are separated.  It’s also important because this moment becomes the game changer.  Their venue gets bigger.  The contestants get to use a stylist to help shape their images.  And of course, next week they begin competing against each other in theme weeks.  Next week’s theme week is rumored to be…get this…THE ROLLING STONES.   Will the infamous Stones be there to mentor?  We shall see.

Meanwhile, back to tonight.  To recap, my predictions for who I think is going home tonight:  Paige Miles, Katie Stevens, Andrew Garcia and Toddrick Hall.  We’ll see if I come close.  Last week I was 3 out of 4 and I readily admit that I am not sure about the guys tonight.  To make matters worse, Ryan Seacrest teases at the top of the show that “we could be in for a surprise or two.”   Oy!  Full details and who’s going home…after the jump.

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Remember how ABC’s V left us with a classic cliffhanger way back on November 29^th, 2009? No? Well, if you lost track of the show over its unnecessarily extended hiatus, fear not! On Tuesday, March 23 [10/9C] ABC will present V: The Arrival – a one-hour special clip show to bring fans back up to date and provide new viewers with a jumping in point. Spoiler-filled details from the press release follow the jump.

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Yes, that’s right! On May 8, 2010, the First Lady of Television [60 years on TV!], Betty White makes her long overdue first appearance as guest host on Saturday Night Live!

Best known as the perennially innocent Rose Nylund on Golden Girls and the scheming Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, White most recently stole The Proposal out from under Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds whenever she was onscreen.

Although it is not known what sketches the show’s writers will create for her, I, personally, hope at least one addresses her many game show appearances [where she showed herself to be a remarkable improviser] and another gives us a Rose Nylund who is closer to her off screen, ribald self.

The boys are up tonight.  This is THE week.  They are vying for a spot in the top 12 and they will stop at nothing to advance, including one who takes on Christina Aguilera’s “Genie In A Bottle.”  No, I’m serious!  He’s not the only one to take a risk.  We have some pop, some country, some easy listening too, but it’s Michael Lynch (pictured) who gets mad props from the judges tonight.  If you want to know why it’s all after the jump.

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Sorry for the delay, all.  I am very much under the weather.  In any case, on with the show.  It’s Ladies Night once again and there are eclectic songs in the mix.  The judges give us everything from “That was all wrong” to “You are the one everyone has to beat.”  Many missteps and a few people right on the mark, among them, DiDi Benami (pictured) who redeems herself quite nicely after last week’s tongue lashing from the judges.  A complete wrap up of the night, after the jump.

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Anyone Psych fan who reads the TV listings for tomorrow night will recognize immediately that the show’s fourth season finale, Mr. Yin Presents… [USA, Wednesday, 10/9C] features the return of serial killer/basket case, Mr. Yang [Ally Sheedy]. Those listing may well include mention of the finale’s Hitchcockian influences. What they won’t tell you is just how well the ep, directed and co-written by series star James Roday, works.

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Gabourey Sidibe, Academy Award® Best Actress nominee for Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, is joining the cast of Showtime’s upcoming half-hour series The Big C in a recurring role.

The Big C stars multiple-award winner Laura Linney as a repressed wife and mother named Cathy who begins to reclaim her life after she is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Sidibe will play a smart-alecky student in Cathy’s class. Oliver Platt stars as Cathy’s well-meaning but immature husband.

The Big C begins shooting in May with an eye toward a late summer premiere.

Movie history has just been made. First, Kathryn Bigelow won the Academy Award® for Directing and moments later, another Oscar® for Best Film – she was a producer on The Hurt Locker, not just the director. Fellow nominee, James Cameron, was one of the first to stand – leading to a full on standing ovation for his ex.

Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin were solid but not brilliant co-hosts, picking up steam as the ceremonies proceeded. Their onscreen chemistry was good but they had a tendency to dispense their banter shade a shade too quickly.

As per usual, my choices for the awards were not entirely spot on, but in most cases, wins by other nominees could not possibly be considered disappointments. My thoughts follow the jump.

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It’s that wonderful time of the year when The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences hands out the most famous awards in the world [yes, even more well-known than the Nobel Prize]. Despite a drop-off in indie film production, it’s been a pretty good year for movies and the box office reflects that – in terms of popularity and quality.

Despite the apparent locks for various of the awards, the one sure thing about any awards ceremony – including the Academy Awards® – is that there’s no such thing as a sure thing. Thus, while we might expect Christoph Waltz to win Vest Supporting Actor for Inglourious Basterds, or Sandra Bullock to take home the Best Actress award for The Blind side, there are no guarantees.

Rather than make the usual predictions about who I think should win the major awards, this year I’m going with whom I most want to see win [turns out I’m lousy at predictions anyway…].

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Remember how Futurama got cancelled back in 2006 and Comedy Central bought the rights to air the original seventy-two episodes, beginning in 2008? Remember how the show’s ratings on CC were little short of magical? And how the show’s DVD sales were way up there? And how news was that there would be new eps?

Well, 20^th Century Fox Television has come through and now Comedy Central is bringing twelve new eps of Futurama to cable. The politically incorrect Matt Groening series – for my money, one of the best sci-fi series on TV – will begin its new season on June 24^th, 2010, at 10/9C.

Kiss my shiny metallic a$$, indeed!