Somehow, Andrea survived in Hell’s Kitchen 5 Episode 12, and Ben was sent home.

The final three are allowed to spend ten minutes with their family.

They will be serving lunch to 100 very special distinguished customers. They have 90 minutes to cook 100 small tasty portions.

Andrea’s flustered, as usual.

Their customers are chefs from across the area, including executive chefs with the highest honors. If they were expecting a bunch of kids to judge their food, they were wrong. This is going to be a tougher group than usual.

The guests will sample each of the dishes and vote for their favorite and least favorite.

Over 76% thought one dish was the worst. Danny loses the challenge, perhaps his poorest moment in the series thus far. Over 76% also chose one dish as their favorite. Paula wins the challenge. She will be given the full Hollywood pampered treatment for her reward.

As for the losers, they will clean and set the dining room ahead of the service. Then they get to do the laundry.

Following her makeover, Paula gets to do a live TV talk show.

Meanwhile, the others get a part two as well. They get to clean some more, while watching Paula’s debut.

Paula’s risotto is very nice. Andrea’s first appetizer is nicely cooked as well.

Paula is the first one to get the chance to run the kitchen. She’s stumbling and nervous initially.

Her first test is the carrot puree. Gloria has substituted the squash puree for it. Paula doesn’t notice. Ramsay has her taste it again. She notices it tastes like squash.

Scott brings up the next sabotage. He made spinach soup instead of watercress soup. This time she catches it.

Now it’s Danny’s turn. He believes he should nail this because he does it every night at home, but he’s fumbling initially as well.

He gets his test right off the bat. JP has sabotaged the first ticket. Danny didn’t notice.

He’s feeling insecure at the pass because he knows Ramsay is scrutinizing everything.

Danny’s next challenge was unplanned. Andrea gave him well done scallops, which he sends back.

Then Gloria gives him his next test. Rock hard potatoes. He doesn’t notice again.

After a rough start, Danny has recovered and is becoming more confident.

Now it’s Andrea’s turn. She’s aggressive, which is working.

Her first test is the wrong fish. It’s halibut, not dory. She doesn’t notice.

She bounces back a dish to Gloria because it has too much salt. Then she bounces the sauce back to Scott and tells him it needs to be seasoned. He responds that she doesn’t know what she’s talking about. She keeps sending him back more and more dishes. He hates her guts.

After the service is over, Ramsay is smiling. That’s new.

They will go back upstairs and come to a decision who should not be in the final two. Andrea votes for Danny because of his performance that night. He will vote for her since he’s been stronger than her throughout the competition. Paula votes for Andrea also because of her performance throughout the competition, and she agrees that Andrea was too aggressive at the service.

Paula has made the finals.

Andrea has used up her ninth life, and Danny joins Paula in the final two. A worthy finale.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Hell’s Kitchen Season 5 Episode 14, which airs Thursday at 9/8c on Fox.

Coach’s plans fell apart as Tyson was voted out the first chance the others got in Survivor: Tocantins Episode 10.

Coach and Debbie have no hard feelings. So they say.

JT tells Debbie he’s still with her and wants to go to the final four with her. He says that Erinn and Sierra will be the next ones gone.

She proposes an alternate plan. Ally with Erinn and Sierra, pulling the beyond fractured Timbira tribe back together to outnumber Jalapao. Gee, why didn’t they think of that two weeks ago?

The challenge is to see how in tune they are with the rest of the tribe. Somebody usually gets offended by this challenge. They have to guess whose name came up the most often. Reward is to be taken to a natural spring with a local family.

Who has not lived up to their potential? Coach.
Debbie, Coach, Erinn, Sierra, and Taj get a point.
Erinn strikes Sierra. Debbie strikes JT. Taj strikes Debbie. Coach strikes Sierra. Sierra strikes Coach.

Who would squander the million dollars the quickest? Sierra.
JT, Debbie, and Erinn get it right.
Debbie strikes Erinn. JT eliminates Sierra. Erinn strikes Debbie.

Who would never survive on their own? Debbie.
Stephen, Debbie, Erinn, and Taj get it right.
Taj strikes Coach. Erinn eliminates Coach. Stephen eliminates Debbie. Debbie strikes Erinn.

Who would you trust with your life? JT.
Everybody gets it right.
Taj strikes JT. JT eliminates Erinn. Erinn eliminates JT. Stephen strikes Taj.

Who is most likely to stab you in the back? Sierra.
Taj and Stephen get it right, bringing Taj down to 1 and Stephen down to 2.

Who would you least like to see win this game? Sierra.
Stephen wins the challenge.

Siera took a beating during this challenge. Most likely to stab someone in the back, least liked to win the game, most likely to squander the money, and first one eliminated. If anybody was hoping to win her as a vote, they’ll need to try harder than that.

Erinn is headed to Exile Island to keep the island under wraps just in case a new idol pops up. Taj will join Stephen on the reward, as will JT. No hiding where the core alliance in the game is.

No new clue on Exile, no fire, no food, no water, and pouring rain. Erinn’s pretty miserable.

Sierra hasn’t decided where she’s going to head with this. Coach thought she said she was going to be loyal. To the guy who tried to vote her out last night? While trying to get Sierra on her side, Debbie begins arguing with her rather than remaining calm. Time to come up with a new plan. Coach hopes to get JT on his side instead.

JT agrees with Coach to go to the final four with Debbie and Stephen. Coach tells him that Sierra wanted to get old Timbira back. He’d have to be dumb to believe that.

Sierra tells Stephen that Coach and Debbie wanted to renew the Timbira alliance. Stephen goes to Coach, who throws the other two under the bus and says that it was their idea, not his.

It’s still raining, so it’s time for an immunity challenge. They will each toss a grappling hook to retrieve three bags. The first three people will navigate a ball through a table maze. JT is the first to hook a bag. Taj and Debbie get a bag. Stephen gets his first bag, as does Coach. Sierra also gets a bag, leaving Erinn the only one without a bag. Coach gets his second bag. JT manages to grab his second bag. Coach gets his final bag, as does JT. They move on to the next round. Erinn gets her first bag, bringing everyone else even to compete for the last spot. Debbie gets her second bag. Stephen gets his second bag. Debbie gets her final bag. Debbie, Coach, and JT move on to the final round. This is about accuracy rather than speed. Coach gets off to a lead. JT’s catching up to him. Debbie’s out of it, but anybody could fall at any time. JT starts taking some risks to take the lead but loses his ball. Coach wins immunity.

To prove her point, Sierra confronts Coach out in the open about lying. Time for some screaming. Based on the shouting match that ensues, JT and Stephen seem to believe Sierra.

This continues at tribal council, as Sierra tells the truth again, leading to one of Coach’s typical rants.

Votes
Sierra
Debbie
Stephen
Sierra
Debbie
Sierra
Sierra

With 4 votes, Sierra has been eliminated. Dumb move voting out someone nobody likes and keeping around the people who can’t be trusted. Perhaps the most interesting vote is the Stephen vote, which came from Erinn, someone who’s clearly as completely out of the loop as she was on her old tribe (either that, or she’s smarter than she looks and is trying to create panic). Also interesting is the second Debbie vote, which was Taj.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Survivor: Tocantins episode 12 The Ultimate Sacrifice, which airs Thursday at 8/7c on CBS.

Gary Unmarried Season 1 Episode 19 Gary and His Half Brother airs Wednesday May 6 at 8:30/7:30c on CBS.

GARY’S HALF BROTHER, MITCH, COMES HOME FROM THE WAR AND CREATES HAVOC IN HIS HOUSE, ON “GARY UNMARRIED,” WEDNESDAY, MAY 6

Rob Riggle (”The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”) Guest Stars as Mitch

“Gary And His Half Brother” - When his rambunctious half brother, Mitch, returns home from the war and decides to move in, Gary quickly loses control of his kids and his house and is forced to play the role of grown up, on GARY UNMARRIED, Wednesday, May 6 (8:30-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:

Jay Mohr: Gary Brooks
Paula Marshall: Allison Brooks
Al Madrigal: Dennis Lopez
Ryan Malgarini: Tom Brooks
Kathryn Newton: Louise Brooks

RECURRING CAST:

Max Gail: Jack

GUEST CAST:

Rob Riggle: Mitch
Phil Suriano: Mr. Piscazzi
Dennis Satterfield: Officer

WRITTEN BY: Scott Parkin and Ed Brown

DIRECTOR: James Burrows

RATING: TV14-L

Fringe Season 1 Episode 19 The Road Not Taken airs Tuesday May 5 at 9:01/8:01c on Fox.

TUESDAY, MAY 5

–”FRINGE”(9:01-10:00 PM ET/PT) CC-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1

PA: Viewer discretion is advised.

MYSTERIOUS CASE HAS TRIO EXPLORING THE UNEXPLAINED ON AN ALL-NEW “FRINGE” TUESDAY, MAY 5, ON FOX

Story by Academy Award Winner Akiva Goldsman (”A Beautiful Mind”)

Olivia experiences “awake dreams,” seeing elaborate visions of things not really there. While investigating a disturbing case of a woman who apparently spontaneously combusted, Olivia throws caution to the wind and explores her unexplained visions further. Meanwhile, Walter discusses key information about the Z.F.T. manifesto, and Peter reveals a secret that yields unexpected results in the case in the all-new “The Road Not Taken” episode of FRINGE airing Tuesday, May 5 (9:01-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (FR-119) (TV-14 V)

Cast: Anna Torv as Olivia Dunham; Joshua Jackson as Peter Bishop; John Noble as Walter Bishop; Lance Reddick as Phillip Broyles; Kirk Acevedo as Charlie Francis; Mark Valley as John Scott; Blair Brown as Nina Sharp; Jasika Nicole as Astrid Farnsworth

Guest Cast: Jennifer Ferrin as Ms. Lutz; Clint Howard as Michael Carlin; Richard Bekins as Winters; Frank Bonsangue as Driver

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NCIS Season 6 Episode 23 Legend, Part 2 airs Tuesday May 5 at 8/7c on CBS.

WITH GIBBS AND MCGEE STILL IN LOS ANGELES TRACKING A TERRORIST CELL, TONY CONFRONTS ZIVA OVER HER RELATIONSHIP WITH MICHAEL RIVKIN, IN THE CONCLUSION OF A SPECIAL TWO-PART EPISODE OF “NCIS,” TUESDAY, MAY 5

Chris O’Donnell (Grey’s Anatomy) Guest Stars As Special Agent G. Callen

Grammy Award Winner LL Cool J Guest Stars As Special Agent Sam Hannah

Louise Lombard (CSI) Guest Stars As Special Agent Lara Macy

Peter Cambor (Notes From The Underbelly) Guest Stars As Operational Psychologist Nate Getz

Daniela Ruah Guest Stars As Special Agent Kensi Blye

“Legend (Part 2)” With the appearance of Mossad agent Michael Rivkin, Tony is forced to question Ziva’s loyalty to NCIS. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Special Agent Callen goes undercover to try to catch a terrorist cell while OSP psychologist Nate Getz discovers the startling truth about Gibbs and Special Agent Lara Macy’s relationship, on NCIS, Tuesday, May 5th (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS

NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Mark Harmon
NCIS Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo: Michael Weatherly
Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard: David McCallum
Abby Sciuto: Pauley Perrette
NCIS Special Agent Timothy McGee: Sean Murray
Ziva David, Mossad Liaison: Cote de Pablo
NCIS Director Leon Vance: Rocky Carroll

GUEST CAST

Special Agent G. Callen: Chris O’Donnell
Special Agent Sam Hanna: LL Cool J
Special Agent Lara Macy: Louise Lombard
Operational Psychologist Nate Getz: Peter Cambor
Special Agent Kensi Blye: Daniela Ruah
Michael Rivkin: Merik Tadros
Tech Operator Eric Beal: Barrett Foa
Shakira Zayd: Dilshad Vadsaria
Haziq Khaleel: Nick Tarabay
Jumah: Joseph Eid
MTAC Technician: Jill Czarnowski
Hood #1: Emiliano Torres
Hood #2: Patrick Wolff
Young Russian Woman: Liisa Evastina

Directed by: James Whitmore Jr.

Written by: Shane Brennan

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90210 Season 1 Episode 22 The Party’s Over airs Tuesday May 5 at 9/8c on The CW.

TUESDAY, MAY 5

“90210″ (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET)

“The Party’s Over” (TV- 14, D) (HDTV)

HIS AND HERS SHOWERS, BEVERLY HILLS-STYLE Adrianna (Jessica Lowndes) and Navid (Michael Steger) announce plans for their future to their friends but don’t receive the reaction they were hoping for. To support their friends, Naomi (AnnaLynne McCord), Annie (Shenae Grimes) and Silver (Jessica Stroup) throw Adrianna a bridal shower, while Dixon (Tristan Wilds), Ethan (Dustin Milligan) and Liam (Matt Lanter) surprise Navid with a bachelor party at a burlesque club. Now that Naomi’s big sister, Jen (Sara Foster, “CSI”) is back in town, the two decide to live together and turn to their scandalous father to release Naomi’s trust fund in order to support their wild spending habits. Ryan (Ryan Eggold) and Jen bump into each other at the Peach Pit and get wrapped up in a conversation of lies before deciding to have dinner together. Rob Estes and Lori Loughlin also star. Melanie Mayron directed the episode written by Jennifer Cecil (#122).

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Lost Season 5 Episode 15 Follow the Leader airs Wednesday May 6 at 9/8c on ABC.

JACK AND KATE FAIL TO AGREE ON THE BEST DIRECTION TO TAKE TO SAVE THEIR FELLOW ISLAND SURVIVORS, AND SAWYER AND JULIET COME UNDER SCRUTINY FROM THE DHARMA INITIATIVE, ON ABC’S “LOST”

“Follow the Leader” Jack and Kate find themselves at odds over the direction to take to save their fellow island survivors, Locke further solidifies his stance as leader of “The Others,” and Sawyer and Juliet come under scrutiny from the Dharma Initiative, on “Lost,” WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.

“Lost” stars Naveen Andrews as Sayid, Henry Ian Cusick as Desmond, Jeremy Davies as Daniel Faraday, Michael Emerson as Ben, Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hurley, Josh Holloway as Sawyer, Yunjin Kim as Sun, Ken Leung as Miles, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet and Terry O’Quinn as Locke.

Guest starring are Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Francois Chau as Dr. Pierre Chang, Doug Hutchison as Horace Goodspeed, Patrick Fischler as Phil, Eric Lange as Radzinsky, David S. Lee as younger Charles Widmore, Alice Evans as younger Eloise Hawking, Leslie Ishii as Lara, Sebastian Siegel as Erik, Kevin Chapman as Mitch, Elisabeth Blake as Vanessa, William Makozak as Captain Bird, Victoria Goring as mother and Maya Henssens as young girl.

“Follow the Leader” was written by Paul Zbyszewski & Elizabeth Sarnoff and directed by Stephen Williams.

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The top 5 sang in American Idol 8 Episode 33, and tonight one more will be sent home.

Matt Giraud goes to the right side of the stage.

Danny Gokey goes to the left side of the stage. Allison Iraheta joins him.

Kris Allen joins Matt on the right.

Adam Lambert takes a look at both groups. Which group does he think he belongs in? Oh not this again. He decides to join Allison and Danny.

Wrong group. Allison and Danny are safe. Adam joins Kris and Matt in the bottom three.

Kris can return to safety.

Adam is safe in what would have otherwise been a major upset. Two weeks after being saved by the judges, Matt Giraud has been voted out by America, marking the third time the voters have chosen to send him home.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of American Idol Season 8 episode 35, which airs Tuesday at 8/7c on Fox.

Lost Season 5 Episode 13 was the story of Miles, who found out that the doctor from the videos is his father and was reunited with Faraday as a boy.

Eloise goes to see Penny in the hospital, claiming that her son Daniel was responsible for Desmond being shot.

Flashback to 30 years earlier as Faraday meets up with Miles. He wants to know who told Jack to get on a plane. It was his mother Eloise, who Faraday says was wrong.

A young Daniel is told that he doesn’t have time for distractions like playing the piano because he has to focus on his mind.

Back to Jack in a panic. He goes to see Sawyer, who’s got one of his security guys, Phil, locked up in the closet since he got a video of him and Kate taking Ben out to the hostiles.

Faraday makes his way underground into what will be the hatch. He asks Dr. Chang to order the evacuation of every man, woman, and child on the island, warning of a catastrophic accident. His reasoning behind this request: he’s from the future. By the way, Miles is his son, and he’s also from the future. Miles denies this.

Back to the future. Daniel is graduating from university and making plans to eat with his overprotective mother, who warns him that the women in his life will always be terribly hurt by his work always coming first. He tells her that he just got a new research grant from some industrialist, Charles Widmore.

Sawyer considers where they’re living now to be home, but they have no choice but to leave. They have two choices: get on the sub or head into the jungle. While they’re voting, Faraday knocks on the door and asks where he can find the hostiles. One of them is his mother, who can get them back to where they belong.

Flash forward to Faraday watching a plane crash on the TV and crying because of it, when he gets his first visit from Widmore. He came to offer him a new opportunity. The people on the plane are not dead, which he knows because he put it there. He can tell him that because come tomorrow he won’t remember that he was told. His new offer is to send him to the island to heal his mind and memory.

Sawyer doesn’t want to tell Jack where the hostiles are. So he asks Kate. Juliet gives them the code for the fence and tells them to go.

Daniel meets Charlotte as a little girl. He instructs her to listen to Dr. Chang when he tells her to go on the sub and leave the island.

As they’re grabbing guns, a shootout starts. Dan gets hit in the crossfire, but they’re able to shoot their way out of it and drive away.

Eloise tells her son it’s very important that he accept Widmore’s offer to go to the island.

Faraday tells Jack that this is their present. Any one of them could still die.

An alarm sounds as men with guns come to see Sawyer. They’ve been infiltrated. Upon checking the closet, they find Phil. Sawyer and Juliet are can get on the ground with their hands up now.

Daniel’s looking to prevent the entire chain of events that led them all there. He’s realized they can change their destiny by destroying the energy under the hatch. If they do that, Desmond won’t fail to push the button, and the plane won’t crash. How’s he going to do that? By detonating a hydrogen bomb. Yeah, that sounds safe.

Eloise tells Penny that for the first time in a long time she doesn’t know what will happen next. The nurse comes to get her, and Desmond is in recovery and doing okay. Then Eloise goes outside to leave, when she meets up with Charles, who says that Daniel’s his son, too.

Upon arrival at the hostile camp, Daniel is told that Eloise isn’t there. He asks for the bomb. As he’s counting down and warning Richard with his gun, Eloise shoots him from behind. Bad news, mom, you just shot your son.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Lost Season 5 Episode 15 Follow the Leader, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on ABC.

As we approach the end of The Celebrity Apprentice 2, NBC has announced that the show has been renewed for season 3. The Celebrity Apprentice 3 will air midseason next year, presumably around the same time it launched this year (March).

We’ll probably have to wait until early next year before learning who will be in the cast, but based on the not playing with a full deck Rivers duo we saw this season, I would expect to see at least one family duo.

“‘The Celebrity Apprentice’ is the ultimate business and reality show at the top of its game and has exploded in popularity this season while also raising an impressive amount of money for charity,” said Paul Telegdy, Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, NBC and Universal Media Studios. “It’s a valuable franchise and proven competitor and we’re thrilled to have Mr. Trump and Mr. Burnett back to create another brilliant season.” ”

‘The Apprentice’ and ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ have been an amazing adventure for me and, obviously, a very popular show with the public,” said executive producer Donald Trump. “Its Emmy nominations and great success have translated into a wonderful experience. Working with Mark Burnett has been terrific, and I am greatly honored that NBC has renewed us for yet another season, our ninth.”