Hannah Montana Cancelled

Despite the fact that it’s still a huge success, Hannah Montana’s fourth season is scheduled to be its last.

“You never know in this business . . . but right now we’re scheduled to wrap [forever] after shooting this new batch of episodes,” says Disney Channel Worldwide’s Adam Bonnett, senior VP/programming.

New episodes will air in spring and continue for at least a full year.

Losing over 5 million tween viewers every week will no doubt have an impact on Miley Cyrus’ record sales, but nonetheless she is ready to move on.

Source: NY Post

Heroes Season 4 Episode 15

Sylar paid a visit to Samuel in Heroes Season 4 Episode 14, which led him to the conclusion that he needs to go see Claire.

HRG could call Claire, but he doesn’t want to do so. They will have to do the tracking the old fashioned way and place a call to Vanessa Wheeler, whose family owned Samuel’s childhood home. Looks like he’s going to California.

Lydia, meanwhile, is looking to find a new leader. There’s a man of compassion who could be the next Joseph. Maybe she could call him. Peter awakens, compass on arm.

Parkman’s being a stay-at-home dad in an effort to stay at home and lock his doors. He gets a visit from Noah, who says that Samuel’s after Claire, and maybe tomorrow it will be little Matt Parkman.

As planned, Hiro and Ando have made their way to a mental institution and are getting Hiro “strapped in.” On his way to his new room, Hiro stats yelling about Dr. Watson when he sees the name Ahmadi on one of the doors. Ahmadi is Suresh.

Vanessa denies knowing Samuel in person, as she did on the phone. Parkman might be able to convince her she can trust them, though.

Peter goes to see Emma, and he sees the cello with a compass on it. Looks familiar.

Samuel seems obsessed with Vanessa, more and more since Joseph died. Maybe they don’t need to find Samuel. Perhaps Vanessa can get him there instead.

Like Emma, Peter knows Samuel, only he thought his name was William. When she pulls out the compass, Peter suggests keeping her distance.

So why hasn’t Suresh broken out yet? Storm troopers (the orderlies) have dulled his senses with Jawa Juice. Hiro grabs Suresh’s pills and switches them with aspirin. Well, that worked, except that Ando accidentally swallowed them.

Samuel arrives, with Eli by his side to serve as a distraction as he hauls Vanessa off. Samuel thought he got the upper hand over Noah, but all went as planned. He and Parkman are tracking Vanessa.

Angela had a dream, and she tells Peter that there’s nothing he can do to save Emma. He has to save himself. Although the dream was foggy, the message was not: she’s going to help kill people. Something to do with the cello.

Hiro wakes up Suresh, who busts out of his room. They grab Ando, put him in a wheelchair, and run to freedom. Those pills gave Ando some nice firepower, which allows them to escape as the confused storm troopers look on.

The signal HRG hoped to follow has disappeared. Parkman suggests that maybe some days he can’t save the whole world. Go home and hug his little girl.

Like his mom, Peter has a dream about Emma. Afterward, he comes to destroy the cello.

As they’re running through the woods trying to escape the storm troopers and ewoks, Suresh suggests that Ando use his red light on Hiro to get him to teleport them out of there. Let’s just hope nobody dies. It works, and Hiro’s back to normal.

At Parkman’s suggestion, HRG stops by to visit Claire. He’s torched a lot of bridges, but hopefully he can still repair the one with his daughter.

Parkman, on the other hand, is realizing that maybe there’s more to the world than just his family.

HRG admits that he cares for Lauren more than he might have wanted to admit. While they’re kissing, they get a visit from three escapees from a mental institution.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 16 Pass/Fail, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Glee Season 2

Fox has renewed Glee for season 2.

To go along with this announcement, Fox has announced plans to hold auditions to fill three new roles. These auditions will be shown as part of a Fox mini-series leading up to the premiere of the show’s second season. Amateurs and professionals ages 16-26 are being invited to apply.

New episodes of Glee will be returning to Fox on Tuesday April 13.

Primetime Jay Leno Cancelled

Heading into this season, NBC made the decision to throw away 1/3 of its primetime schedule in a short-sighted effort to try to keep both Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien happy. It was obvious from the beginning this move was a mistake, and the affiliates would only put up with weak lead-ins for their news shows for so long.

Fast forward four months. Although no deals have been signed yet, the plan is to move Leno to 11:35 for half an hour each night and have the Tonight Show on at 12:05.

Of course, what this means come fall is a big gaping hole in NBC’s lineup. Not that they had a lot to pick from in the first place.

Heroes Season 4 Episode 14

Hiro seemingly went mad, while Claire did some digging into what Samuel is up to in Heroes Season 4 Episode 13, but in the end the focus shifted to Nathan’s funeral.

86 hours ago, HRG met with Peter to show him Nathan’s body and tell him the plane’s ready to go.

Samuel gets a visit from the one person with abilities he could probably do without: Sylar. With all these powerful people around, Sylar could sure have himself a good feast and get a lot more powers. That may be tough to do when Samuel knocks him out with his own increasing power base, though.

Angela warns Peter to not seek vengeance against Sylar.

Edgar pays HRG a visit, but his speed and knives don’t work this time. Then he brings him to a freezer and injects him with something to slow him down and level the playing field.

Sylar’s not exactly dead, so Samuel puts him in Lydia’s trailer. Everybody has to play to their strengths. Hers would be being a piece of flesh. By slipping him the tongue, she’s able to get glimpses at what he wants. He grabs her power, which allows him to find out that what she wants is to manipulate him to her goal: killing Samuel. Once she calls him impotent, though, that’s pretty much all there is to this little meeting.

Peter decides to go around saving people, so he heads to the scene of a shootout of a disgruntled ex-employee, and Claire follows him. His hope is to talk some sense into the shooter. The problem with this plan is that Claire’s the one who can’t get hurt by bullets, whereas Peter just lands himself up on a stretcher. At least she can give him her power so that he’s now virtually invincible.

Edgar having been exiled may make him willing to cooperate. It should work better than slicing him anyway. He and HRG are both worried about what Samuel’s up to. The problem is they have differing opinions how to proceed. Edgar wants to leave the others alone but just get rid of Samuel. HRG wants to reintegrate them back into society.

Samuel agrees to a game of chance. He’ll tattoo Sylar to see whether he belongs there or not. The result leads Sylar to believe he doesn’t. Instead, he’s off to see the cheerleader.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 15 Close to You, which airs Monday at 9/8c on NBC.

Heroes Season 4 Episode 13

Claire went to the carnival in Heroes Season 4 Episode 12, and she decided to stick around for a while.

Samuel is going to the city to get someone to help their plan come together. He tells Claire they’ll end up with a permanent place, and then she may want to stay. Or go. Her choice. Well, she’s not really free to go, but she can think she is.

Hiro’s on the streets of Japan, where he sees a woman getting mugged. His reward for being a hero: the cops arrest him.

Ando’s been looking for Hiro for about six weeks, so as it turns out that’s where Hiro is headed after the police get their hands on him. Perhaps Ando can explain why Hiro is talking in riddles. Perhaps not.

Emma gets a letter from the medical school. Her application has been denied. When she gets home, she gets a visit from Samuel. He’s the one who sent her the cello.

Hiro has a plan: go to the land of swamp dragons and rescue Dr. Watson. Sounds like somebody needs his brain operated on. Nonetheless, Ando’s starting to understand. Some of this is from Sherlock Holmes, some from X-Men. Maybe if they go get his comic books they will get to the bottom of this mystery.

Samuel’s reason for visiting Emma is because he hopes to locate another hero also overwhelmed by his gift.

Claire thinks she’s being followed. Pretty much because she is. Eli’s all around her. She leads him into the house of mirrors, where she, too, can now appear as multiple people. Then she knocks him out. After that, she sneaks in to find out what Samuel’s been so preocupied with since she got there. It doesn’t end there, though. Eric Doyle is back to see if he can control her again. While inside the trailer, she finds out that Samuel is using HRG’s old files to find people with abilities. He’s planning something. Doyle is okay with that.

Based on Hiro’s rambling about Don Quixote and Spiderman, some of it in Spanish, Ando has determined that Hiro wants to go to somewhere in Florida called Arkham. A search leads to a psychiatric hospital. Well, that should be fun.

Samuel tells Emma her playing is like a siren’s song. This proves true. A little bit of playing allows him to track down the hero he’s looking for, Ian. Before leaving, Samuel gives her the compass to help get her to a place he’d like her to visit.

A plane crash pops up on the TV. Nathan Petrelli was the pilot.

Claire manages to talk some sense into Doyle, who suggests talking to Lydia if she wants to know what’s happening. She guesses what happened to Joseph: his brother Samuel killed him. Lydia begs for help to find someone who can stop Samuel. That will have to wait, seeing as Eli’s waiting for Claire as she walks away. Samuel is around to see this and pretend he doesn’t know what’s going on and that Claire’s not a prisoner. He admits he killed his brother, but says he just lost control.

Ian’s power is to create plant life. Kind of a boring power, but he can turn this wasteland into a paradise, a new home. Once Ian has created this new environment, Samuel reiterates to Claire that she’s free to go. Regardless of what she’s seen, she is open to the invite back and has no intention of giving the compass back to her father.

Claire gets a call from Peter. Something happened to Nathan, which makes her next stop a funeral.

Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Heroes Season 4 Episode 14 Let It Bleed, which airs next on NBC.

Melrose Place Season 1 Episode 12 Preview

Melrose Place Season 1 Episode 12 San Vicente airs Tuesday December 8 at 9/8c on The CW.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8

“MELROSE PLACE” (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET)

“San Vicente” (TV-14, L) (HDTV)

AMANDA REMEMBERS HER LAST VISIT WITH SYDNEY Jonah (Michael Rady) and Riley (Jessica Lucas) decide to head to Las Vegas to elope but the day doesn’t quite go as planned. Ella (Katie Cassidy) arranges a pitch meeting for Jonah with an important producer who is interested in buying his film. Meanwhile, Lauren (Stephanie Jacobsen) calls David (Shaun Sipos) after she gets in trouble with one of her male clients and Auggie (Colin Egglesfield) confesses his true feelings for Riley. Also, Michael (Thomas Calabro) gives David information about Sydney’ killer and Amanda bonds with Violet (Ashlee Simpson-Wentz) over Sydney, but of course Amanda has an ulterior motive in getting to know Violet. Bethany Rooney directed the episode with teleplay by Chris Fife and story by Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer (#111).

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