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LOS ANGELES — After weeks of rumors, “Dancing with the Stars” officially unveiled their Season 11 cast during Monday night’s “Bachelor Pad.”

Show co-hosts Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke confirmed that former “Baywatch” star David Hasselhoff, crooner Michael Bolton, reality TV party boy Michael “The Situation”

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Emmy-winning actor Tom Selleck returns in his signature role as Police Chief Jesse Stone in the sixth installment of the Jesse Stone franchise, “No Remorse.” The former “Magnum, P.I” star talks to ET about his love for Jesse Stone, his new CBS series and the possibility that there will be another sequel to ‘3 Men and a Baby.’

ET: Have you signed to do any more Jesse Stone TV movies for CBS?

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NEW YORK — Smart, adventurous lead girl characters such as Dora the Explorer and superheroine WordGirl have found time on children’s television, but Hollywood has preferred to keep princesses safe in their turrets.

There’s more than just the self-esteem of girls at stake. TV executives have found young boys have no problem watching shows with girls as lead characters, which can result in improved ratings — and advertising dollars.

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(EW.com) — We’re half-way through the year; time to stop and take stock of the TV year thus far. Here is my mid-year Top 10, selected from shows airing during the period between January and July 2010. I’ve also added a few notes at the end about some other notable TV events. Happy holiday weekend to you

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(EW.com) — “Hot in Cleveland” shouldn’t have been tucked away at 10 p.m. to make its premiere: This playfully naughty throwback starring Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick, and Betty White is the kind of thing a network would program at 8 p.m. nowadays. That is, if networks had any use for women stars over the age of 40. Which was the point of this show, debuting on the home of fond dreams, cable’s TV Land, after a slew of “Everybody Loves Raymond” reruns.

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For a change, it wasn’t the Internet that scared you into thinking a star had died. No, this time you got punked by a TV network.
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Maybe TLC didn’t mean to play the role of hoaxster with Monday’s fifth-season finale of Little People, Big World, but it did. And reality-TV dad Matt Roloff had to clear things up, i.e., vouch for his own health.

Here’s what happened:

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You’re still puzzled by what you watched on “Lost,” haunted by that final scene on “Nip/Tuck,” comforted by that cozy closer in Trafalgar Square on “Ugly Betty” and wondering what’s become of your “Heroes.”

Series finales are always tough on both the viewers and the writers. Fans want perfection, and like children hoping to offer up an A-filled report card to their parents, writers strive to deliver.

Oftentimes, disappointment results on both sides, especially when iconic series come to a close, but not always. Here’s a look at how five series ended this year, and what some show creators thought of the way things wrapped up.

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NEW YORK — If only real life for the child stars of “Diff’rent Strokes” was anything like the fictional Park Avenue life of luxury they inhabited on television.

The death of pint-sized star Gary Coleman on Friday at age 42 underscored the troubled lives of the sitcom’s stars after the television lights went out in 1986 after eight seasons. Some have even talked about the “curse of ‘Diff’rent Strokes.’”

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EW.com has learned that David Hasselhoff will briefly reprise his role as Dr. William “Snapper” Foster, Jr. on “The Young and the Restless.” He’ll return to the show’s Los Angeles set in May for an arc that will start airing in mid-June.

The “Baywatch” star got his start in TV by starring on the popular sudser from 1975 to 1982.

“In 1976, Bill Bell, creator of America’s No. 1 soap opera, took a chance on a young and very green actor,” Hasselhoff said in a statement given exclusively to EW.com. “Playing Snapper in 850 shows during the six years I appeared molded my craft, my attitude and my work ethic.

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Everything on “Grey’s Anatomy” this week was about parents: good parents, bad parents, the kinds of parents everyone hopes will never have and the kinds of parents everyone hopes they’ll be.

Callie wants kids, but Arizona doesn’t. One patient’s husband wanted kids more than she did. Derek wants kids, and Meredith started out unsure that she did. And the best story of the week came from Alex, who was barely parented at all.