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The cast of my new favorite show ‘Glee’ will be coming to a city near you!!!

Cory Monteith, Lea Michele, Amber Riley, Chris Colfer, Jenna Ushkowitz, Kevin McHale, Dianna Agron and Mark Salling will all be hitting the road for the new ‘Gleek’ tour that will be making stops at Hot Topics through out the country!!!

Tour Dates & Stops:

Boston, MA
Monday, Aug. 17
Natick Mall
2:00- 5:00 PM
1245 Worcester St.
Natick, MA 01760

New York, NY
Tuesday, Aug. 18
Garden State Plaza
3:00-6:00 PM
1228 Garden State Plaza
Paramus, NJ 07652

Philadelphia, PA
Wednesday, Aug. 19
King of Prussia Mall
3:00-6:00 PM
160 N. Gulph Rd.
King of Prussia, PA 19406

Washington, DC
Thursday, Aug. 20
Fair Oaks Mall
3:00-6:00 PM
11750 Fair Oaks Mall
Fairfax, VA 22033

Chicago, IL
Friday, Aug. 21
Orland Square
3:00-6:00 PM
500 Orland Square
Orland Park, IL 60467

Minneapolis, MN
Sunday, Aug. 23
Mall of America
2:00-5:00 PM
168 North Garden
Bloomington, MN 55425

Houston, TX
Tuesday, Aug. 25
Houston Galleria
3:00-6:00 PM
5135 West Alabama
Houston, TX 77056

Dallas, TX
Wednesday, Aug. 26
Dallas Galleria
3:00-6:00 PM
13350 Noel Rd.
Dallas, TX 75240

Denver, CO
Thursday, Aug. 27
Park Meadows Mall
3:00-6:00 PM
8405 Park Meadows Center
Littleton, CO 80124

Los Angeles, CA
Friday, Aug. 28
Hollywood & Highland
3:00-6:00 PM
6801 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Each stop will feature autograph signings, Q/A and more!!!

Click HERE for more Details.

Be sure to tune in on Wed Sept 2nd for special Directors cut of the pilot at 8:58pm on FOX!!!

PS – Our favorite Cullen Family Member Ashely Greene is also a fan of ‘Glee

Paula Abdul announced on her Twitter page to day that she will NOT be returning to American Idol next season!!

“With sadness in my heart, I’ve decided not to return to IDOL. I’ll miss nurturing all the new talent, but most of all being a part of a show that I helped from day 1 become an international phenomenon. What I want to say most, is how much I appreciate the undying support and enormous love that you have showered upon me. It truly has been breathtaking, especially over the past month. I do without any doubt have the BEST fans in the entire world and I love you all.”

Fox also confirmed, and released the following statement

“Paula Abdul has been an important part of the American Idol family over the last eight seasons and we are saddened that she has decided not to return to the show. While Paula will not be continuing with us, she’s a tremendous talent and we wish her the best.”

Fellow judges Randy Jackson and Simon Cowell  – who has said in the past that he does not want to do Idol without Abdul — are not commenting. Idol host Ryan Seacrest posted a response on Twitter: “I am shocked and saddened.”

Abdul has been in contract negotiations for the last few weeks, and is walking away from a 30% raise and 8 figure salary.

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CW just finished their ‘The Vampire Diaries’ press tour, and EW’s Michael Ausiello was there to report on the whole thing!!

Series creator/writer Kevin Williamson (Scream, Dawson’s Creek) wanted everyone to know that this is NOT a ‘Twilight’/'True Blood’ rip-off, and the actors seems to agree.

9:24 am: Kevin Williamson insists Diaries is “not just a high school show. It’s a small town show. Once you get past the vampire premise, we get to telling the story about this town.”

9:25 am: All three actors on the panel claim to have read the books on which the show is based. I believe maybe one of them.

9:26 am: Paul Wesley (Diaries‘ answer to Robert Pattinson) went out of his way not to watch Twilight. “If there are similarities to Robert’s character in Twilight, so be it,” he says.

9:30 am: Williamson initially feared that Diaries would be perceived as a Twilight/True Blood rip-off. “The pilot is tough because there are a lot of similarities to Twilight,” he concedes. “There was no way around it. But we’re switching things around as we get [deeper] into it. We’re not a movie with a beginning, middle and end. We’re a TV series that evolves.”

You can read the rest over at EW.com!!

‘The Vampire Diaries’ is set to premiere in Sept on the CW

The new CW show ‘The Vampire Diaries’ screen the entire pilot at Comic-Con on Saturday, and according to a few people who where there, the crowd was not impressed!!.

To give some credit to the show, it might have screen better if they didn’t pair it up the director’s cut of ‘Watchmen’.  If they would have screened it say Thursday night or Friday when all the ‘Twilight’ fans were still around, they might have gotten a better viewing.

According to HitFix.com

When “The Vampire Diaries” decided to screen its entire pilot for the Comic-Con audience, knowing how well “Twilight” has done here in recent years and how well the Comic-Con audience likes vampires in general, it must have seemed like a slam dunk. Instead, the panel got caught in a perfect storm of situations pretty much designed to mean something would be received derisively by the Con’s attendees. It’s almost enough to make one feel bad for the show until one considers that, well, “The Vampire Diaries” pretty much sucks. Once one thinks about it that way, it’s easier to enjoy just how loopy the screening got.

If your not aware of ‘The Vampire Diaries’, let me fill you in.  The TV series is supposed to be based of the popular book series of the same name by L.J. Smith.  I read these back when they first came out (1992 – JR. High for me) and then re-read them again a few months ago.  Based off what I saw from the CW Upfront last spring, it looks as if quite a few things have been changed from including the Town’s name.

Now, this isn’t to say I’m not going to like the series, I’m a fan of Kevin Williamson, who did after all bring us ‘Dawson’s Creek’.

So, hopefully ‘Vampire Diaries’ fans, the series won’t suck (no pun entended) nearly as much as comic-con atendees/critics are saying.

Right on the heels for Fox’s ‘The Family Guy’ getting an Emmy nomination for best comedy series, comes the spin-off show ‘The Cleveland Show’!!!

Fox has released the trailer for the show, which I’m sure all ‘Family Guy’ fans are looking forward to.

‘The Cleveland Show’ will air on Sunday’s this fall!!