Say what you will about Apple, good or bad, but it’s hard to deny they’ve been raking in the dough with one successful product after another. Just about anything put out with an Apple logo sends people into a frenzy, flocking into stores to buy whatever they’re selling.

Except the Apple TV that is, Cupertino’s little box that connects to TVs and let users buy content online, and play media from a built in hard drive and network devices. First launched in 2006, analysts had high expectations for Apple TV, spouting off ridiculous statements one often hears during Apple product launches like “It’s going to change the world!” “It’s Magical!” and “I so want one! What does it do, again?” Suffice it to say, it never lived up to any of the hype.

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Hot on the heels of Michael Ausiello’s exclusive first look at HOUSE’s sexy seventh season promo art — comes, get this — something way cooler! Your first look at actual stills from the September 20th premiere. See for yourself — including a visibly effusive Cuddy embracing everybody’s favorite curmudgeonly doctor — after the jump.

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And then there was one.

First Paula, then Simon, next Ellen and now, finally, the news fans have been waiting for since July. Kara DioGuardi is officially exiting AMERICAN IDOL after a mere two seasons at the judges table. Full press release — complete with obligatory effusive quotes from numerous parties involved despite FOX’s obvious attempt to dump this story on a Friday before a Holiday weekend (or what THE WEST WING affectionally called, “Take out the Trash Day”) — can be found after the jump.

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An increasingly addictive will-they-or-won’t-they, a vocal and highly opinionated fan base, and a ridiculously likeable (not to mention easy-on-the-eyes) quartet of stars. While we by no means are the first TV Addicts to take note of the striking similarities between CASTLE and BONES, we are — following our sneak peek of their upcoming third and sixth season premieres respectively — the first to make a snazzy side-by-side comparison chart highlighting said similarities! See for yourself after the jump.

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For weeks, GENERAL HOSPITAL’s Brenda has been wandering around Rome while thinking about Sonny, who’s been caught up in his own memories of the beautiful brunette. This week, at long last, one of the greatest couples in Port Charles history finally reunites!

“It wouldn’t be GH if there wasn’t some danger surrounding the big moment,” says Soaps In Depth executive editor Richard M. Simms. “As we all know, there’s this mysterious Balkan dude who has targeted Brenda. And at the very moment that our former lovers finally come together, the bad guys try and kidnap her!” 

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After four decades on the tube, Geraldo Rivera is just about as well known as a guy can get. “People either love me or hate me,” says the man with one of the most recognizable mugs in America. But no matter which camp folks fall into, one thing’s for sure: Everybody knows who he is. “Oprah, Cher, Lassie and me!” he agrees with a laugh.

To mark his 40th year in the TV biz, this weekend his current show — GERALDO AT LARGE (airing at 10PM EST Saturday and Sunday on Fox News) — will feature a retrospective that takes viewers down Memory Lane with the chair-dodging, vault-opening, war-covering newsman who once got high on national television to demonstrate the effects of smoking marijuana. And putting together the special was no easy task! “The hardest part was just finding everything! It’s been so long and there have been so many incarnations,” shares the TV vet. “There are some things you remember, some you remember just in the retelling, and others you’ve forgotten completely.” Certainly, neither he nor viewers will ever forget the 1988 GERALDO episode in which his nose was broken during a skirmish with racists. So thank goodness, he chuckles, “I found the chair I got hit by!” 

How his career is defined by the public depends, he says, on how old the person is. “Some relate to me from the talk-show days, others from coverage of the war in Iraq.” As for Rivera, he considers the work he did in exposing the horrific conditions at Staten Island’s Willowbrook State School — a state-funded institution for children with developmental issues — the most important thing he’s ever done. “It helped change the way we think about the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled,” he says proudly of his Peabody-winning coverage, which began in 1972. “People put down TV news and punditry, but that is an example — that 15-year-long expose — of how television news can be part of the process of positive social change.”

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