The TV Addict 

Following in the illustrious footsteps of GOSSIP GIRL’s Blair Waldorf, Serena Van Der Woodsen and Vanessa Abrams is… Meg Griffin? Sure looks like it, with the upcoming January 31st episode of FAMILY GUY entitled “Dial Meg for Murder,” featuring Meg getting thrown into the big house when she gets busted for hiding her jail bird boyfriend Luke (guest voiced by Chace Crawford). More first look photos of which can be found after the jump.

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• Wicked News: GLEE courts Idina Menzel
• Wicked news unrelated to the musical of the same name: Soon-to-be TV Addict favorie series THE DEEP END (GREY’S ANATOMY meets lawyers starring JACK & BOBBY’s Matt Long and VERONICA MARS’ Tina Majorino) gets a January premiere date.
• GOSSIP GIRL goes graphic… novel that is, with Yen Press announcing that they will release a Comic Book based on the popular Cecily von Ziegesar bestselling series.
• Cute overload, Sister Zooey finally joins Emily Deschanel on tonight’s very special holiday installment of BONES.
• CHUCK it out! Zachary Levi drops some major intel on the upcoming new season.

On Monday’s GOSSIP GIRL, Christmas comes early for one Chuck Bass, when Blair’s better, slightly more sinister, smoldering half is visited by the ghost of you-know-what in the form of dearly deceased father Bart Bass. More first look photos of which can be found after the jump.

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The third person is always supposed to be a stranger.
The aftermath of GOSSIP GIRL’s much-buzzed-about threesome continued to pay unexpected dividends last night by quite frankly managing to do the unthinkable. Not only do we find ourselves in the somewhat embarrassing position of pining for the return of Hilary Duff (So much so that we’re hoping Olivia was serious and makes good on her promise to return in the fall), said ménage à trois managed to transform Dan and Vanessa — two of GOSSIP GIRL’s most notoriously uninteresting characters — into watchable ones. With bonus points for making the Parent’s Television Council look stupid by cleverly ensuring that last night’s flashback laden episode was far more revealing, shocking and scandalous than the PTC targeted episode prior.

A little Chuck Bass goes a long way.
Leave it to Ed Westwick to make the most of what little he was given on last night’s episode. Seriously, what Chuck Bass lacked in screen time, he more than made up for with his pitch-perfect line delivery (”Dude, I’m Chuck Bass. Even Europeans must know what that means.”) to the foreign ambassador’s son played by special guest star Kevin Zegers.

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Watch out Parents Television Council (PTC), from the looks of it, GOSSIP GIRL’s Dan, Olivia and Vanessa were just the beginning. For starting this January, the CW has pledged to air all-original episodes of three, count ‘em three series on Monday nights. With GOSSIP GIRL, ONE TREE HILL and the highly-anticipated new drama LIFE UNEXPECTED rotating on and off the CW’s Monday night sked thru May 2010. Sex (GOSSIP GIRL), Scandal (ONE TREE HILL) and the-next-best-thing to an EVERWOOD re-boot (LIFE UNEXPECTED) all together on the same night… PTC, can you handle it? If so, details from the CW’s hot-off-the-press (release) are after the jump.

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January Jones Hosting SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
January Jones stepping into 30 Rock’s hallowed Studio 8H to host SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE this weekend is all well and good. But the thing that makes us go “Hmmmm,” well, aside from the fact that we have a feeling at around 11:35PM google will find itself inundated with the question “Who is January Jones?” — is the timing of Jones’ hosting gig. After-all, nothing says lets hype Sunday’s phenomenal MAD MEN season finale like hosting SNL… the following Saturday. Oops.

90210’s Shenae Grimes
What started out as an interesting way to handle a poorly conceived character that never really connected with viewers continues to get well less so, after yet another week went by with Shenae Grimes’ Annie Wilson on the outside looking in. Seriously, we can’t recall the last time (if ever) a character that started out the series front-and-center was pushed so far back into the periphery. Hey 90210 EP Rebecca Rand Kirshner, care to explain?

The handling of Barney and Robin
After a season of build-up, anticipation and hype, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER’s  Barney and Robin are officially (spoiler alert!) no more. And while disappointment may not be exactly how we’d characterize the relationship that we believe is at least partially to blame for HIMYM’s somewhat less than stellar start to the season, we can’t help but be somewhat surprised that the same writers who gave us the genius that is the ’slap bet,’ ‘Robin Sparkles,’ and one of the cleverest sitcom hooks in recent memory (See: The mystery surrounding the titular mother) handled the pairing up of ‘Robney’ so poorly.

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• Jackman Who? Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin sign up for Oscar hosting duties.
• Accidentally we hope, CBS orders five more episodes of ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE.
• OMFG! Parents Television Council declares war on the CW.
• V welcomes new… showrunners, with Scott Peters replacing Scott Rosenbaum.

1. The fourth season of DEXTER is gonna be killer… particularly for one unlucky actor (or actress) in the opening credits.

2. Thursday’s season premiere of that other Shonda Rhimes medical drama opens with a not-so private funeral.

3. Get ready to Dial M… for Mode, when a loved one of a Mode employee finds themselves under investigation for murder.

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