Good News: NBC’s SOUTHLAND won’t get lost in the avalanche of Friday premieres which include the splashy re-launches of MEDIUM and DOLLHOUSE. Bad News: Instead, it will just get lost, with the Peacock network pushing the sophomore series premiere date back a month to Friday October 23. [Variety]

Good News: A GILMORE GIRL grad will be joining ABC’s HANK on a recurring basis. Bad News: Said grad is not Alexis Bledel, rather it’s SAMANTHA WHO? survivor Melissa McCarthy, who has signed on to play sister-in-law to Kelsey Grammer’s Hank. [EW]

Good News: Warner Bros Television swears that the two-week temporary shutdown of ABC’s much-buzzed about V, “was put in place so that the writers would have time to beef up future scripts and bring them in line with the quality of the pilot.” Bad News: But just in case, who wants to be in charge of reserving saveV.com? Anyone? [TheWrap]

Good News: Summer Glau is officially joining the DOLLHOUSE for a mult-episode arc that will have Glau playing a character named Bennett who shares a past with Eliza Dushku’s Echo. Bad News: RIP TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES. [Dollverse]

Good News: AMERICAN IDOL’s season six runner-up Blake Lewis is back in the news. Bad News: For all the wrong reasons, with Lewis apparently owing the government $124,798 in taxes. [IdolChatter]

Good News: Josh Schwartz (alongside CHUCK producer Matt Miller) is developing his first scripted half-hour comedy based on his recent newlywed experience. Bad News: For his other half! I mean seriously, nothing says the honeymoon is over like a better-half who just added a TV show to a workload that already includes GOSSIP GIRL, CHUCK, penning an X-MEN sequel, and his online series ROCKVILLE CA! [The Live Feed]

Good News: Josh Schwartz (alongside CHUCK producer Matt Miller) is developing his first scripted half-hour comedy based on his recent newlywed experience. Bad News: For his other half! I mean seriously, nothing says the honeymoon is over like a better-half who just added a TV show to a workload that already includes GOSSIP GIRL, CHUCK, penning an X-MEN sequel, and his online series ROCKVILLE CA! [The Live Feed]

Is NBC prepared to face an onslaught of angry CHUCK?

Because that is exactly what they network will be facing should NBC choose not to renew this criminally under-watched series for a third season. Especially after CHUCK co-creator Josh Schwartz revealed to theTVaddict.com during a press conference prior to yesterday’s New York Comic Con panel that the third season finale will not wrap up the adventures of Chuck Bartkowski in a nice bow, but rather serve as a mind-blowing “Game Changer” that will launch the show in an entirely different direction.

Desperate for more intel?

Has the season finale been written?
Josh Schwartz (JS): It’s being written.
Chris Fedak (CF): I’m supposed to be writing.
Josh Schwartz (JS): As we speak actually.

Since you won’t discover whether CHUCK gets picked up for a third season until after you finish writing and shooting the finale, will you be writing it as a cliffhanger, or a series finale?
JS: We are not writing it as if it is a series finale at all. It’s actually what they call a “Game Changer.” It’s pretty mind blowing, really fun and something we’ve been talking about for two years now. It will launch the show in a really exciting, very different kind of direction.
CF: We designed the season to head towards the finale so we’re really excited about it.

Can fans expect any big name guest stars?
JS: Chevy Chase and Scott Bakula will appear up through the finale… you’ll see the “Awesomes” again…
CF: …and “The One”

The One?
CF: Jordana Brewster, The cat’s already out of the bag on that one.
JS: And you’ll get to meet Jeff’s sister.

Will the Buy More be facing its own economic crisis?
JS: Fun, economic downturn. I think the “Underpants Etc” is struggling in the Buy More Complex. Large Mart will have some layoffs.
CF: In the next couple of episodes some issues do come up. There will definitely be struggles and lots of drama.
JS: In the store. Emmitt will try to figure out how to replace the Buy More customers with robots.
CF: It gets very Shakespearean.

Now that you’ve conquered CHUCK in 3D, what’s next?
JS: We need to take it to the next level, Smellovision! Vibrating seats! We can top ourselves.

How much attention do you pay to the online fan community?
JS: Too much.
CF: Yeah, we can get a little obsessive. I’m a masochist.
JS: We read everything, it’s who the show is for. You can get a lot of constructive ciriticsim, you can go to far, allow every note to aggravate you. That’s what Sepinwall does, he’s always on our ass (Note: Star-Ledger critic Alan Sepinwall moderated the panel)
CF: I’ve destroyed a couple of computers.

And since I’m somewhat of an OC addict, I have to ask. WHen are OC alum Adam Brody and/or Peter Gallagher dropping by?
JS: It’s always a possibility, we had Rachel [Bilson] and Melinda [Clarke] on. So we’d love to try and figure it out.

Since GOSSIP GIRL showrunners Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage took all the fun out of sending this TV Addict the first three fantastic episodes of GOSSIP GIRL’s second season by swearing me to secrecy. Or to be more specific, asking critics to refrain from spoiling all the scandalous details of one seriously OMFG!—worthy relationship that you definitely won’t see coming. I figure the least I can do is offer up a little tease to hold my fellow GOSSIP guys and gals over until “S,” “B,” “N,” “D,” “C” and “J” return to the small screen with brand new episodes.

So without further ado, theTVaddict.com presents our first ever GOSSIP GIRL “He said/She said” Challenge. To play, simply attribute the quote [lifted directly from the second season premiere] to the correct character in the comments below.*

And be sure to catch the season premiere of GOSSIP GIRL on September 1st at 8PM to see if your guesses were correct. Because this TV Addict is pretty confident that you’re all going to be surprised as to who had trouble getting over whom this summer, you is out for revenge, who’s getting a second chance, not to mention which of your favorite Upper Eastsiders ended off the premiere getting really cozy under the fireworks!

*Please Note: theTVaddict.com edited in both genders so that the game wouldn’t be too easy!

As great as last night’s episode of PUSHING DAISIES was, I’d like to offer up a little advice to showrunners everywhere. Never cast Patrick Fabian [or William Mapother] as your ‘bad guy’. Not only is he obviously the most evil guy in the room, VERONICA MARS fans will forever remember him as Professor Landry.

The award for Wednesday’s laugh out loud moment of the night goes to DIRTY SEXY MONEY for inventing the word ‘Twintuition.’ Reason #123 why I wish I had a twin, or at the very least a lot more dirty sexy money.

Since there’s only so much television this TV Addict can handle in one night, last night’s episode of BIONIC WOMAN was sentenced to weekend watching courtesy of my PVR. Today’s big question of the day — is it worth watching?

Are you ready for Josh Schwartz’s next guilty pleasure? Are you prepared to get hooked on yet another group of beautiful rich teenagers [played by twenty-somethings] who have far too much money and power, yet still manage to face those everyday peskly little ‘problems’ like drug addiction, date rape and peer pressure? If not, do not click here.

No seriously, if you’re anything like this TV Addict — translation: you have ‘issues’ when it comes to getting hooked on television shows like BEVERLY HILLS 90210, THE OC and MELROSE PLACE — do not even think of clicking here. If you do, you’ll be taken to iTunes where you’ll be able to download the series premiere of the highly anticipated new CW show GOSSIP GIRL. And again, if you’re anything like this TV Addict, say goodbye to twenty-two hours of your life.

GOSSIP GIRL has it all. The pilot comes complete with a mean girl rivalry (Serena vs. Blair), the usual mystery (Why exactly is Serena’s brother in the hospital?), the standard party of the year (in this case, the ‘Kiss on the Lips Ball’) and what’s now become the obligatory Josh Schwartz trademark party dust up between good guy Dan and bad boy Chuck. Oh, and did we even mention that Veronica Mars herself, Kristen Bell narrates as ‘gossip girl’? Pretty much all that’s missing is a welcome to Manhattan B*itch!

It goes without saying that this TV Addict is already hooked and assuming everything goes according to the CW’s master plan — soon you will be too. Blake Lively is the new Misha Barton. Seth Cohn — you’re so 2005 — make room for Dan Humphrey. And Blair Waldorf, well you make Julie Cooper Nicol look nice.

Assuming you’re even still reading this and haven’t already started watching, sit back, enjoy and be sure to drop by theTVaddict.com and let us know what you think gossip about it.