POLITICS BUZZ: Barack Obama has purchased 30 minutes of airtime on both NBC and CBS, set to air Wednesday, October 29 - less than a week before Election Day. Speculation about what’s going to happen during the Obama TV Show is mixed. Regardless, I’d personally like to extend my sincere thanks to Barack and his campaign for kicking episodes of “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and “Knight Rider” off the air that night.

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1. Obama buys half-hour of network primetime
2. Obama Buys Your TV, Cancels ‘Knight Rider’
3. Obama Buys Network Time for a 30-Minute TV Special
4. Barack Obama buys time on CBS and NBC on Oct. 29th

TV BUZZ: In between almost every down during Sunday’s football games, Fox kept reminding viewers to tune in for Hole In The Wall, their remake of a crazy Japanese game show. In the show, contestants of all shapes and sizes try to rearrange their limbs to fit through an approaching hole in a wall, or risk being dumped into a pool of water. There’s a spate of YouTube videos from both the Japanese show and the American one, so take some time and get to know what may become your newest obsession.

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1. The “Oh, Crap” Woman
2. Bring On The Wall
3. A Human Version of Tetris
4. Hole in the Wall - Exclusive Preview
5. Beer Bellies vs. Six Packs
6. Crap. I missed the ‘Hole in the Wall’ preview.
7. Scheduled Against Survivor
8. remember when you could tell the difference between reality tv shows and parodies of reality tv shows?
9. Funny Japanese TV show Hole in the Wall
10. A Review

TV BUZZ: The buzz surrounding Joss Whedon’s new sci-fi series Dollhouse is building, as fansites pop up and script pages are leaked. This show doesn’t even exist yet, but rabid fans are already collecting every single tiny minute remnant of news and speculation surrounding it. Here’s my attempt at gathering the pieces.

The Best Links:

1. Pilot Script Review - No Spoilers!
2. Actual Screens of the Leaked Pilot
3. A Wee Bit of Scoop About a Dollhouse Location Shoot
4. Leaked Script Pages Build Buzz for New Sci-Fi Series
5. The Pilot Script Is Fabulous!
6. Multiple Fansites Already Popping Up
7. Whedon Has Uncanny Ability to Cast Ridiculously Good-Looking Actors that Work Really Well Together
8. Script, Official Synopsis, Plus Spoilers
9. Dollrific! A Blog Dedicated to blogging Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse
10. Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain to Answer Fan Questions!
11. watchingdollhouse.com: Yet Another Dollhouse Fansite
12. Amy Acker Joins Whedon’s Dollhouse
13. Hot Girls Give Me More Reason to Watch Television

CULTURE BUZZ: Their sketch show on the BBC, That Mitchell And Webb Look, have earned them hardcore fans on both sides of the pond. Monty Python has found a welcome replacement in the cleverly absurd blokes who, incidentally, also star in the UK version of the Mac-vs.-PC ads. Bloody brilliant! (Also be sure to check out Peep Show, another Mitchell and Webb show we highly recommend.)

The Best Links:

1. That Mitchell And Webb Site (Get it? Like “Web site?”)
2. “They’re Going Down in the Great Book of Comedy,” Says Alex Balk
3. You Don’t Have to Like British Funnies to Like Mitchell and Webb
4. Watch “Lager Beer”
5. Listen to an Interview With David Mitchell
6. Watch “Write This…or That…or Maybe…”
7. Watch “Doctor And Ice Cream Tester”
8. Somebody Thinks Mitchell and Webb Have the #2 Best Show On British Television!
9. The BBC Commissioned Mitchell and Webb for a Third Series! They’re Unstoppable!

TV BUZZ: In the age of DVDs and DVRs, what roles do spoilers play? In a pro-watercooler piece, New York magazine argues that watching TV shows these days should feel more like watching sports: See it live, or risk finding out the final score without seeing the game.

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1. Spoilers: In Defense of the American Watercooler
2. Plot in Not Always Paramount
3. Spoilers Anonymous at TV Squad
4. Why DVD-Watching of HBO Shows Rules

TV BUZZ: Christian Siriano is the the winner of Project Runway Season 4. The asymmetrically coiffed 21-year-old is the youngest winner to date and judging from his amazing runway show, he may be the most promising. Fierce! Or as Posh says, “Major.”

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1. Christian’s Response to the SNL Parody
2. ‘I’m Gonna Stab You’ is the New ‘Fierce’
3. Amy Poehler as Christian on SNL
4. Christian Finds a Job
5. Auf Wiedersehen, I’m Not Crying, It’s Allergies
6. Christian Siriano’s Myspace Page
7. Christian Siriano = Barak Obama
8. Christian’s Official Webpage
9. Fugs on the Project Runway Finale
10. Christian Siriano - Fall 2008 Collection
11. Auf’d, Auf’d, Winz!
12. Project Runway Finale = FIERCE!

CELEBRITY BUZZ: The “badass” chef and TV personality has caused quite a stir among the blogerati due to Travel Channel’s creepy new print ad. Needless to say, this image needs to be kept as far away as possible from Bourdain’s newborn daughter. Nobody should ever see their father look as if he’s about to share a dirty, possibly inappropriate secret.

The Best Links:

1. The Soup Of The Day Is Cream Of Bourdain
2. Anthony Bourdain Officially Overexposed
3. …And Some Things Are Not Meant for HD
4. “My Puffy, Drink Ravaged Face and 51 Year Old Naked Torso Does Not Belong in HD,” Says Bourdain
5. Overexposed or Exploited?
6. The Bad News Is Bourdain Left His Swim Trunks in Miami