Curtis Stone, Frances Callier and Angela V. Shelton appear on "Top Chef Masters"

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Top five! This season has flown by. Although the challenges have gotten progressively weirder, I can’t say this is my favorite season ever. All the chefs are fairly likeable, but there’s neither a sense of fun or feisty competitiveness. It’s like watching line chefs go through the paces at a very slow five star restaurant. It gets done, there might be a little stress, but mostly it’s entirely pleasant and somewhat boring. Floyd, of course, has a competitive spirit, but I would call it less feisty and more “I think I’ll slip ground glass into your pudding.” I’m just saying, I don’t think we’ve seen his dark side yet.

[Full recap of Wednesday's (June 1) "Top Chef Masters" after the break...]

Dancers audition in New York for Fox's  "So You Think You Can Dance"

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Did you know Salt Lake City is THE place to find dancers? Or that at least it is if you’re “SYTYCD”? Me neither. But six top twenty performers have come from Salt Lake, and for tonight’s show we’ll be seeing the Salt Lake auditions and the New York auditions. Take notes, because I’m pretty sure we’ll be seeing a chunk of our future top twenty tonight, at least if the producers pick their footage wisely.

[Full recap of Wednesday's (June 1) "So You Think You Can Dance" after the break...]

Curtis Grimes and Emily Valentine of 'The Voice'

 

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Welcome to the first episode of "The Voice" airing outside of the 2010-2011 TV Season and, thus, the first episode of "The Voice" airing without heaps of direct competition from ABC and CBS. NBC is so confident in the talent show's long-term viability that the network announced earlier today that "The Voice" will get the coveted slot after the Super Bowl next spring.

But for tonight, the only business at hand is ending the rather prolonged process of cutting the field from 32 down to 16 competitors. Only four more Battles to go, so let's get down to business... 

'Bachelorette' star Ashley Hebert

 

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I’m not even sure I can sit through this episode, because we’re going to be subjected to another two hour dose of BENTLEY. Let’s say it all together: Bentley is EVIL. Evil, evil, evil. Evil. And why is Bentley evil, ask those of you who missed last week’s first episode of this installment of “The Bachelorette”? Because he thinks Ashley, cute little Ashley, is not his type. More than that, he doesn’t particularly want to touch, kiss, date or marry Ashley. He’s on the show because he likes to be competitive. That’s it. He just wants to beat out some guys who are there for the right reasons (if there really is a right reason to go on national television to find your significant other, but that’s a conversation for another day) because HE CAN. Apparently, he thinks it will be fun to stomp on Ashley like a bug.

A dancer practices to audition for Fox's  "So You Think You Can Dance"

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So, the “SYTYCD” hot tamale train is revving up again, and with it we see the return of Mary Murphy, who returns to the judges’ table after beating thyroid cancer. I have to admit, even though the screaming would get on my nerves by the end of a season, I’ve missed Mary and, more importantly, her insight into ballroom dance. Another good change I’m happy to see – instead of cutting to a final competition of just ten dancers, which left some considerable talents by the wayside, we return to a final twenty – with All-Stars partnering with our dancers once they’re cut to the final ten. It sounds like a good idea to me – when the All-Stars entered the game too early, it felt distracting. I’d be too excited to see, say, Twitch to really notice his partner, who was still something of an unknown quantity. So, this should be best of both worlds – fingers crossed.

Lauren Alaina, Ryan Seacrest and Scotty McCreery of 'American Idol'

 

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It's time for the two-hour (and seven minute!) "American Idol" Season 10 finale. That means 125 minutes of performances, guest appearances, costume changes and summer movie commercials leading up to the triumph coronation of Scotty McCreery (or, conceivably Lauren Alaina). Since this was alread

y going to be a minute-by-minute recap, I might as well go whole-hog and live-blog the whole thing. 

Click through for all of the action...

The 'Dancing with the Stars' Season 12 Top 3

 

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It’s time for the finale of season twelve of “DWTS,” which is being addressed with all the fanfare of a royal wedding, but with tacky spangles, even more boring parts and fewer ridiculous hats. So let’s get through these two hours of fluff to learn the fate of our three celebrity finalists, shall we?

Click to find out who the lucky winner is.

The 'Glee' kids take New York!

 

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Jayma Mays' appearance in the last three seconds of “New York”, tonight’s “Glee” season finale, says everything you need to know about this season’s quality of continuity. It was the final, and perhaps ultimate, “oh yea, and also THIS” writing moment of a season chock full o’ them. Only had Coach Beiste walked by in the background using Artie’s Magical Legs could that moment have been more jarring. Look, some shows are five pounds of story in a ten-pound bag. “Glee” is twenty-five pounds of story in that same bag, spilling over the edges at all times in a chaotic frenzy. Or, put another way: if other shows write their stories based on an existing recipe book, “Glee” just throws a ton of stuff into a pot just to see what happens. Every once in a while they accidentally concoct a dish that would win an episode of “Top Chef”. But usually they produce a plate that would be better served with something even remotely approaching narrative discipline.

Could Kelsey Rey (left) overcome her natural attractiveness to beat Tori & Taylor Thompson on 'The Voice'?

 

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After Tuesday's "American Idol" finale descended into a lackluster debacle of lethargic country and limiting laryngitis, the bar has been sufficiently lowered that I'm really looking forward to tonight's quartet of "Voice" Shout-Battles.

Game on, "The Voice."

[Full recap after the break...]

Lauren Alaina and Scotty McCreery of 'American Idol'

 

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If you're as Twitter addicted as I am, you spent the 90 minutes leading up to Tuesday's "American Idol" finale on pins and needles waiting to see who FOX would offer up as a sacrificial lamb at the altar of St. Scotty McCreery. Would it be laryngitis-battling finalist Lauren Alaina or possible comeback kid Haley Reinhart?

Click through to find out who sang on Tuesday and who will lose to Scotty on Wednesday.