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Socialism has come to “Downton Abbey.”The year is 1924 and Ramsey McDonald has just been elected as prime minister. With the Labor Party’s antipathy toward the cosseted likes of the Crawley family, Sir Robert (Hugh Bonneville) is having the upper-crust equivalent of a meltdown in Sunday night’s fifth-season premiere of the Julian Fellowes drama.Wearing a zip-up sweatshirt and corduroys, a very jolly Bonneville sits down at the Lamb’s Club in midtown to discuss the momentous changes that await the Crawleys, as the world clock brings them closer to the Great Depression of 1929.

Hey! For all you Deadliest Catch fans..... I have been struggling for the past year since Captain Phil Harris died, on how to honor him and my dad, who died about4 months or so after Phil did. 2010 was a year of loss, so I decided to do something to create on the first episode of 2011, Season 5 of Deadliest Catch. So, with my favorite Phil Harris Quote, we begin: "You can watch things happen. You can make things happen. Or you can wonder what the f**k just happened. I don't want to be on number 3"

Expected Release Date: December 5, 2006 ~~~ Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer is forced to return to Los Angeles when it becomes apparent that the only four people who know he is still alive are being systemically targeted for assassination. Format: DVD Rating (MPAA): NR Originally Released/Aired: 0000 Run Time: 1012 min DVD Special Features: Disk 1: -7:00AM-8:00AM -Commentary by Kiefer Sutherland & Jon Cassar -Commentary by Jon Cassar & Howard Gordon -8:00-9:00AM -9:00-10:00AM -10:00-11:00AM -Commentary by Jon Cassar & Howard Gordon -Bonus Materials: -3 Extra Scenes -Disk 2: -11:00AM -12:00PM -12:00PM-1:00PM -Commentary by David Fury...

And the "Idol" Winner Is...by Joal Ryan Mar 23, 2006, 6:35 PM PT This spring, American Idol is the other March madness. Like college basketball fans pouring over brackets, Idol fans are scouring the Web for signs of which singer will emerge the winner of May's finale--and if they're feeling lucky, they're not being shy with their money. "We're seeing almost unprecedented wagering on who's going to be eliminated," Kyle Fratini of the offshore gambling site PinnacleSports.com said Thursday. "We're seeing hundreds and hundreds of individual bets." Among entertainment events listed by the site, Idol is now five times more...

So, for those 35 million of you who watched the show, we have our top 24 finalist chosen out of thousands of auditioners. What are their chances of winning ? Read on .... GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE TOP 24 :Let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen, as a conservative who takes merit seriously, I want this show to be about great singing talent -- not about your marketing and affirmative action plans to cater to the ethnic groups (cough*Sway Penala*cough, WINK WINK) or good TV. So hopefully, the FOX plan to tell us who to vote for this season...