The Week in Review: Farewell and Welcome the New Shows; Kris Aquino Tells All

From across the seas to our shores, no TV news is left unturned. Just the exact amount of crazy will be served. Anyway, this week's been pretty busy with Comic-con and all the goodies that came with it. I'm sure I'll be able to blog more about it, once I've digested all the news on my feed. Or I could do another highlight piece, just like this one! There's a LOT, I tell you!

Aside from that, we've been pretty much hearing more casting coups, and in this part of the world, more of both the most hated and crowd favorite, Kris Aquino. Of course, let's not leave the previews for next week unpublished.

• American Idol News: Ellen is leaving. Kara got fired. And what's this talk about J.Lo and Steven Tyler being snagged as the new judges? I doubt the last one is true.
• Kris Aquino returns to Manila and faces the intrigues. It wouldn't be Kris at all to scrimp on the details and do it in private, so she tells all to Boy Abunda and to the whole world.
• From the cryfest end of Wowowee to the beginning of Pilipinas Win na Win, which for at least a day was Pilipinas FTW.
• Friends-lovers rejoice! Jennifer Aniston and BFF IRL Courtney Cox will reunite in Cougar Town. After four years out of the picture, Matt LeBlanc is returning to our TV sets!
• Glee doesn't seem too shy about adding new cast members, and bringing the favorites back. Kristin Dos Santos of E! Online dishes on "who's in and who's out."
• If you haven't caught the teaser of Dexter's fifth season, then you seriously need to make time for it! This trailer is AWESOME.
• And while we wait for the new season, let's enjoy the summer fare and get excited for what awaits us this week. Pretty Little Liars is in for The Perfect Storm and the girls are ever more insecure of the ties that bind them together. Looks like there's trouble brewing inside The Gates and maybe we'll get to see what the "rules" say about killing inside the village. Annie's stuck in Zurich with a Mossad agent in next week's Covert Affairs. There seems to be some friction again between Neal and Peter in next week's White Collar.
• Lastly, let me sneak one in for Rubicon. Matt Roush of TV Guide asks, "Can a show be too intelligent?" His sluggish is my idea of letting it boil and simmer, so you get closer to the perfect end product.

Rewind and Review: The Jenna Thing Got More Intruiguing

Photo by Jaime Trueblood/Disney Enterprises (via IMDB.com)

In the little town of the Pretty Little Liars, we have a teenager exploring her urges to be with another girl, a sister who can't stop herself from getting a taste of what big sis has, a daughter who fucked (in both the literal and figurative sense) with her mother's life, and a student who has the hots for her English teacher. And we haven't reached the tip of the iceberg just yet!

Let's rewind and review what just happened, and what remains a mystery.

Eavesdropper: We Like the Pretty Little Liars Pilot

H: Are we seriously watching another teeny bopper show?
D: But this one's suppose to be really GOOD!
H: That's what you said, when you duped me into watching that effed up remake of Melrose Place.
D: OMG! You didn't just say that. I'm still mourning that show. Shut up! It's starting.

And as they say, the rest was history? Anyway, Dovey was able to lure me into watching this show from ABC Family. The only other show I followed for a short time in that network was GREEK, which was not that bad at all. And this new show from them is not that bad at all! It must be because I had such low expectations.

More goodies after the jump!