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Welcome to your Wednesday morning television briefing. Let's get to the headlines, shall we? Neve Campbell (Party of Five) will return to network television with NBC's midseason drama The Philanthropist, starring James Purefoy and Jesse Martin, about a renegade billionaire who uses his wealth to help people in need.

Would it kill Johnny Depp to make a nice, normal, romantic comedy?  Probably.  So instead, Depp continues to find oddball films to counter-balance his blockbuster turns as Captain Jack Sparrow and his obligatory appearances in every Tim Burton movie.

Let's rewind about 18 months and take a look at the career of Shia LaBeouf: Disturbia was great, and made about $80 million against a $20 million budget. Transformers was huge. Indiana Jones was huge. And Eagle Eye, a movie that could really only sell Shia LaBeouf, got bad reviews and still made $100 million, one of only five movies to make that much without enjoying a summer release date.

Welcome to your Tuesday morning television briefing. I'm still smarting from the reveal in last night's episode of Gossip Girl just who was involved in that oh-so-predictable accident rather than the, uh, party I'd rather get axed from the series. Sigh. Better news then for fans of Sci-Fi's Battlestar Galactica.

Once upon a time, the true mark of Hollywood stardom was your name as the lead in an adaptation of a John Grisham legal thriller.  The list of unknowns who became stars overnight is a long one starting with Tom Cruise in 1993’s The Firm and Julia Roberts in The Pelican Brief that same year.  Other

Welcome to your Monday morning television briefing. I hope everyone had a pleasant Thanksgiving weekend (I'm still full from two Thanksgiving dinners' worth of turkey and all the trimmings) and is at least somewhat happy to be back at work today.

Happy Thanksgiving and welcome to your Thursday morning television briefing. While there's not much television-related news today (this being a national holiday and all), I did want to just share a few tidbits that are floating out there.

If you've never broadened your horizons to include watching a few movies by Hayao Miyazaki, that's your problem. Miyazaki is one of the world's great storytellers, a master of what we call anime, and a truly inventive artist.

Foreseeing a day when curtailed Hills shooting leaves her without anybody to antagonise, or maybe just catching a faint whiff of those $US12 million salaries around the corner, Audrina Patridge is angling to join the Twilight revolution.

Welcome to your Wednesday morning television briefing. I'm still trying to get the idea of hallucinatory killer butterflies out of my system after last night's episode of Fringe by thinking of tomorrow's turkey feast. I'll keep the SPOILER ALERT on for the next few posts as not everyone may have seen last night's season finale of The Shield.