TV BUZZ: MTV’s original reality TV show comes to the outer boroughs. New Yorkers wonder: Will it land in Williamsburg? Some people seem bothered, but then most of the hipsters in Williamsburg already star in a reality show in their heads, so things wouldn’t really change that much.

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The Best Links:

1. Inevitable and Perhaps Overdue: The Real World Comes to Brooklyn
2. “The Real World to Ruin Brooklyn this Summer”
3. “This is REALLY disturbing to me.”
4. “I would be very surprised if they didn’t pick Williamsburg.”
5. This Hot Mess Will Air Next Year
6. Sorry, Dudes. It’s Gonna Suck
7. Ugh

TV BUZZ: One of the biggest guilty pleasures ever to air on TV returns. Cycle 10 - the CW’s awkward parlance for the 10th series of the show - starts on Wednesday night. Start placing your (legal! hypothetical!) bets on which sharp-tongued, high-cheeked lass will come out on top.

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The Best Links:

1. The Grim, Existential Preview for the New, More Reflective Season
2. America’s Next Top Model — Official Site
3. The Cast of Cycle 10, Revealed!
4. So This Show Consists Entirely of Screaming Girls?
5. Fan Buzz Says This is “The Prettiest Bunch Yet”

TV BUZZ: With the writer’s strike almost over, your favorite shows will be returning to the air. Here’s a round-up of guides to which shows will be back and when. Few things are settled and dates are fluid, so check back often.

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The Best Links:

1. The NYTimes’ Startlingly Comprehensive Guide to When Shows Will (or Won’t) Return
2. Updated Hourly!!
3. NY Mag’s Poststrike Encyclopedia: From “Aliens in America” to “Weeds”
4. TV Productions to Hit the Gas: Updates on “Lost,” “24”

TV BUZZ: The NBC TV show was never a ratings hit, but is the third most TIVO’d show on television. Because of the strike, seven of the 22 episodes NBC ordered for season two weren’t made, and fans are left wondering if they will ever see the light of day. We were slow to catch on to Friday Night Lights because we assumed it was just a long, drawn-out series version of Varsity Blues or something. But after watching a couple of episodes, we were hooked on this high school drama. And the Explosions in the Sky soundtrack is pretty awesome.

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The Best Links:

1. BWE’s Official Petition To Save “Friday Night Lights”
2. Did the Writers’ Strike End “Friday Night Lights”?
3. A Roundup of Save “Friday Night Lights” Campaigns
4. The Show Was Picked Up for a Third Season and Production is Beginning!
5. How can we save ‘Friday Night Lights’?
6. Write to Ben Silverman!
7. Send Light Bulbs To NBC To Save “Friday Night Lights”
8. It’s Not Just a Show About Football, I Swear!

TV BUZZ: A new HBO series starring Gabriel Byrne as a psychoanalyst. HBO is taking their shrink motif ( The Sopranos , Tell Me You Love Me ) to the logical extreme: A show about an analyst, running five days a week, including an episode about his session with his analyst. Just typing that makes us want to lie down on a couch somewhere.

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The Best Links:

1. “In Treatment” - Official Site
2. “In Treatment” Takes The Therapeutic Transaction Very Seriously
3. “In Treatment” Is Hypnotic
4. We Wish Gabriel Byrne Was Our Therapist, Too
5. Preview of “In Treatment”
6. Get Ready For One Episode Every Weekday For Nine Straight Weeks
7. Review: “More interesting structurally than in its execution”
8. Review: B Plus
9. It’s Based On A Hit Israeli Show

TV BUZZ: A Battlestar Galactica spinoff is rumored to be in development. If Caprica doesn’t happen, expect someone to get royally frakked up. We nerds don’t take this stuff lightly.

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The Best Links:

1. Writers Strike May Revive Galactica Prequel??
2. Galactica Heading to Caprica After All?
3. BSG Spin-Off Caprica Gets New Lease on Life
4. Why Smart People Like BSG
5. Clips From BSG Season 4
6. Battlestar Galactica Prequel?
7. Battlestar Galactica: 1978 Vs. 2003
8. AWESOME BSG Posters

TV BUZZ: The uber-producer is already at work on his next project. No, not that fringe . Abrams’ new series sounds very X-Files , teaming a female FBI agent with a mad scientist. The pilot is reportedly shooting for $10 million - maybe the 2008 television season won’t be a total loss?

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The Best Links:

1. First Episode leaks!
2. New Publicity Stunts for JJ Abrams’ Fringe
3. FOX Gives OK to $10 Million JJ Abrams Pilot
4. The Two Leads Have Been Cast
5. The Skimpy Wikipedia Page (Updates To Come)
6. Casting Isn’t Actually That Clear. But Here Are Some Names Attached
7. Alex Graves Of “Journeyman” Is Set To Direct Pilot
8. Fox Grasps At Lost X-Files Glory

TV BUZZ: The actress gets to show off her mad fighting skillz in the new “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” Firefly (and Serenity ) fans will remember her as River. Now she gets to play an un-killable fighting machine sent from the future who will fight other robots and also learn to navigate the catty hallways of high school.

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The Best Links:

1. Interview with “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” Star Summer Glau
2. For Canadians: Full “Sarah Connor Chronicles” Online
3. Here’s an Interview
4. Naked Summer Glau Kicks Ass In This Clip From “The Sarah Connor Chronicles”
5. Summer Glau Is One Of The Coolest Fighters Ever
6. Summer Glau’s Wikipedia Entry
7. Fox Releases Glau-Heavy ”The Sarah Connor Chronicles” Posters
8. So Many Fetishes In One Little Package
9. Terminator, Or Terminatrix?
10. Early Promo For “The Sarah Connor Chronicles”
11. Summer Glau is a Terminator
12. Glau Interviewed on Dr. Blogstein’s Radio Podcast

TV BUZZ: The eight episodes of Lost completed before the writers’ strike will begin airing January 31. This and a new season of The Wire can almost make up for the months of Colbert Report reruns.

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The Best Links:

1. Lost Recap: Free the Oceanic 6!
2. Incredibly Detailed Lost Spoilers
3. Extended And Pretty Awesome Teaser
4. “The Beginning of the End”
5. Tropical Teaser: ‘Lost’ Clues Decoded
6. Lost Season Four Theater Trailer
7. A New Trailer Brings With It New Theories
8. How Do I Love TV, Let Me Count the Ways …
9. Become An Unknown Castaway In Lost Game
10. ABC’s Midseason Primetime Schedule