The Amazing Race producers have issued a public apology to outraged veterans groups after a recent episode of the series featured a war memorial to a U.S. bomber in Hanoi, Vietnam.

On the March 17th episode of the reality competition program, contestants were filmed standing in front of the memorial as they received a challenge clue.  Multiple veterans groups took offense to the scene, claiming it dishonored the soldiers who gave their lives for America during the Vietnam War.

In a letter obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Veterans of Foreign Wars national commander John Hamilton lashe...

It's that time of year again. Television fans have appointments with their couches as the fall season kicks off this month with tons of returning favorites and new shows. DVRs will be working overtime as viewers record their must-see-TV programs and talk about them later at the watercooler.

Check out the premiere dates of the new season (brand new shows are indicated with italics and by *). All times are eastern unless otherwise indicated.

Monday, September 10
The Voice 8 p.m. NBC

Tuesday, September 11
Go On 9 p.m. NBC *
The New Normal 9:30 p.m. NBC *
Parenthood 10 p.m. NBC

Wednesday, ...

The new season of "The Amazing Race" will feature former Megadeth star James LoMenzo. The bassist, who has also performed with White Lion and Black Label Society, is teaming up with his entertainment lawyer pal Mark "Abba" Abbattista.

A total of 10 teams will compete in the 21st season, which features players traveling all over the world as they tackle various obstacles.

Other contestants include goat farmers The Fabulous Beekman Boys and Chippendales strippers - dancer James Davis and host of the male stripper troupe Jaymes Vaughan.

"The Amazing Race's" new season kicks off Sept. 30 on ...

CBS just announced its new 2012-2013 primetime schedule, which includes four new series. The network is also making four key time period moves.

Nina Tassler, President, CBS Entertainment, commented, "These new series feature a great range of bold concepts, rich characters, big stars and fresh faces. From a new take on Sherlock Holmes to an epic battle for control of 1960s Las Vegas to a working-class point of view in a prestigious law firm, the dramas each have a unique style and sensibility."

The new series are:

-"Elementary," a contemporary take on the legendary detective Sherlock Hol...

In any given TV week, a TV network could make it sound like they trumped everyone else, that they had something to be proud of. This week, all four major networks could actually mean it.

While the top shows were an also-ran (yep, ‘American Idol’ is perched on top, with ‘The Voice’ close behind and boasting its 18-49 demo), every network had a Top 20 show. NBC didn’t have one besides ‘The Voice,’ but every other network had multiple shows. And that doesn’t happen much these days.

FOX had both weekly editions of ‘American Idol’ as well as Keifer Sutherland’s ‘Touch' (Number 19); CBS had its...

A TV producer found dead in Uganda had "major" levels of cocaine in his system, according to a local police report.

Jeff Rice was found unconscious in his hotel suite in Kampala last week, with his assistant Catherine Fuller, also unresponsive, nearby.

They were taken to a nearby hospital, where The Amazing Race producer was pronounced dead. Fuller is currently listed in critical condition.

Officials conducting an autopsy found "major metabolites of cocaine" in the 39 year old's blood stream, while police reports suggest a small bag of white powder allegedly containing "opiates classifie...

The Amazing Race came to a finish Sunday night with Ernie and Cindy taking home the $1 million prize.

The Swan House in Atlanta played host to The Amazing Race's big finish Sunday night, but landing in first wasn't the easiest of tasks for Ernie and Cindy.

Ernie Halvorsen and Cindy Chiang of the Windy City flew from Panama to Georgia to begin their triumphant win, but there was much more in store for the engaged couple.

The Chicago couple then had to land a Learjet in a flight simulator, work with a clue that traced back to the author of Gone With the Wind and use a giant billboard abov...

The woman who sparked golfer Tiger Woods' infidelity scandal is pregnant with her first child.

Rachel Uchitel married boyfriend Matt Hahn in Las Vegas less than a month ago, and the couple is already planning parenthood.

Life & Style magazine reports Uchitel discovered she was going to be a mom while she and Hahn were going through the audition process to become a contestant couple on globe-trotting reality TV show "The Amazing Race."

A source says, "She found out she was pregnant when she auditioned for 'The Amazing Race.' They were going to try out to be a couple on the show, and when ...

Modern Family came full circle at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, winning the very first honors of the night and closing the show by topping the prestigious Comedy Series category.

Mad Men looked set to dominate the night, going in with 19 top nominations, and it continued its winning streak for the best drama title for the fourth year in a row.

But the stars of the period drama didn't fair so well - Jon Hamm was a four-time loser for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Kyle Chandler claimed that prize for his role in Friday Night Lights, while Julianna Margulies beat t...

Labor Day is over, signaling the unofficial end of summer and the start of the new TV season. While television is somewhat entertaining during June, July, and August, it's the fall debuts that many TV addicts anticipate.

Next week the networks start rolling out new and returning series, kicking off with "90210" and "Ringer" on the CW on Tuesday, Sept. 13.

Check out the list below to see when your favorites air:

Tuesday, September 13
8 pm 90210 CW
9 pm Ringer (NEW!) CW
10 pm Parenthood NBC

Wednesday, September 14
8 pm H8R CW
8 pm Survivor: South Pacific CBS
9 pm America’s Next Top Mode...

Mary Hanlon Stone is not to be trifled with. She's spent a quarter-century (that's 25 years) as a Deputy District Attorney. Now, the formidable prosecutor and author is one of two interrogators on ABC's new series Take The Money and Run.

Together with her close friend Detective Paul Bishop, she's trying to break ordinary people who think they can hide a quarter million dollars from real detectives for two days. Before tonight's new episode (9 PM ET/PT on ABC), Mary visited to give us her perspective on matching wits with would-be thieves.

In case you missed it, check out my inte...

CBS announced today its new 2011-2012 primetime schedule, ordering five new series and making key time-period moves for CSI and The Good Wife to strengthen its already top-rated primetime lineup.

The new series include three new dramas and two new comedies: "Person Of Interest," a crime thriller from renowned executive producer J.J. Abrams starring Jim Caviezel, Emmy Award winner Michael Emerson and Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson; "Unforgettable," starring Dylan Walsh and Poppy Montgomery as a former detective with a rare condition that enables her to remember virtually every det...

I have a question to ask all of the readers of this column. Do we really have Hollywood stars or real actors that we had in the past? Gone are the days when studios had an iron claw on the stars and being a celebrity actually meant something.

Yes, today we still have a handful of Academy Award winning movie stars such as Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Clint Eastwood. We don’t have stars like Steve McQueen, James Dean or an Audrey Hepburn. But that's on the big screen.

Today, television is packed with reality shows that makes us lose brain cells and it seems like we be...

“Bachelor” fans wait all season for the truth to spill out during each season’s Women Tell All special, and this season’s special was no exception; although, the truth that came out may not have been the truth viewers were expecting.

Yes, the women came down hard on Michelle Money for all the cruel things she said during the season, but it wasn’t really the things she said that bothered them; what bothered the women was that the Michelle that got to know in the house was NOTHING like the woman they saw in episodes. They felt confused by her two personalities and were beyond hurt that she w...

Unscripted TV has yet again given us some of the most talked-about moments this year. Here are the Top Reality TV Moments of 2010:

Boom, Headshot! It seemed like a relatively harmless Amazing Race challenge at the time: launch watermelons with a giant slingshot and try to hit stationary targets. Unfortunately for Claire Champlin of the Home Shopping Network team, she inadvertently made herself one of the targets. A watermelon to the noggin is never a good thing.

Just Dance! Kate Gosselin wanted to make a statement on Dancing with the Stars. Unfortunately for her, the...

Presenting Starpulse's quick-and-dirty guide to this fall's new CBS programming.

First, the new:

Mike & Molly, Mon. Sept. 20, 9:30/8:30 CST -- America's obesity epidemic has left a lot us a bit fluffier, and "Mike & Molly" might be CBS's attempt to deliver a show we can relate to. Unfortunately, that seems to be the extent of the humor -- being fluffy. The main characters, played by Billy Gardell ("Yes, Dear") and Melissa McCarthy ("Gilmore Girls"), meet at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting, fall for each other, and deal with the modern-day problems overweight couples face. Time will tel...

It seemed like a relatively harmless Amazing Race challenge at the time: launch watermelons with a giant slingshot and try to hit stationary targets. Unfortunately for Claire Champlin of the Home Shopping Network team, she inadvertently made herself one of the targets.

As a teaser for the upcoming season premiere on September 29th, CBS shared this clip of what appears to be a Roadblock challenge. After Claire launches watermelon after watermelon at the target, she concentrates and aims for another shot while lying down on her back. As she lets go, the watermelon gets tr...

Padma Lakshmi arrived at HBO's Post Award Reception for the Emmy Awards wearing a flowing dark blue dress with an unusual Native American-inspired necklace.

Padma's Bravo series "Top Chef" won the award for Outstanding Reality Series, beating the "Amazing Race," which has won the category seven times in a row.

At the ceremony, Padma smacked "Amazing Race" host Phil Keoghan, but it was all in good fun. She joked, "I was really, really mean to the host on the red carpet. I think I hit him twice with my purse!"

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The big networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox & CW) unveiled their schedules for the 2010-11 season this week at their various upfront presentations. Several shows were canceled (such as "Heroes," "Ghost Whisperer" & "Law & Order"), while many new series were added to the lineup ("Hawaii Five-O" & "The Event.")

Check out the schedule to see if your favorite shows made the cut and to find out which new series are coming your way:

FOX

MONDAY
8 p.m. House
9 p.m. Lonestar (new)

TUESDAY
8 p.m. Glee
9 p.m. Raising Hope (new)
9:30 p.m. Running Wilde (new)

WEDNESDAY
8 p.m. Lie to Me
9 p.m. Hell's Kitch...

CBS today announced the 11 Teams set to compete in the 16th edition of The Amazing Race, premiering Sunday, Feb. 14 (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT). Contestants will travel nearly 40,000 miles across five continents and eight countries. Eleven Teams start off by navigating through the congested streets of Los Angeles and, for the first time ever, must rely solely on public transportation to make their way to LAX.

The Teams' first destination lies in Chile where they will encounter one of the most daunting Roadblocks in the history of the series. In their ongoing battle for the one million dollar ...

Mad Men and 30 Rock are all set to repeat as TV winners at the Producers Guild Awards in 2010.

The two TV hits lead the nominations for the 21st PGA prizegiving, which takes place at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on January 24.

30 Rock will fight for the coveted Danny Thomas episodic comedy series category with Californication, Weeds, Entourage and The Office.

Meanwhile, "Mad Men" is the favorite to claim the Norman Felton episodic drama category. The show, starring Jon Hamm and January Jones, is up against Breaking Bad, Dexter, Lost and True Blood.

The Amazing Race, Am...

Since CNN has such a blast creating a report card to track the Presidency, we decided to have some fun with television. Which networks come out strong and which ones need to do better homework?

MAJOR NETWORKS

ABC: B

The Good: The dramas are what keep us coming back to ABC. Grey's Anatomy, Brothers & Sisters, FlashForward, and V are worth looking forward to. The one comedy that stands out and may hold itself against NBC's stellar comedies, Modern Family, is worth a few episodes past the pilot.

The Bad: Dancing With The Stars is extremely popular, however sometimes too much of a ...

Ah, the Emmys. The one Awards show on TV that has a nonchalant attitude toward its honorees and the medium it seeks to honor. A ceremony that seeks to put on a funny show, not blow smoke up the behinds of the many winners mostly seem like they'd rather not be there.

Sure, the last couple years were awful, but this year we have the inimitable Neil Patrick Harris at the helm, and with the possibility that this may be Emmy's final year on broadcast television, they're certain to pull out all the stops and ratchet up the funny.

And with that stellar introduction, here is the 2009 Primet...

Tina Fey's 30 Rock and hit TV series Mad Men stole the show at the 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, receiving top honors on Sunday's event.

30 Rock creator Fey and co-stars Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan claimed their third consecutive trophy for Outstanding Comedy Series, while Mad Men was a repeat winner for Outstanding Drama Series.

Fey's series was an Emmy favorite, landing a whopping 22 nominations in 2009 after stealing the show at last year's ceremony. Baldwin defended his title as the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy, although Fey failed to secure a second win for Outstan...

You may have forgotten since there is about a 47-month lull between the nomination announcements and the actual awards ceremony, but the Primetime Emmy Awards are coming to your living room on Sunday evening with everybody’s favorite human being, Neil Patrick Harris, serving as host for the evening.

Hopefully, the choice of somebody known for being funny and having talents that extend beyond being able to sit still for a perfect haircut and remembering the names of contestants will show a marked improvement in the quality of the ceremony with the return to Emmy ceremonies of yore where b...

Former stars of Survivor and The Amazing Race Rob and Amber Mariano welcomed a daughter last month, according to People.com.

Rob said the baby, born July 4, "tends to be a bit of a night owl like her daddy." He added, "She is a perfect baby and we could not have asked for anything more. We are over the moon with happiness."

Lucia Rose was named after her paternal great-grandmother.

Even though summer has just begun, many TV addicts are itching to know when their favorite shows will be returning and new ones will be premiering. ABC, CBS, NBC, The CW & Fox recently released their schedules, and we have compiled them in one convenient list.

As often is the case, networks revise or tweak their schedules over the summer. So check back often for updates!

New series are in bold. Click on the show's name for photos, cast lists and more!

Tuesday, September 8

8 pm 90210 (The CW)

9 pm Melrose Place (NEW! The CW)

10 pm Sons of Anarchy (FX)

Wednesday, September 9

...

Alexis Jones is mostly known for her stint on Survivor Micronesia: Fans vs Favorites, and on her season she made it almost all the way to the end by playing with integrity and a sense of confidence that managed to be inspiring without being intimidating. Since her time on reality TV came to an end, Jones has spent much time traveling across the country and up to Canada on motivational speaking gigs, and she has also founded the non-profit "i am that girl", which, as a brand, is "chick empowerment with an edge." On May 31st 2009, Jones and her "i am that girl" co-horts threw what they hoped ...

CBS announced today the addition of four new series to strengthen its already top rated primetime lineup for the Fall 2009-2010 season.

The new series include three dramas and one comedy. Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J star in "NCIS: Los Angeles," a spinoff from the hit drama NCIS; "The Good Wife" stars Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies in a legal drama about a steadfast wife and mother who boldly returns to work as a lawyer when her husband is imprisoned for a high profile political scandal; "Three Rivers," a medical drama that stars Alex O'Loughlin as the head of a renowned transpl...

The networks continue to vie for your attention and May sweeps wins. Don't miss the special "Adventures of an Eternal Optimist" this Thursday on ABC starring Michael J. Fox, based on his best selling book Always Looking Up. Lots of great competition out there as American Idol is down to four, six castaways remain on Survivor, the NBA and NHL playoffs continue, and Amazing Race 14 concludes.

Monday

Pick of the Night: House FOX 8/7c, "Under my skin." House continues to hallucinate seeing Wilson's dead fiancé Amber.

Other new episodes worth watching: The Big Bang Theory CBS 8/7c...