Leisha Hailey will star in a pilot presentation spinoff of The L Word for Showtime scheduled to begin shooting in December.

Each week the editors at Starpulse will be highlighting the best responses and remarks to news stories and celebrity topics that we've come across.

"Rescue Me" fans eager for the fifth season will have to wait until next spring for new episodes (damn that writers' strike!).

Lauren Lee Smith joins the cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation next season as a series regular.

Feeling a bit frisky? With spring right around the corner many of us are getting an extra boost of energy into our sex drives. While we can mention several healthy ways to channel that energy, instead we'll point you in the direction of the television, which in winter provided you with warmth and this season will provide you with a new spring in your step.

Everyday we're bombarded with tons of information and it's getting harder and harder to figure out what's relevant, what matters, or even what's true. Luckily we've got Lewis Black to help weed out some of the fluff. On 'The Root of all Evil', Black takes some of that fluff, like Donald Trump and Viagra, and puts it on trial, exposing their foibles and giving us something to laugh and think about.

Showtime has renewed the critically-acclaimed, groundbreaking lesbian drama The L Word for a sixth and final season, it was announced today by Robert Greenblatt, Showtime's President of Entertainment.

Paris Hilton has hired a top acting coach in a bid to be taken seriously on the big screen. The socialite's music and acting efforts have been largely mocked to date, but Hilton isn't giving up and she's called in drama guru Ivana Chubbuck to help her win bigger and better roles.

Paris Hilton is set for a racy new TV role as a member of the cast of lesbian series The L Word. The socialite-turned-actress has revealed she's in talks to guest on the acclaimed cable TV show - and her spot may lead to a more regular part.

Happy Birthday to singer/pianist Alicia Keys (1981), "The L Word" actress Mia Kirshner (1976), American runner Steve Prefontaine (1951; d. 1975), director Tobe Hooper (1943), R&B singer Etta James (1938), Disney film actor Dean Jones (1931), and English writer/feminist Virginia Woolf (1882; d. 1941).