If you love the funny, have we got some good news for you: Amy Ryan has signed on for at least five episodes of The Office for next season.

While The Wire star is most famous for her dramatic roles, her portrayal of HR representative Holly Flax in The Office's season finale made her look like a comedy veteran — not an easy task among the seasoned Jenna Fischer, Steve Carell, and Rainn Wilson.

Ryan's chemistry with Steve Carell, and the charm and sweetness Holly Flax displayed with the other Dunder-Mifflin employees (especially Kevin) opens up a world of questions for season 5: Is there a Michael-Jan-Holly love triangle in the works? Will Holly catch on that Kevin is not really "slow"? And perhaps, the most pressing: What in the world will Michael put on that mix CD he promised Holly? (I mean besides REO Speedwagon.)

Ryan told Variety: "I don't know what they're going to do with the character, but as it was written, there's certainly a lot of potential. It's a funny thing to enter a show that you're a great fan of — and it's nice to tell lighter stories. I love the dark, grittier side of life, but it's nice to take a break from that, put a skirt on and brush your hair."

This week Jennie has a hard-hitting interview (literally) with Angela "Havoc" Mims, linebacker for the California Quake Women's Tackle Football team. Jennie finds out what makes these ladies play, how hard they work in the off-season and how exciting it is to "HIT!"

Jennie and Havoc talk about what it will take to get women's football more mainstream. Havoc demonstrates one of her favorite moves and Jennie tries to stay upright as these women of football share their love of the game.

Check out Jennie's website for funny outtakes from the episode ("The Extra Mile"), read our Q&A with Jennie, and look for new episodes of Jennie McNulty Presents: Walking Funny With... on Wednesdays.

As if Heroes wasn’t already one of the most inspired shows on TV: The producers of the hit series have announced that they’re adding the gorgeous Brea Grant to the cast for next season. Grant, who you may recognize from her guest spots on Friday Night Lights and Cold Case, will play a character named Joy whose super power is "uncanny speed."

Grant's character will first appear stealing paintings from a museum and getting called out by Hiro. It sounds like she’ll be one of those mysterious types, leaving us all to wonder if she is good or evil.

Alongside Ali Larter’s doppelgänger hero and Hayden Panettiere as a bad ass, indestructible cheerleader, Grant ups the cast’s "pretty" factor a few good notches. They'll all return (along with the rest of the Heroes cast) on September 15. Can you wait that long?

To further stoke fan speculation about what's going to happen in The X-Files: I Want to Believe, which opens July 25 — and to reintroduce the series to those who may not have been X-philes when it was on the air — a "new" X-Files DVD is being released today. The compilation of eight episodes is called "Revelations," and as the cover itself proclaims, this is the "Essential Guide to the X-Files movie," with "8 critical episodes handpicked by the series creator."

Does it deliver? Yes and no.

The DVD's eight episodes span the first six seasons of the television series, skipping (wisely) the last three seasons entirely. At first this seemed a little odd, because if this DVD is supposed to be the essential guide to the movie, and the movie takes place after Season 9, don't we need to know what happens in those last three seasons? A short "series trailer" included on the first disc does give a rundown of the entire nine seasons, but I'm going to guess that what happened in the last three seasons just isn't that important. (Sorry, Annabeth Gish fans, but I never could get into the character of Agent Reyes.)

Each episode is certainly a classic — "Pilot," "Beyond the Sea," "The Host," "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," "Memento Mori," "Post-Modern Prometheus," "Bad Blood" and "Milagro" — and each one is introduced by series creator Chris Carter and executive producer Frank Spotnitz. Their commentary, though, is limited to a couple of minutes each time, so they don't provide a lot of new information.

It is amusing to see Gillian Anderson stick her head over Chris Carter's shoulder in the commentary before "Milagro," and she is wearing the tan trench coat you've seen in preview photos for the X-Files movie, but very little is revealed about what's going to happen in the film. It does seem that Carter is shooting these intros on the set of the movie, though, because at one point a man in full surgical scrubs (an actor, I'm guessing) walks right behind him. I can't believe that wasn't entirely orchestrated, so, uh, spoiler alert? Man in scrubs will be in movie!

Well, folks, it’s that time of year again. It’s time for some of the wealthiest, talented and most beautiful that our world has to offer to get all gussied up and gather for a night of mutual adoration and self-celebrations. No, I’m not talking about the Academy Awards; I’m talking about the 2008 ESPYs.

The 16th annual awards show will be hosted by Justin Timberlake and highlights the year’s best athletes across the board. For the fifth year now, you can help decide the winners if you vote before midnight on July 11. Don’t know who to vote for? Don’t worry, I’m here to help.

Best Female Athlete:
Lorena Ochoa, Golf
Candace Parker, Los Angeles Sparks
Danica Patrick, Auto Racing
Lindsey Vonn, Skiing

My pick: Candace Parker

Because, well, duh — Ms. Parker was the most dominant player in college basketball, winning two straight national championships and more awards than I have time to list in her years at Tennessee. Now, as a Los Angeles Sparks player, she is already making her mark on the WNBA. Recently, she became the first woman to ever dunk in back-to-back professional games. Girl can play! She is also up for (and should win) Best Female College Athlete.

It's the return of the girls from LesbianGamers.com, as Tracy and Angela welcome in the first episode of Season 2 of Gay Girls Who Game.

This week they'll be covering the usual viewer feedback, showing some sneaky snow photos and reviewing three massive titles. Metal Gear Solid 4 gets put through the mill and Guitar Hero on Tour and SingStar Vol. 2 are also covered.

It's a massive episode, featuring both kangaroos and disco lighting.

Read more game reviews at lesbiangamers.com!

We all know the best way to get couch potatoes to turn off their television sets and head out to a movie theatre is by putting their favorite TV shows up on the big screen. How else can you explain a summer of Get Smart, Sex and The City and The X-Files all in feature length?

Well, for a long time now there have been rumors of a Friends flick. Ever since the super successful NBC show ended in 2004, Hollywood hotshots have been trying to figure out a way to get its stars to reunite. The whispers of a movie have come and gone every year, until finally last weekend the internet was abuzz with the news that all six cast members had signed on and the movie was a go. Fans rejoiced! Everything was right in the world! Until Warner Bros., the studio that owns the rights to Friends, issued a statement saying only idiots believe what they read on the internet (I’m paraphrasing) and no Friends movie was in the works.

Well, I can’t take it anymore so I’ve scheduled a meeting with Warner Bros. brass to get to the bottom of this. Don’t worry, I’m not gonna blow it. I’m just gonna ask them: why? If Hollywood can make a movie out of a crummy show like The Dukes Of Hazzard, why can’t we get those Friends kids together? For god’s sake, the Disney people turned one of their freakin’ rides into a blockbuster franchise. (See: Pirates of the Caribbean).

How hard can this be? It’s not like the cast — except for maybe Jennifer Aniston — is busy. Sure, a few of the friends have since starred in their own television shows, but none of those shows made it past a second season (Joey, Dirt, The Comeback). (To be fair, I thought Lisa Kudrow’s brilliant Comeback was only guilty of being too nuanced for TV. It was HBO — maybe she should have whacked someone?)

Only Aniston seems to motivate people to buy tickets to her movies (The Break-Up, Rumor Has It), but she gets more attention for the string of guys she’s gone through since her divorce from the Man Whose Name Is Not Spoken By Friends. She isn’t exactly wowing the critics, either, although her work in the upcoming He’s Just Not That Into You might change this. I’ve seen the previews and, gee, the movie looks like it will be great — for 11-year-old girls. (Seriously, when I saw the cast of this movie, which includes Drew Barrymore, Scarlett Johansson and Ginnifer Goodwin, I thought, “Do all of these women owe their agents a favor?”)

Before I welcome you to the Shear Genius/Nexxus Salon, I want to tell you about the Shear Genius drinking game I invented. It goes like this: Every time a stylist or a judge insults a client to her face, or insults a client in the third person when she is sitting right in front of them, take a drink. You'll be passed out before the Elimination Challenge, I swear.

Anyway, Jaclyn Smith welcomes you and the 11 remaining stylists to the salon. Daniel's style from last week is on the Allure Wall of Fame, and he pees a little just looking at it. Jaclyn introduces the Short Cut Challenge hair models, and says the stylists will take these women from "drab and uninspiring" [Drink!] to fun and flirtatious.

Daniel gets to pick his model first because he won last week's Elimination Challenge, and he chooses a curly, brown-haired girl whom he calls "a big, fuzzy frizzball." [Drink!]

This week Nekisa gets the client who doesn't want to have her hair cut. And it's a shame, too, because her client's hair has been bleached to the point that it's actually breaking off her head.

Paolo's client is like, "Um, hey, is my hair still going to go up into a ponytail?" And he's all: "What's a ponytail? There's your ponytail." And, in fact, her ponytail is lying on the counter right next to his bottle of volumizing mousse. See, and that is the part of the show when I would get up and shove Paolo's giant curling iron up his — "Stop!" says Jaclyn. She has a surprise.

In sashays last year's Shear Genius fan favorite, Tabatha Coffey, who probably would have shoved some styling tools in some unmentionable places if she'd stayed on until the end. She is this episode's guest judge.

"Holy s---," interviews Dee. "The bitch is back."

During the case of "The Little Lost Lesbian: Run, Jenna, Run," Private Investigator B.J. Fletcher (Lindy Zucker) and her best friend/assistant Georgia Drew (Dana Puddicombe) attempt to track down Jenna's boyfriend, Tyler York, for information on Jenna's whereabouts.

In the race to beat Doyle and Louis to find Jenna, frustrations mount for Fletch and George as they once again find themselves one step behind the competition.

Watch previous episodes of B.J. Fletcher, go to bjfletcherprivateeye.com and myspace.com/bjfletcherprivateeye for more about the series, and check back every Tuesday for new episodes.

Somebody up there hates Gillian Anderson. Maybe it's the aliens. Maybe it's the men in black. Maybe it's legions of fangirls and boys who can't believe their skeptical goddess of geekery is now cavorting with the tea and crumpets crowd over at Masterpiece Theatre. Regardless the source, there can be no other explanation for the Photoshop of horrors that is her face on the cover of the new TV Guide magazine.

My eyes! My eyes! Great googley-moogley, what the hell happened to her face? Who is that? Because that is certainly not Gillian or even Dana Scully. Has she been abducted by the aliens? Is this a not-so-cryptic hint as to the heretofore cryptic plot for their new film X-Files: I Want to Believe? Should I have put a spoiler warning at the top of this post?

What makes the TV Guide's Photoshopped atrocity even more perplexing is that Gillian seems to be the sole target of their digital wrath. David Duchovny looks OK — a little unnaturally smooth and strangely putty-colored, but otherwise fairly Mulderesque. But Gillian is barely recognizable. If she wasn't standing next to David it might even take me a few guesses. This, folk, is what happens when overzealous photo editors try to hide all signs of aging. They strip the humanity and, as a result, beauty of of a face. It ain't pretty.

This week on Gimme Sugar, the girls take advantage of Charlene and use her house for their flyer photoshoot. Needless to say, Charlene finds them dirtying up her house and she is not too thrilled.

Even after Charlene forgives her friends, tension remains high as the opening night of Sugar draws near. Also, Sayeh gets a makeover and a make-out.

I’m frustrated and I blame it on Mary McCormack.

No, not that kind of frustration, although McCormack certainly could provoke it. I’m talking about the feeling that comes when a highly anticipated show falls short, as is the case with USA’s In Plain Sight.

In Plain Sight, which was called Mary Sunshine when first announced, stars McCormack as Mary Shannon, a U.S. Marshal who relocates and protects people in the witness protection program. Mary is a strong, independent woman who is good at her job and is treated as an equal by other officers, including her quirky partner, Marshall (Fred Weller). Marshal Marshall, heh!

Sounds like a great premise, right? Early reviews suggested that In Plain Sight would serve as the female equivalent to another successful USA series, Burn Notice. I even read a comparison to the much-lamented Karen Sisco. Plus, the fab Lesley Ann Warren plays Mary’s mom, Jinx. Cool.

Have you ever wondered which TV shows came thisclose to getting an Emmy nomination and never did? No? Well regardless, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (aka the people that give out the Emmy awards) are now letting us know who those losers shows will be.

Recently they announced the official Top Ten Finalists for both Outstanding Drama Series as well as Outstanding Comedy Series — with no official mention of the actors or actresses, supporting or otherwise, that may be in contention. Who knew Emmy could be such a tease?

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Academy released this information: “In an unprecedented move designed to head off the kind of cyberspace leaks that have played havoc with the nomination process the past two years.”

Really? There has been internet “havoc”? And by "havoc" do they mean public speculation? Forums on discussion? Emmy buzz? I thought these were all good things that would inevitably lead to getting people to actually sit through three hours of Emmy award distribution. Clearly I know nothing about award shows.

Here is a peak at the nominees that may get nominated, or may not get nominated (in case you are a "glass half-empty" kind of person.)

Top 10 Comedy Series Semi-Finalists

Curb Your Enthusiasm
Entourage
Family Guy
Flight of the Conchords
The Office
Pushing Daisies
30 Rock
Two and a Half Men
Ugly Betty
Weeds

Out of this list, only five will go on the hopes of becoming America’s Next Top Emmy Finalist — or something like that. If I had to guess who those lucky final five would be, my money would be on 30 Rock (because Tina Fey is amazing and deserves all the Emmy gold they can dish out), The Office, Weeds, Ugly Betty and Two and Half Men (because they always seem to nominate this show. Does anyone out there watch this? Seriously, I’m asking.)

In this episode of From the Cheap Seats, Michelle welcomes back Becca, as they discuss the Sky and the Monarchs, sympathize with the Dream, and describe the merits of the name Candace.

Janel McCarville (left); Candice Dupree of the Chicago Sky

Of course, there is plenty of Storm talk, love for the LA Sparks and interesting advice to shooting guards all around the league.

This is a vlog by fans for fans, so please leave plenty of comments, questions, rants and raves, or anything else that comes to mind. And check back next weekend for another episode!

A campy Broadway number with the finalists opens the show. Ladies in garters! Guys in bowlers! In the end, a dancer throws up wads of money and a close up of one bill shows Nigel Lythgoe’s face. I can’t see whether or not it says “In Lythgoe We Trust.”

Cat Deeley walks through a stage door and good lord she’s gorgeous. Not only that, but she’s a personable host who doesn’t mess up the intros. (Take note, Billy Cyrus. I can’t face Nashville Star because of his clunky read-like-a-robot-intros but then, this is a guy who sang "Achy Breaky Heart.") When she hugs the finalists, she means it. I’d like her to hug me. Close. And whisper to me in that charming accent that everything will be OK and … oops, sorry, I’ll come back from my daydream and tell y’all what happened on Thursday’s results show where one guy and one girl are sent packing. And I don’t mean the kind that involves stuffing your pants although … oh never mind.

Each couple is brought out while Deeley talks about their dances and the judges’ reaction. When Kherington and Twitch, and Katee and Joshua take the stage I think, huh? No one from that group can be in the bottom three, can they? Deeley turns to Katee and Joshua and grimly intones, “It’s not you.” I’m prepared to throw things at the screen on behalf of Kherington and Twitch when Deeley quickly turns to the other couple and says, “It’s not you either.” Such an eruption of jumping and laughing happens that I’m sure that every homeless puppy finds a home and all people are healthy and happy and peace and love forever reign in this world. Deeley has to nudge them off stage. “Go now, little ones,” Deeley murmurs, “I’ve got to send some other unfortunate dancers to the bottom three.”

Who does end up in the bottom three? Kourtni and Matt, Comfort and Thayne, and Courtney and Gev. Huh? Courtney and Gev? After that wonderful hip-hop routine, I’m really surprised.

The bottom six dancers “dance for their lives.” Each is wonderful, if not a bit predictable. Gev proves his B-boy status well. After a commercial break Comfort does her hip-hop thing and the contrast is noticeable. Not a single move makes me think wow. Yeah, she’s got the rolls and she uses the floor well but Gev is clearly the better breaker.