On July 20th, E! will air a True Hollywood Story on Heath Ledger.

The question everyone is asking, and the question that E! is not addressing is: Did they find out if the mysterious “love child” rumor is true?

Aussie newspaper The West Australian tracked down a secret woman who had a brief love affair with a 17-year-old Heath that might have resulted in a secret child.

E! is definitely made a trip to Australia for their show, but was it a fact finding mission?

Guess we’ll have to wait until July.

Watch this teaser for the new Dina Lohan-centric show on E! (premiering Memorial Day). It makes us sad, because the premise of the show seems to be: “Can I ruin my other daughter?”

New Heroes Season 3 (subtitle: “Villains”) teaser teases unavoidable superhero cliché.

It happens in every franchise: good goes bad. Especially in the ultra-trivialized world of TV and movie superheroes, this happens in the third installment (unless Iron Man II is about alcoholism). Spider-Man 3: Peter Parker turns evil in the black suit. X-Men 3: Jean Grey goes Phoenix. In Superman 3, Superman meets Evil Superman. In Batman Forever, Val Kilmer and Joel Schumacher were little more than evil Michael Keaton and Tim Burton.

Oh, did we mention that all of those movies sucked in comparison to the movie that came before them?

In that sense, this teaser fills us with dread, because Season 2 of Heroes was so lackluster.

On the other hand, it was also abbreviated, so maybe Heroes will treat Villains like they should have treated season two: with care.

We have to say that we’re guilty as everyone else: We didn’t watch How I Met Your Mother until Britney Spears made her cameo.

We can’t really explain why, since Neil Patrick Harris, Allison Hannigan, Jason Segel and Bob Saget are all on it, and we love those guys.

In the back of our mind, we just feel like 3-camera sitcoms with laugh tracks are dead, and should be used sparingly. The “used sparingly” part is what makes us think we should at least watch HIMYM (Him-Yim, guys). Though it would be kicking House of Payne off our TV watching schedules.

Want to see a clip of Britney’s return? Click “Read More…” and watch that sh*t before someone pulls it off of YouTube for (no joke) the thirds time today!

What do Heroes, ER, Brothers & Sisters, Dirty Sexy Money, House, Bones, CSI, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, NCIS and My Name Is Earl all have in common? They are all still in production despite the usually-horrible summer TV season already upon us (NBC’s All American Summer, anyone?).

This is because of the Writer’s Strike, though if you talk to anyone in production, they will call it “the new method of television production,” or some such thing.

When the WGA took to the streets and effectively shut down TV, most programs got a two-month hiatus smack-dab in the middle of their seasons. After the strike, most abruptly halted shows went back into production with an abbreviated episode order. Some, like House, were forced to move whole plot lines into next season.

But now that production has resumed and finales have been filmed, what are some of TV’s most consistent shows doing still shooting episodes? And why is Heroes in production even though they (wisely) decided to prematurely end Season 2?

It’s all part of the reactionary system of television production, which is going to make itself known to the world during next week’s upfronts…

We still haven’t gotten around to catching up with episodes one through whatever-episode-is-on-now of Gossip Girl. It has reached that watershed point where we need to start caring about it, not watch it but keep it on notice or completely ignore it.

Option three is going to be difficult, so it’s down to options one and two.

Either way, Gossip Girl has some new gossip surrounding the next season: it will be a 24-episode extended season to make up for the episodes lost during the Writer’s Strike.

Not that it’s official. Nothing is official until next week’s upfronts, where our various prophecies will come true.

Ryan Seacrest apparently fills in for Larry King from time to time. We wouldn’t know, we haven’t watched Larry King in a long time. The last time we thought we were watching Larry King, it was actually the original Universal Mummy movie. The black and white one.

Regardless, with Seacrest’s occasional forays behind the desk of King seem to be all he needs to kick up some rumor dust about his candidacy to replace Larry around the end of this year.

Details after the jump.

The 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys is about the drug trade in Miami and the colorful characters who populate said lifestyle. It’s an awesome doc by Billy Corben that was released in 2006 and analyzes how the econmic growth in Miami is connected to the drug trade.

If that synopsis sounds like it could use more hot babes, explosions and chase sequences…we have good news for you under the cut, buddy!

The one thing you can say about Heroes Season Two is that theytried really hard to come up with characters that weren’t just the X-men re-hashed.

There was the girl that learned things from watching them and Maya, the black-teared wonder who killed everyone with her bitchy weeping.

Second season sucked, just like the second season of Friday Night Lights was lackluster.

And now the two shows have more in common than a sophomore slump.

Thank God someone gave Lindsay Lohan some work. The girl just seems to be spiraling out with her lesbianism, covert Facebook account and consistent style that can only be described as out-of-work-40-year-old-cocktail-waitress.

LiLo was apparently so psyched to be given the Ugly Betty part that she showed up 45 minutes early for yesterday’s call.

Details and Linds’ last TV guest spot, below the cut!

Gary Coleman’s landmark appearance on Divorce Court finally addressed his sex life on today’s part 2 of 2. Judge Toler got down to the bottom of the issue by asking if Gary was okay and if they have actually consummated their marriage.

To which Coleman responded: “I…yeah…well…yeah….it’s a little bit complicated.”

What choo talkin’ about Willis?

Oh, this is sad. So sad we can’t think of a joke to make is less sad.

We’ve been doing near weekly re-caps about what we know about the upcoming finale of NBC’s The Office. There was the news that the cast and crew were being sworn to secrecy, then some more juicy tidbits last week.

Last week’s episode saw Toby hit on Pam and then insist he is moving to Costa Rica before he jumps a fence and runs home.

We thought it was a one off joke, but here’s the summation of the season finale from NBC:

4.14 “GOODBYE TOBY”
05/15/2008 (09:00PM – 10:00PM) (Thursday) : It’s Toby’s (Paul Lieberstein) goodbye party at Dunder Mifflin and Michael (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell) demands a huge celebration that matches the joy in his heart. Angela (Angela Kinsey), sick of Michael’s unreasonable last minute demands, refuses, and Michael turns to Phyllis (Phyllis Smith) to take over the party planning committee. Meanwhile, Dwight (Rainn Wilson) and Meredith (Kate Flannery) haze the new HR woman, Holly (Oscar Nominee Amy Ryan).

Toby’s goodbye? Angela refuses? Dwight and Meredith hazing? This sounds awesome.

But what, your girlfriend is asking, about Jim and Pam?

TV Guide’s uber-reliable Michael Ausiello had this to say when someone asked him if it was safe to say that Paul Lieberstein’s Toby was the character to leave the show:

Kinda-sorta safe, anyway. But get this — that’s not the twist that prompted producers to turn the set into Fort Knox. Nooo. According to several well-placed birdies, whose decision to sing to me like the proverbial canary was clearly in breach of their confidentiality agreements, there are three even bigger plot twists that will profoundly impact Angela, Dwight, Andy, Jan, Toby, Michael, Jim and Pam. I will now possibly reveal what those three twists are among (or not) the following six options (Possible Major Spoiler Alert): an engagement, a death, an infidelity, a pregnancy, a fire and a coming-out. Let the wild speculation begin!

So just let that mull over you thoughtsicles.

Jennifer Lopez has been developing something over at TLC for a little bit, and most assumed that we would be seeing a reality show about how “Jenny From The Block” kept it “real” while raising “children” with her husband Marc Anthony.

Even though this seems like a bad idea to us as people who watch television, we let it slide because we don’t find our dial turned to TLC all that often (that acronym stands for The Learning Channel, by the ironic way). Some people seemed really into the idea because celebrities raising twins…well, it seems like the plot to a really stupid chick flick.

But some chick flicks make money.

That was until Lopez’s manager, with one single statement, killed a tremendous amount of buzz about the JLo show in development:

“The recent show Jennifer Lopez plans to produce for TLC is not a reality show. It’s a show that will track the creation, production and eventual launch of a new fragrance. Jennifer will appear in a creative, entrepreneurial capacity and will absolutely not feature her children and family life.”

Sounds riveting, right?

If the first Newlyweds with Jessica Simpson and that guy no one cares about anymore taught us anything it was that the Simpson family is controlled by a fame-hungry patriarch that uses his daughters as puppets regardless of the reality TV fact that couples cannot withstand the scrutiny of having to manufacture a sitcom structure in their everyday lives (this week Jessica visits a zoo!).

Did you guys see that was one long sentence? Boo-yah!

Cashing in once again on the formula that his daughters saying stupid things equals money is Papa Joe Simpson, who is rumored to be “in talks” with MTV to revive Newlyweds, this time with Ashlee and Pete Wentz.

We an see the pitch now: “It’s like Newlyweds, but these two are actually still making relevant music!” The joke not being that even her own father recognized Jessica’s fall from musical grace followed her rise to reality TV stardom, but rather that MTV probably sees Ashlee Simpson’s new album and the continuing tour of Fallout Boy to be especially relevant.

Point being, even if OK! Magazine is making this rumor up, the chances of someone reading it and thinking it’s a good idea will probably lead to talks between MTV and the Simpson camp.

It’s the same school of thought that something isn’t real until you recognize it.

And, yes, we’re shying away from the fact that the Simp/Wentz union has been doomed to end by the bride’s father. If he doesn’t have to treat them like real people, why should we?