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Internet piracy. It’s been the bane of networks, studios, and record labels for years now - and a few of them are starting to catch on to the truth. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.

Free streaming T.V. - sometimes ad-supported, sometimes not - has become the wave of the future. With NBC offering many of their shows for instant viewing on their website and Hulu.com serving up both new and old T.V. ranging from The Addams Family to It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, those of us without cable can still enjoy a healthy diet of great shows.

Now, after a merger that has left the WB a happy memory of the past, TheWB.com is about to find new life as the home for free streaming T.V.

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Scrubs, the series enjoyed by many people who “don’t watch medical shows,” was thrown into a minor chaos by the writer’s strike last year. Unwilling to let one of their most popular shows lapse during the strike, ABC Studios brought in writers who were not WGA members to finish one of the scripts. Production was chaotic and disrupted by picketers. The twelfth episode was aired as the season finale, and nobody was sure what would happen to the lost episodes or whether the show would, in fact, end with its seventh season.

While Scrubs was produced by an ABC company, the show was licensed to the network NBC. Confused yet? It gets worse. Since NBC was going to pull the plug on the show, executive producer Bill Lawrence decided to make a deal with ABC - which now not only produces, but will also air the show.

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Seriously, he does. Man, this is a monster–if you have the winning bid on eBay, Tom Hanks has a walk-on role waiting for you in The Taming of the Shrew alongside his wife, Rita Wilson. But it doesn’t end there, no sir–or ma’am, as the case may be.

You’ll also win:

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Of all the ways in which the writer’s strike interfered with our important television-watching habits, one of the most egregious, according to Lost fans, was the fact that it cut into Lost. Because of various delays, the previous season ended three episodes short of what it was scheduled.

For the 2009 and 2010 seasons, the producers plan to tack on an extra hour, perhaps in the form of two-hour finales for both. This way, they will fulfill their promised 16-16-16 episode plan for the final three seasons.

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Who doesn’t want a seven-inch-tall version of Hayden Panettiere in their bedroom? Be honest, kids. A “collectible Claire Bennett figure” is pretty much #1 on your Christmas list already. Well, you’re in luck!

Mezco Toys and NBC have banded together to bring you a series of Heroes dolls. Claire, Hiro, Peter, Mohinder, and Sylar will all be a part of the initial launch, which is set for June. And, don’t worry, there will be more - just as soon as you all pour enough money into the first set to make sure it’s worth their while.

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The fourth season of House brought some changes to Fox’s formulaic but beloved medical drama. The diagnostic team that had stuck with House - mostly - through thick and thin all moved on with their careers, leaving the troubled doctor to assemble a new team of Watsons.

While the show certainly needed to be mixed up a bit, many fans did not agree with the changes. Now, perhaps in an attempt to redeem themselves, the writers have put a little extra ingenuity into the finale of the chaotic Season 4.

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While you may not agree with Family Guy’s accusatory tagline of “Lifetime: Television for Idiots,” most of us can agree that Lifetime movies don’t have the best reputation. They were responsible for Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life, after all. But respected actress Renée Zellweger, not content with slumming it in the ultra-mediocre comedy Leatherheads, has decided to executive produce a Lifetime original movie.

Tv Squad has the story.

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Ah, that magical 100th episode. All shows hope to get there someday, and the popular reality series Dancing with the Stars - based on the U.K. series Strictly Come Dancing - just passed the milestone this week.

R&B singer Mario, who is allegedly a celebrity, commemorated the event by being eliminated from the competition. Apparently, this Latin dancing prompted the judges to call his footwork “bloody ugly.”

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Comedian, T.V. star, and now an internet celebrity? Stephen Colbert, who followed his success on Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show with his own hit spinoff, The Colbert Report, has now been honored as the internet’s Person of the Year. By whom, you ask? Why, the Oscars of the Internet, naturally! The Webbys, now celebrating their 12th year, say that Colbert will take home the gold for “the innovative way he has used the Internet to interact with fans of The Colbert Report.”

Reuters describes the situation thus:

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I tend to watch a lot of late-night, celebrity-related T.V. It’s not really by choice. I don’t have cable, and I live in a concrete building, so I get about four channels and one of them gets intensely creepy after 1am. They broadcast names, pictures, and information about missing persons, which would be great if they didn’t play what sound like rejected tracks from the score for Saw II with a choir periodically chanting “MISSING (Missing missing missing…)” in an unearthly echo. I don’t have the stomach for that.

So I’m stuck with shows like TMZ and the ones about Versace’s giant mansion (his main shower is bigger than my entire apartment). You know, the kind of shows they make fun of in GTA IV. And for the past few weeks, all those shows could talk about was Tom Cruise’s supposed tell-all interview with Oprah.

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