BW Manilowe

WE recently started airing L&O: CI as well.

No problem. I just checked Lifetime's schedule for next Thursday (September 3rd) for you & 'cause I was curious about it. Next week's PR marathon starts at 4PM Eastern (check your local listings for the correct time if you're not on Eastern Time) with the S14 Road to the Runway ep & runs all the following eps from there *in order* until they run the new ep for next week at 9PM Eastern (again check your local listings for the correct time if you're not on Eastern Time). Hopefully, with that information you can catch whatever you've missed to this point either in person or by recording it while you're at work, or whatever, to watch later.

Biakbiak: I don't watch The Bachelor, or the female version, but I know Chris was the bachelor on the last cycle of The Bachelor, after which he went straight into the next cycle of Dancing with the Stars that started after his show ended; & then he broke up with the girl he got engaged to on The Bachelor while he was doing DWTS. And yeah, he's overstayed his 15 minutes.

People magazine seems to be confirming singer Chaka Khan's participation in this article; it contains Tweets from the DWTS Twitter feed that seem to be officially announcing it. http://www.people.com/article/chaka-khan-joins-dancing-stars-season-21

Carrie Underwood Announced as Guest Judge for PR Season Finale: http://www.people.com/article/carrie-underwood-guest-judge-project-runway It was also announced, like, yesterday that Carrie has her own activewear line that's showing at NY Fashion Week this year, so this makes sense since she'll already be there in conjunction with that.

If you've missed an ep, you can always catch up on the actual Lifetime channel at least the week after. They run a marathon of *all* the previous eps in the season--I think at least until they get to a certain point, then they drop the earlier eps from the beginning to that certain point--every Thursday until they get to the new ep for that week (then after the new ep airs, they just air the last week's ep & the new ep a time or 2 more, alternating the 2, until they get to when the Paid Programming [infomercials] come into the schedule, around 3AM Eastern). The only thing is, these eps air in hour timeslots, instead of the original hour & a half some of them ran for (but I've honestly never been able to tell anything got cut from the early-season 90 minute eps during these marathons). Like, today they started with the Road to the Runway at 5PM Eastern; then Ep 1 was at 6PM Eastern & now they're discussing the designs after the Hallmark Signature Cards runway show--the Hallmark ep started at 7PM Eastern. Last week's ep (the cruise designs) should be on at 8PM Eastern, with this week's new ep at 9PM Eastern, as usual. Next Thursday's marathon should start at 4PM Eastern, if they run Road to the Runway again, 5PM if they start with ep 1 (etc.). Hope this helps!

Chin's new love interest has been cast. She'll apparently recur in at least 3 eps this season. http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/27/hawaii-five-0-julie-benz-chin-love-interest

A Vine, in this case, is an 8-second, I think, video clip posted to the Internet through the Vine site (similar to the really short videos--but I think with slightly longer time limits--posted to Instagram & Twitter, & maybe also Facebook).

Kim Zolciak, from Bravo's The Real Housewives of Atlanta & Don't Be Tardy, is doing the show, according to a report from E! which was quoted in the Radio-TV blog linked below from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The quoted E! report (&, therefore, the AJC blog) also mentions Paula Deen as another (supposedly) confirmed celeb. http://radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com/2015/08/27/e-kim-zolciak-paula-deen-join-dancing-with-the-stars/

Former NBA Star (76ers, Nets) Darryl Dawkins Dead at Age 58. https://twitter.com/cnnbrk/status/636990329074380801

Yeah. It's been in the press, over the last few days, that she just sent out her wedding invitations. She's/They're apparently planning on 300 guests, to be held at (I think) the Hotel Breakers in Florida. And it's on/somewhere around the 22nd of November. Unless she's somehow already planning a way to exit the show early, I don't see how she can do DWTS this cycle/season.

Entertainment Tonight Tweeted a few hours ago that "sources" confirmed to them the casting of Paula Deen, Chaka Khan, & singer Andy Grammer for this season. ABC has not confirmed & says they do not confirm stuff like that. http://m.etonline.com/news/170727_dancing_with_the_stars_andy_grammer_to_join_paula_deen_and_chaka_kahn_season_21_cast/ This is *not* the casting announcement they mentioned, on Tuesday night, that would be made on Thursday's show involving 2 more cast members to come. They're still doing the Thursday announcement.

Actress Anna Kashfi, First Wife of Marlon Brando, Dead at Age 80. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anna-kashfi-dead-marlon-brando-817560

The person having the reaction may be having trouble breathing/be unable to speak to tell someone how to help them, & they may be unable to inject themselves depending on the severity of the reaction. And there may not be anyone around who's familiar with A) Giving injections, generally or B) Giving epinephrine injections, specifically... Which can only be given in certain areas of the body. I think the talking epi-pen is the same principle as the talking cardiac defibrillators.

It's Orange is the New Black...small point there. And they've also had married couples on before (Oscar & Grammy-winning singer/songwriter John Legend & model & about to be cookbook author Chrissy Teigen, & now-retired Grand Slam tennis champion Andy Roddick & model-actress-TV personality Brooklyn Decker... that I remember) but, as the poster upthread said, the couples were split between the teams.

In their online article about Victor Espinoza joining the cast, Entertainment Tonight says they're announcing *2* more celeb cast members on their show *this Thursday*. http://m.etonline.com/tv/170670_another_dancing_with_the_stars_season_21_contestant_revealed/ So if you don't watch ET regularly, check your local listings for the correct time(s) & channel(s) in your area (we get it here on 2 "sister" channels from 7-8PM Eastern--1 channel airs it at 7, the other at 7:30). ET isn't always an ABC show--which makes it a little unusual they're announcing some of the celeb cast, since the previous reveals have both been on shows airing on ABC or another network in their corporate family (ESPN). But ET does heavily cover the show whenever it's on, so maybe that mitigates some of the weirdness of them announcing 2 of the celeb cast. Plus ET Co-Anchor Nancy O'Dell was supposed to do the show a few seasons ago--when she was still Co-Anchoring Access Hollywood (the same season singer Jewel & her now ex-husband, rodeo star Ty Murray were also in/supposed to be in the cast)--but Nancy (& Jewel) had to drop out during rehearsals for the 1st show because she got a knee injury that required surgical repair.

Easier Said Than Done by Essex (US Pop Chart).

If they can find a way to do something positive & uplifting in connection with it, I'm guessing the year her dad was killed by the stingray while filming 1 of his shows & she gave that pretty amazing (for a kid her age) eulogy about/for him at the huge memorial service they had at Australia Zoo, which they own in Queensland State, Australia. That would've been around 2006 if I figured right. Bindi was 8 then, she's 17 now.

As I remember, on B&S, Senator McCallister was in favor of Gay Marriage/Rights--as you said--because he had a gay brother of his own (who was also briefly involved with Kevin, at 1 point when Kevin & Scotty were broken up & not seeing each other at the time, or it at least seemed that way, as I remember). But, as you also said, he traded his "Yes" vote on that bill for another Senator's support of his Education (or something else) bill.

I have no idea. All I know is what the media reported, which is Heidi & Zac both recently had to go to the hospital for Tetanus shots, & presumably other treatment--like a medically professional cleanup & bandaging; maybe a short-term prescription for an antibiotic--after they both stepped on a rusty nail on the PR set. I assumed it was the same nail 'cause that seemed logical to me. But there might've been multiple nails involved. I will concede that point. What I'm not sure is, were they on a taping break & both barefoot or were they walking around in socks/stockings or cloth-type/easily penetrated slippers? I mean, whenever they're actually on the show everybody--including them--is wearing shoes which should be sturdy enough so a nail can't injure a foot (except maybe for some or all of the models in the runway show portion, depending on the theme of the design challenge, when the designs might suit bare feet better than some form of shoes).

Zac & Heidi *both* had to go to the hospital for Tetanus shots after stepping on (apparently) the same rusty nail on the Project Runway set recently (this article was posted, like, yesterday--Sunday--so they likely stepped on the nail no later than Saturday-ish). http://www.ew.com/article/2015/08/23/project-runway-heidi-klum-zac-posen-hospital-instagram

There's another (at least written) part to Bindi's interview here: https://gma.yahoo.com/bindi-irwin-hoping-dad-proud-dancing-stars-200343593--abc-news-celebrities.html

Presumably Uzo Aduba from the Netflix series Orange is the New Black.

GMA had the first celeb reveal for this season on this morning's show. This time they're apparently announcing them slower & separately, like this year's Miss America judges. Australian teenage (age 17) wildlife activist Bindi (Bindi Sue) Irwin, daughter of the late Steve Irwin (aka "The Crocodile Hunter") & his American-born wife Terri, will be competing this season. She was interviewed about it today. There are also articles confirming it on pretty much every entertainment/celebrity news web/social media site today. And, lastly, Bindi's own Twitter confirms it here: https://mobile.twitter.com/BindiIrwin/status/635854647102701568?p=v Some of the articles on the celeb/entertainment news sites are speculating Bindi's partner will be Mark Ballas, but of course nothing's confirmed yet. Seeing as she's probably still more famous in Australia than the US, I'm a bit surprised the US version asked her instead of the Aussie version of the show. But, like I said, she is half-Aussie/half-American (though her Mom took dual Aussie/US citizenship for her 50th birthday a year or so ago), so maybe it's not that strange DWTS would ask her.

Happy 39th birthday today--August 23rd--to Scott Caan (& to Alex O'Loughlin tomorrow, August 24th)!