NBC is a jealous mistress. Among rumors that Michael Phelps is bedding Stephanie Rice (and whoever else he wants) the peacock station wants to draw their beloved cash-cow back into the warm bosom of their network.

Fair enough, but couldn't they find a better program than Saturday Night Live to showcase Phelps? The Olympic swimmer will be hosting the first episode of the season, which is sure to get off to a bang considering that most of America has never even heard Phelps speak.

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Under the original deal struck between The Weinstein Company and Bravo, Project Runway cost the NBC Universal channel $600,000 per episode.

That was not enough for Harvey Weinstein, especially when Bravo started taking all the credit for the show’s success.

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What is the world coming to?! Last month Diane Keaton rocked America to its core by saying "fuck" on Good Morning America. Now Jane Fonda - that liberated woman! - had the gall, nerve and balls to say "cunt" on The Today Show. Incredible!

Don't worry, though, Meredith Vieira apologized to the flabbergasted audience, at least half of whom are still recovering in local hospitals.

Thanks to Jeremy Hooper for this wickedly cuntastic remix!

The National Broadcasting Company, also known as NBC, aired a very political Law & Order last night. We didn't catchi this particular episode, but Wonkette's intern did, however, and relayed the plot, which started with a Larry Craig-esque character toe-tapping and ended with a "Hillary Clinton" type looking like a serial killer. Sound wild, right? The episode's end was so wacky, in fact, that the intern, Elise, had this to say: "The Larry Craig guy ended up being totally harmless." Unless he's voting, of course.

Some Christian activists "must see" some NBC apologies:

A recent Law & Order show portraying a leader in a college Christian ministry as anti-homosexual and Christians as "Bible thumpers" is drawing ire from a watchdog group for anti-Christian bigotry.
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There is a relentless attempt by the media to stereotype Christians as prone to violence, said Dr. Gary Cass, chairman and CEO of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission, as he criticized the producers as insensitive.
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He added that it is negative portrayals of Christians like that featured in “Law & Order” which are used to "legitimate violence against Christians."

For those of you not up on your religious iconography, the image portrays St. Stephen, who's said to be the first Christian martyr.

Readers will no doubt be happy to hear that NBC's American Gladiators are totally steroid free. Executives reportedly subjected hopefuls to drug testing prior to casting.

So all those muscle men and women aren't junkies - they're just obsessive freaks!

Militia and his gay porn-ready package helped American Gladiators dominate this season's crop of new shows. From Media News Daily:

NBC'S premiere of the remake of "American Gladiators" posted a surprisingly strong showing Sunday, delivering the best debut for any new show this season. The series premiered with a 5.9 in "live-plus-same-day" 18-to-49 ratings for the special 9-to-11 p.m. premiere–and saw its ratings build in the second hour.

People must have spread the word.

The dialogue? Forced. The graphics? Cliche. The testosterone? Heavy. The bulging muscle? Plenty.

That about sums up last night's premiere of American Gladiators on NBC, with a new roster of gladiators — some of whom we've seen before. Personally, we were enjoying the debuts of Titan (total cheeseball) and Militia (packin' heat), but as you'll see in the clip after the jump, the former porn star wasn't up to the challenge on Day One.

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Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's up to his old tricks.

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Now we're really excited to watch NBC's resurrected American Gladiators.

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Brian Williams made a gay peace offering yesterday. And no everyone's taking it…

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NBC's Brian Williams doesn't write the news he reads, but perhaps he should start editing a bit. As you'll see in this video, during which Williams discusses Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's anniversary. Money quote: "In an era when marriage is under attack, the United Kingdom is these days celebrating a 60th wedding anniversary: the longest marriage of any monarchy."

Video-source Good As You ain't happy about this potentially conservative slip-up, writing:

…The hyperbolic idea that this institution is being "attacked" is one that is most often associated with the far right's anti-gay marriage campaigns. So, at best, this was bad news writing; at worst, it's a prominent journalist and news outlet taking some irresponsible, rhetorical bait. Either way, we're less than thrilled.

Our bet: a Fox News plant in the writer's room. Or mind control. Or, possibly, both.

Former NBC newsman Tom Brokaw's new book, BOOM! Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today, goes on sale tomorrow. A reflection on, well, the 1960's, Brokaw attempts to give a personal view into America's tumultuous past. And, judging from the NY Times review, Brokaw didn't come across any queers in his travels.

Mr. Brokaw’s own history is also part of his panorama. He intersperses autobiographical anecdotes sparingly and chooses them well. He and his wife, Meredith, were married in 1962; girdles were part of her wedding trousseau, and they received five cigarette lighters as presents. Five years later he was in San Francisco being asked, “Mister, do you know what’s going on over on Haight Street?” and meeting a young woman who claimed to have slept with all of the Byrds.

“My ambitions were counter to the counterculture,” says Mr. Brokaw, who was born in 1940, had a family and an established career by 1968 and did not experience the full impact of the baby boom in his personal life. (The emergence of gay culture is notably absent from this book’s panorama.)

Poor Tom Brokaw: can you imagine a life lived without getting down with the gays. Sad…

Presidential candidate Fred Thompson sat down with Tim Russert yesterday on NBC's Meet The Press.

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