Save One Show

• Chuck, Privileged, Life, Dollhouse, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles are the five finalists in E!'s Save One Show competition. — E!
• Meet Susan Boyle's latest Britain's Got Talent competition: a 10-year-old girl. — TV.com
• After much controversy, The Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize??" will be named the official rock song of Oklahoma this week. — Billboard
• Warner Bros. is developing a big-screen version of Odysseus, written by the screenwriter of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. — Variety
• Acting couple Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt have formed a production company. — The Hollywood Reporter
• Fox is holding a script contest to find new writing talent. — New York Times
• Maria Bello and Craig T. Nelson have joined the cast of The Company Men, which also stars Ben Affleck and Tommy Lee Jones. — Variety

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• Save One Show is back — can your fave get saved? — Watch with Kristin
• This "trailer" for an Everybody Poops movie spoofing Where the Wild Things Are cracks me up. — Cinematical
• Speaking of spoofiness, did you catch "Kanye West" on South Park last night? — Popwatch
• Chuck week continues with some fun Chuck polls. — Give Me My Remote
• Check out No Doubt covering Adam and the Ants' "Stand & Deliver." — PopSugar
• Leonard Nimoy as William Bell on Fringe: highly illogical? — The TV Addict
• Speaking of which, someone may have cracked the Fringe symbols code. — TV.com
• More on Kal Penn's new White House gig. — CitizenSugar
• Ben Silverman's time at NBC, in handy charts and graphs. — Vulture

The results of E! TV writer Kristin Veitch's Save One Show poll are in, and after more than 6 million votes, Kristin's declared not one but two winners: "Gilmore Girls" and "Veronica Mars." Kristin has an interesting account of how the voting went down, including "Gilmore"'s last-second comeback against "Veronica," which had been the clear winner.

I'm not surprised about the love for "Veronica." A lot of you seem to like it, and while I've only seen a few episodes myself, the buzz about the show has always been that it's underappreciated. But "Gilmore Girls" was more of a shock. My impression was that fans have been frustrated since creator Amy Sherman-Palladino left the show, but apparently it still has more devoted viewers than I realized.

The third- and fourth-place finishers, interestingly, are also CW shows: "One Tree Hill" (last year's Save One Show winner) and "Supernatural." They were followed by a trio of NBC shows: "Studio 60," "Crossing Jordan," and "Friday Night Lights." Check out the whole breakdown here.

Are you surprised by the results? Don't forget, you can also vote in my totally tongue-in-cheek Stop One Show poll.

It's the time of year when the networks start plotting their schedules for next season, checking out new pilots and deciding what shows to bring back. It's always a frustrating time for me, as I wonder why so many terrible shows make it back year after year.

At the end of the week, we'll learn the winner of Kristin Veitch's annual Save One Show campaign, which will help boost the winning show's chances of renewal. Meanwhile, I'm starting a poll of my own: the Stop One Show contest.

If you could pull one show from the air to make room for a quality series, which would it be? Unlike Kristin, I don't have the ear of the networks, so I can't promise that your vote will do anything to get the winner (loser?) kicked off the air. But I do promise to write about the show with all the ire and vitriol it deserves.

I've stocked the poll with some of my least-faves, limiting the candidates to scripted series only; I don't think I could possibly choose just one reality series to cancel. And I'm sticking with the broadcast networks' primetime shows; sorry, but "Pimp My Ride" and "Maury" don't count. Obviously, this is all in good fun, so if I've listed your favorite show among the candidates, please don't take it personally. You can vote here, but first you can check out the candidates if you read more

If you could help one — but only one — TV show get renewed for next season, which one would you pick? E!'s TV columnist Kristin Veitch has launched her sixth Save One Show campaign, encouraging readers to vote for the single show they'd most like to see back next year. She's got a pretty good track record: Five of six winning shows (including last season's "One Tree Hill") have actually made it back on the air.

Here's how it works: Vote in Kristin's poll as many times as you want before April 6, then check back April 13 to see which show won. You can also submit a video plea to save your favorite, with the top three videos appearing on Kristin's gossip show on E! online.

Kristin says "The Class," "Close to Home," "The Nine," "Studio 60," and "Veronica Mars" look the most doomed, but my vote's still gotta to to "Friday Night Lights." What about you? Check out Kristin's breakdown of the shows' chances of renewal, and to see a list of the shows in contention, read more