This year's nominees for the 33rd annual People's Choice Awards have been announced! We know you'll want to visit the People's Choice Awards site to cast your official vote, but we thought you'd be interested in seeing how your opinions stack up against those of TV viewers at large. So cast your votes again here, and return after the awards air to compare the results. And don't forget to watch the People's Choice Awards on January 9 at 9:00 p.m. only on CBS!

Maintenance will occur tonight at 10:00 pm PT. This outage will temporarily affect blogs and forums for about 1 hour. We thank you for your patience during this time.

Edit: This is completed. Just for clarification it only affected user
blogs and user video comments for tv.com. The # of comments for blogs
& user videos should now be fixed. - Teivan

Top Chef is back! The creators of Project Runway hit gold once more with the first season of this exciting culinary competition series, and the second season promises to be even more of a thrill. But, as usual, we're more interested in what TV.com users think than in what the show's judges have to say. So meet the latest contestants here, and return weekly to this feature to vote for your favorite! We'll see how your opinions stack up against those of the judges and discover who you think should be the next Top Chef! Tune in on Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m.--only on Bravo!

(P.S. I voted for Betty to win, hands down!)

Hey Everbody, We'd like to notify you of a brief maintenance outage scheduled to take place on Sunday, November 12 around 10:30 p.m. PST. This outage will temporarily affect blogs (all sites) and TV.com's and MP3.com's forums for about 30 minutes, and it will let us perform improvements to our sites.

We hope this won't cause too much inconvenience.

Thank you for your understanding and for visiting our community,


The CNE Team

Edit: The forum boards are back as of 10:55pm. I'm still working on the blogs.

Edit: And the blogs are back now too as of 11:05pm, sorry for the slight outage overrun. 

We have a large number of awesome international shows in our database that I know I would love to learn more about from our users who are big fans. Now you've got a place to discuss strictly non-U.S. TV shows HERE. Cool .

Submit your "Barneyisms" HERE and the winning entry will be incorporated into an actual episode of How I Met Your Mother!

This feature also includes: How to Meet Your Lover Advice, where you can share some clever hookin' up tips with us (you can add a comment and also submit video advice), and Scene-Libs for those of you who think you are just as talented as the real writers of How I Met Your Mother!

Be sure to tune into How I Met Your Mother, Mondays at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT and 7:00 p.m. CT -- only on CBS!

Sometimes I think the only reason the camcorder was invented is so people could make movies about their pets. Check it: Cats

The problem (mentioned HERE) has been isolated and cleared up. This issue should not be occurring anymore, so go ahead and add cast/crew to all guides as you normally would, as we're now all clear!

Due to the recent bug affecting the addition of NEW cast/crew credits to shows and episodes (discussed HERE) we are going to have to turn off all user submissions for 2 hours tomorrow afternoon. This is scheduled to happen between 4pm and 6pm, Tuesday 10/10, Pacific Standard Time. All other parts of the site will still be accessible during this time -- only user submissions will be unavailable. We need to do this in order to resolve the aforementioned bug! This message is being posted on all main support forums and, in addition, the following message will show up when a user tries to access a guide-related submissions form during this scheduled outage:

"User Submissions have temporarily been turned off. We apologize for the inconvenience while we fix a few things - this function will be back very shortly!"

We want to clear this problem up as soon as we can and work on it right away, but we also want to give you guys a heads up as well! The good news is, once submissions forms are back up for your use, this problem will be gone...

Hey everybody, We've got a new feature - User Submitted News. Users can now submit external links to articles, features, gossip, etc. All you need to do is click on "Submit a Link", under the User Submitted News heading, and follow three easy steps:

1. Add the URL
2. Add a Title for the story
3. Add a description

Once a few News items have been added, you'll be able to vote on the ones you like best. The best News items get pushed to the top of the list and the worst get pushed to the bottom. It's a cool little feature, check it out.

So this time we are having the actual chat after the airing of the episode so you can relax and enjoy the show, then chat about it afterward (once you've had a chance to sleep on it and decide what you really thought of the episode)!

You'll be able to watch live streaming video of staff members as they talk about the episode and answer your questions, see footage of our own Stephanie Quay's exclusive visit to the Lost set in Hawaii, and play our cool trivia game! Check out this page at 10:00 a.m. PDT on Thursday, October 5. Oh yea, you will also receive an EMBLEM for participating!

Real time action here as we're actually recording the podcast...right now! Today we're discussing Heroes, Studio 60, Project Runway, Food Shows - with a bit of the usual banter mixed inbetween. You can download any of our previous podcasts or you can subscribe to "The Scoop" here, just so you know (posted on that page every Thurs. or Fri.)!

I'm a sucker for Orangutans and robots and dudes putting rubber gloves on their heads. Check out Zeke! And this dude - don't try this at home! And last but certainly not least, a testament to the creativity of our users - Robots

Great stuff guys!

And the winners are...(drumroll please)...

>ching!<

1 = CongoOfAJungle (1000 points)
2 = EnterMakaveli (921)
3 = simpsonzfreak13 (921)
4 = KraigA (921)
5 = teespoon (845)
6 = KosmoVRO (826)
7 = eswappe (822)
8 = havinfun1322 (807)
9 = CynicalSwan (794)
10 = Princssleia24 (721)

They all got a snazzy Emmy Trivia Champion Emblem.
Hurray for those guys!

missribs wrote:

And the winners are...(drumroll please)... >ching!< 1 = CongoOfAJungle (1000 points) 2 = EnterMakaveli (921) 3 = simpsonzfreak13 (921) 4 = KraigA (921) 5 = teespoon (845) 6 = KosmoVRO (826) 7 = eswappe (822) 8 = havinfun1322 (807) 9 = CynicalSwan (794) 10 = Princssleia24 (721) They all got a snazzy Emmy Trivia Champion Emblem. Hurray for those guys!

Now that we are all back from our L.A. Emmys trip, it's time to share our stories and photos with you. Check out our exclusive
Bleachers Feature and find out what it's really like to hang out on the bleachers RIGHT NEXT TO THE RED CARPET! These accounts are raw, uncensored, and pretty entertaining. It was an amazing experience for all of us.

Also, don't forget to check out Best and Worst Dressed, Best and Worst Moments, Winners of the Emmys Poll and Steph's Post-Emmys Blog!

Our very own Stephanie Quay spent a productive (and surely exhausting) week in L.A. just to give YOU the most compelling Emmys coverage out there. A handful of TV.com staffers also took our very first trip to the Emmys and got a chance to catch up with Stephanie on the red carpet and see what an amazing job she was doing. Don't forget to check out Best and Worst Dressed, Best and Worst Moments, Winners of the Emmys Poll and stay tuned for more firsthand coverage of this event from a few of us who got a chance to hang out in the bleachers and gaze at all the stars sashaying down the glamorous runway of red...

Users who logged in to the Emmys live chat this past Sunday will receive a special Emmys Chat emblem on their profile. I also want to give a holler to all of our site and staff mods along with a few of our users who got to moderate the chat: angelsxo, studog2961, hoffman9102 and maritimer00. Great job everyone!

Our Emmys Feature schedule is packed with TV.com exclusives for you each day as we count down to the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony on Sunday, 8/27.

Our very own Stephanie Quay is on the red carpet all this week and dedicated to giving our users the best possible coverage of all things Emmys this year! Check out the feature each day for new, exclusive coverage of what's happening on the red carpet, in the press room, backstage, in the nominees’ goodie bags, on Limo Lane and much, much more!

*Don't forget to login for our Our Emmys Live Chat opening up at 2PM Pacific Time on Sunday and chat while you watch our exclusive red carpet stream, starting at 3PM Pacific! Users who login to this chat will receive a special Emmys Chat emblem on their profile, too...