Soap operas are dying left and right. One Life to Live's inexplicably misguided answer: a musical number! Kids love American Idol and Glee! This will boost the ratings! Sadly, the result is almost too horrible to describe.

[Exiting Carnegie Hall, Lady Gaga shields her forehead and jowls with a bedazzled mask. Image via INF.]

TONIGHT: The second episode of Season 4 of Friday Night Lights headlines a night that also includes the season finale of Smallville and new episodes of the Ricky Gervais Show, Kitchen Nightmares, and Real Time with Bill Maher.

Foodie Adam Platt has tactfully responded to Keith McNally's vicious letter over a bad review.

We've got a brace of books we want to give you—books by Daisy Fuentes, Ivanka Trump and celebrity economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, among others. Go to our Facebook page for details on how to win this exciting bounty.

So, they've gone and canceled Law & Order. If it had gone one more season it would have become the longest-running primetime TV drama in history, at twenty-one years. That's a long time. Let's think about that for a moment.

Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe was apparently not content with merely sporting a Hitler moustache. He clearly felt his crazy despot credentials were lacking something. Which may be why he sent a boatload of animals to North Korea's Kim Jong Il.

Wendy William's bizarre interview with Susan Lucci, Countess LuAnn has a new single, True Blood's new trailer, and the lowdown on all of your favorite canceled shows.

Sarah Palin may have competition for the worst politician in Alaska. Meet Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski: She single-handedly blocked a measure to raise the amount of money oil companies are liable for in an oil spill.

At a panel discussion yesterday, Connie Chung blamed husband Maury Povich for the tabloidization of hard news, which "makes me wanna throw up." She also called him a "hog" and joked about divorce. Someone needs a talk show marriage intervention!

Union Square was needlessly shut down last night when a landscaper went to a Buzzcocks concert and left the gas cans he uses to fill lawn mowers in the backseat of his car. What other everyday devices are dangerous?

On last night's Community, we found out why the crew might have to retake Spanish. It's all due to Annie and her adorable, underhanded backstabbing.

What if, instead of gay-baiting Elena Kagan, conservatives religion-bait her? "If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats," former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan gripes.

Nobody knows exactly how big this oil spill is, but one thing is certain: BP's public relations effort has been disastrous. Even the PR guy for Xe Services, the mercenary company formerly known as Blackwater, thinks BP has bungled it.

Today at Gawker.TV, Kenan Thompson and Al Roker have a good laugh about Kenan's impression, Rob Lowe starts on Parks and Recreation, Michael Scott becomes the "other man," and an exclusive interview with the creators of Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Congratulations to CaityC for being the first person to answer today's Freeze Frame. Click through for the answer.

"I can think of only once in the last eight and a third years where we held for more than a minute or two. I never find any service interruptions," says Bloomberg. Then again, he does ride the 6 train.

From The Soup we see just how similar Lost is to the highly publicized V (due to their unfortunate, giant icon on bottom of Lost.) We're talking much more than Juliet/Erica and the fact that it's on ABC.

Well, that happened. Last night's adventure through the astral planes of philosophical Housewife existence was perhaps the bumpiest, craziest episode we've ever had. Seriously, ever on this show. Ever.

In a creepily forthright interview with a way-too-delighted Wendy Williams, Hulk elaborated on his depression after moving out of his wife's house. He reflects on a suicidal episode involving the gun he used to hide for fear of being murdered.