Courtney Love is hacking her face into someone almost unrecognizable and she’s selling off rights to Kurt’s music faster than she can say lypo.

The season premiere of COLD CASE will feature 8 songs from the Nirvana library. The featured songs are: “All Apologies,” “Stay Away,” “If You Must,” “Lithium,” “Drain You,” “Heart Shaped Box,” “Something in the Way” and “Come as You Are.”

Watch a Special COLD CASE Premiere Video featuring the music of Nirvana

TORCHWOOD is the spin-off series of BBC’s mega-successful DOCTOR WHO franchise and I have to say that I love it!

What’s not to love? The lead is a hunky strapping bisexual alien hunter with snarky comments and great hair named Captain Jack. He has a team of semi-loyal Scoobies who each bring their own specialties to the table just as many of my favorite demon-ass-kicking shows do. Gwen is the newbie and the civilian aspect of the show. Owen is a doctor with a really small head. Tosh is the geeky technology girl and then there’s Ianto who seems to be the cleaner/do-it-all Alfred-esque type but way hot. Not to mention, in a year or so we’ll get to see James Marsters playing with the gang as well!

I’ve seen the first 6 episodes so far and can only say that it gets better as it goes on. I believe that the first two episodes have aired here in the States (The Pilot and Day One) and the third airs this Saturday night. Here’s a quick episode guide with mild spoilers to the 6 episodes I’ve seen so far.

Torchwood Episode: 1.01
The Pilot episode was a little disjointed and very much a pilot. It reintroduced Capt. Jack and introduced his rag-tag team of helpers. It also brought newbie Gwen into the mix. Gwen was a local Cardiff Police Officer who witnessed Torchwood at work and sought the truth behind their tactics. She quickly became one of their team and by episode’s end assumed the role of Jack’s #2.

Torchwood Episode: 1.02
Day One chronicles the first case that Gwen works on as a member of Torchwood and it starts the show off and running as a sexually ambigious sci-fi romp. There’s man on man action, girl on girl action, nudity, you name it. This is not your grandmother’s crime show, that’s for sure. It was a more complete episode in that there was less awkward editing and continuity and it gave you a sense of where the show could go in future episodes.
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Ah, Dillon Panthers how I’ve missed you over the summer. While we still have 2 weeks until the premiere, I thought I would let all of you Panther fans know that you can watch the Season 2 Premiere of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS right now over at Yahoo TV.

When FNL returns, there will be some major changes in store for not only the Taylors but everyone in Dillon. Expect a Mexican 3 way, some nerd lovin’, and surprise siblings.

Friday Night Lights premieres Friday, October 5th at 9pm on NBC.

Blockbuster is offering up some free extras from the film DEATH PROOF by Quentin Tarantino. Death Proof was one half of the kickass double feature GRINDHOUSE and was released on DVD September 18th.

Week 1 of the networks premieres is coming to an end and while there haven’t been many new or returning favorites launched, that’s fine with me because honestly I don’t have the time in my schedule yet to dedicate to a ton of television.

Tonight, CBS reboots their flagship reality series SURVIVOR: CHINA.

SURVIVOR: CHINA features a cast of 16 Americans who will begin the series amid the bustle of downtown Shanghai before moving to Huangpu Mountain’s Mi Tuo Temple for a Buddhist ceremony where they will be instructed to leave all of their worldly possessions behind. The castaways will then be marooned with the clothes on their back at two separate islands on Zhelin Lake (translation: the Land of 1,000 Lakes) located in the Jiangxi Province.

They will split into two tribes, Fei Long (translation: Flying Dragon) and Zhan Hu (translation: Fighting Tiger), and will each be given a copy of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War for tribe motivation and assistance throughout the game. SURVIVOR: CHINA will once again afford each tribe the opportunity to obtain a Hidden Immunity Idol which may save someone from elimination at a future Tribal Council. This time, two Hidden Immunity Idols will be in plain sight (one at each camp), although the castaways will not realize this at the start of the game.

Each week, the winning tribe of the Reward Challenge will be allowed to kidnap someone from the losing tribe. The person who is kidnapped will receive a note from host Jeff Probst before departing for the enemy camp and will be instructed to give it to one member of the enemy tribe (the kidnapped victim will decide who receives it) in private. The clue will inform this person of the Hidden Immunity Idol located somewhere at their camp. This person must then decide if they wish to share the information with their tribe or keep it to themselves. The kidnapped victim will return to their original tribe at the following Immunity Challenge.

I’m still torn on whether or not to watch Survivor again, but you know I probably will tune in tonight. I’m a sucker.

Get caught up for tonight’s premiere. Read more about SURVIVOR CHINA

AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL premiered last night and aside from singing the Love Boat theme all night, I couldn’t have been happier. Top Model is now in its 9th season and while they’ve had some ups and downs over the years, I’ve always felt that the show is highly entertaining and the cast of characters they gather are usually worth their waifish weight in gold.

This year they took 33 semi-finalists, put them on a cruise ship and set sail for sandy beaches. Miss J was their lovely cruise director and she had them working the ship’s track as a catwalk. We quickly learned that while a couple of those sticks could strut it on the runway, many of these girls could barely walk a straight line. One’s a hunchback, another pigeon toed, seriously it’s amazing some of these girls can walk down the street.

There’s nothing better than Miss J imitating girls who can’t walk. They must want to kill themselves after that. She’s a trip!

Tyra on the other hand needs to tone it down. Since she decided to “retire” from modeling she’s gone from curvy to fat back to curvy then straight to crazy. She decided that her entrance this year would be a Vegas style showgirls number. It was nauseating. Hell one of the girls threw up (okay so that was a different time and she had sea-sickness but that’s beside the point).

Boston was very present in the semi-finalists (3 girls), as were the egomaniacs ala Jade. But in true Top Model fashion, getting too invested in these girls in the first episode is always a mistake. After Tyra, Miss J and Jay interviewed and tortured these girls at high sea, there was a quick beach front photo shoot with Cycle 8 winner Jaslene in the house (girl still sounds as deaf as Marlee Matlin but who am I to judge).

Then it was time for them to make the first round of cuts. 33 went to 20 in the blink of an eye. I apparently blinked some more because aside from people calling Ebony out as this years most hated girl, I don’t remember much until the finalists were revealed.

On a clear catwalk above the ships pool was where Tyra widdled it down from 20 to the Top 13. Why do I love watching these cocky and sadly average girls get knocked down? There’s nothing better than watching a girl who thought she was the next Naomi Campbell crying her eyes out because she has to go back home to her job at the DQ like the rest of the world. Cry girls, cry because it makes my night to see you sobbing on that screen.

I’m happy to say that all of my favorites made it and move on to compete for the title of America’s Next Top Model.

Who are my Top picks? That’s a hard one because with only that one photo shoot under their belt, its hard to tell what they’ll look like post-makeover — which means I’m basing this on their mousy before photos. That being said, I’m banking on the odd girls this year. Victoria, Heather, and Jenah.

But there are some beauties as well that I’d like to see go further, like Saleisha or Lisa.

In other words, it’s too hard to tell who could win AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL Cycle 9.

*Check out all the ANTM Cycle 9 Contestants at my earlier post revealing the cast.