Jon & Kate Plus 8 - They're Baaaack - Tonight!

The dysfunctional family known as Jon & Kate Plus 8 returns to TV tonight, and viewers will no doubt be tuning in in droves to find out what's happened since the show went of the air more than a month ago, with the couple announcing that they are separating.

Jon has been spotted with various young women, including the daughter of the surgeon who performed his wife's tummy tuck. Is this guy nuts?

And the NY Daily News reports that Kate has been seen packing camping equipment into her SUV. Is she taking the kids camping, or planning to roast Jon over an open fire?

The article also includes the preview of tonight's episode (above), which shows Kate setting up a tent in her back yard, as preparation for the camping trip, apparently.

“Dog the Bounty Hunter” to Howl Again on TV

After being taken off the air for using a racial slur in a conversation with his son, Dog the Bounty Hunter will be returning to a TV near you.

Dog, whose real name is Duane Chapman, used the "n" word in a conversation with one of his sons about the son's girlfriend, who is black. The conversation was videotaped and the son was supposedly paid $15,000 to hand it over to a tabloid magazine.

Dog the Bounty Hunter was pulled off TV by the show's network, A&E. The network says the show will begin production, but it didn't say when the new episodes would begin airing.

"Since the premise of 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' is about second chances - we have decided to give him one," an A&E spokesman said.

Funny, I thought the show was about a 50-something guy with long blonde hair in black leather duds running around Hawaii and kicking people’s butts while handheld cameras capture all the action and make the viewer dizzy…

Butt Glue: Miss America's Best Friend

The Miss America Pageant has long been a target for mockery, with its canned smiles, silly sparkling gowns, and now the pageant has decided that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

TLC is tonight presenting the finale of its show "Miss America: Reality Check," which isn't so odd except that TLC is also the network that's airing the Miss America Pageant itself. The pageant has had low ratings for years, and various minor tweaks haven't stemmed the bleeding, so it seems TLC decided that having the competition laugh at itself would be the major makeover the show needed.

"Miss America: Reality Check" seeks to take viewers behind the pageant, which has more than its share of hokey traditions and elements: the eternal plastic smiles, the odd parade waves, the big hair, and of course the trade secret of beauty pageant contestants everywhere: butt glue.

Anyone who's seen the movie "Miss Congeniality" knows what butt glue is: an adhesive that contestants spray on their rear ends before the swimsuit competition so the suit will not ride up. After all, it just wouldn't do for Miss America to be strutting around the stage in all her glamor, while sporting an embarrassingly public wedgie.