Three weeks to go until the premiere of Dancing with the Stars 6, and Monica Seles sounds a little nervous: "I’m a tennis player. I don’t know a tango from a mango."

Just as I feared, there’s a good chance that Penn Jillette’s routines with Kym Johnson may include magic tricks.

On the other hand, I couldn’t be more excited about one of this season’s Results Show performers: Def Leppard!

If you’d like to own a bit of DwtS memorabilia, designer Randall Christensen has the ladies’ dresses he created for seasons 2, 3, and 4 available for purchase at his website. Just be prepared to shell out about $3000 per dress.

The Futon Critic has a handy list of all of TV development news from last week, including Jesse L. Martin’s departure from Law & Order.

As if the houseguests’ penchant for offensive comments wasn’t enough reason to detest Big Brother, the producers just added a new reason. When hypoglycemic contestant Amanda knocked on the production crew’s door to report feeling sick after being forced to eat nothing but gruel for a week, producers ignored her. She eventually had a seizure, and it was up to a fellow contestant to press an emergency button to summon paramedics. The cameras, of course, continued broadcasting live on the Internet.

A few weeks ago, Sarah Silverman debuted a video on Jimmy Kimmel Live in which she confessed to boyfriend Kimmel, in song form, that she’s been "f**king Matt Damon" behind his back. If you haven’t seen the hilarious video, it’s available here.

Last night, as a part of his post-Oscar special, Kimmel debuted his own retaliatory video. The absurdity of the video is heightened by the fact that tons of A-list celebrities were in on it. The language is censored, but the video’s content may make it unsafe for work. Enjoy.

CBS is following NBC’s lead and will make episodes of classic TV series like Star Trek and Melrose Place available for free on the Internet.

Despite the promise of an acting career after her run on Dancing with the Stars, Season 2 finalist Stacy Keibler is still stuck making guest appearances on ABC shows. This time, she shows up in the season finale of October Road.

HBO has nabbed the rights to the Iraq war documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, after the Discovery Channel announced plans to shelve the film until 2009. HBO will premiere the doc in September, just ahead of the presidential election.

China has extended the primetime ban on the biggest threat to Chinese culture: SpongeBob SquarePants.

A reporter for the Village Voice went undercover to a taping of Iron Chef America and discovered that there’s a lot of smoke and mirrors involved in the show. Well, mostly just smoke.

This afternoon, Anthony Bourdain will announce the winners of the first Golden Clog Awards at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival. Bourdain and his pal, Michael Ruhlman, created the awards for achievement, or lack thereof, in a variety of food-related categories.

Saturday at noon ET, MTV turns its network over to the guys from Jackass for 24-hours of stunt-themed programming. Jackass ringleader, Johnny Knoxville, has recovered in time for the event after tearing his urethra trying to back-flip a motorcycle.

Zap2It has a recap of last night’s episode of Survivor: Micronesia. I wasn’t expecting the vote to go down the way it did, and I’m not sure Cirie made the right strategic move. She went from swing vote to agenda-setter in no time, which should make everyone on her tribe nervous. The fact that she’s not an asset during challenges makes it that much easier to eliminate her. (Or maybe now she’s in charge of the whole game; I don’t know.)

The challenges this week were fantastic. Mud pit pseudo-capture-the-flag was exciting to watch, and nature timed a downpour perfectly to highlight the consequences of losing a Reward Challenge and being the tribe without a tarp to sleep under. The coconut basketball Immunity Challenge was also fun because it allowed Jonathan to do some hilarious trash talking. The longer Penner sticks around, the happier I’ll be.

ABC announced its spring plans, which include five new episodes of Lost, debuting on April 24.

Variety reports that the networks are eager to get hit programs back on the air, as new scripted shows haven’t performed well recently.

Critical darling Friday Night Lights is on the chopping block again, but NBC is working with other networks and cable outlets to share broadcast rights for a possible third season of the show.

CBS plans to trivialize divorce with a new game show called Splitsville, in which divorcing spouses compete against one another to win pieces of their communal property.

Survivor: Micronesia’s most recent castaway, Mary, spoke with People and TV Guide about the tribe of Fans and her romance with Ryan from Survivor: Pearl Islands.

If you didn’t catch the special Dancing with the Stars episode of Oprah this morning, you didn’t miss much. All of the former champs, except Apolo, performed with their partners, and Derek Hough taught a housewife who looked like Jennie Garth how to dance like Jennie Garth.

The Season 6 cast came out for the last ten minutes of the show, and Oprah only spoke with Priscilla Presley, Kristi Yamaguchi, Marlee Matlin, Penn Jillette, Jason Taylor, Mario, and Steve Guttenberg.

The highlight of the brief Q & A period was Steve Guttenberg feigning surprise that he’d be expected to dance, saying that ABC told him he’d signed on for The Bachelor.

People has a clip from the episode, as well as an interview with Marlee Matlin, in which she says essentially the same stuff she said on Oprah.

Priscilla Presley is understandably garnering more media attention than the other cast members at this point. But, based on the brief interviews she’s given this week on Oprah and Good Morning America, I’m not sure that’s going to last. She’s been soft-spoken and boring, and that doesn’t work in the short-answer style of interviewing that most shows employ.

Priscilla’s going to have to get enthusiastic and funny real fast if she expects DwtS viewers to vote for her for reasons other than nostalgia. Those qualities might even be more important than her dancing.

This was an episode of America’s Ballroom Challenge even Optimus Prime would love.

The International Latin round began with a farewell performance by Max Kozhevnikov & Yulia Zagoruychenko. Max dressed as an Indian brave, and Yulia dressed as a turkey — a very sexy turkey. It was a terrific final performance that made me even sadder that they won’t be competing together anymore.

Then it was time for the group dance round. Co-host Ron Montez praised Anna Trebunskaya & Pavlo Barsuk as an up-and-coming couple to watch, and Anna’s dress was fabulous. But the judges awarded them sixth place, and named Andrei Gavriline & Elena Kryuchkova the winners.

Things got interesting in the showdance round. Vaidotas Skimelis & Jurga Pupelyte did an authentic disco-era cha cha that was my favorite performance of the night. But the judges gave them second place, and awarded first to Ilya Ifraimov & Nadia Goulina for their Transformers-inspired routine. I’m not sure what was funnier, the clips of Optimus Prime saying, "Transformers, roll out" that peppered Ilya & Nadia’s music, or Ron Montez saying, "It looks like they’re going to attempt to do a little paso doble…robot style."

Because of their first place finish in the group dance round and their fourth place finish in the showdance round, Andrei & Elena will represent the International Latin division in next week’s America’s Ballroom Challenge finale.

I don’t want to get my hopes up until I see something official on pbs.org, but there was a clip of Max & Yulia performing another dance in the finale preview. A second farewell performance? Could I be so lucky?

People has a special feature on the Dancing with the Stars 6 contestants, along with some well-chosen quotes from the participants. Steve Guttenberg, on his love life: "No girlfriend. No wife. We gotta hook the Gutt up. The Gutt needs a date!"

When DwtS returns on March 17, former contestant Mel B will serve as a guest correspondent for Access Hollywood.

There’s no need to wait until next month to watch ballroom dancing on TV. Tonight’s episode of America’s Ballroom Challenge features the International Latin championship. DwtS pro Anna Trebunskaya is one of the competitors, and Max Kozhevnikov & Yulia Zagoruychenko give a farewell exhibition performance.

Also on TV tonight, Discovery has a special 100th episode of Mythbusters, in which Adam & Jamie test some of MacGyver’s most creative escape methods.

Ahead of this evening’s Project Runway reunion special, TV Guide interviewed the four remaining contestants.

Fox updated its spring schedule to make room for new episodes of Bones and House. And NBC said that it will be changing to a 52-week programming schedule in order to offer season and series premieres throughout the year, instead of concentrating them in the fall.

I’ve never watched the MTV sketch comedy show Human Giant, but with list of guest stars that includes Will Arnett and David Cross, I’m inclined to check out the second season when it debuts on March 11.

Variety’s Brian Lowry blasts TV news outlets for acting as though they’re merely commenting on the presidential elections, and not influencing them by endlessly repeating gossip about the candidates and speculating on their electability.

NBC announced its plans to offer free episodes of vintage TV shows online on several websites. At last, I’ll be able to catch up on TekWar.

The newly revealed cast of Dancing with the Stars 6 will be featured on Oprah this Thursday, February 21.

DwtS pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy explained to Extra that he asked producers to sit out of Season 6 so that he could focus on his dance studios, but said he’ll likely perform on a Results Show.

Wendy Wilson of the soft-rock trio Wilson Phillips gets parenting help from Jo Frost on this week’s episode of Supernanny, premiering Wednesday night on ABC.

Fox is also enlisting the help of some former rock stars, only they’ll be singing on Don’t Forget the Lyrics. Thursday night’s episode features Boyz II Men, while Bret Michaels of Poison and Kevin Cronin of REO Speedwagon are scheduled to appear on future episodes.

Drummer Marky Ramone might not be appearing on TV this week, but he may be headlining a bedroom near you. Well, not Marky himself, but his limited edition signature condoms.

Smallville’s Kristin Kreuk has a role in the upcoming film adaptation of the video game Street Fighter.

Reality Blurred explains why CBS won’t cancel Big Brother, despite complaints from autism groups outraged at contestant Adam’s boneheaded comments.

Martha Stewart expanded her empire by purchasing the Emeril Lagasse franchise. Martha gets the rights to Emeril’s cookbooks and TV shows, but he retains control of his restaurants.

Female Celebs:

• Marlee Matlin (Fabian)
• Marissa Jaret Winokur (Tony)
• Kristi Yamaguchi (Mark)
• Monica Seles (Jonathan)
• Shannon Elizabeth (Derek)
• Priscilla Presley (Louis)

Male Celebs:

• Penn Jillette (Kym)
• Adam Carolla (Julianne)
• Cristián de la Fuente (Cheryl)
• Mario (Karina) — The R&B singer, not the videogame plumber
• Steve Guttenberg (Anna)
• Jason Taylor (Edyta)

So, who are you excited to to see dance, and which celebs are already on your hit list?

ABC’s web announcement (Thanks, Imee!):
http://abc.go.com/primetime/dancingwiththestars/index?pn=announcement

When the cast of Dancing with the Stars 6 is announced tonight during the Dance War finale, magician Penn Jillette’s name may be on the list. Penn’s partner, Teller, had no comment.

I’m going to be pumped if this next rumor proves to be true. Steve Guttenberg says he’ll be dancing during Season 6.

One name that definitely won’t be on the pro list is Maksim Chmerkovskiy. An ABC spokesperson told People, "He just needs a break."

TV Guide’s After the WGA Strike episode chart has the return dates for several CW shows. Smallville is on hiatus until March 13, and Gossip Girl returns with new episodes on April 21.

An article at Variety examines why networks are still interested in importing successful cable shows, even after production has resumed on network shows.

Variety’s Brian Lowry writes about how the Internet may have played a part in making strike negotiations more hostile and less productive than they should have been.

Advocacy group Autism United wants an apology from CBS, after Big Brother contestant Adam said he wanted to open a hair salon for people with developmental disabilities, "so retards can get it together and get their hair done."

If you can believe it, Adam says that he currently works for an autism group. Just a hunch, but I bet he’ll have to look for a new job once he’s evicted from the Big Brother house.

The networks have decided to hold a scaled-down version of their upfronts in May, where they will debut pilots for the upcoming season. The demand for pilot scripts, as well as new scripts for shows that got additional episode orders this season, mean that many writers will be working non-stop for the next few months.

NBC announced that Heroes, Life, and Chuck will definitely be back for the 2008-09 season. CBS picked up 11 shows for next season, but has yet to decide the fates of several shows, including How I Met Your Mother and Moonlight.

Plans for the Oscars telecast are on track for the February 24 ceremony. I plan to watch the show just to see Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova perform "Falling Slowly" from Once, my favorite film of the year.

Tina Fey will host the first new episode of Saturday Night Live, which returns on February 23. Ellen Page, star of the movie Juno, will host the following week.

David Attenborough’s final nature documentary series, Life in Cold Blood, is currently airing on the BBC. The famed naturalist has decided to retire at the age of 81.

Survivor: Micronesia wasn’t a big waste of time for the first two ousted castaways, Jonny Fairplay and Mary Sartain. When they returned to California after the taping, Fairplay introduced Mary to Ryan Opray, his buddy from Survivor: Pearl Islands. The two friends of Fairplay hit it off and are planning to get married.

Looks like Rami isn’t the only Project Runway designer who can’t take criticism gracefully. In an interview with People, Sweet P should’ve stopped after she said that Roberto Cavalli’s criticism was "a bummer." Instead, she continued: "Cavalli isn’t really my aesthetic. He’s a great designer, but there are other people I like better."

You might want to set your Tivo now to record Dance War on Monday night. That way you can fast forward through all of the singing to get to the Dancing with the Stars 6 cast announcement.

Greg is getting a jump on his three-day weekend and sent me this video collection of stupid Wheel of Fortune contestants, which is a great way to kill time on a Friday. If you can solve the puzzle "E_clusi_e Nightclub," you’re way ahead of these poor saps.

Now that scripted shows have gone back into production, CBS and NBC announced return dates for some of their hit shows. Fox likewise announced its plans for the summer, included a May 22 premiere for the fourth season of So You Think You Can Dance.

About 100 writers who had contracts prior to the strike are currently out of work because their projects were terminated by the networks during the strike.

Zap2It has bios of the cast members of Bravo’s Step It Up & Dance, which premieres April 3.

TV Guide has an interview with the first castaway booted from Survivor: Micronesia, Jonny Fairplay.

TV Guide also interviewed DJ Lance Rock, host of Nick Jr.’s Yo Gabba Gabba. I’d only seen clips of the show on The Soup, so in the interest of journalistic integrity, I watched part of an episode this morning. Holy crap, the show is mesmerizing.

Last night’s episode of Project Runway was mesmerizing as well, particularly when Chris decided to take a nap during the middle of the competition. That really annoyed Tim Gunn, who dropped an "I can’t want you to succeed more than you do" on Chris in his latest blog post.

Rami, in the Burning Questions blog, said that he’s not a fan of Roberto Cavalli’s work because he thought Cavalli was mean to him. Rami also admitted that PR is just a way to expose his work to a wider pool of celebrity clients. Based on the number of photos of stars wearing his clothes at his website, I’m not sure that Rami needs much help. Go Jillian or Christian!

Mark Burnett is adapting a Japanese game show for American audiences, and calling it The Shark Tank. Sadly, it’s not actually about competitors swimming through a tank filled with sharks. It’s a business show that sounds like a rip-off of The Apprentice. I am certain that it won’t be as cool as Hole in the Wall.