So I’ve been checking out other blogs to get their take on the latest Video Music Awards. Here’s what I found … I’m all caught up now on who won awards and what interesting things happened at the award show and behind the scenes. If you missed the VMA’s now is your chance to catch up:

Liveblogging The 2008 MTV Video Music Awards

5:37 – Oh my god, you guys – the liveblog is coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE! I’m now sitting in Stage 16 on the Paramount lot, where in just a few minutes the big show is scheduled to begin. I took an iPhone picture to show you guys the …

MTV Video Music Awards 2008 (Photos)

The 25th Anniversary of the MTV Video Music Awards kicked off with Britney Spears and Jonah Hill. Hill was giving Britney some relaxation techniques while trying to sneak a kiss. Read below for the rundown of the 2008 VMA’s as it …

Britney Spears Arrives 2008 MTV Video Music Awards

Britney Spears has received three trophies for video of the year, best pop video and best female video at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. The big winner said: “I’m speechless, oh my goodness, thank you… this is an honor. …

Paris Hilton and Benji Madden at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards

The MTV Video Music Awards were established in the end of the summer of 1984 by MTV to celebrate the top Music Videos of the year.They are presented annually and broadcast live on MTV. Past broadcasts have been held in New York City,Los …

Hip Hop Dominates Video Music Awards

Brittany Spears snagged 3 of the coveted moon man statues at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, but hip hop acts like Lil Wayne, TI, and T-Pain stole the show.

2008 MTV Video Music Awards

Britney Spears was the most talked about artist at the 2008 Video Music Awards. Thanks to her single, “Piece of Me“, Britney won her first ever 3 VMA’s after being nominated 17 times. Personally the best highlights were Rihanna and TI’s …

wrappin’ up MTV’s video music awards ’08

hey hey! i’m still feeling totally drained from yesterday but i took it easy today so i can be ready to deal with the good times waiting at work for me tomorrow! as far as the red carpet at the video music awards ’08 was concerned it …

Here’s the lineup and their dancing partners:

• Toni Braxton, singer, 40, and season one DWTS champ Alec Mazo
• Lance Bass, singer, 29, and Lacey Schwimmer
• Ted McGinley, actor, 50, and Inna Brayer
• Cloris Leachman, actress, 82, and Corky Ballas
• Warren Sapp, former NFL star, 35, and Kym Johnson
• Rocco DiSpirito, chef, 41, and Karina Smirnoff
• Kim Kardashian, TV personality, 27, and reigning DWTS champ Mark Ballas
• Maurice Green, Olympic gold medalist track and field star, 34, and two-time DWTS champ Cheryl Burke
• Misty May-Treanor, Olympic gold medalist beach volleyball player, 31, and Maksim Chmerkovskiy
• Susan Lucci, Emmy-award winning soap opera actress, 61, and Tony Dovolani
• Jeffrey Ross, 42, comedian, and Edyta Sliwinska
• Cody Linley, 18, actor, and two-time DWTS champ Julianne Hough
• Brooke Burke, 36, TV personality, and Derek Hough

Wow, Cloris Leachman, at 82 is the oldest ever contestant on Dancing with the Stars! I remember her best from shows like Mary Tyler Moore! I took a peak at her filmography and she’s been active in films and television shows from the 1940′s right up until the present. In fact she’s in three post production movies due out in 2008 and 2009. Good for her!

I did that last night. I saw that there was a two hour Prison Break on and I knew the season premiere was coming up so I set my PVR to tape the show and wrote a post on one of my other blogs about how happy I was to see this show returning and how I was taping the season premiere. Oops! It wasn’t the premiere at all. It was a rerun of last seasons finale!

I’ve got egg on my face for that post! Oh well … maybe it will serve to remind people that there are a lot of our favorite shows set to return next week! Prison Breaks season premiere is on September 1st along with several other shows. It seems that many of our favorite shows are coming back early this season, perhaps because they have un-shown episodes due to last years writers strike.

The Juno’s are held over two days. There was a private dinner ceremony on Saturday night where the bulk of the awards were handed out. Feist pretty much took the big awards – Artist of the year and Song writer of the year.

Other than seeing her perform her song 1234 for the itunes/ ipod commercial on TV I’ve never really seen Feist perform.

I can’t say that anymore! She performed at the Juno’s and totally blew me away. In some ways she reminded me a little bit of Bjork but with a much more mainstream sound. I’d love to go to one of her concerts. I’m sure she’d be a performer worth seeing.

Avril Lavigne also performed at the Junos. She sang Girlfriend. Her backup dancers where sturdy looking girls. It a way it was nice to see more “every woman” type dancers highlighted in an area where usually only the thin and skeletal get to play.

Other big winners at the Juno’s were Finger Eleven for Rock Album of the Year – Them Vs. You Vs. Me.

Here’s the list of Saturday Nights winners. I’ll add the official Sunday night telecasts winners shortly.

• International Album of the Year — Good Girl Gone Bad — Rihanna

• Artist of the Year — Feist

• New Artist of the Year — Serena Ryder

• Songwriter of the Year — Feist

• Adult Alternative Album of the Year — Small Miracles — Blue Rodeo

• Alternative Album of the Year — Neon Bible — Arcade Fired

• Rock Album of the Year — Them Vs You Vs Me — Finger Eleven

• Vocal Jazz Album of the Year — Make Someone Happy — Sophie Milman

• Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year – Almost Certainly Dreaming – The Chris Tarry Group

• Traditional Jazz Album of the Year — Debut – Brandi Disterheft

• Instrumental Album of the Year — The Utmost — Jayme Stone

• Francophone Album of the Year — L’echec du material — Daniel Belanger

• Children’s Album of the Year — Music Soup — Jen Gould

• Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber Ensemble — Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano — Marc-Andre Hamelin

• Classical Album of the Year: Large Ensemble or Soloist(s) With Large Ensemble Accompaniment — Korngold, Barber and • Walton Violin Concertos — James Ehnes, Bramwell Tovey, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra

• Classical Album of the Year: Vocal or Choral Performance — Surprise — Measha Bruggergosman

• Classical Composition of the Year — Constantinople — Christos Hatzis

• Rap Recording of the Year — The Revolution — Belly

• Dance Recording of the Year — All U Ever Want — Billy Newton-Davis Vs. Deadmau5

• R&B/Soul Recording of the Year — Revival — Jully Black

• Reggae Recording of the Year — Don’t Go Pretending — Mikey Dangerous

• Aboriginal Recording of the Year — The Dirty Looks — Derek Miller

• Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Solo — Right of Passage — David Francey

• Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Group — Key Principles — Nathan

• Blues Album of the Year — Building Full of Blues — FATHEAD

• Contemporary Christian/Gospel Album of the Year — Holy God — Brian Doerksen

• World Music Album of the Year — Agua Del Pozo — Alex Cuba

• Jack Richardson Producer of the Year — Joni Mitchell — Hana/Bad Dreams — Shine

• Recording Engineer of the Year — Kevin Churko — I Don’t Wanna Stop/God Bless The Almighty Dollar — Black Rain — Ozzy Osbourne

• CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year — Tracy Maurice (Director/Designer) and Francois Miron (Photographer) — Neon Bible — Arcade Fire

• Video of the Year — C’mon — Christopher Mills (Director) — Blue Rodeo

• Music DVD of the Year — 666 Live — Pierre & Francois Lamoureux, Billy Talent, Pierre Tremblay, Steve Blair — Billy Talent

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Word is that daily shows like Soaps and talk shows will be hit the hardest. Letterman and and Jay Leno are going into reruns as of today. Other shows will likely follow suit.

Apparently shows like Gray’s Anatomy and The Office stockpiled scripts in anticipation of this strike so they should continue to have material to work with through till January, but other shows where the actors are also writers such as 30 Rock may not fair so well. 24 and Lost may not start when they are supposed to and have a shorter season when they do start.

The last Writers Guild Strike in 1988 lasted 22 weeks! If this one lasts even half that long you’d better get used to Reality TV because that might be the only thing on!

How do you feel about the Writers strike?

The latest news on the fires is that stars are not only being forced to evacuate their homes, but filming is being disrupted as well! If these fires continue to rage some of beloved television shows may end up having serious delays in production.

Richard Gere and John Travolta who flew into the Los Angeles area on Monday for the 11th annual Hollywood Awards got a fantastic aerial view of the fires. Gere was quoted by Access Hollywood as saying “It’s as far as you could see in both directions,” Travolta then added “The smoke was actually in the plane as we flew through. It was a large area, surprisingly large. I mean I never like to see that.”

Kelsey Grammer who was evacuated from his Malibu home told E! Online “All I see is smoke, but we’re okay.” he said of his family and pet dog.

It’s also been reported that land owned by Sean Penn has been fire blackened and two of his trailers parked on that land have been charred.

Other stars that have had to be evacuated include Mel Gibson, and Victoria Principal. Victoria was kind enough to have donated $50,000 to the Malibu evacuation center so that food and blankets could be provided to evacuees. She also donated another $10,000 to an animal shelter that rescues stray pets.

Television productions that have been affected by the fire include Big Shots which canceled a cycling sequence that was scheduled to shoot on Tuesday in Malibu; A scene on 24 with Kiefer Sutherland had to be canceled due to the smoke that was drifting in from nearby fires; and one of my favorite quirky shows, The Riches, had to rewrite a scene that was to include a real sheriffs deputy – naturally the deputies were dispatched from the set to help the fire crews and evacuation efforts.

Nobu, a famous Malibu restaurant closed it’s doors on Sunday, but it’s said that they will open again to serve meals to local firefighters.

When I heard that TMZ was going to have a television show I thought it would probably be like all the other Entertainment shows, but it wasn’t. I really liked their format.

It’s very fast paced, somewhat like their website with it’s multiple posts each day. Quick snappy humorous clips of stars caught on film and little gossipy tidbits and jokes thrown in here and there.

I watched the show last night and I think I laughed through at least half of it. Hmmm maybe TMZ TV is good medicine too?

So what’s the scoop? Well, as you might know the cast of Heroes visit cities all over the world at the end of August. They went to Singapore, London, New York, Paris and their last stop was in Toronto on August 30th and 31st. You can view a short video of their Toronto visit on the NBC Heroes page.

I had wanted to go and see the four cast members who visited Toronto when they made an appearance downtown at Dundas Square, but I wasn’t able to make it on time as I had to meet up with my family and begin our reunion. As it turned out, our first family outing was to see a baseball game – the Toronto Blue Jays versus the Seattle Mariners. Well, much to my surprise and delight some of the cast of Heroes also attended the baseball game.

Young Noah Gray-Cabey was in Toronto, but I didn’t see him at the baseball game. I did however get to see and photograph from afar Executive producer Jeph Loeb, James Kyson Lee who plays Hiro’s friend Ando, Zachary Quinto the evil Sylar, and Dania Ramirez a new cast member who will play Maya Herrera a Dominican who is on the run from the police. She has superhuman abilities, although they have not yet been revealed.

The cast members were given Blue Jays shirts with their last names printed on the back of their jerseys.

The cast didn’t stay for the whole game. They only stayed until the third or fourth inning, but I can tell you that they were cheering for the Blue Jays. The photo above of them standing was taken while they were cheering a Blue Jays home run.

When it came time for them to leave they hopped over the gate and walked on the field. James Kyson Lee took the lead by several feet hurrying ahead. Was he trying to get away or did he just think everyone else was walking as quickly as he was? As a result of his speeding exit I don’t have many clear photos of him. Most of my shots focus on Zachary Quinto.

See Lee jogging ahead?

The last clear shot of Lee in the lead. He’s already in the crowded stands:

Quinto looks like he might be on a cell phone here, but I believe he’s just scratching his ear:

One last look at the evil Sylar and his producer:

Did you know that in addition to his reoccurring role as Sylar on Heroes, Quinto is busy preparing for his role as Spock in the new J.J. Abrams-helmed Star Trek movie which is slated to begin shooting in November. He does look like he’d make a perfect Spock doesn’t he?

Stay tuned for more great Scoop. The Toronto Film Festival begins this week and I hope to see some of the new movies and get in some star sightings – with photos of course.

Well I won’t keep you in suspense. Here’s the list:

• Melanie “Mel B” Brown, 32, Spice Girls (“Scary Spice”) singer (pro partner: Maksim Chmerkovskiy);

• Sabrina Bryan, 22, actress/singer (The Cheetah Girls) (pro partner: Mark Ballas);

• Helio Castroneves, 32, racecar driver (pro partner: Julianne Hough);

• Mark Cuban, 48, businessman (owner of NBA’s Dallas Mavericks) (pro partner: Kym Johnson);

• Jennie Garth, 35, actress (Beverly Hills, 90210) (pro partner: Derek Hough, older brother of Julianne Hough);

• Josie Maran, 29, supermodel (pro partner Alec Mazo);

• Cameron Mathison, 38, actor (All My Children) (pro partner: Edyta Sliwinska;

• Floyd Mayweather, Jr., 30, boxer (pro partner: Karina Smirnoff);

• Wayne Newton, 65, singer (pro partner: Cheryl Burke);

• Marie Osmond, 47, singer/doll designer (pro partner: Jonathan Roberts);

• Albert Reed, 22, supermodel (pro partner: Anna Trebunskaya; and

• Jane Seymour, 56, actress (pro partner: Tony Dovolani).

Wayne Newton? Hmm that should be interesting.

The show returns on September 24th with a new format. When the show debuts it will air on three consecutive nights in it’s first week, and then in the remaining competition weeks the show will air on Monday and Tuesday nights.

I’m not really a fan of the show. Don’t hit me! It’s just never interested me. So, while you guys are watching the show I just hope that the regular shows that I want to watch aren’t affected to badly by this schedule.