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The New York City chef who inspired the infamous Soup Nazi character on Seinfeld is expanding his restaurant worldwide. Al Yeganeh plans to open up 50 SoupMan franchises in Britain next year, with openings in Germany, Italy and Japan to follow. His original restaurant, Soup Kitchen International in Manhattan, is what inspired the Soup Nazi episode on Seinfeld. Just like at the American restaurant chain (there are 20), employees will follow Yeganeh's strict rules. Customers must have their money ready and move to the left after ordering or they can be denied service (the rules are on the restaurant website). The employees do not yell, "No Soup For You", however. It's amazing to me that he's still making money on the venture, considering the episode aired in 1995.

Anybody ever eaten at a SoupMan restaurant? How's the mulligatawny?

[Via TV Tattle]

Let me preface this by saying I think Jerry Seinfeld is a funny guy and that Seinfeld is one of the great sitcoms of all-time.

OK, having said that...

I was watching the Seinfeld episode where George breaks up with a woman but he wants to go over to her house and get the books that he left there. Jerry asks him what this obsession with books is that people have. You've read the book, so why do you need to keep it on your shelf like it's a work of art of something? This gets a big laugh of the audience. You've read the book, who cares what happens to it?

So I guess this means that if I contact Seinfeld he'll send me all of his CDs and DVDs? Hey, he's listened to/watched them once, I'm sure he doesn't need them anymore.

The Celebrity Big Brother housemates will have to survive on basic rations and £1 per day, per person, for the next week following their failure to complete the variety of allocated tasks.

According to the British tabloid newspaper, The Sun, 79-year-old British celebrity Jimmy Savile will be entering the house for one day over the weekend, possibly to try and break up the tense atmosphere generated by the presence of Jodie Marsh and her attention-seeking behaviour. Savile is probably best known for his long-running BBC television show, Jim'll Fix It, where he made the wishes of members of the public come true.

Jodie continues to spend most of the time in a foul mood, and vented her anger earlier today over Traci Bingham's joint diary room session with Samuel Preston, unaware that the pair were organizing plans for their birthday celebrations which will be spent as guest of Big Brother.

The first eviction of the series will take place on Friday night, with George Galloway, Jodie Marsh and Pete Burns all up for the chop, so check back here for updates.

Six Feet Under: Hold My Hand is very much about how much the family of Ruth's husband George Sibley has been affected by tragedy over the generations.

As we learn in the opening "death" scene, the darkness begins back in 1953, when a young George is talking to his mother - a deeply depressed and trouble soul who seeks and finds a final solution for the demons inside her. Because this particular death scene does not fast-forward to the memorial service arc most other Six Feet Under episodes do, the interplay between sensitive boy and suicidal mother is meant to provide the background for the mental tortures George will experience throughout his life.

This episode finds George slipping back into the darkness. Flashbacks of his mother's death haunt George at inopportune moments, rendering him unable to perform simple tasks like food-shopping. Ruth recognizes the returning episode by erring on the side of kindness, but we can see that she is really being tortured inside. Maggie, George's daughter, recognizes the onset of another "episode." Verbally and with much reluctance, she agrees to seek another round of electro-convulsive treatments for her troubled Dad.