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EW.com's Michael Ausiello posted this blind item yesterday: "A major female character on a popular and highly rated hour-long drama series will learn that she's pregnant next month."

Other tidbits: The expectant character isn't thrilled to be pregnant. The timing, both personally and professionally, is really bad. The baby daddy's going through some stuff. And the bun in her oven may have company.

Ok, let's speculate here. My first thought is that it's Meredith Grey on Grey's Anatomy, since her real-life alter-ego Ellen Pompeo actually IS pregnant. But the timing isn't all that bad. She and Derek are getting married. They can use a distraction with Izzie's cancer taking center stage. And although he's had some issues, Derek seems to have pulled it together.

OK, maybe "annoying" is too harsh, as I can see people being into recap shows if they're done well. Then again, if you're a big fan of Lost, then you've already seen this stuff and you're really aching for a new episode.

So did you enjoy last night's recap episode, or was it just an irritation to you? Do you welcome weeks where there's either a repeat or a recap so you can take your mind off of the show for a bit? Take the poll after the jump and leave your thoughts in the comments below.

• USA has an NCIS marathon all night.
• At 8, ABC has a new Scrubs, followed by new episodes of Better Off Ted, Lost (recap episode), and The Unusuals.
• FOX has a new Lie To Me at 8, then a new American Idol.
• The CW has a new America's Next Top Model at 8.
• PBS has a new Secrets of the Dead at 8, followed by Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures.
• Nickelodeon has a new iCarly at 8, followed by a new True Jackson, VIP.
• TNT has the Hawks/Heat game at 8, then the Hornets/Nuggets game.
• Sci-Fi has a new Ghost Hunters at 9.
• Discovery has a new Time Warp at 8, then new episodes of Mythbusters and Pitchmen.
• At 10, CBS has a new Criminal Minds.
• TBS has two new episodes of Tyler Perry's House of Payne at 10.
• Comedy Central has a new South Park at 10, then a new Reno 911!
• Food Network has a new Dinner: Impossible at 10.
• TV Land has a new episode of The Cougar at 10.
• Also at 10: A&E has a new Dog The Bounty Hunter.

Check your local TV listings for more.

After the jump, the late night talk shows.

J.J. Abrams is the guest editor of the latest issue of Wired, and it's not only filled with info about the new Star Trek film and Lost and Fringe, it has a bunch of puzzles scattered throughout that might actually give some clues to Lost. Inside there are many oddities and games: missing text on page 46, and Hurley's lottery ticket numbers (and other numbers) on pages 104 and 105. As for Star Trek, there's a six page comic included.

Here's Abrams talking about the issue.

Despite the fact that news about Lost's 100th episode celebratory cake has been bouncing around the 'net since February, I thought it might be worth mentioning it again since the milestone episode ("The Variable", S05E14) airs next Wednesday, 4/29.

As you can see, the cake, created by Duff Goldman and his crew from Food Network's Ace of Cakes, features a ton of characters from the show as well as some iconic items that all Lost fans will recognize. To drum up some buzz for "The Variable," ABC recently released some more pictures from the cast party where the cake was presented.

Sometimes we don't think of nursery rhymes as being creepy. Sure, they can often involve death or family problems or just weird-ass scenarios, but it would take someone really special to be able to say the nursery rhyme out loud and make it sound disturbing. In this case, that person is Lost star Michael Emerson, who plays Ben Linus on the ABC show.

He was a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night, and Fallon got him to read "Little Boy Blue." Get your little ones close to the screen tonight before they go to bed and play it for them.

In the clip after the jump, Fallon also shows some illustrations that Emerson did in the 70s and 80s for The Boston Globe. He was a freelance illustrator before he became an actor, and the pictures are...well, they look like something Ben would draw while sitting in his cabin trying to think of what sneaky thing to do next. And I mean that in a good way.

The networks haven't announced their official fall schedules yet. That happens next month at the network upfronts, or whatever each network is now calling them - upfronts, announcements, presentations. But just from seeing the ratings of certain shows and stories that have leaked to the press already we can get at least a fairly accurate idea of which shows are going to definitely be renewed, which are probably canceled, and which shows are "on the bubble." ("On the bubble" means they're in the middle, balanced on the fence between getting canceled and being renewed. It's named after Sebastian Bubble, an executive at NBC in the early 50s.)

USA Today has a complete rundown of all of the network shows you might be wondering about (in handy chart form!). After the jump, a look at some of the more interesting possibilities.

(S05E13) "That douche is my dad." - Miles

I've been waiting for an episode like this. We've gotten close to nothing when it comes to backstory on the freighter folk and had it not been for the writer's strike, I'm guessing that "Some Like it Hoth" (or at least something Miles related) would have aired during season four. Last time we got any substantial info on Miles' orgins was "Confirmed Dead" and all that filled us in on was ghost whisperin' powers and his conscience - ripping people off doesn't come easy for him. We got a helluva lot more info this time around.

• At 8, ABC has a new Scrubs, then new episodes of Better Off Ted, Lost, and The Unusuals.
• FOX has a new Bones, followed by a new American Idol.
• The CW has a new America's Next Top Model at 8.
• At 8:30, Bravo has The A-List Awards Red Carpet, then the special Kathy Griffin: She'll Cut A Bitch and The A-List Awards.
• At 9, PBS has a new Great Performances at the Met.
• Discovery has a new Mythbusters at 9, then the series premiere of Pitchmen.
• Sci-Fi has a new Ghost Hunters at 9.
• At 10, CBS has a new CSI: NY.
• TBS has two new episodes of Tyler Perry's House of Payne at 10.
• TV Land has the series premiere of The Cougar at 10.
• Also at 10: A&E has a new Dog The Bounty Hunter.

Check your local TV listings for more.

After the jump, the late night talk shows.

There's an odd little rumor spreading around the internet today, that Friends star Matthew Perry will appear in the season finale of Lost. Is it true or not?

Answer: very not. ABC and Perry's publicist says that there's no truth to the rumor whatsoever. Perry did express a desire to appear in the show, which he loves, but it's not going to happen. How did it start? Well, the IMDb is an awesome web site, but when you can join and pretty much add any info that you want, things like this are going to happen (see also: Wikipedia). His name is still up there though, playing a character named "George Hobbes."

(S05E12) "Well... John, we don't even have a word for it. But I believe you call it 'the monster'" - Ben

Wow, I'm not quite sure where to begin. This wasn't one of the best episodes of Lost (for lack of a better term, it was safe), but I walked away from it feeling enlightened. It's not often that Lost leaves you with more answers than questions.

That being said, I still have a ton of f%#k&$g questions.

• At 8, ABC has a new Scrubs, then new episodes of Better Off Ted and Lost, and then the series premiere of The Unusuals.
• CBS has a new Old Christine at 8, followed by new episodes of Gary Unmarried, Criminal Minds, and CSI: NY.
• FOX has new episodes of Lie To Me and American Idol.
• The CW has a new America's Next Top Model at 8, and then another new episode ("never before seen footage" recap).
• At 9, NBC has the season (series?) finale of Life.
• There's a new Ghost Hunters on Sci-Fi at 9.
• Also at 9: PBS has a new American Masters.
• At 10, TBS has two new episodes of Tyler Perry's House of Payne.
• Comedy Central has a new South Park at 10, then a new Reno 911.
• A&E has a new Dog The Bounty Hunter at 10.
• Food Network has the season premiere of Dinner: Impossible at 10.
• TV Land has the season finale of High School Reunion at 10.

Check your local TV listings for more.

After the jump, the late night talk show listings.