Not to mention ABC Family has a bunch of CW-type shows and gets (sometimes much) better ratings with most of them.

Is it normal practice for child acting agencies to charge clients to sign with them? It seems like I've always heard that talent should never pay an agent upfront, but I'm not familiar enough with Hollywood to know if there's some exception for that. Just wondering if Beth & Simon are being set up to be scammed

Is it normal practice for child acting agencies to charge clients to sign with them? It seems like I've always heard that talent should never pay an agent upfront, but I'm not familiar enough with Hollywood to know if there's some exception for that. Just wondering if Beth & Simon are being set up to be scammed

I really enjoyed the parts exploring Valerie's role as Vice Principal and the new counselor shadowing her. Even though most of the story lines involving her are pretty OTT I thought it was much less cartoonish than usual but still funny. Lydic did a good job of showing that even though Valerie's now in a higher…

I really enjoyed the parts exploring Valerie's role as Vice Principal and the new counselor shadowing her. Even though most of the story lines involving her are pretty OTT I thought it was much less cartoonish than usual but still funny. Lydic did a good job of showing that even though Valerie's now in a higher…

Hm. I've only seen one other review of this that was gushing and compared it to Heller's "Notes on a Scandal," which is one of my favorites. Slightly more cautious now, but I have to admit I'm always skeptical of "lack of likeable characters" as a piece of criticism.

Hm. I've only seen one other review of this that was gushing and compared it to Heller's "Notes on a Scandal," which is one of my favorites. Slightly more cautious now, but I have to admit I'm always skeptical of "lack of likeable characters" as a piece of criticism.

I really liked this, though I had a bit of a quibble with the ending. Still, it was nice to see a novel wrapped in tons of hype actually live up to it for the most part. Satisfying as a thriller in terms of the twists and suspense, but also had some sharp commentary about culture and how women are perceived, etc

I really liked this, though I had a bit of a quibble with the ending. Still, it was nice to see a novel wrapped in tons of hype actually live up to it for the most part. Satisfying as a thriller in terms of the twists and suspense, but also had some sharp commentary about culture and how women are perceived, etc

This was like Awkward for me. It's a network I don't pay any attention, but I heard some good things and enjoyed a lot about it after checking it out.

This was like Awkward for me. It's a network I don't pay any attention, but I heard some good things and enjoyed a lot about it after checking it out.

Absolutely. She's one of the authors who mounts a good challenge to the argument about YA novels being too kiddy or un-serious or whatever. Better than a decent swathe of the adult literary fiction I've read, too.

It was almost as bad/corny as the one where Summer Nights kicked the episode off

I really liked the novel, but a lot of that was attributed to the narration style and short choppy chapters. The movie could come off as pretty typical unless it finds a clever way to riff on that.

As a gay male reader of What's On Tonight, I would be quite OK with James Wolk being my new boyfriend as well.

"Emotional Traffic, meanwhile, was a distant No. 2, selling 68,000 units, or about half what McGraw's 2009 effort Southern Voice sold in its first week."

Melina Marchetta is a great author. I'd recommend Saving Francesca & The Piper's Son too if you haven't read those yet.

I cut out halfway through Scorpio myself. I just wasn't interested in the cliche romance unfolding between the two protagonists & also read in a review that the races don't even start til the last 30 pages. I didn't care enough to wait around that long.

I'm really pleased Where Things Come Back won - I like it a lot. Jasper Jones was pretty good too, and as mentioned above I didn't like Why We Broke Up as much as I thought I would but I'm not surprised to see it on the list. I haven't read The Returning but I've heard good things about it.

Yeah. People bag a lot on YA (thanks to shitty paranormal/dystopian trend-hoppers), but the Printz people usually do a pretty good job of picking out some of the better stuff in YA literary fiction.