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New York City is in full Glee-mania.

The cast of the hit TV show are filming the finale (the New Directions group is headed to Nationals) on the East Coast and Mayor Bloomberg took time out to welcome them at a press conference held at the Gershwin Theater.

Joking with the cast, the Big Apple Mayor said “Mayors don’t get a lot of time to watch television, so I don’t know much about this season’s plot but actually it would be great to see what happens with Finn and Rachel.”

“We’ve been filming ‘Glee’ in Los Angeles for two years. We’ve never met the mayor there,” said executive producer Dante Di Loreto.

The show is filming the season two episode (to air May 24th) and they will be around until the 29th. They are scheduled to shoot scenes at some of the major landmarks, including Lincoln Center, Times Square and Central Park.

So far, most of the cast has been spotted, papped and twitterazzi’d all around the city.

Cory Monteith, Chord Overstreet, Chris Colfer, Lea Michele, Dianna Agron, Jenna Ushkowitz, Heather Morris, Mark Salling and lots more of the cast are pictured below.

Photos of the conference plus their first day of shooting are below.  Read more »

Ashley Tisdale’s cheerleader drama Hellcats is getting a new night when it returns from the winter break. Tisdale, who is shown above doing some holiday shopping last week, and the show return to the CW on Tuesday January 25th at 9PM.

The move is strategic, keeping the freshman show out of direct competition with the FOX hit show American Idol, that will be on Wednesday and Thursday.

Are you excited for Hellcats to return?

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Nina Dobrev can breathe a sigh of relief. Starring in The Vampire Diaries on the CW network, the actress will never have to do a nude scene unlike the stars of True Blood, HBO‘s vampire series. Said Dobrev:

“I’m very content with not being nude on national television. I enjoy True Blood myself and I watch the show, but I’m happy that bra and underwear is as stripped down as I can get for the show.”

The former Degrassi star also dismissed the bitter rivalry rumors between hot vampire casts:

“I don’t think that we’re necessarily competitors,” she explained. “We’re all kind of in the same genre – there are vampires within all the series – but they are all very different. It’s like apples and oranges. True Blood is racier and a little bit older, Twilight is on the big screen, whereas we are in that in-between zone. We’re all very supportive of each other.”

Dobrev has spent the week in Monaco with costars Ian Somerhalder and Paul Wesley at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. She is one lucky gal. Check out more pics of her and her costars below.

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Bandslam’s Aly Michalka is joining the brand new show Hellcats that will air this fall on the CW. The 78violet singer is joining Gail O’Grady (Desperate Housewives, NYPD Blue) in the drama.

A drama set in the world of competitive college cheerleading. The former [Michalka] will play Marty Berger (“wicked smart, an acerbic outsider”), a student at Memphis’ Lancer University who’s forced to try out for the Hellcats – the college’s competitive cheerleading team – after she loses her scholarship. O’Grady will play her mother Wanda who tends bar at a rathskeller type snack bar on campus that serves food and drinks.

Aly’s also part of the 2011 movie ensemble cast for The Roommate, staring Leighton Meester, Cam Gigandet and Katerina Graham.

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Lots of big movies opening this weekend, including the teen musical ‘Bandslam’ and star Gaelen Connell wants you to know it’s different than ‘High School Musical.’ With the obvious similarities of costar Vanessa Hudgens and having a musical competition central to it’s theme, Connell says that is where the comparisons should end.

“This is like an actual high school for the 95 percent of us who were kind of friends with popular kids, then kind of friends with the not popular kids, and I think it’s pretty interesting to see that in a Hollywood film because it’s usually so black and white. You know, there’s a cheerleader, then like I said, there’s McLovin. This is not like that at all, it’s very edgy and real.”

Check out his interview with MTV and hear him declare Taylor Swift is “super hot.”
Who’s going to see this tomorrow? Are you just going for the ‘New Moon’ trailer?