At 8/7c tonight, all of the major television networks will air this very special and very important telethon. Stars scheduled to perform include: Beyonce, Madonna, Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige, Shakira, Sting, Alicia Keys, Christian Aguilera, Dave Matthews, John Legend, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Swift, Coldplay, and Haitian artist Emeline Michel. A group performance will take place in Los Angeles with Keith Urban, Kid Rock, and Sheryl Crow as well as one in London featuring Bono, Jay-Z, The Edge, and Rihanna. In addition to the musical performances, Ben Stiller, Brad Pitt, Chris Rock, Clint Eastwood, Halle Berry, Jon Stewart, Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicole Kidman, Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Matt Damon, Tom Hanks, Will Smith, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Anna Kendrick, Zac Efron, Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Hudgens, Jonas Brothers, Selena Gomez, David Archuleta, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, President Bill Clinton, and Muhammed Ali will join George Clooney along with more than hundred other famous names in film, television, and music.

Again, Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief will be airing commercial-free tonight at 8/7c on CBS, NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN, The CW, MTV, VH1, BET, CMT, PBS, TNT, Showtime, COMEDY CENTRAL, Bravo, E! Entertainment, National Geographic Channel, Oxygen, G4, CENTRIC, Current TV, Fuse, MLB Network, EPIX, Palladia, SoapNet, The Style Network, Discovery Health, Planet Green, CNN en Espanol, and HBO Latino. Canadian networks inlcude: CBC Television, CTV, MuchMusic, and Global Television. Online broadcast will appear on Facebook, Fancast and Youtube.

Learn what you can do to help with the earthquake-relief effort in Haiti by visiting HopeForHaitiNow.org or make a donation by calling (877) 99-HAITI or sending a text "GIVE" to 50555.

You can also mail your donation to:

Hope For Haiti Now Fund
Entertainment Industry Foundation
1201 West 5th Street, Suite T-700
Los Angeles, CA 90017

One of the things that perks us up after Labor Day rolls around and summer is officially over is the Fall TV line-up. You know you agree. After a day of studying or a night of staying in from the cold, grabbing a bowl of popcorn and getting cozy on the couch while watching your new favorite show. There are a few new series that we’re counting down the days to and we’d like to share those so you can mark their premieres on your calendar to tune in too!

Melrose Place (Season Premiere – Tuesday, Sept. 8th at 9/8c on The CW)

After much success with their remake of Beverly Hills, 90210 – The CW is at it again with another 90′s primetime soap. Laura Leighton returns as ‘Sydney Andrews’ to co-star with Ashlee Simpson-Wentz and Katie Cassidy (both formley of 7th Heaven) in the revamp of MELROSE PLACE. While the new series isn’t too different from the original, there’s still a whole lot of new drama. In fact it kicks right off with murder mystery! It’s not everyday you wake up to a dead body in your apartment complex pool. Thomas Calabro will reprise his role as ‘Dr. Michael Mancini’ and Daphne Zuniga – who’s been starring on another CW series One Tree Hill – will return for 3 episodes (so far) as ‘Jo Reynolds’.

The Vampire Diaries (Season Premiere – Thursday, Sept. 10th at 8/7c on The CW)

2009 is the year of the vampire. Okay… so, maybe not. Maybe we’re just in a Twilight-induced daze, but we can’t help but want to watch the new CW series THE VAMPIRE DIARIES, based off the popular novels by L.J. Smith – and get this – these books came out 14 years before the world learned about Edward Cullen. The series follows ‘Elena Gilbert’ who becomes the object of affection by her secretive new classmate ‘Stefan’. Wonder what he’s hiding? Whatever, we’ll dish… he’s a vampire. Bet you didn’t see that one coming! You might be having déjà vu so far but trust us… this show is different. Not only does this vamp not sparkle, but instead of having a super friendly non-human-biting family he has an sadistic older brother that would rather fight against him to get to Elena. Oh, and there’s totally a bubbly hyper girl who has physic abilities. Wait… hmm.

GLEE (Season Premiere – Wednesday, Sept. 16th at 9/8c on FOX)

Former NLT member Kevin McHale and Lea Michele of the Tony award-winning musical Spring Awakening have scored themselves a role on Fox’s GLEE! The musical comedy is about a group of small-town high school students whose failing glee club is turned upside down by the new Spanish teacher ‘Mr. Shuster’ (played by former Broadway star Matthew Morrison, Hairspray). Move over Wildcats because GLEE has officially taken over the musical school spirit stick, but while the students of McKinley High are ‘all in it together’ — they’re not singing about it. You can expect to hear modern versions of some of your favorite hits from the radio and stage, such as Journey‘s "Don’t Stop Believing" (available on iTunes!), the Grease classic "You’re the One That I Want", and "Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat" from Guys and Dolls. It’s going to be a Broadway affair this season on Glee when talent from the stage such as Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked, The Apple Tree), John Llyod Young (Jersey Boys), Victor Garber (Present Laughter), and Cheyenne Jackson (Xanadu) guest-star.

The Beautiful Life:TBL (Season Premiere – Wednesday, Sept. 16th at 9/8c on The CW)

Because – let’s face it – we all get addicted to watching shows about beautiful young people wearing clothes that cost more than a car with tons of issues, we’re here to tell you about THE BEAUTIFUL LIFE:TBL. Mischa Barton returns to television in the CW’s new drama series about a group of co-ed models who share a residence in New York City while competing in the modeling world. Supermodel Elle MacPherson plays the head of the modeling agency. Produced by Ashton Kutcher and based off a script by former model-turned-writer Adam Giaudrone, The Beautiful Life:TBL premieres on the CW this September. Sara Paxton (The Last House on the Left) and Corbin Bleu (High School Musical) also star.

Accidentally on Purpose (Season Premiere – Monday, Sept. 21st at 8:30/9:30c on CBS)

We were huge fans of Dharma & Greg and now we can’t wait to see Jenna Elfman on the small-screen once again with her new comedy series ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE. With a very Knocked Up-esque premise, Jenna plays ‘Billie’, a movie critic in her 30s that ends up pregnant as a result of a one-night stand with ‘Zack’ (Jon Foster), a 20-something frat boy. With a new boyfriend, a demanding job, and motherhood on the horizon, Billie finds herself living with Zack platonically to raise the baby. How will she handle it when Zack and his buddies turn her apartment into their newest party spot? This is a recipe for disaster and you can best believe we’ll be tuning in.

The Forgotten (Season Premiere – Tuesday, Sept. 22nd at 10/9c on ABC)

ABC has gone and done it again. The network always manages to suck us in to their Fall line-up every season and this year it’s no different with the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced mystery drama THE FORGOTTEN. After his short-lived series My Own Worst Enemy was pulled last season on NBC, Christian Slater replaces previously casted Rupert Penry-Jones as a former detective named ‘Alex Donovan’ whose daughter was kidnapped and never found. A group of dedicated but amateur detectives that make up the Idenity Network get to work to uncover the mystery of what happened to the little girl as well as numerous forgotten missing victims in a country where the remains of 40,000 people haven’t been identified. Don’t forget to tune in this fall.

Mercy (Season Premiere – Wednesday, Sept. 23rd at 8/7c on NBC)

While you’ll still be able to see her on Gossip Girl this season, Michelle Trachtenberg stars alongside fresh faces Taylor Schilling and Jamie Lee Kirchner in NBC’s medical drama MERCY. After the final season of ER coming to a close this past season, we’ll need something to fill the void and we definitely think this is the way to go. Just like Nurse Jackie and HawtoRNe have, the series puts focus on three nurses at Mercy Hospital. Schilling is ‘Veronica Callahan’, a headstrong nurse who joins the staff after a tour of duty in Iraq while Trachtenberg plays rookie nurse ‘Chloe Payne’ who gets a real awakening to what it’s like in this line of work. Kirchner stars as ‘Sonia Jimenez’.

Eastwick (Season Premiere – Wednesday, Sept. 23rd at 10/9c on ABC)

Rebecca Romijn, Lindsay Price, and Jaime Ray Newman star on the new ABC fantasy series EASTWICK, based off the big-screen 1980′s film, The Witches of Eastwick, which starred Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Jack Nicholson. Three single women living in a picturesque suburban town develop powers and use to enrich their lives which they feel are lacking in love, success and power. These witches join the ABC line-up in late September. Veronica Cartwright, who starred in original movie will also star alongside Jon Bernthal, Ashley Benson, Matt Dallas and Sara Rue. Interestingly enough, this is the third adaptation of the story that has been pitched for television — the first being in 1992 and the second in 2002 which would have starred Marcia Cross, Kelly Rutherford, and Lori Loughlin had it been picked up.

Cougar Town (Season Premiere – Wednesday, Sept. 23rd at 9:30/8:30c on ABC)

So, DIRT didn’t work out — but, Courteney Cox will still be on your TV screen this fall! Take a trip to Cougar Town this fall on ABC when 40 year-old ‘Jules Cobb’ (Cox) is on the prowl for a new man after her recent divorce in this fresh comedy. How will her 17 year-old son react when mom brings home her much younger new boyfriend (Nick Zano). Dan Bryd, Brian Van Holt, and Busy Phillips also star.

Brothers (Season Premiere – Friday, Sept. 25th at 8/7c on FOX)

We’re from New Jersey so you know we have to rep for our NY Giants and now we’ll be following former defensive end Michael Strahan has he tries his hand with acting in the new FOX series BROTHERS. Strahan plays retired NFL star ‘Mike Trainor’, who returns to his Texas hometown to help take care of his father (Carl Weathers) who’s fallen ill. In the process he reunites with his paraplegic estranged brother (Daryl Mitchell) who are pressured to find common ground at the request of their parents. CCH Pounder also stars.

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