Two More GLEE PROJECT Contenders Go Home

Tuesday’s episode of Oxygen’s THE GLEE PROJECT challenged the remaining contenders with “Dance-ability” featuring a homework assignment to “We Got the Beat” by the Go-Go’s. Before the performance even began, Taryn Douglas (22) of Detroit left the competition and went home. Season one winner and now GLEE star Samuel Larsen (Joseph Hart) returned to the classroom as guest mentor for the same theme he won last year.

NEWS ROUNDUP: STOP SOPA; Betty White Encore; Did Rick Perry Save DALLAS?

NBC to encore the Betty White birthday special
NBC will air a repeat of the special on Saturday, Jan. 21 from 8-9:30 p.m. The debut telecast on Monday averaged a dominant 13.9 million viewers – NBC’s biggest overall audience in the 8-9:30 p.m. time period, excluding the Olympics, since Feb. 18, 2008.

Did Texas Governor Rick Perry save the new DALLAS on TNT?
Some of the credit for the show's ability to shoot in the real city of Dallas may come from Cynthia Cidre's agent, Anne Blanchard, a Dallas native, and to (wait for it) Rick Perry. When Cidre originally started writing the pilot nearly two years agoo, she said, Blanchard told her, "Honey, if they ever start talking about doing this in another state, you let me know. It has to be in Dallas."