TV News Wrap: Monday May 23

• In Australian news, after the Brynne Edelsten controversy, now Manu Feildel is being accused of being sexist on Dancing With the Stars due to his comments in regard to his partner "bossing him around" in his kitchen. It doesn't really warrant much talking about, as even though on the surface they might seem slightly sexist, there is obviously no malice attached to them, especially given Manu's look of mystification after the comments were made. What made it wore, apparently, was the fact that the audience "booed"- which, But here are the comments anyway:

"The problem was that the staff around me, I usually tell them what to do. Suddenly a woman was telling me what to do in front of everyone.”

But one thing is for sure, Channel Seven will be delighted, bordering on ecstatic, that another headline or three has been generated.

• Don't you hate it when two of your TV shows that you have filmed pilots for get picked up by different networks and you're forced to pull out from one of them? That's what happened to Nancy Travis, maybe best known for her work as the mother in Three Men and a Baby, but has since gone on to star in a multitude of other projects in TV and film (most recently, a brief stint on Desperate Housewives). Travis has had to pull out of her recurring guest role in the CW's upcoming show, Hart of Dixie (Rachel Bilson's TV comeback) to keep her role in ABC's Last Man Standing (Tim Allen's TV comeback).

• The Hollywood Reporter says that Ashton Kutcher's new $700,000-an-episode Two and a Half Men deal will only be a one year contract, due to CBS only licensing it for a year. The significance of this? Well, he won't have a long time to prove himself, so if the replacement isn't working after one season, it'll be bye bye Kutcher, and most likely, bye bye show.

• So, Ken Jeong hosted the 2011 Billboard Music Awards ("Chang" from Community, Mr Chow from The Hangover). It seemed slightly manic and occasionally funny, but he definitely deserves respect for his piano-playing abilities... less so for his singing, but either way, it marks another step in his meteoric rise. Take a look at the opening number:

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• And for lack of anything else exciting, here's a promo for the Modern Family Season 2 finale entitled "The One That Got Away", the 24th episode of the season. We're likely to see various reviews and critiques of the entire season, given the universal praise it received for its first season. It's almost agreed upon that the second season didn't really match the wit and originality of the first, and while there were some very good episodes, some others relied too heavily on tired sitcom tropes. But here's the promo for the finale and the synopsis;

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"Jay wants nothing more than to have a quiet birthday out fishing on the lake, but the family take that as him wanting a big celebration, and in their frantic scramble to put everything together, Claire and Mitchell wind up trapped in the yard of their childhood home; Phil runs into his old college nemesis while at the mall with Gloria and Lily; Cameron gets himself into some hot water at the bakery, and the kids frantically do some creative editing on grandpa's birthday video, all of which leaves Jay with a headache."