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"American Horror Story" returns in October with a tweak to the title. It will be called "American Horror Story: Asylum," FX and producer Ryan Murphy announced Wednesday. That's a fitting title since the series will be set in an insane asylum run by Jessica Lange's character, who will not be creepy Constance Langdon, the woman she played to perfection in the show's first season. The new season is set in 1964 and stars Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, Zachary Quinto, James Cromwell and Joseph Fiennes.

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Rarely has this reporter been so unable to contain her unbridled glee at interviewing a celebrity. I told everyone who would sit still long enough about this interview. I sweated the questions, mumbling to myself, "Shut up, Georgia, that one is so stupid. Think, dammit. Think!" But this, dear readers, was no mundane famous person. This was RuPaul, queen of queens, star of stars and host of "RuPaul's Drag Race" on Logo, which returns for its fourth season at 8 p.m. Monday, bringing three Chicago-based queens with it. On "Drag Race," the creme de la creme of the nation's drag queens...

One look at a new behind-the-scenes video from "Strike Back" and its easy to see why star Philip Winchester says, "I love my job. " In the video "Recon" piece, provided exclusively to RedEye by Cinemax, star Sullivan Stapleton takes viewers through a day on the show's South Africa set where they blow the crap out of a car "in true 'Strike Back' style. " But what's this about the brave members of Section 20 robbing the Bogota Stock Exchange? Have Damien Scott (Stapleton) and Sgt. Michael Stonebridge (Winchester)

Elijah Wood doesn't think he's much like Ryan, the character he plays on the FX comedy "Wilfred"--at least he hopes not. "Ryan's really struggling most of the time and is constantly questioning himself and the world around him and is not always in the most comfortable of places," he said Monday, "so hopefully none of that has rubbed off on me. " "Wilfred" officially begins its second season at 9 p.m. June 28, but at 9:30 p.m. Thursday FX will...

Dule Hill sounded a little bit like his always-hungry character Gus on USA Network's "Psych" when he came to Chicago this week. The actor ate a pineapple and Canadian bacon pizza at Giordano's on Thursday and planned to go to Lou Malnati's for more pizza Friday. "Why not?" he said. "I'm in Chicago. " (Update: I see from his Twitter feed he made it to Lou Malnati's.) Hill is in town to promote USA's third annual Characters Unite Month, which builds on its ongoing public service commitment to combat prejudice and discrimination.

We already knew about several guests coming to "Portlandia" for its third season beginning Jan. 4. On Tuesday, IFC announced even more. Roseanne Barr, Matt Berry ("The IT Crowd"), Rose Byrne, the band Dirty Projectors, Jim Gaffigan, Bill Hader, Juliette Lewis, Matt Lucas ("Little Britain"), J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., Bobby Moynihan, tennis champ Martina Navratilova, Patton Oswalt and George Wendt all will join Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein playing more unusual individuals living in Portland, OR. Season 3 of the Emmy-nominated comedy...

I was a fan of "The Borgias" during its first season, even though creator Neil Jordan occasionally got tripped up as he jumped from big-screen movies to writing a weekly TV series. Based on the first four episodes of the new season, I'd say Jordan has figured things out. "The Borgias" ( 9 p.m. Sunday, Showtime; 3.5 stars out of 4 ) still overflows with delicious intrigues, sex and deadly politics, but it now has an energy and constant forward momentum the first season lacked. Last season we saw Rodrigo Borgia (Jeremy Irons,...

Darth Maul returns to "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" this fall, and he looks pissed. Everyone's favorite Sith badass looms large in the first trailer for Season 5 of the animated series, which will premiere in September on Cartoon Network. "Our combined strength will be rewarded," Maul tells his brother, Savage Opress, in the trailer, "and Kenobi, this Sith pretender, Dooku, and all our enemies will fall. " That's quite a group of enemies the red devil has in his sights, but the trailer doesn't stop with Maul's checklist.

If you're attending San Diego Comic Con, mark this one in your schedule: "Strike Back," Cinemax's thrilling and realistic look at how covert military teams operate, will make it debut at the con with a Friday panel and Saturday screening of the first two episodes of its second season. The show follows the fictional stealth counterterrorism unit Section 20 as its agents span the globe to stop potential terrorist threats. Series stars Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton and Rhona Mitra will be on hand for the events, which are must-sees for this fan. Season 2...

Dougray Scott, Robson Green and former Chicagoan Milauna Jackson will star in the third Cinemax season of "Strike Back. " The British actors recently joined series regulars Philip Winchester, Sullivan Stapleton, Michelle Lukes and Liam Garrigan in South Africa where the action-adventure series began filming the new season about a month ago. The addictive, action-packed drama throws viewers into the world of the fictional Section 20, an elite military...

Dule Hill sounded a little bit like his always-hungry character Gus on USA Network's "Psych" when he came to Chicago this week. The actor ate a pineapple and Canadian bacon pizza at Giordano's on Thursday and planned to go to Lou Malnati's for more pizza Friday. "Why not?" he said. "I'm in Chicago. " (Update: I see from his Twitter feed he made it to Lou Malnati's.) Hill is in town to promote USA's third annual Characters Unite Month, which builds on its ongoing public service commitment to combat prejudice and discrimination.

When the rebooted "Dallas" debuted last year, TNT talked a lot about how the new generation of Ewings were at the center of the story. It was a good spin to get young viewers, but the Ewing kids had nothing on scheming oilman J.R. Ewing. And the 20-something actors could do nothing as Larry Hagman, who created in the original "Dallas" arguably TV's greatest villain of all time with J.R., stole every scene he was in, chewed every piece of scenery and showed the youngsters exactly how it's done.

Chicago designer Katelyn Pankoke will be among the 16 designers competing in the Season 11 of "Project Runway" when it premieres at 8 p.m. CT Jan. 24 on Lifetime. The new season is the first ever teams edition, so the 23-year-old creative force behind Elaya Vaughn Bridal will be be paired with another designer and they will have to make it work together. Pankoke is originally from Parkland, Fla. The designers didn't learn they would be competing as teams until after the arrived in New York to begin filming.

We already knew about several guests coming to "Portlandia" for its third season beginning Jan. 4. On Tuesday, IFC announced even more. Roseanne Barr, Matt Berry ("The IT Crowd"), Rose Byrne, the band Dirty Projectors, Jim Gaffigan, Bill Hader, Juliette Lewis, Matt Lucas ("Little Britain"), J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr., Bobby Moynihan, tennis champ Martina Navratilova, Patton Oswalt and George Wendt all will join Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein playing more unusual individuals living in Portland, OR. Season 3 of the Emmy-nominated comedy...

Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are hard at work filming Season 3 of "Portlandia," and to prove it IFC has released a sneak peek skit from the new season. "Meditation Crush" hit the web last week (sorry I'm way behind!) and it shows Armisen and Brownstein as two members of a yoga class with very different thoughts about the other. It's quite funny and a perfect gift to hold fans over until Jan. 4, when the season begins. But that's not all the good folks at "Portlandia" have for us. A pre-season bonus episode titled "Winter in Portlandia"...

I caught up with "Community"star Danny Pudi July 13 at San Diego Comic Con where the Chicago native thanked fans for the show's success. Pudi also accepted the trophy his character, Abed Nadir, earned for being voted runner-up in RedEye's 2011 Best TV Character tourney, thanking his family and friends in Chicago and fans everywhere for the honor. ( Daryl Dixon, Norman Reedus' "The Walking Dead" character, won. ) He then hinted at a theme evident in the NBC show's panel later in the day. "Six seasons and a movie," Pudi says in the video clip above, "and we couldn't have done it...

When "Boss" returns for its sophomore season Aug. 17, Chicago Mayor Tom Kane, his political allies and enemies will reveal more of themselves. But don't think it's going to be a touchy-feely affair. "Everybody's still kind of diabolical, but we're glimpsing parts of them that show a human side - good, bad or otherwise," new showrunner Dee Johnson says in this exclusive "making of" video from Starz. The video offers a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of "Boss" in Chicago, which is just about wrapped up now. It features star Kelsey Grammer, who won a Golden Globe...

If you like your horror dark - and I'm talking pitch black - strap yourself into your straight jacket for the new season of "American Horror Story. " "Asylum" ( 9 p.m. CT Oct. 17, FX; 3 stars out of 4 ), as the new season is sub-titled, is just as perverse and disturbing as the first round. Since Season 1 ended, creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk have informed us that each edition of the anthology series will begin with a fresh story and new characters that sometimes are played by actors from the previous season.

October's TV programming might be heavy on the Halloween-themed stuff, but that's not all the networks have to offer. "30 Rock" and "Community" return for their final seasons. "Happy Endings" is back, as well as a new season of "American Horror Story," not to mention Syfy's ripoff movie "American Horror House. " Here's our monthly list of season and series premieres/finales, movies and specials. I'll keep updating as I find more, so if you see something I'm missing, give me a shout. Monday, Oct. 1 7 | "iHeartRadio Music Festival,"...