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The Baby Borrowers: It’s Not Reality Television, It’s Birth Control

That’s the show’s tagline…and for us, at least, it’s working! If you haven’t started watching NBC’s The Baby Borrowers, we highly suggest you start. It’s crazy, it’s entertaining, and it’s the rare reality show which invites you to watch other people’s suffering (a reality show standard) but also makes you feel good about it. Think you’re an awful person because you like it when Tyra trounces one of her aspiring-model underlings? Or think your significant other is going to Hell when they giggle as an America’s Got Talent contestant’s hopes and dreams are crushed by the Hoff?

Not so with The Baby Borrowers, because the entire premise—lend some teenage couples some babies—is designed to make said teenage couples feel absolutely, critically awful. The purpose is to make the teens’ lives a living hell, so that they in fact will choose to wait before they have kids of their own. So go ahead, feel good about your glee at their anxiety, breakdowns, and tears: we’re all making the world a better place!

So, last night was the third episode in the new series. The first two were devoted entirely to the actual babies—the five teen couples moved into a disturbing idyllic and new development (nothing like the smell of urban sprawl in the morning!) and were then handed months’-old infants for three days. Now, don’t worry: the teens aren’t actually left alone with the infants...

Is Shannen Doherty Coming Back to "90210"?

The word down at the Peach Pit is that the updated version of Beverly Hills 90210 may just have Brenda Walsh to kick around again. According to Entertainment Weekly's reliable TV gossip-hound Michael Ausiello, actress Shannen Doherty has been talking with producers Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah about reprising her former teen role as the tempest from the Midwest.

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Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV.

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