KANSAS CITYY, Mo. — If you stayed on CBS after the Super Bowl, you may have watched "Undercover Boss."

PASADENA, Calif. — You can't miss him. British comic Stephen Merchant, who co-wrote the original "The Office" and "Extras" with Ricky Gervais, is 6-foot-7 inches tall. He reached those stratospheric proportions in his early teens, and has felt like an outcast ever since.

LOS ANGELES — Twenty-five years ago, MTV was best known for music videos starring Michael Jackson and Madonna. These days, its reigning queen is not a recording star at all but rather Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, the rowdy party girl from the reality series "Jersey Shore."

LOS ANGELES — Decisions as to which network shows will be asked back for the 2010-2011 season will made over the next couple months. For NBC's new comedy "Community," it's like being a college freshman with a 2.0 GPA — it's doing OK but there's no guarantee it will return for a sophomore year.

Move over Hawkeye Pierce, looks like Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints just took your ratings crown along with the Super Bowl title.

LOS ANGELES — CBS Corp. on Monday reported its highest ratings ever in metered markets for Sunday's Super Bowl in which the New Orleans Saints scored their first NFL championship over the favored Indianapolis Colts.

PASADENA, Calif. — In the new Fox series "Past Life," Kelli Giddish plays Dr. Kate McGinn, a scientist who believes in reincarnation and uses clues from those past lives to deal with problems in the present.

LOS ANGELES — At first glance, it might appear that Claire Danes and HBO are a little behind the curve with "Temple Grandin," a biopic about an early autistic advocate and educator. In the years since "Rain Man," autism has created something of a stock character in television and film. Indeed, when Danes was preparing for the role of Grandin, she had to look no further than her husband, Hugh Dancy, who recently starred in "Adam."

"Nothing's irreversible," says Jack Shepherd (Mathew Fox) to John Locke (Terry O'Quinn) in the second hour of the first episode of "Lost's" final season, and on top of the obvious and tantalizing T-shirt possibilities of this statement, one can't help but imagine it graven in stone on the archway leading into the show's writers' room. Possibly in hieroglyphics of their own creation.

LOS ANGELES — Michael Vick, the ex-Atlanta Falcon, convicted felon, formerly dog-abusing Humane Society volunteer spokesman and current Philadelphia Eagle, is the subject of a 10-part series that begins Tuesday night on BET, "The Michael Vick Project." The word "project" in the title indicates that we are meant to take this seriously (its meaningless use in "The Rachel Zoe Project" notwithstanding). It suggests hard work and the possibility of transformation. That the subject of the series is also one of its producers is worth noting but also par for the course in the new reality we call "reality."