Record producer extraordinaire Timbaland not only has big skills, he’s got a big heart. He wants to help Britney Spears reclaim her career and he is trying to enlist Britney’s former love, Justin Timberlake in his army. “I feel her pain, it really bothers me. I’m the type of person who tries to save the world. I just want to take her away, go overseas, and work (it) out. I just want to hold her hand,” Timbaland says. “I want her to be in my camp, to be around Justin. I need Justin to talk to her. Help her, please!”...

When this new Pussycat Dolls reality series was announced last year, an executive with the CW used the phrase "female empowerment" to describe its essence. When you see scantily clad young women singing and gyrating together on a stage, the feminist ideal is what first springs to mind. Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan would surely concur.
Actually, this traditional elimination reality series that is designed to select the next member of the Pussycat Dolls song-and-dance troupe is more about selling sex than self-reliance, doing so with all the depth of a toddler wading pool. It incorporates the full array of unscripted devices we've come to expect: manufactured conflict, driving music, faux drama and the illusion of personality, all in service to a plastic eight-week overview seemingly targeted to the 12-year-old mind-set....