News & Notes On cable tonight, Sci Fi has the first season finale of The Sarah Jane Adventures . Prime Picks 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee (ABC): New. The final round from the competition plays. Runs two hours. Numb3rs (CBS): Repeat. An ultimate fighter dies suspiciously while training and the team investigates, in “Contenders” from season three. Solid ...

Shonda Rhimes, creator of Grey's Anatomy, has been blogging about the Scripps National Spelling Bee since 2003, and this year, fans can find her minute-by-minute posts at throwingthings.blogspot.com. She promises "interesting commentary" from the Bee, which airs live on ESPN...

At 8, ABC has The Scripps National Spelling Bee , then a new 20/20 . The CW has a new Smackdown! at 8. PBS has a new Washington Week at 8, followed by new episodes of NOW and Bill Moyers Journal . At 8:30, Sci-Fi has a new Sarah Jane Adventures , then new episodes of Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica . ESPN has the Celtics/Pistons NBA Playoff Game at 8:30. ...

The 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee championship finals are tonight air live on ABC May 30 between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. EDT. In light of this tradition The Wall...

Fox has Little Black Book NBC is new with Dateline and may have MLB baseball coverage in some markets CBS has repeats of Ghost Whisperer and Numb3rs ABC has National Spelling Bee and is new with 20/20 The CW is new with Friday Night SmackDown MTV has a repeat of Shot at Love With Tila Tequila VH1 is new with Best Week Ever TLC is new with What Not to Wear E! is new with The ...

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Numb What? Spelling Bee Numb Nut? This Spelling Bee sends a kids head spinning when they ask him to spell the Indian word "Numnuh." It sounds like the judge is saying "Numb Nut" which is what we believe is a better term for the contest. We'd watch a Spelling Bee if it had cooler words.

Little-known fact about me: I’m a spelling bee champ. Yes, it’s true. Back in 8th grade, I won my school’s spelling bee. Then I won the regional spelling bee. And then I went to the state spelling bee, where I took home second place. Here’s the thing: I should have won. The stupid kid who won misspelled the [...]

I wound down tonight by watching the national spelling bee, and it was a pleasure. The winner: Sameer Mishra, below. (Gannett News Service photo) The Indiana student was an appealing and experienced competitor, fending off a challenge from a kid who was in his first spelling bee. He also provided the evening's best entertainment, when asked to spell the word "numnah." To ...

In honor of today's final competition, watch the funniest bloopers and weirdest contestants from years past.

Can You Use It in a Sentence? TGIF, people! What better way to kick off the weekend than by staying indoors and improving one's vocabulary? The 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee: Final Rounds (ABC, 8PM) is on tonight, so we suggest you spend your lunch hour today boning up on Latin and Greek roots. Bonus drinking game suggestion -- every time a socially awkward and home-schooled child ...

Tom Bergeron hosts the final rounds of the 2008 Scripps National Spelling Bee live from Washington D.C. on ABC. ESPN brings you Game 6 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals , live from Detroit. The Celtics lead the Pistons 3-2. On Scifi, " Dr. Who " has to save the earth when the Sontarans try to convert the atmosphere to a poison gas for their own selfish needs. Yeah, like ...

Steve spells the news on this the day of the National Spelling Bee. And a farewell to Harvey Korman.

THE HIVE IS OPEN: And we're off ! Here's how the Spelling Bee works today: From 8am to noonish, all 288 spellers will have the chance to spell one preliminary word in front of Dr. Jacque Bailly and the audience. If it's like last year , it'll be easy . Spellers receive three points for spelling that word correctly. Add that to the results of the computer round (up to 25 points), and at ...

"SOMEWHERE AFTER HIS FIFTEEN MINUTES BUT PRE-MANHOOD ": ESPN's Elizabeth Merrill checks in with Samir Patel , beloved by Shonda and pretty much everyone else around here, enjoying his first May since 2002 away from the Bee. (In 2006, Shonda wrote of him : "If spelling were Hollywood, Samir would be Will Smith -- young, charismatic, just self-deprecating enough to make it okay that he knows ...