Blog Posts by Taryn Ryder

Have you ever rooted so badly for an extramarital affair to happen?

"Scandal" fans everywhere pray that Olivia (Kerry Washington) and Fitz (Tony Goldwyn) will end up together ... so essentially we are all crossing our fingers that a man divorces his wife (who just had his baby) and lives happily ever after with his mistress. The crazy-sounding premise is why a few people (here's looking at you, Mom) don't tune in to ABC's hit show. Sure ... it does sound insane, but once you start watching you just get it. So how does "Scandal" and "Grey's Anatomy" creator Shonda Rhimes pull it off, exactly?

At Thursday night's "Scandal" presentation at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, we asked the cast if they have pondered the same thing, and how Rhimes makes us forget our morals for an hour on Thursday nights.

[Related: 'Scandal' Season Finale: Do Fitz and Olivia Stay Together?]

Bottom line: Everyone in the cast is a "Litz" fan, too.

"It's because Fitz and Liv belong together," Tony Goldwyn

Women around the world -- and avid fans of "The Bachelor" -- are in mourning.

Adam Scott, the Australian hunk who won the Masters golf tournament this weekend, revealed that he does in fact have a girlfriend.

"I am not single at all; I'm very much in a relationship and very happy at the moment," Scott said on "CBS This Morning" on Wednesday. The 32-year-old revealed he is dating a woman named Marie.

That would be Swedish beauty Marie Kojzar, whom Scott first started dating when he was 21 years old (a string of women he has seen in between include actress Kate Hudson and tennis player Ana Ivanovic).

Before Scott's relationship status was revealed, fans were campaigning hard for the Aussie hottie to go on "The Bachelor." Producer Robert Mills of the ABC hit show even tweeted:

The Adam Scott as #Bachelor idea has exploded. Will try and meet. And Ryan Lochte-this is what it means to have interest in you as #Bachelor

— Robert Mills(@Millsy11374) April 15, 2013

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Don't leave us, Charlie!

Christopher Abbott has left HBO's hit show "Girls" after butting heads with creator and star Lena Dunham, according to The New York Post.

"They've just started work on Season 3, and Chris is at odds with Lena," Page Six says. "He didn't like the direction things are going in, which seems a bit odd since the show put him on the map."

[Related: Production On TBS's 'Sullivan & Son' Shut Down After Star Steve Byrne Suffers Injury]

HBO confirmed that Abbott will not be back for the third season of "Girls." In a statement regarding his exit, Abbott's rep said, "[Chris] is grateful for the experience of collaborating with Lena, Judd [Apatow], and the entire 'Girls' cast and crew, but right now he's working on numerous other projects and has decided not to return to the show."

This will surely leave "Girls" fans devastated since Charlie and Marnie (Allison Williams) finally got back together in the Season 2 finale.

If the report is true that Abbott and Dunham clashed,

Things are getting interesting in the Hamptons.

Yahoo! TV has an exclusive first look at Sunday's all-new episode of "Revenge," titled "Victory." In the clip, Daniel (Josh Bowman) receives an envelope with a photo of himself and Emily (Emily VanCamp) along with two bullets.

After talking with the cast a few weeks ago, we know that the Initiative storyline is wrapping up ... so could this be one last threat on their part? Or could Emily be behind the package in order to get Daniel to do something?

So many questions that we hope will be answered this Sunday!

What we do know is that, as Season 2 winds down, the show plans to refocus plot points toward the characters that fans love.

"We have a great opportunity to refocus the characters towards one another as well, and dig a little deeper into their pasts," Emily VanCamp told us. "We've done a lot of the action-crazy stuff. At the end of the season, you will see more emotional twists and turns rather than explosions."

"Revenge" airs

What's going on at "The View"?

Joy Behar announced Thursday that she was exiting the show after 16 years, and now Deadline.com and The Hollywood Reporter are both reporting that Elisabeth Hasselbeck will be the next to go. Us Weekly, who first broke the Hasselbeck news, notes that her ousting came after a market research revealed that she was too conservative for TV audiences.

"The viewers they polled all said she was too extreme and right wing," an insider says. "People did not watch the show because of Elisabeth. So they told her yesterday her contract would not be renewed."

Liberals, don't start celebrating just yet. An ABC spokesperson tells Yahoo! TV: "Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a valued member of 'The View' and has a long-term contract."

Hmmm … that's not entirely a denial. We all know that long-term contracts can be broken (for a price).

So far, it seems that Barbara Walters, Whoopi Goldberg, and Sherri Shepherd are staying put. But that means there are one or maybe two seats up