Thursday night's season premiere of "Parks and Recreation" picked up right where the season finale left off, with Leslie offered the chance to run for political office, and Ron informed that his first ex-wife, Tammy One, is in town.

First of all, it was hilarious to see Ron scared out of his mind, opening up a vent to get a backpack full of supplies and heading for the wilderness.

In the meantime, Leslie had a big decision to make, as her relationship with Ben could become a major scandal. After all, turning down a campaign wasn't an option for her: "While other girls were playing with Barbies, I was playing with the Geraldine Ferraro action figure that I made myself with a picture of her that I glued to a popsicle stick!"

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In the opening moments of the series premiere of "Charlie's Angels" - which is now set in Miami - the Angels are already at work on a mission, but anyone who saw the endless ABC promos might not recognize Nadine Velazquez from "My Name is Earl" as one of the Angels.

It didn't take long to figure out that her character was not long for this world, and wouldn't you know it, she gets killed in a car bomb.

Abby Sampson (Rachael Taylor) and Kate Prince (Annie Ilonzeh) just happen to have an opening for a third Angel when they happen upon hotheaded thrill-seeker Eve French (Minka Kelly, the only potential breakout star here if there is any).

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Today's news you might've missed:

• Get ready for more Rihanna: The singer released a new single to whet fans appetites for her upcoming album on Thursday. The Calvin Harris produced track titled "We Found Love" has the songstress crooning over a "party-ready" beat. [MTV]
• You know how you know you're old? When everything you watched as a youth is rebooted for the new kids on the block. Exhibit A: Universal has a new "Scarface" in the works. [Deadline]
• Neil Patrick Harris has written a guide to surviving Hollywood in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, and he advises newbies to become professional sluts. You know, career-wise. [EW]
• Ryan Murphy's plotting to create something else for Gwyneth Paltrow to star in, and after her turn on "Glee," it's no surprise he's angling to write an original musical. [E!]
• "Katie Holmes is 'How I Met Your Mother's' slutty pumpkin." Noted. [Vulture]

From one celebrity doctor to another, Anna Nicole Smith's former physician is coming to the defense of Conrad Murray.

Murray, who was treating Michael Jackson and has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in Jackson's death, faces up to four years in prison if found guilty. Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, who was acquitted on charges of illegally providing drugs to the late Smith, says he feels sympathy for Murray.

“I think I do just based on the fact that there isn't a whole lot of medicine that is being talked about here. And it's very unclear about the history of how much he knew about his medical history, and how much he was told about his medical history," Kapoor tells "Showbiz Tonight" in an exclusive interview. "So I think that not knowing a lot of that could, potentially, have put him in a really bad situation. A bad situation where he did the best he could, and, obviously, it did not have a good outcome.”

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Adorable actress Michelle Williams may not know how good she has it.

The Huffington Post reports that in an interview with Hobo Magazine (yes, that’s really what it’s called), Williams divulges her desire to run away from her life as a movie star and become a working stiff.

Good luck with that, Michelle. (Does she know about the unemployment rate?)

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While Roseanne Barr is making noise about possibly running for the highest office in the land, her onetime on-screen husband is starting a guest stint on one of the most buzzworthy sitcoms on TV.

John Goodman, who hasn't done a TV comedy since 2004 (he's best known lately for "Treme" and "Damages"), has a role on the season premiere of "Community," which looks to be memorable one.

"[I've] got his privates in a vice, Dean Pelton," Goodman told reporters about his character Vice Dean Laybourne, head of the air conditioning repair school at Greendale. "He’s an unseen, unknown force on campus and Dean Pelton was feeling his oats and now he’s having his oats fed to him."

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In celebrity real estate news, the Los Angeles Times reports that Dan Castellaneta, who voices Homer on “The Simpsons,” sold his mansion to Hank Azaria, who voices bartender Moe.

The sale price of the Pacific Palisades home? $5.5 million. That’s a lot of d’oh! (Sorry, had to do it.)

Emmy-winning voice actor Castellaneta and his wife, television writer Deb Lacusta, had lowered the listing price on their home of five years by $200,000 before Azaria purchased it.

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Spurred by the death of Jamey Rodemeyer, Lady Gaga is on a mission to make bullying illegal, reports the International Business Times.

Buffalo teenager Rodemeyer committed suicide on Sunday. The 14-year-old, who made a video for the "It Gets Better" PSA project, endured intense harassment about his sexuality by classmates at Williamsville North High School.

In his "It Gets Better" video, Rodemeyer cited Lady Gaga as an inspiration because of her message of acceptance, and on Wednesday, Gaga took to Twitter to advocate for laws against bullying.

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It's about time. Sony Pictures has released a full-length trailer for the English adaptation of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."

Based on the international best-seller by Stieg Larsson, disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) is hired by an aging Swedish tycoon (Christopher Plummer) to solve the mysterious disappearance of his granddaughter. It might be easy to presume that viewers are already familiar with the story thanks to the book, but this trailer sets up the central mystery in case you don't know.

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After another great night at the Emmys, it was time for our favorite family to return on Wednesday night, and none too soon.

The season premiere of "Modern Family" was two back-to-back episodes, and though I somewhat preferred the first one over the second, they were both solid, showing once again why it's one of the most consistently funny shows on TV.

In the first episode, they took a trip to a Wyoming dude ranch, where Mitchell had reservations about adopting a boy (and wanted to use this opportunity to find his more manly side). Jay was fending off a ranch hand making passes at Gloria, Alex had a summer romance, Phil was hamming it up as usual (with cowboy skills like "shootin', ropin', pancake eatin'"), and Claire was this close to wishing that Haley's dim boyfriend Dylan would walk off a cliff.

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