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A study of cooking serves up some tasty morsels, but also empty caloriesCatching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham 320pp, Profile, £15Marriage, said JB Priestley, is a long dull meal with pudding as the first course. This book is a bit like that. The dessert served up in its early pages is zesty, with lots of good stuff about what happens when you eat only raw food (you starve to death), but then the reader is obliged to champ through a set of dishes heavier on seasoning than on substance. The repast culminates in a series of idiosyncratic amuses-bouches, with claims that cooking led to our leaving the trees, to sex roles, to marriage, to emotional restraint, to consciousness, and to society itself (which seems unlikely even if Gordon and Barack did bond in a new york kitchen).Anthropologists have a fatal tendency to decide, without much evidence, what made us human - we have been the upright ape, the grasping, the naked (or, in one recent volume, the well-d

Flu season appears to have attacked the cast of this revival, with symptoms that include tin ear, loss of comic timing, uncontrollable jitters and a prickly disorientation.

TV News: Comedy king in next year's plans too -- Comedy's primetime momentum is spilling into development season.

Is Maksim Chmerkovskiy headed back to the "Dancing with the Stars" ballroom to replace Derek Hough? That isn't clear yet -- but Maks will be helping out, according to 'Dancing' pro Derek. Derek took to his Twitter account Thursday to reveal that he's feeling sick and thinks he has the flu with a temperature of 104 degrees. He also tweeted that fellow pro dancer Maksim, who was already sent home this season with his partner Debi Mazar, may be helping Derek coach his partner Joanna Krupa for the next round of the competition.

TV Ratings: ABC wins Thursday night; 'Grey's' top performer -- Despite winning yet another comedy series Emmy less than a month ago, NBC's '30 Rock' declined in its season premiere Thursday compared to 2008, on a night when ABC topped the 18-49 demo and CBS per usual won in overall viewers.

Dave Levey is the winner of season 6 of 'Hell's Kitchen.' Levey admits cooking helps him impress the ladies and even he likes ramen every now and then

The preview for next week's episode of Project Runway 6 showed something unbelievable: Nina Garcia and Michael Kors both judging--at the same time! Nina reappeared for last night's episode, and promises in a new interview that she and Michael will appear on every single episode of the seventh season of the show, which taped this summer. That's good news, because the parade of guest judges have mostly sucked, and have made some poor decisions. Nina told Entertainment Weekly that she 'didn't really think it was going to be noticeable' when she and Michael were missing, but said that was inevitable because the season taped last September and October, 'the months when the fashion shows happen in new york, Milan, and Paris. I had to go do my job as an editor and cover the shows, so that's where I was. It was really out of my control.' Nina said that 'we make a really good team: Heidi, Michael, and myself. We have a really good rapport in terms of deliberating. And perhaps that's what is m

FOX's reality competition "So You Think You Can Dance" is losing an Emmy-Award winning choreographer. Mia Michaels, who has been with the show since the beginning, has decided to move on. Now in its 6th season, Executive Producer and Judge Nigel Lythgoe tells ET: "We are thrilled to have given a talent such as Mia Michaels a platform to create Emmy Award-winning choreography. During the auditions this season she has helped choose the best, most diverse top 20 we have ever had. She knows that she is always welcome to return later this season or next. She's chosen to move on to new challenges and we will continue to support her and wish her all the best."

Flu season appears to have attacked the cast of this revival, with symptoms that include tin ear, loss of comic timing, uncontrollable jitters and a prickly disorientation.

While Rachel Griffiths has been taking time off from "Brothers and Sisters" following the birth of her daughter, her character -- Sarah Walker -- has been off-camera checking out vineyards in France, where she happens to meet a very sexy Frenchman -- Gilles Marini as Luc Laurent. "She is doing some business in France and, fortunately or unfortunately, she gets a bit lost and we meet," Gilles tells ET. "To me, I see her and it is love at first sight. I am very attracted to her, and we spend time together in France, which leads Luc Laurent to make a very drastic move, drop everything and leave France behind and go to America to see her." Luc arrives as preparations are underway for Justin's (Dave Annable) wedding -- and last season's "Dancing with the Stars" second-place finalist volunteers to help Nora (Sally Field) teach her son to dance.