Actor Michael Showers (left), who had a recurring role on HBO's Treme playing Capt. John Guidry, was found dead in the Mississippi River, near the French Quarter. Police say he was there for "about two days." He was 45. [Times-Picayune]

This year's Primetime Emmy award nominations will be announced tomorrow, meaning we can finally celebrate television actors. So who will be nominated? Well we kind of already know that. But who should be nominated?

America loves having its movies and television shows recapped, reviewed, and regurgitated back to them, but the one thing that it hates more and more is having the events of those things spoiled by reviewers. It's time for a guide on what constitutes a spoiler and what does not.

America's most polarizing actress has been cast in another project, one that's sure to be issuey. What will people say? Also today: a good actress joins a hopefully good movie, more Hunger Games casting news, and some good and some bad for HBO.

Last night HBO's star-studded pedigree mini-series Mildred Pierce lit up TV screens across America, not because that many people wanted to see a warmed-over Depression-era rags-to-riches story, but because the culture created some need in us to watch it. Enough already.

Zatarain's! HBO has already renewed their new drama Treme, which just premiered on Sunday night, for a second season. The president of HBO cites the show's quality, not necessarily its numbers (1.4 million), as the reason. Yay Nola. [THR]

Last night was the premiere of Treme, the new show from The Wire's David Simon set in post-Katrina New Orleans. With all the artsy, smarty expectations placed on the project, how'd it fare? Well, pretty darn well.

Just weeks before his latest show Treme debuts on HBO, TV writer and producer David Mills has died of a brain aneurysm in New Orleans at the age of 49.

The first full-length trailer for HBO's Treme, David Simon's second TV show after The Wire, features John Goodman, takes place in post-Katrina New Orleans, focuses on jazz, and looks like a can't miss. We. Cannot. Wait.