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There’s nothing quite like laughing your way to a career milestone at the ripe old age of 30.

Just ask Lynchburg native Ryan Case, who has won an Emmy for Outstanding Editing for a Comedy Series for her work on the pilot episode of ABC’s “Modern Family.”

In just two short seasons, “Drop Dead Diva” star Brooke Elliott has established herself as one of TV’s most likeable leading ladies.

The first celebrity autograph I ever got came from Joey Lawrence.

At the time, he was the mop-topped star of “Blossom” — remember his dimwitted character’s catchphrase, “Whoa?” — and came to little old Lynchburg to meet and greet fans.

Cathy Jamison has spent her whole life being nice.

Sounding off on “The Bachelorette,“ “Big Brother,“ “Next Food Network Star,“ “Work of Art” and “The Real World.“

When the Emmy nominations were announced earlier this month, I was full of opinions.

But I’m only just now getting around to writing them down (hey, better late than never, right?).

My favorite “True Blood” cast member now has some competition.

Alexander Skarsgard’s bad boy vampire Eric has kept me tuning in — sometimes against my better judgment (I’m talking about you, season one!) — since the show began.

This season, however, has introduced us to another who has some serious TV boyfriend potential: Joe Manganiello’s burly werewolf Alcide.

Yes, I said werewolf.

In the opening moments of USA’s “Covert Affairs,” CIA trainee Annie Walker is taking a polygraph test.

When the administrator asked if she’d be able to keep her work and professional lives separate, I had to laugh.

Yeah right! We all know fictional spies regularly mix business and pleasure (and, often, pain and lots of drama). That’s why we love them.

The title characters in TNT’s “Rizzoli & Isles” couldn’t be more different.

Detective Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon, “Law & Order”) is a tomboy who dresses casually, often in sensible shoes, drives a nondescript sedan and likes roughhousing with her younger brother.

Chief Medical Examiner Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander, “NCIS”) is always dressed to the nines, usually in some form of high heel, tools around town in a sleek Mustang and probably doesn’t know what roughhousing is.

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from ABC Family’s “Huge.”

Would the show, which premieres at 9 p.m. Monday and is based on a young adult novel about teens at a weight-loss camp, be uplifting? Condescending? Mean-spirited?

The answer is none of the above.

Instead, think cheesy after-school special. The action didn’t flow from scene to scene, the camera work was sloppy and almost every scene was scored with melodramatic music, whether it was called for or not.