Lights, camera, action. This Tuesday, WikiLeaks founder and hacker superstar, Julian Assange, will premiere his new show, "The World Tomorrow," on the Russian government's satellite channel, Russia Today. It will be broadcasted online and on air in English, Spanish and Arabic - three of the most widely spoken languages in the world - and is sure to piss off the top echelons of governments across the globe.

The promotion above, released internationally Friday, is a snippet of what's to come the most authority-hated, pursued man in the world. And, boy, does it look interesting.

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When Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi started writing the offbeat Nickelodeon show The Adventures of Pete and Pete in the early nineties, they didn't really know what they were doing. Much less did they expect that 17 years later, the quirky experiment in children's programming would amount to three sold-out cast reunions backed by a sizeable cult following of grown-up nineties kids on a nostalgia kick.

The cast and crew of the whimsical tribute to suburban youth greeted a packed auditorium last night at the Bowery Ballroom. The audience was peppered with smartphone-toting twenty-somethings donning flannel and thick-rimmed glasses -- characteristic nineties traits recycled into hipster stereotypes.

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Lucy Cooke may have one of the best jobs on the entire planet. She's a documentarian, a sloth documentarian; you've probably seen her work in the happiness-producing "Meet the Sloths," her video about the Aviaros sloth sanctuary in Costa Rica. Animal Planet has realized her talents (and the great power of sloths) and will air an hour-long documentary called Too Cute! Baby Sloths this Saturday at 8 p.m. The trailer is above. Set your DVRs now.

We got in touch with Cooke, who is also writing a book called The Little Book of Sloth, to ask her a few questions about our possibly most favorite animal, aside from the slow loris. Our Q&A, after the jump. Happy Friday.

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Americans may be fatter than ever, and getting fatter, but it's not because we're sitting in front of the TV with our Doritos. Instead, we're sitting in front of our computer with our Doritos. So there. Nielsen Media's latest survey reports a drop in the number of American households with television sets -- that number "is likely to fall" from 115.9 million homes this year to 114.7 million homes next year. Granted, 114.7 million TVs is still quite a few, but nonetheless! This is progress, of a sort, particularly considering that the overall number of households (and people in them, individually speaking) continues to grow.

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Last night, the gallery world's Top Chef eliminated our man Sucklord, the Chinatown-based bootleg toymaker we splashed on the Village Voice cover in September. Throughout the course of the first six episodes, the Sucklord was the reality competition's clear breakout personality: the Sucklord got the most airtime, the most character development, the most massaged subplots, the most televised quotes about "balls," and even a chance to spraypaint China Chow's (clothed) breasts.

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BRAVO

Tewz on Work of Art

One of the more intriguing aspects of Work of Art, the BRAVO reality show we've been following, is that the show's producers chose a handful of cast members who'd already had a presence in the world, whose self-propelled careers could exist apart from the reality-television lens. Along with Sucklord, who's semi-miraculously managed to survive four rounds, there's also Tewz 1, an accomplished street artist, painter, musician, urban explorer, printmaker (and a lot more) from Chicago whose work tends to get lumped into the lowbrow-art genre. Last week's episode saw Tewz's dismissal from the contest, along with Sucklord emotionally defending his pal's piece before the judge firing squad. (In true Sucklish: "I think this thing has balls!") We spoke with Tewz about making a friend cry, his pal Sucklord, and how Work of Art was a little like jail.

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Jazz-Minh Moore

The fourth episode of BRAVO's Work of Art airs tonight and miraculously, our favorite contestants, Sucklord and Michelle, are still in the competition. Michelle didn't do so well with her Coke Zero tribute in last week's pop-art challenge, but the official casualties were artist Leon Lim and Manhattan-based painter Jazz-Minh Moore. (Previous cast-offs were Brooklyn photographer Kathryn Parker Almanas and West Coast artist Ugo Nonis.) Sucklord accidentally spilled paint on Jazz-Minh's self-portrait diptych, yet she claimed to love the effect--but then got eliminated for the piece. Did she secretly blame him? Is she tired of everybody making fun of her name's spelling? Was she really bad at translating pop culture because of her hippie upbringing? No, no, no, and you'll just have to read the rest.

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Kathryn Parker Almanas's Work of Art self-portrait

Hey, so that BRAVO Work of Art reality show we told you about again and again and again is still on the air. Only two episodes in and you already forgot? Well, the third episode airs tonight at 9pm. Last week's installment featured the untimely departure of Brooklyn-based artist Kathryn Parker Almanas, the second contestant eliminated after Ugo Nonis, who became ill during filming. We spoke with the Yale grad about her health issues, photographing placenta, and what it was like to see herself sob on national television. (Spoiler alert: It was "intense.")

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Bryan, a star of 'True Life: I'm Occupying Wall Street'

Last week we confirmed that MTV's Real World is looking for Occupy Wall Street protesters to be on season 27. But that's not all: MTV is also coming out with an episode of True Life starring Occupy Wall Street protesters, as New York Times reporter Brian Stelter confirmed today. It focuses on protesters Kait, Caitlin, and Bryan, a member of the Sanitation working group we profiled last week who is also the star of the first promo MTV has already put out:

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Ugo goes bye-bye

Last week on the season premiere of the BRAVO reality show Work of Art, the first contestant eliminated was Ugo Nonis, a tall, dark, and handsome Frenchman whose thick-lined pop-art squiggles the judges' repeatedly derided as aping Keith Haring. "They say good artists borrow and great artists steal," offered gallery owner Bill Powers. "This feels like something borrowed." Tonight, the second episode airs at 9pm, and stars Voice cover subjects Sucklord and Michelle Matson.

We spoke to Ugo about what it was like to be the first man eliminated, the Keith Haring comparisons, and his roommate Sucklord.

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