LOST wraps up the regular TV season tonight with a top-secret two-hour finale that nevertheless reportedly has been leaked to the Internet. Despite the best efforts of the-powers-that-be, a beat-by-beat breakdown apparently was posted on at least one Web site. I have zealously avoided spoiling myself, so I do not know if what was posted is accurate. Nevertheless, hearing about the leak got me thinking about spoilers and the lengths some producers go to in order to fight them — or not. Consider this conversation I had with HOUSE creator David Shore.

This is hardly a new revelation, but I'll say it again: Sam Bennett wins the prize of being the most clueless cop ever! During his brief visit to the hospital (to question Sheridan about being pushed over a waterfall by Vincent), Alistair was shot and killed, Viki stabbed Ivy with a syringe, and Vincent (whom Sheridan revealed is alive) was right there in the hospital in Valerie mode.

WOW! That's all I can say after catching up on a week's worth of DAYS over the weekend.

Okay, I'll admit that the main reason I tuned in to the season finale of UGLY BETTY was to scope out celebrity train wreck Lindsay Lohan (ex-Alli, ANOTHER WORLD), and my curiosity was rewarded almost immediately. There's LiLo right at the top of the show, playing Kimberly, a high school classmate of Betty's, in a flashback to 1999 (wait — what is this, LOST?). Betty is recalling what happened to her in gym class during one of those infamous dodgeball games that seems to have irrevocably scarred every writer in Hollywood. Gee, I wonder if Lindsay is playing a mean girl? Kimberly selected Betty for her team — to serve as a human shield. So, yes, she's playing a mean girl. Hmmm, that was a short segment. Surely there will be more of her…