Survivor: Fiji began with controversy when the Moto tribe won the luxury beach while the Ravu tribe had virtually nothing. So it is only fitting that the Survivor: Fiji finale end in the same way it began, with major controversy. But we'll get to that in a moment.

First, a quick recap. As of May 3, we are down to the final six: Boo, Cassandra, Dreamz, Earl, Stacy and Yau-Man.

Now, as the game enters the "every person for himself" phase, Yau-Man and Earl seem to have the most solid alliance, which puts them in a very good position, and it appears that Earl is calling the shots.

Thanks to Mookie's snooping (and, consequently, being voted off), everybody knows that Yau-Man has one of the immunity idols. This could put him in a vulnerable spot because the longer he's allowed to hold onto it, the safer he becomes. This won't sit well with the others, especially considering how likable Yau-Man is and how hard it would be to defeat him at the final vote. I can tell you that at least one more idol gets played at Tribal Council, and it will have an impact. Plus, there is still another idol hidden somewhere at camp, and its discovery could dramatically change the power structure.

Cassandra is in a good position because of her relationships with Earl and Dreamz, which could make her a swing vote if alliances shift. Relationships are the only thing that have kept her in this game, since she hasn't performed well at the challenges or contributed much around camp.

Stacy is also in a good position, because, for whatever reason, she is one of the least liked, and everybody believes they could beat her in a final vote. The truth hurts, but it's a brutal game.

Boo is on the outside. I thought he would be one of the likable heroes this season, but once again I was wrong. Boo has managed to stay in the game longer than expected and now that could backfire, as he's one of the strongest physical competitors left. It's always risky leaving a guy like him in because he could dominate the individual challenges and win his way to the end.

Dreamz is without a doubt the biggest wild card. Survivor has never seen someone play the game this way. Dreamz is playing both sides with reckless abandon. He cannot be trusted and yet people keep telling him everything. Like him or not, you have to give him credit for creating complete instability, and he seems to be benefiting from it greatly. At this point, even I am unclear if Dreamz just "doesn't get it" or is simply playing a very masterful game. That question will be answered in these last few days on the island.

Now to the controversy. It starts in the May 10 episode, and it involves the car-reward challenge — aka the "car-curse challenge." A complex and significant negotiation that involves every player left in the game takes place there. The ramifications of this negotiation will be felt until the final votes are cast and revealed on Sunday.

Ravenous, twitchy and bloodthirsty zombies versus faux-grungy rag-doll draggers? Sure enough, the Others have nothing on the "infected" folk who first wreaked havoc in 2002's 28 Days Later and are now hungry to decimate humanity even further in 28 Weeks Later. Picking up (you guessed it) several months after the first film, the sequel primarily tails two stalwart kids as the sins of the father... well, you know how the saying goes. Playing an integral role in the U.S. army's bid to nip this new outbreak in the bud is Harold Perrineau, best know to TV fans for his stints on Oz and then Lost. Perrineau rang us earlier this week to discuss his whirlybird heroics, his devilish CBS pilot, and the fate of onetime castaways Michael and Walt.

TVGuide.com: I almost literally just walked in from the 28 Weeks Later screening.Harold Perrineau: Did you really? Right on, right on. What did you think?

TVGuide.com: Pretty intense stuff! I had to cover my eyes on more than one occasion.Perrineau: [Laughs] It is intense.

TVGuide.com: So we last saw you on a scrappy fishing boat, and here you resurface on a bad-ass military helicopter, eh?Perrineau: Exactly. That's what happened to Michael. He left the island to join the military! [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: Were you a fan of 28 Days Later, or that sort of fare?Perrineau: Not that type of film, but that film in particular, yeah. I was a big fan of [director] Danny Boyle and [producer] Andrew McDonald and all those guys who work up at DNA [Films].... I saw that first one and was like, "Wow, that was really good and really smart." So when the opportunity came up to be a part of the second one, I was right there. My hand's up, like, "Hey, count me in."

TVGuide.com: Many people saw the original to be some AIDS or SARS parable. Would you say the follow-up is in that same vein? Or are we more about occupation of foreign territories this time, that sort of thing?Perrineau: It's entertainment, and while none of it is meaning to make a political statement, it is a part of our collective consciousness. SARS, all of those things, as well as war and occupation, those are really, really real, and that makes the movie more scary because we are already thinking about those things. That makes it all the more plausible, which makes it all the more frightening.

TVGuide.com: There's a scene where your character does some serious damage to a raging mob with a nifty aerial maneuver. Were you actually in the chopper for any of that, or was it all second-unit coverage?Perrineau: No, no, that's me in the 'copter. One of the things that [director] Juan Carlos [Fresnadillo] was really serious about is he wanted to not use green screen or any of that stuff. So I got there, I started taking helicopter-flying lessons so it would look like I knew what I was doing, and they put a pilot right next to me dressed all in black so that eventually they could digitally remove him. He did all those amazing maneuvers, and those people were really trusting, in that we actually had to fly over them....

TVGuide.com: So if you ever need to commandeer a helicopter....Perrineau: [Laughs] Yeah, I at least know how to get it going!

TVGuide.com: Having now seen both films, I wonder how they got Britain to look so desolate. Are they shooting at, like, 5 am?Perrineau: Exactly. A lot of that stuff takes place on a Sunday morning at 4, 5 am, and there are not a lot of people on the streets because they've all been at the pub the night before. [Laughs] So they throw some more debris on the streets, and shoot it. It was guerrilla filmmaking because it was like, "Let's get the shooting before people wake up and get out."

TVGuide.com: It reminds me of that scene in Vanilla Sky, as in, how did they get Times Square so empty?Perrineau: Right, right. That's exactly it. They also use special cameras to take more light in, if it's too early.

TVGuide.com: What's the current buzz on your CBS pilot, Demons? It has a pretty decent pedigree, since it was created by Barbara Hall (Joan of Arcadia). Perrineau: It's got a really great pedigree, but there is no word [on its status]. The network is holding it really close to the vest, not saying anything. I should hear something this week, because the upfronts are coming.

TVGuide.com: You're playing the best bud of Ron Eldard's exorcism-performing Jesuit priest?Perrineau: Yes, I'm his friend who came up with him in seminary, so I'm a priest who doesn't necessarily believe in his work as an exorcist. They have a consultant who has, like, over 1,000 video-documented exorcisms that he performed, so I think it would be interesting to start doing some of that stuff. Not actually performing exorcisms, but.... [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: But with that said, what would be the tone of the series? Dark, eerie, lighter moments...?Perrineau: What Barbara Hall is great at is writing these really fantastic characters, people in conflict — especially in conflict with their spiritual lives and their normal, walking-around lives. So I think it will have dark moments and scary moments, but it will also have lighter moments where people are just being people trying to figure it out.

TVGuide.com: Watching 28 Weeks Later, I kept thinking that the Others on Lost have nothing – nothing – on "the infected."Perrineau: [Laughs] They really don't! The Others are quick and they hide in the shadows, but the infected are really gnarly. Not at all like the old-school zombies that would just lumber around.

TVGuide.com: Have you and Malcolm David Kelley (Walt) kept tabs on Lost since leaving the show?Perrineau: We have been keeping tabs. We have been in talks lately about whether those characters are going to come back. At least we've been expressing our [desire] to come back to it. With Demons and other things all in the mix, we'll find out really soon whether that's going to be a possibility or not.

TVGuide.com: There were rumblings recently that Michael and Walt might resurface in the upcoming season finale.Perrineau: Right. As it stands... well, here I am! I would tell you, but....

TVGuide.com: What's your take on the just-announced plan to wrap up Lost with three, 16-episode seasons?Perrineau: It's a great idea because it gives Lost a chance to tell the story it wants to tell without it becoming cliché.... It gives them a chance to always keep them wanting more, and hopefully that's what will happen, and at the end of it people will have gone on this really fantastic ride for six seasons.

TVGuide.com: [Executive producers] Damon [Lindelof] and Carlton [Cuse] have said that now they can really map this thing out, and lay out all the puzzle pieces.Perrineau: Right, so you don't walk away feeling unfulfilled. I know that was really important to them, which is why I think for sure we will find out more about Michael and Walt at some point.

TVGuide.com: When I reported that Las Vegas' James Lesure is a guest star in Lost's season finale, one of my blog readers joked, "As who, Walt?"Perrineau: [Laughs] How interesting, because that other girl [Vegas alumna Marsha Thomason] is on the show now. Hey, maybe James Caan is going to show up on the island as one of the Others?

TVGuide.com: What is Malcolm David Kelley up to these days?Perrineau: I haven't seen him, but we talk every once in a while. Just a few days ago he and my daughter were talking on MySpace....

TVGuide.com: Is he like 5-foot-6 now and shaving?Perrineau: He's shaving, his voice is deeper, and I think he's getting married now! [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: Aside from Demons, what's next for you?Perrineau: Got a couple more movies in the can. One called Your Name Here, which is loosely based on [sci-fi author] Philip K. Dick, and there's this dark movie called In the Gardens of the Night, about kids who go missing. It's really dark and a little heavy.

TVGuide.com: But probably not "28 Months Later" — though they do sort of leave it open....Perrineau: [Laughs] They leave it open, but that's not in the cards so far!

What did TVGuide.com film critic Maitland McDonagh think of 28 Weeks Later? Read her review here.

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When compared to good ol' Michael Bluth, the character Jason Bateman plays in The Ex (a comedy hitting theaters today) is a real... stinker. The creative whiz at a small ad agency, Chip Sanders licks his chops when his high-school flame (Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip's Amanda Peet) returns to town with her smart-mouthed husband (Scrubs' Zach Braff) in tow. That's right, Bateman, Braff and Peet, the veritable Underappreciated TV Show All-star Team — minus, of course, Nathan Fillion.

Soon the stage is set for Bateman-versus-Braff imbroglios, with the former trying to usurp the latter, and win back the girl. Oh, and did I mention that Chip plays on everyone's sympathies — and purposely makes Braff's alter ego look b-a-d bad — by the fact that he uses a wheelchair? Yeah, there's a word for Chip, and it certainly isn't printable here.

Surveying what could have been, in the hands of a lesser actor, a most unlikable character — if not the most unscrupulous sort he has played since It's Your Move — Bateman tells TVGuide.com, "I like playing the bad guy." Expounding on the thought, he says, "Usually when bad guys are written, the redeeming qualities are somewhat hidden, and that becomes fun to play — to gibe you the boring 'actor' part of the answer." Then, factor in Chip's paraplegic state, and "he gets away with a bit more," says Bateman. "He seems to be the kind of guy who is taking advantage of that and reveling in that, which makes him even worse. So yeah, he's a fun character. I liked him a lot."

Presenting moments in the Farrelly brothers style as it does, The Ex at one point sends Chip — poor, poor Chip — tumbling, helplessly, down a flight of stairs. But fear not for Bateman, who left that fall, as well as an extended fight with Braff, to the pros. "A comedy fight becomes a comedy fight when it gets kind of heightened and silly, and that sometimes leads to injury,:" he notes with a laugh. "A dramatic fight goes a bit slower and us pansy actors can do stunts like that, but when you want to be flopping around like a fish on the ground, it's best to have your stunt guy. You actually take money out of [stuntpeople's] pockets by catering to your ego, so I sit on the sideline."

The Ex is but one of several films in the pipeline for Bateman, who has not exactly lacked for employment since Arrested Development's unfortunate and fan-protested demise. In September, he has a role in the war drama The Kingdom; come November, he appears in the family-fantasy Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium; and on tap for the summer 2008 blockbuster season is Tonight, He Comes, a sci-fi tale in which he plays the publicist for Will Smith's superhero. "Many, many people did not watch Arrested Development, but the few who did are handing out some nice jobs in L.A.," Bateman says of his good fortune. "So I'm trying to keep that going, because careers are slippery little things."

And as for someday returning to the smaller screen? "I like the steady work of a [TV] series," he says, "and I like the 'in town' of a series. If you're doing really well in movies, you're not at home, whereas in television you can be doing really, really well and still sleep in your bed at night." That said, the actor says with a wink, "I think I've pretty much worn out my welcome in television — I had been there a wee bit too long five years ago — so I'm enjoying a bit of access to movies now, and I'll see where that takes me. I'll try not to screw it up!"

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