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Just two weeks ago -- in 'Kendra' (Sun., 10PM ET on E!) episodes -- Kendra Wilkinson was relieved to hear her husband would continue playing for the Philadelphia Eagles. But pro football can be a fickle mistress.

Hank Baskett gets a call from his agent and leaves the room. He returns quietly, shoulders slumped, and sits down. "Um... I guess to make a roster move, the Eagles had to release me," he tells Kendra.

She gasps and puts her head in her hands. "You're released?" He answers, "Right now I'm a free agent." Oh, no, what will happen?

Former 'Girls Next Door' star Kendra Wilkinson is appearing on the cover of the 'Playboy' holiday issue, and has an eight-page nude pictorial in the magazine as well. But Kendra is currently married to NFL football player Hank Baskett, and has promised her husband that she wouldn't appear in any more naked photographs.

So, did Kendra go back on her word? Is her marriage in trouble? 'Lopez Tonight' (weeknights, 12AM ET on TBS) has the scoop.

It's the moment of truth for Hank Baskett, Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver and husband to Kendra Wilkinson. Will he be cut from the team? Kendra says, "He's my husband, and I want to see him happy. He deserves the best in life."

On 'Kendra' (Sun., 10PM ET on E!), Hank calls his nervous wife into the room. "The Eagles called me during the massage..." he says, pausing for the full effect.

"To say what?" prods Kendra. Hank replies: "That I made the team." Kendra is pleased but says, "Baby, you scared me ... Why'd you do that to me? My heart stopped."

On 'Kendra' (Sun., 10PM ET on E!), the 25-year-old mother says, "I eventually want to get pregnant again. If I don't do Playboy now, I probably won't be able to do Playboy ever again. You know, it's my life ... If I wanta take off my clothes, that's my decision."

Hank walks in (as the photographer says, "Do you wanta go down on your knees now?"), and Kendra attempts to appease her husband by saying, "I got Eagles colors on."

Kendra Wilkinson's infamous sex tape was released last week. Though husband Hank Baskett now says he knew of the footage with her high-school boyfriend before they got married, he clearly didn't want to talk about it on 'Kendra' (Mon., 10PM ET on E!).

"Of course we had sex, like every couple does, and every now and then we would videotape it," Kendra explained. "What don't you want to hear about?" she asked Hank. He responded, "It's just hearing things over and over."

"You married Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriend, Hank -- that's the way it [beep] is. Should have thought about that before you [beep] put the [beep] ring on my finger."

It's stripping time on 'Kendra' (Sun., 10PM ET on E!). Along with Holly Madison -- her fellow 'The Girls Next Door' alumni -- Kendra attended a "Stripper 101" class in Las Vegas. There, she helped to teach other young ladies how to exercise using stripper moves. Kendra showed her fellow classmates one of her "signature moves," which involved spreading her legs far apart and shaking her butt really quickly. Awesome.

Kendra currently has released a sex tape for which she reportedly received several hundred thousand dollars. So fake "stripping" with her clothes on must not seem like such a big deal. But in case this isn't enough, Kendra has also put her own stripper pole out on the market. It's called the "Kendra Wilkinson 'Sport Pole,'" and it costs a mere $249.99. If you don't feel that Kendra has enough money already, feel free to support her by buying the pole.

How long is too long to wait for liposuction? On 'Kendra' (Sun., 10PM ET on E!), star Kendra Wilkinson is concerned that she's gotten fat after having a baby. But it's only been four months since she gave birth. Is dramatic plastic surgery really the answer?

After a trip to the cosmetic surgery clinic, Kendra comes home convinced that liposuction is the only way to go, in order for her to get thinner. But her husband Hank Baskett is against the whole thing. So, who is acting crazy here? Kendra? Or her hubby?

On 'Kendra' (Sun., 10PM ET on E!), Kendra Wilkinson decided to set up her mom on a blind date with her friend's father. But the former Playboy model and her hubby Hank Baskett made it a double date to take some of the pressure off.

Midway through the evening at a restaurant, "They had some burlesque stripper dancer come up and tease them a little bit," which Kendra didn't think was awkward at all.

"I think the date ended up so great, ended up better than I ever dreamed of," she said. So how did things end? Watch the video to find out.

There were hugs all-around, and Hugh Hefner was practically cooing when Kendra Wilkinson and her family dropped by the Playboy Mansion on 'Kendra' (Sun., 10PM ET on E!). Wilkinson and her hubby/NFL pro Hank Baskett introduced little Hank Jr. to her infamous ex-boyfriend.

Kendra Wilkinson says she needs to go on a diet. That's what she told hubby Hank Baskett last night on 'Kendra' (Sun., 10PM ET on E!). Apparently the former Playmate -- who posed in a bikini on the cover of OK! magazine back in February, only a couple months after having a baby -- doesn't think she has a bikini-ready figure right now.

Watch the video after the jump.

Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.

This week's DVD releases should answer the question that fans of The Philanthropist might have had the past several months: "Is the show coming back for another season?" Since the set released this week is a "Complete Series" set, I'm going to say no.

I might buy the Super Friends set (I used to spell it as one word - SuperFriends - but I guess it's two). I have a lot of fond memories of watching the show when I was a kid in the 70s.

• Battlestar Galactica - Season 1 (Blu-ray)
• Big Love - Season 3
• Burn Notice - Season 1 and 2 set
• Chuck - Season 2
• Doctor Who - The Keys of Marinus and The Twin Dilemma
• Iron Man: Armored Adventures - Vol. 2
• Kendra - Season 1
• The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse - Complete Series
• The Philanthropist - Complete Series
• The Super Friends - Season 1, Vol. 1

You never think of these things until their renewal announcements come on the same day. While Spike was busy ordering up a second season of Deadliest Warrior, E! couldn't sign the papers fast enough to bring Kendra back for a sophomore run. After all, Kendra's been all over the tabloids lately with her pregnancy and Playboy Mansion wedding.

So why not mash 'em up and have Kendra represented on Deadliest Warrior. You could do "Playmates vs. Porn Stars." Both groups are offensive to my grandmother's church, but they're actually quite different. Their first weapons could be "silicon implants vs. natural breasts." Warrior is on Spike TV after all. I'm sure their target male demographic would support it.

I wonder what will happen when Deadliest Warrior starts to run out of classic warriors to pit against one another? Will we get "Weekend Warriors vs. Ninja Warriors"? Iron Chefs vs. American Idols? Wait, I think I'm on to something here. Pokemon vs. Smurfs. 100 in each camp!

'Sopranos' -- and now 'Entourage' -- star Jamie-Lynn Sigler has booked a role on 'Ugly Betty' season 4, playing Daniel's (Eric Mabius) new assistant.

Also in the news today: E! picks up 'Kendra,' while VH1 announces a new set of 'Divas.'

See more of today's top TV headlines after the jump.

Everybody knows Kendra as one of Hugh Hefner's former girlfriends. The one-time stars of E!'s The Girls Next Door have left the mansion and moved on to their own projects. Bridget Marquardt has moved on to her own Travel Channel show, Bridget's Sexiest Beaches, while Holly Madison was just on Dancing with the Stars. It looks like E! went the right route by choosing to follow the youngest and wackiest of the bunch, Kendra Wilkinson.

Her self-titled new show premiered Sunday on E!, and Kendra set a ratings high not seen since the premiere of The Anna Nicole Show in 2002 with 2.6 million viewers. People love their former Playmates, apparently. As an admitted follower of The Girls Next Door; my wife has a thing for all things Playboy and I got sucked in despite myself; Kendra was always the girl that I found the most annoying. She was so childish and superficial... and that laugh! Oh my god, that laugh made me want to reach through the screen and strangle her! So no one was more surprised than me to find that I actually enjoyed this premiere.

The heat of summer is matched only by the hot new TV shows we'll be seeing this season.

We've got the scoop on the return of familiar faces ('Nurse Jackie''s Edie Falco), the next cable hits ('Hawthorne'; 'Hung'), the new reality shows ('The Bachelorette'; 'Kendra') and more that will have everyone talking.

See all of this year's new shows in our 2009 Summer TV gallery.