• Those tart-tongued terrors of kudosfest fashion, Joan and Melissa Rivers, are back. After exiting E! and TV Guide Channel, those rascally gals have done fashion punditry on line for VH1 and AOL. Now they're signed up to dish Emmywear for MyHollywood.com. A five-minute webisode can be seen at the site soon after the Emmycast begins on Sunday night. It'll include their barbs on best- and worst-dressed stars plus an "Ooooh! Shoe Review" linked to online shoe retailer Zappos.com. READ MORE

• Emmy-nominated writers of "Mad Men" (Matthew Weiner, Robin Veith), "Pushing Daisies" (Bryan Fuller), "Recount" (Danny Strong) and "John Adams" (Kirk Ellis) shared behind-the-scenes tattle on their TV shows during a panel chat at the Writers Guild of America headquarters in L.A. the other day. Revealed: what inspired the pigeon-shooting scene on "Mad Men" and the fact that it took poor Ellis longer to write "John Adams" than the tenure of our second U.S. president. Cynthia Littleton of Variety.com reports the dish HERE.

• It's obviously all in fun, but fists flew and so did a few studio chairs when Jimmy Kimmel asked the five cohosts of the Emmycast how much money they're getting for their emcee duties. More of the interview can be seen on Kimmel's pre-show airing at 7 p.m. ET on Sunday. (Yes, hosts of award shows do get paid, but dollar sums are always kept hush-hush.)

(MyHollywood.com, ABC)