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  • Big Brother 10: Live feeds report - September 4

    Filed under: OpEd, Big Brother (US)Another hamster leaves the Habitrail, otherwise known as the Big Brother 10 house, tonight. Then it will be down to the final four. Perhaps not the four we wanted or...
  • Palin speech nearly equals Obama's -- in ratings

    Filed under: News, Ratings, Reality-FreeThe Republicans have been crying foul about how the media has been unfairly going after vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. Right or wrong, all that media at...
  • Good thing 90210 is saving The CW, because Top Model sure isn't

    Filed under: Industry, Programming, OpEd, America's Next Top Model, RatingsI feel as though I've done nothing the entire week except watch The CW. When I close my eyes, I just see images of highlights...
  • Talk Talk: Aaron Eckhart, Shannen Doherty, Mike Huckabee

    Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show, Reality-FreeHere's who's on the late night talk shows tonight. Charlie Rose: TBA The Daily Show: RNC coverage The...
  • X-Files creator hospitalized

    Filed under: Celebrities, The X-Files, Reality-FreeThe X-Files creator Chris Carter has been hospitalized for exhaustion. This was brought on by "physical exhaustion and an acute sleeping disorder."Th...
  • Case #16: Lisa Klink

    Interview by Rae Hanson for RamblingsofaTVWhore.com When Lisa Klink approached us about being adopted, I jumped on the chance to interview her. Not only am I a huge fan of Lisa’s TV credits (Sta...
  • Case #15: Joel Metzger

    Interview by Juliana Weiss for PinkRayGun.com Pink Raygun is a parent! We’ve adopted our first writer through “Adopt a Writer,” a program organized by entertainment bloggers in support o...
  • Case #14: Peter Murrieta

    Interview by Travis for The CineManiac (conducted in February 2008) Peter Murrieta’s writing career began in college when a professor recognized his gift for humor and introduced him to a Comedy...
  • Adopt a Writer Update

    The organizers of Adopt A Writer would like to thank all the writers who allowed us to interview them for this project. We truly enjoyed getting to know them and telling their stories and while we wou...
  • Case #13: David Leaf

    Interview by Jo for Jopinionated As someone who loves and works with music, I was tremendously honored and excited to be given the opportunity to interview David Leaf. As I prepared to speak with this...
  • Re-Branding the Old Elephant

    Apparently the leadership of the Republican Party thinks voters are turned off by specifics, and so Sen. John McCain's acceptance speech as its presidential nominee last night was a hodgepodge of gene...
  • She Shoots! She Scores! A Hockey Mom's Moment

    If the Republicans win the presidential election in November, it may well be said that they won it last night -- the night that John McCain's brilliantly screwy choice for a running mate changed from...
  • 'Raising the Bar': Bochco's New Case Has Limited Merit

    Steven Bochco has been playing cops-and-lawyers on television for longer than many current viewers have been alive. His latest series, "Raising the Bar," isn't just another Bochco effort but a veritab...
  • A Big Moment for the Small Screen

    Television convened the nation last night, as it does for rare momentous occasions, as presidential candidate Barack Obama brought the Democratic National Convention to a rousing, cheering conclusion...
  • Basking in The Glow

    We're earthbound again. The law of gravity is back in effect. But for a grand last delirious moment, people went spinning, sailing and shooting into the air again amid otherworldly swirls of splendor.
  • Rhys & Getty's Not-So-Brotherly Love

    Sienna Miller may not be on Brothers & Sisters, but that doesn't mean she's not stirring up some problems for the hit ABC drama. I'm hearing that Balthazar Getty and...
  • Anthony Edwards Checks Back Into ER

    NBC is bringing out the big guns for its 15th and final season of ER. The big, nostalgia-laden, tear-inducing guns. E! News has confirmed that original ER castmember Anthony Edwards, who...
  • Deal Sheet: Frankenstein, Jekyll, Tarzan Resurrected

    As if Hellboy and Hobbits weren't enough to keep him off the streets, Guillermo del Toro has literally scared up some more work. The fantastical filmmaker has been tapped by...
  • Animator of Peanuts, Pinocchio, Porky Passes On

    Bill Melendez helped one of the most expressive characters of all time get the point across, no words necessary. The Mexican-born animator who voiced Snoopy's howls and sighs and was...
  • Mazar and the Palins' Teen Mom Common Bond

    Debi Mazar definitely doesn't want to see Sarah Palin as our next vice president, but that doesn't mean the Entourage star doesn't support her in some way. Mazar knows all...
  • 'Big Brother' recap: Senior moments

    By Josh Wolk Though he's the only one left who's not in an alliance, Jerry wins HOH and ends up in the final four—but that's about the only thing that works out for him this week...
  • 2008 Emmys: Predict the winners!

    Think your Emmy crystal ball is better than Michael Ausiello's? See how your picks stack up against his!
  • 'Gossip Girl': Four rumors

    By Tim Stack Parents hate it. Teens want to live it. The real deal about the sexy show people can't stop buzzing about...
  • 39 HBO series that changed TV

    By Marc Bernardin With ''Entourage'' and ''True Blood'' premiering this Sunday, we look back at the shows that put the pay-cable network on the map -- like ''The Sopranos,'' ''Sex and the City,'' an...
  • 'Beverly Hills, 90210': Old-school Must List!

    The Peach Pit gang lead the countdown of gems that YOU -- and EW staff -- are loving this week...
  • True Blood reviewed.

    Geography being destiny, those preoccupied with the plight of the sanguivorous undead should perk up at the sight True Blood (HBO, Sundays at 9 p.m. ET). Too often have vampires been stranded in draft...
  • Sarah Palin spends quality time with her family on a seaplane.

    Her politics combine an outdoorsy libertarian bent with rigorous fundamentalism in a way that happens to creep me out, and yet I must concede that Madame Gov. Palin makes a charming first impression.
  • Watching Hurricane Gustav on television.

    Around 10 a.m. ET on Monday, CNN meteorologist Chad Myers announced that the city of Houma, not New Orleans, would be getting the brunt of Hurricane Gustav's wind and rain. On the other side of the sc...
  • The new season of Gossip Girl reviewed.

    To repeat one of the most pressing questions of our era: Who is Gossip Girl (the CW, Mondays at 9 p.m. ET)? People who like TV but do not watch Josh Schwarz's teensploitation soap (that is, most peopl...
  • The warm media bath of the Democratic Convention.

    Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich last shared a byline in the summer of 1992, a time when it was novel to report on the party conventions as scripted spectacle. "Meticulous Kabuki dramas," they called them...
  • So how many people watch online TV?

    Nearly one-fifth of Americans connected to the internet, finds a new study. That number is double the last time the study was conducted two years ago. “”Being able to watch broadcasts on...
  • Local gets one-tenth of Obama online ad spend

    Out of $5 million in online ad spending so far this year, the Obama campaign has spent just over $3 million on Google and $618,005 on Yahoo. So how did local media fare? $512,551 was spent through C...
  • NBCSports.com to stream first NFL game

    Tonight’s first regular season NFL game will be broadcast on NBC as well as streamed live on NBCSports.com. You can select from four different camera angles, track live stats, submit questions...
  • New WSJ.com is on the way

    A revamped Wall Street Journal will hit the Internets on Sept. 16th. Not a ton of details to be found, except a brief blurb from the AP that says the site will make access to free content easier and i...
  • Amazon streams TV shows, movies

    First there was Amazon Unbox, the downloading service, and now there’s Amazon Video on Demand, offering streams of your favorite TV shows and movies. Unlike Hulu, most of the videos aren’...
  • Fox News scores with Palin speech

    The huge television audience that checked out Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech Wednesday night -- a staggering 37 million people -- translated into major dividends for Fox News. Nearly a quarter of...
  • Fox News wins Tuesday night's Republican National Convention coverage

    After CNN dominated coverage of the Democratic National Convention last week, Fox News regained the upper hand Tuesday night when the Republicans took the stage, drawing a bigger audience than any of...
  • 'Project Runway': Divine Diane

    Some of the claws came out tonight, and it wasn't from the usual suspects. We've all seen Stella, Korto Momolu and Terri Stevens get snippy on "Project Runway," but I would never hav...
  • 'America's Next Top Model': The notorious fierce fourteen

    The return of "America's Next Top Model" is like the return of fall (or summer, or winter or spring): inevitable, and with some, but not much, variation. The beginning is always the most...
  • '90210' premiere ratings score for the CW

    To build anticipation for its new spin-off of the teen soap “Beverly Hills, 90210,” the CW kept a tight lid on preview copies and rolled out the show right after Labor Day, on a night with light c...
  • TV review: 'True Blood'

    RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) True Blood: Drama. 9 p.m. Sundays on HBO. There are several obvious things the new HBO vampire series "True Blood" has going for it. One, it's about vampires. Two, it's from...
  • 'Sons of Anarchy': overdue biker series on FX

    Stories about biker clubs have been almost exclusively in the domain of feature films. That television has finally crafted a real gem around the archetype of outlaw loners is less a surprise than a lo...
  • TV review: 'The Shield' changed basic cable

    RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE)The Shield. Drama. 10 p.m. Tuesdays on FX. A few episodes into the final season of "The Shield" - one of television's finest achievements and a game-changer in the cop genre - D...
  • TV review: TNT's 'Bar' looks a bit too familiar

    RATING: (ALERT VIEWER)Raising the Bar: Drama. 10 p.m. Mondays on TNT. Steven Bochco has been making shows about the justice system for so long that he was asked, in preparation for his latest legal se...
  • Political conventions end ... whew! What an overdose!

    Are you ready for some crime dramas and comedies? Boy, I sure am. After three weeks of Olympics, followed by two weeks of political conventions, I’m ready to catch up on “Mad Men,”...
  • RNC: Sarah Palin strikes ratings gold

    Alaska’s Gov. Sarah Palin is ratings gold! The Republican’s veep nominee attracted 37,244,000 viewers on Wednesday night, according to Nielsen Media Research. That’s 13 million mo...
  • Palin sparks TV fire for Republicans

    Is there any way at all that John McCain’s acceptance speech tonight can top the drama and frenzy that surrounded last night’s appearance by Sarah Palin? Absolutely not. McCain has manage...
  • Secret pilot for '90210' finally debuted!

    Today’s guest blog about last night’s premiere of “90210” comes from our design writer Melanie Spencer. She was drafted for this entry because of her status as a former fan of...
  • 'The Shield' begins final season tonight on FX

    While the broadcast networks are trolling for news from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul tonight, FX launches the final season of its ground-breaking cop drama “The Shield” a...
  • Another 'Project' for Bravo

    Celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe and many of her famous--and well-dressed-- friends kicked off New York Fashion Week with the launch party for her new show on Bravo, "The Rachel Zoe Project." It...
  • Starr Report: Cable news

    Nancy Grace (Headline News) snared her biggest numbers ever Tuesday - 611,000 viewers at 8 p.m. The last two episodes of AMC's "Mad Men" (Aug. 24, 31) have rallied - averaging roughly 1.5 mi...
  • DVF Revives High Fashion on 'Runway'

    Cheers – it’s time for an actual “let’s-make-fashion” challenge! No bustiers made of carseats or tablecloth gowns! This episode was high on fashion, low on distraction. It’s the morning af...
  • Starr Report: Legal Ease

    I don't know what they're doing over there at TNT - but they're definitely doing something right. Monday's premiere of TNT's new legal drama, "Raising the Bar," snared 7.7 million viewers -...
  • 'GG' Jitneys to the Hamptons

    You’ve seen those ads, and let’s admit it – they were hawt. Everyone’s favorite Monday night fictionalized tawdry smut is back - “Gossip Girl” has returned! We open Season 2 in true "...
  • Chicago's Sharaun won't be 'America's Next Top Model'

    Updated at 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4; Originally posted at 9:05 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3 THE LOCATION of the Chicago "Top Model" casting call on Sept. 6 has been changed to the Hyatt Regency McCormick P...
  • 'Sons of Anarchy' a violent, entertaining ride

    Posted at 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3 Ron Perlman (left) and Charlie Hunnam star in "Sons of Anarchy." Vic Mackey, Tommy Gavin, Christian Troy, meet Jackson “Jax” Teller. With the lead character...
  • 'Bones' begins in London; Will it end with Booth, Brennan in bed?

    Posted at 11 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2 Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan and FBI agent Seeley Booth have only shared a Christmas kiss under the mistletoe. But in the show’s fourth season, begin...
  • Top 10 badass TV cops: Vic Mackey leads the way

    Posted at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2 TV’s most corrupt cop, Det. Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis, above), is back on the job Tuesday in the final season of FX’s “The Shield.” Mackey has killed cri...
  • 'Raising the Bar' lowers bar for cable dramas

    Posted at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 1 Nothing says young idealist like long hair and schlumpy clothes. Just ask the costume designers for TV’s latest been-there, done-that legal drama, "Raising the Ba...
  • Prison Break - The Gang's All Here

    Scylla: Michael reluctantly gets the gang back together. It's better than jail time.
  • Mad Men - Much Nothing About Ado

    Maidenform: Well, I didn't know how else to convey that while it seems like nothing happened, a lot actually did. But mostly, women are objectified, and Don realizes that he may not want to play that...
  • Big Brother - Not So Big, Not So Easy

    Lost in Translation: After sending Renny to the jury house, Dan and the other three remaining players return to a living room that has a clue in it. Unfortunately the clue is under a sumo wrestler's a...
  • Sons of Anarchy - Fall Pilot Season: Sons of Anarchy

    Sons of Anarchy Premiere: Get our in-depth review of the series premiere of the FX drama Sons of Anarchy.
  • America's Got Talent - Cut the Cheese

    Season 3 Episode 10 B: It’s a grab bag of talent tonight when the last ten competitors vie for a spot in the Top 20. While a pair of violin-wielding brothers steal the show, little Kaitlyn steals ou...
  • Top Design: On Edge...
    Everyone's on edge as they anxiously finish up and wait for the judges.Added: September 05, 2008Air date: September 03, 2008Duration: 01:58...
  • Top Design: Decorating Bootcamp...
    The designers are put through the ringer as they struggle to complete this challenge.Added: September 05, 2008Air date: September 03, 2008Duration: 02:02...
  • The Biggest Loser: Ed's Struggle...
    Bob pushes Ed to his limits.Added: September 05, 2008Duration: 01:02...
  • The Biggest Loser: Bad News...
    Dr. H delivers some bad news to the red team.Added: September 05, 2008Duration: 02:22...
  • The Biggest Loser: Jillian's Announcement...
    Jillian is looking for her grey team.Added: September 05, 2008Duration: 01:51...
  • The Biggest Loser: Jillian's Back...
    Jillian is back and looking for a change.Added: September 05, 2008Duration: 02:16...
  • 19% of U.S. Households Watch Online TV

    Probably one of the most important benchmarks for online video, in my opinion, was the study conducted by TNS and the Conference Board last year that found 16 percent of American Internet households w...
  • NFL Kicks Off Online Streaming Tonight

    Are you ready for some (online) football?! A web video party? Then head on over to NBCSports.com to check out the NFL’s first live-streaming game of the season, as the defending Super Bowl champ...
  • IKEA Assembles a Web Series

    "Easy to Assemble" created by Illeana Douglas, will feature appearances by Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley Jr. and Justine Bateman.
  • Legend of Neil, Political Remixes: NTV Station Today

    We covered Legend of Neil after the release of episode 3, and three weeks later it’s delightful to be able to report that the series never lost its flair for NSFW gamer comedy. The final instal...
  • Vid-Biz: CNBC, Abu Dhabi, Entourage

    CNBC Links Up With LinkedIn; the cable news channel will incorporate community-generated content such as survey results and on-air Q&As into its coverage. (LinkedIn) Abu Dhabi Media Company to Sh...
  • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 (s13 | e112)...
    Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich joins Jon as he hosts from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.Added: September 04, 2008Air date: September 03, 2008Duration: 21:38Ratin...
  • Bones: Yanks in the U.K. (s4 | e1)...
    Brennan and Booth travel from D.C. to London for Brennan to guest-lecture at Oxford University and for Booth to speak at Scotland Yard.Added: September 05, 2008Air date: September 03, 2008Duration: 1:...
  • The Colbert Report: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 (s4 | e112)...
    Stephen welcomes presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.Added: September 04, 2008Air date: September 03, 2008Duration: 21:44Rating: 4.8 / 5.0...
  • The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 (s13 | e111)...
    Jon kicks off his week of broadcasting from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.Added: September 03, 2008Air date: September 02, 2008Duration: 21:39Rating: 4.6 / 5.0...
  • NBC TODAY Show: Palin Speech Pumps Up GOP...
    Sept. 4: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivers a strongly worded convention keynote, taking fierce jabs at opponent Barack Obama and firing up Republicans. TODAY’s Meredith Vieira reports.Added: Septembe...
  • The Colbert Report: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 (s4 | e111)...
    Stephen welcomes Laura D'Andrea Tyson, former National Economic Adviser to President Clinton.Added: September 03, 2008Air date: September 02, 2008Duration: 21:42Rating: 4.7 / 5.0...
  • Showrunner shops for 'Mad' money

    TV News: Matthew Weiner makes rounds to studios -- How much is all the buzz about "Mad Men" worth in Hollywood dollars? Matthew Weiner is about to find out.
  • Romano steps into 'Avenue Q'

    Legit News: Her stint kicks off September 29 -- Christy Carlson Romano steps into "Avenue Q" later this month, playing the puppet roles of Kate Monster and Lucy, both originated by Stephanie D'Abruzzo...
  • Cosmedia names Tse CEO

    Web Exclusive: Appointment is effective August 28 -- Anthony Tse has been appointed new Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong's Cosmedia Group, effective from the 28th of August 2008.
  • Tecmo rejects Square merger bid

    Web Exclusive: Game developer starts talks with Koei -- Game developer Tecmo has rejected a friendly take-over bid from game giant Square Enix, Tecmo announced on Thursday.
  • T-Pain named songwriter of the year

    Music News: BMI hands out Urban Awards -- T-Pain received the songwriter of the year award and shared the title of producer of the year with Jonathan "J.R." Rotem and Kanye West at BMI's Urban Awards,...

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