What do you get when you combine the director of Wedding Crashers, the writers of 500 Days of Summer, and the producers of Arrested Development? What sounds like a kick-ass show: Friends with Benefits, which NBC has just picked up…
The subways are filled with ads promoting PBS’ new four-part documentary series Faces of America, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as a spin-off of sorts of his successful African-American Lives series. This time, however, the subjects are a number…
The late night controversy is finally ending as Conan O’Brien made a deal with NBC to leave for 45 million dollars. Variety reports that in the deal, “O’Brien will get more than $33 million. The rest will go to his…
With all of the drama happening at NBC over The Tonight Show and figuring out what to do with Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien, I think we should take a moment and celebrate WHY we love Conan rather than just…
Ology partner The Spielster has compiled a fascinating post about the Leno/Conan debacle, looking at the reactions of his talk-show-host colleagues as opposed to the contract dramas. She’s got videos of Letterman cackling over the shakeup, Kimmel doing his best…
Pale Force is an early net series and the first one about which I have written. The recently released DVD of this series includes every animated short that depicts the adventures of ashen superheroes actor Jim Gaffigan, who provides the…
The floodgates in daytime TV are officially open. After 25 years, “The Oprah Winfrey Show” will end its run on Sept. 9, 2011, Winfrey announced to staffers at her Chicago-based Harpo production company on Thursday.
Whether that means Winfrey will…
Check out the hot new single from the beautiful, mysterious, divalicious girl group Subtle Sexuality! Kelly Kapoor and Erin Hannon strut their Madonna/Lady Gaga-inspired selves around the Dunder Mifflin offices, with some surprise cameos.
Best part? Tie between Erin’s adorableness…
The interplay of networks is just fascinating here: since NBC canceled Southland, Warner Bros. TV (which produced the drama) is now in talks with TNT to revive Southland on that channel.
[Via The Hollywood Reporter]
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So I adored Lauren Graham as the wisecracking, raw, sweet single mother Lorelai on Gilmore Girls. Taking Maura Tierney’s spot on Parenthood after the actress had to undergo medical treatments, and after her own pilot didn’t get picked up, is…
