The commercial is 38 seconds long. Try to figure out what it's about before it's revealed around the 25 second mark. It's filmed like an investigative news report or maybe an old cop show. Are those h...

Remember the old saying, "Fool me once (awkward pause), shame on (another awkward pause), shame on you (another longer and more awkward pause). Fool me, we can't get fooled again"? Less than a week...

First there was the Lincoln-Douglas debate. Then came the Nixon-Kennedy debate. Now Fox News' Geraldo Rivera continues that great American tradition of the public debate with the Cheech and Chong-Coul...

The entire time I watched this clip from last night's Late Night, I was thinking, "if Taylor Lautner smashes into a wall face-first or falls off of the mini-bike and cracks his head open, Fallon is go...

If you haven't seen our game before, we give you a picture from a recent episode of a TV series and you provide the caption! Last week's winner is patrick with this: "And the next American Idol is...

It's autumn by the calendar in Southern California, though it often still feels like summer because of the hot, dry Santa Ana winds. If there's a smell of smoke in the air, it's probably not from fire...

As an aspiring singer-songwriter-guitarist, she had an MTV reality series.

Meet the new champ, same as the old champ probably.

It's 101 degrees in the produce section of downtown Los Angeles, that is.

For his 11th birthday, Nolan Gould was hoping for a banana Butterfinger cake, then a trip to Disneyland, but he knew he also had to attend a table read for his role as Luke on ABC's hit Wednesday come...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Oprah Winfrey will end her daytime talk show in 2011 as she prepares to start a cable channel of her own.

As the musical children’s show “Yo Gabba Gabba!” continues to take significant steps into mainstream popular culture, its producers crave more support from its network.

The move is the first major step toward making millions of videos accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people.

CBS finished first in the ratings on Wednesday with a crime-filled lineup.

“Terror in Mumbai,” a new HBO documentary having its premiere on Thursday, uses interviews, videos and intercepted calls to untangle the attacks in that Indian city last November.

She's expected to deliver a new program to a cable outlet she's starting. Her exit is a blow to two networks.

The California Energy Commission votes 5-0 in favor of the nation's first efficiency regulations for televisions of up to 58 inches sold in the state. The stricter rules take effect Jan. 1, 2011.

After a slow start in front of a skeptical audience, the second-season sitcom has become a critical favorite under series creators Greg Daniels and Michael Schur.

The HBO doc recounts the deadly 2008 attack in India, using security footage, intercepted cellphone conversations and videotape to give viewers a 'you-are-there' feel.

British director has helmed concert shows with Britney Spears and U2, and the MTV awards. At 82, the Academy...

Video of Oprah Winfrey's departure announcement.

Oprah Winfrey confirmed to viewers what she told her staff members on Thursday afternoon: that she is ending her successful daytime talk show in September 2011.

On Friday morning, Oprah Winfrey will tell fans of her plans to end her longtime talk show in 2011.

The sixth of the castaway mystery on ABC will begin on Feb. 2, when the series moves to Tuesday nights for the first time.

The media mogul will end her daytime talk show in 2011 as she prepares to start a cable channel of her own.

Oprah Winfrey says it's the "exact right time" to say goodbye. In a Very Special episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show airing today, Winfrey confirms plans to pull the plug on...

Every season, it all comes down to Bryant Park. Nine months after they marched their 13-look collections down the runway at Fall Fashion Week, Althea Harper, Irena Shabayeva and Carol...

It's not a death, but it will be a loss. The accolades are pouring in already for Oprah Winfrey, who's planning to talk on the air tomorrow about her decision to end her...

Hard to imagine a world without The Oprah Winfrey Show on weekday afternoons. But that's exactly what the world's going to be like after Sept. 9, 2011, which will mark the end...

Jenna Fischer is hot. We know it. Jim knows it. Roy knew it. And now, apparently Us Weekly knows it, 'cause the mag honored her last night in Hollywood as one of the chosen few for its Hot...

Awww...poor Nate! He's got a crush on Serena, and she's entangled with Trip, and oh, what a tangled love-triangle web these Upper East Siders weave! Will Serena see the light? Will Nate...

Jenna Fischer is hot. We know it. Jim knows it. Roy knew it. And now, apparently Us Weekly knows it, 'cause the mag honored her last night in Hollywood as one of the chosen few for its Hot...

• Lost: According to ABC, Lost season six will premiere Feb. 2 at 9 p.m., which means Tuesday is now Lost day. ABC also confirms that Nestor Carbonell's Richard Alpert, Ken Leung's...

Update, 3:22 p.m.: Sources confirm to us that NBC is ordering three additional episodes of Trauma. Whoo-hoo! Three eps from the existing 13-episode order are left for after Christmas, to be paired...

So let us get this straight. While millions of fans and hordes of paparazzi around the world are going bat-poop crazy trying to gain access to Hollywood's No. 1 It man, a petite little artist...

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By Dan Snierson One love song gets Rachel to set her sights on Will, and another gets Quinn in hot water...

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Kurt Sutter , the creator and writer of FX's acclaimed "Sons of Anarchy" series took some time out to talk the other day before the pivotal final episodes of the high-octane drama. Sutter, formerly...

Yes, I'm having "Mad Men" withdrawals as well. More on that in a moment. If you'll look to the right of this blog you'll see a section called Celebrity Podcast Interviews . With the help of the...

Welcome to the weekly "Power Rankings!" feature. For the back-story on how it started and how it's compiled, click here. And we're off:   RANK SHOW PREVIOUS TREND COMMENT...

This is a Spoiled Bastard. It contains spoilers. That's the point . FYI: The Bastard Machine is on Facebook . Also: Twitter . For those of you interested, I'll be interviewed on sta...

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“The highlight for me was seeing the founder and editor of West Seattle Blog, Tracy Record, positioned on stage next to msnbc.com president Charlie Tillinghast. Two years ago, who would have believe...

Twitter lights up its geolocation API: It’s here, but it only works 1) if you turn on geotagging in your account settings on Twitter.com and 2) you’re using a Twitter mobile application with the g...

Fox Sports launching local sites, too: Joining the ranks of ESPN and Comcast, Fox Sports is quietly rolling out a network of a dozen local/regional sports sites, like FoxSportsArizona.com. In less th...

AOL hiring journalists, laying off just about everyone else: AOL announced today that it’s planning to lay off 2,500 employees — about a third of its staff — but the company is still hiring jour...

“What’s happening?” - What Twitter now asks you, instead of “What are you going?” — a subtle change to try to encourage more newsy Tweets. “People are witnessing accidents, organizing e...

“Recyclops” is back!!!! Thursday’s episode opened with Dwight resurrecting his recycle-friendly character. Jimothy gave us an overview of the character’s evolution. Who knew the mythology surr...

We’re three episodes into the season and I’m starting to wonder if things will ever heat up. The whole Gretchen-Tamra feud can only sustain me for so long. I’m thisclose to suggesting one of the...

I briefly caught up with Irina Shabayeva, winner of "Project Runway's" Season 6, to ask her about the finale, the general attitude of the season and those T-shirts: What's next for y...

Oprah Winfrey didn't mention her new gig on her talk show today when she told viewers that she is indeed ending her unprecedented run as talk show queen on Sept. 9, 2011. But her new basic cable n...

I've always been an easy sell when it comes to holiday episodes. There's nothing like a "Felicity" Thanksgiving, and "The Office" always has the best Christmas parties. I&#...

Yeah, that's the lamest headline ever, but with news like this, who cares? Chuck, the best slacker-action-spy-comedy ever to air on NBC, will return on January 10 with back-to-back episodes on the fir...

I was nervous about this season of The Office. I'm a firm believer in the 6-season rule—most shows should end after hitting that magic number—and The Office wasn't exactly consistent last year. Th...

Phew. That's finally it. This most listless and languid season of Project Runway has drawn to a close, and I can't say I'm sorry to see it go. What a clunk, what a dull thud this whole season has b...

Though Courtney Ford plays the perilously ambitious, tough-talking, often-nude Miami reporter Christine Hill on Showtime's Dexter, the 31-year-old actress is nothing but sweet and cheery in person. (...

Tables: turned. Last night's Survivor brought us the big left turn we'd been anticipating since the merge. What happened exactly? Well, the shambling shambles named Shambo became something better t...

Is Conan O'Brien ready for his third act? There's a scenario - one that might seem far-fetched now, but strange, fear-based decisions are made in the television industry all the time, so give it a few...

Everything we know we learned from television: - Most wince-inducing holiday-themed headline ever: "Jon and Kate will reunite for Christmas." - A Reuters story reported that if Comcast buys NBC, it wi...

RATING: (ALERT VIEWER) The Prisoner: Miniseries. 8 p.m. Sun., Mon., Tues. on AMC. There is probably no winning for the AMC remake of "The Prisoner," which starts Sunday with the first of three two-hou...

Editor's note: This appreciation of the recently concluded third season of "Mad Men" contains some minor spoilers. In a business driven inexorably toward mediocrity by an emphasis on ratings and mass...

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)V: Sci-fi drama. 8 p.m. Tuesdays on ABC. Coming into this season ABC had two buzz-heavy dramas both relying strongly on science fiction. The theory was that one of them - with...

Mark your calendars, “Lost” fans: The ABC drama returns Feb. 2, according to The Hollywood Reporter. And there’s already a twist to the new season: The longtime Wednesday night main...

San Marcos will be one of the college towns in the spotlight on the new G4 series “Campus PD.” The series, which debuts next month, is about the police officers who do everything from ...

The Los Angeles Times has a nice feature on Austinite Stephanie Hunt, who plays Devin on “Friday Night Lights” and has a role in the upcoming series “Parenthood.” A sampling:...

First, a word about last week’s episode called “Wheels,” which first aired Nov. 11. Unlike my distinguished colleague Dale Roe, I quite liked it. I am also biased: I have a brothe...

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It's Friday. We've all had a long week, including Mr. Bass here, who is still recovering from saving his step-sister/former attempted date-rape victim from a skeazy European drug dealer who transports...

Gotta say I am loving FOX for allowing the current crop of season 6 dancers to Tweet while they are still in the competition. With a season and stage that has made emotional connections difficult, muc...

The Vampire Diaries closed out the first half of the season with plenty of turning points.  Stefan and Elena finally had sex, Damon learned that there's someone else trying to open Katherine's to...

The mid-season finale of Supernatural was titled "Abandon All Hope," and it certainly delivered on that promise.  It turned out to be one of the most depressing hours of TV Supernatural has ever...

I love a good underdog story. You know, the sort that does not see the protagonist endure loss after loss after loss, only to start winning after a melodramatic moment with a figure of inspiration, wi...

Friday at 12:05am ET on ABC What will happen when the stars of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" take over Jimmy Kimmel's couch? Will Kristen Stewart bemoan her fame? Will Robert Pattinson sport his trade...

Friday at 10pm on USA Peter and Neal attempt to recover a stolen portrait by setting up a sting operation. Neal is able to track the origins of the piece, information which reveals the identity of the...

Friday at 8pm ET on NBC After an elderly store owner defends himself during a robbery and ends up killing the three assailants, the man is hailed a hero. But when the detectives begin investigating, t...

Friday at 8pm ET on The CW Tess kidnaps Lois in order to figure out where she went during those weeks when she was gone. Lois' memory of the future depicts a Metropolis under Zod's rule, with Clark po...

Friday at 10pm ET on CBS Fisher Stevens ("Lost") returns as convicted bus hijacker John Buckley, who turns out to be an unlikely ally for Don and the team after robbers hit a diamond exchange and take...

Shareholders Meeting: Michael gets his buffoonery on at the Dunder Mifflin shareholders meeting, and Jim tries to assert his authority over the likes of Phyllis and Ryan, to varying degrees of success...

August: There's more than one Observer, and they all wanna know what love is.

Sun Tea: TGS gets green, one mini-fridge and jar of Frank's urine at a time. Lemon schemes to run out her upstairs neighbor so she can expand into his apartment. And Tracy and Jack consider, then reje...

Abandon All Hope...: Jo and Ellen make the ultimate sacrifice to give Sam and Dean a shot at Lucifer, but the boys make the mistake of using the ever-unreliable Colt. Crap in a hat.

Sins of the Father: Coop goes to jail and gets beaten up, but he still comes out looking better than anyone else in this episode -- partly because he's smart and wonderful, but also because so many of...

Boxee will be showing off a prototype of its widely anticipated standalone set-top box at next year’s Consumer Electronics Show, according to a source close to the company who asked not to be na...

While it won’t move the needle much on its content library, IFC Entertainment announced yesterday that it will offer 53 films through Netflix’s Watch Instantly streaming service, reports V...

Babelgum is closing down its Dublin headquarters and an office in Nice, according to a report in paidContent, moves that could signal the end is near for the online video site. Babelgum says the cuts...

For once, everyone getting on board with an online video trend is a good thing. Following on the heels of Google’s announcement yesterday that it will add automatic captioning to YouTube videos,...

BBC Gives Technical Details of Its New iPlayer On the Wii; the U.K. broadcaster has encoded streams using H.264 at a 700 kbps bit rate, compared to 1.5 Mbps for regular TV or even 3.2 Mbps for HD. (BB...

Weekly: Will the new Governors Awards infuse Oscar night? -- Awards season is upon us, and here's the conundrum: There's not much out there yet that's screaming "Oscar!"...

Animation: Platypus is the breakout star of kids show -- Why a platypus?

Animation: 'Phineas and Ferb' attracts older kids. parents -- Disney Channel has an unusual hit on its hands, an animated show that is scoring big with the tween auds that flock to the channel's live-...

Film News: Relativity shifts DVD share in its prolific slate -- When Ryan Kavanaugh accepted Producer of the Year honors at the Hollywood Film Festival on Oct. 26, attendees at the Beverly Hilton watc...

Weekly International: Rousselet launches company in midst or recession -- Rousselet and his partner Fabrice Gianfermi started collecting the financing for the venture specializing in commercial Englis...