Filed under: Programming, Reality-FreeI'm not a big Fourth of July person. You'll pretty much see me in front of the television as much as you'll see me in front of the television on July 3. I'm not a...

Filed under: Video, Game Show, Reality-FreeI could stay online all day long and watch clips from old game shows. Classic Television Showbiz posted this clip the other day of Orville Redenbacher on the...

Filed under: Dancing With The StarsDancing with the Stars judge Len Goodman recently announced that he is recovering a surgery that removed a tumor in his prostate. The interesting fact was that he fo...

Filed under: TV Royalty, OpEd, Video, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original SeriesI was aware that, like fellow Star Trek icon William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy released an album or two in his d...

Filed under: News, Celebrities, Reality-FreeIt has been announced that Michael Jackson's public funeral with be held next Tuesday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. CBS has revealed that they are g...

MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. (AP) -- References to television pitchman Bill Mays' trademark image were everywhere at his funeral Friday near Pittsburgh.

Free tickets will be given away through a lottery Organizers of Michael Jackson's Tuesday memorial service sa...

Fans can pay their respects in downtown L.A. LOS ANGELES -- Police sources tell KTLA-TV that they're making p...

Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (June 22-28) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from...

'Transformers' still going strong too Nobody's sure yet about July 4, but July 1 sure was kind to this weeken...

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...

Julia McKenzie will have some convincing to do in the new season of “Miss Marple,” which begins on Sunday on PBS’s “Masterpiece Mystery!”...

A rerun of “The Mentalist” at 10 p.m. delivered CBS the largest audience in prime time on Thursday as 9.7 million viewers tuned in to the crime show.

Jay Leno has won a cybersquatting case against a Texas real estate agent who was found to have misused the domain name thejaylenoshow.com to direct people to his own Web site.

Ms. Sugden achieved wide popularity in Britain and the United States as Betty Slocombe in the long-running BBC comedy series “Are You Being Served?”...

“The Wanted,” which will have its premiere on July 20, will follow specialists in foreign intelligence and war crimes, The Hollywood Reporter said.

Separating truth from rumor and figuring out who represents the singer aren't easy in an era of nonstop news.

'Cranford' actress stars in 'Masterpiece Mystery!' Just as the James Bond franchise freshened its image three...

Agatha Christie's beloved spinster is back on PBS. Her first case: 'A Pocket Full of Rye.' Dame Agatha Christ...

The season premiere last week brought the largest audience of any prime-time show for the week. The return of...

Other Southland teams on an ESPN survey of the four major North American sports leagues include the Dodgers at No. 50 and the Lakers at No. 51. The Clippers are last at No. 122.

Reaction to Washington Post story.

In the latest effort to capitalize on continuing interest in the life and death of Michael Jackson, the Fox network will repeat an episode of "The Simpsons" Sunday night at 8 that features the singer'...

Washington Post has canceled plans to charge lobbyists for access to its staff and government officials at off-the-record "salons" in the publisher's home.

The 50th anniversary of a famous confrontation between capitalism and Communism is soon to be commemorated, with a principal from the capitalist side returning to reminisce.

Google has eliminated an experimental feature that allowed people quoted in articles in Google News to post comments on those articles.

HBO is trumpeting its new comedy series "Hung" as a television breakthrough, obviously having forgotten that a show with the same premise popped up roughly three decades ago: "Fred Garvin, Male Prosti...

Two of the broadcast networks, ABC and NB C, squared off for two hours on "a night of heartbreak in Hollywood," as a disembodied voice called it. They assembled their still-formidable resources to "mo...

In a Broadway musical about burlesque called "Top Banana," back in the early 1950s, the title tune's lyrics advised, "If you want to be the top banana, you've got to start at the bottom of the bunch."...

In the age of Bernie Madoff and seemingly countless other corporate crooks, launching a show about a softhearted, do-good gazillionaire takes a certain amount of courage -- or maybe a certain amount o...

It's been said we all want to know how "the other half" lives, but it isn't really half, is it? It's more like the other one-sixteenth, since wealth is concentrated in a relatively tiny portion of the...

Is it just us, or have all of the So You Think You Can Dance eliminations this season been perfectly righteous and reasonable? We haven't yet had to face the elimination of a really wonderful...

Exactly one week after Michael Jackson's death, brother Jermaine Jackson became the first member of the still-mourning musical family to sit down for an in-depth interview about the late icon,...

Not that it would have been all that difficult to best last year's reality-host tag team, but the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is by all accounts thisclose to making it up to...

When last we saw our favorite Upper East Siders on Gossip Girl, Serena van der Woodsen was heading to Fiji to find her dear old dad. The mystery man who fathered the blond bombshell and...

So far, American Idol winner Kris Allen, runner-up Adam Lambert and fourth-place finisher Allison Iraheta have all inked recording contracts. But what about the others? We caught up with...

Gentle readers, we need your opinion on the following scenario, as depicted on the most recent episode of ABC Family's Make It or Break It gymnastics drama. Some thugs, of the...

There's no denying it. Vampires are hot. Fan fangs are sharp, and audiences are out for blood. Forget the garlic and the holy water, we relish the thought of Bill (Stephen Moyer,...

We've received your emails, comments and tweets complaining about how certain shows are not living up to their potential. Because it's the holiday weekend, and because you fans are very...

You love the cast. You love the look of the show. The concept rocks and it's entertaining. But the writing? Eh, not so much. We think there oughta be a word for those shows that have...

Is it just us, or have all of the So You Think You Can Dance eliminations this season been perfectly righteous and reasonable? We haven't yet had to face the elimination of a really wonderful...

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I'll be off until June 29. Because I'm not really going anywhere, there's still a chance I'll check in periodically. Or not. Enjoy yourselves.

I reviewed the Season 2 premiere (airing Sunday) of HBO's "True Blood," and gave it mostly glowing praise for what it does best (sex, blood, chills, etc.). It's unlikely to reach the upper tier of...

I am inching ever so gloriously toward my "staycation." Have you noticed that I didn't use "work stoppage"? I'm trying to be more upbeat. Mr. Positive. But before I have the full shut-down of The Bast...

Hey, gang! Do you need fresh ideas for rainy-day fun? Are you—in common with Burt Malkiel and John Cage—intrigued by random walks and chance operations? Do your employers expect you to write a TV...

Being a comedy about the male anatomy—a farce with a sensibility both mordant and whimsical—Hung (HBO, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET) delights in its phallic symbols. So exuberant as to be unafraid of loo...

NYC Prep (Bravo, Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET) is Real Housewives in a blue blazer. As such, it is both an active agent of moral depravation and a total hoot. To enjoy the show fully—to enjoy any of the n...

The Secret Life of the American Teenager comes back Monday night for a second season on ABC Family, and if you're like me, then you hadn't noticed it was away in the first place. But while we weren't...

The host of It's On With Alexa Chung! (MTV, weekdays at noon, ET) claims to hail from the English countryside, "one of those places that look like they're from a Richard Curtis movie." This story of p...

YouTube offers publishers links in overlays: If you’re a publisher who buys search ads on YouTube, you qualify to create overlays on your clips (like the one above) that are designed to drive traffi...

““WNBC.com or WNBC4.com is an extension of the television station, it’s not a real scaled game. We don’t want to play just in that game. We want to play in the entire New York or Chicago or Lo...

Joost scaling back, to offer white label video service: Joost had high hopes of become the premium video destination on the web, a space that’s now largely occupied by Hulu. So now CEO Mike Volpi is...

Msnbc.com’s iPhone app debuts: We’ve launched apps for Today Show and Rachel Maddow, and now our mobile team has debuted a msnbc.com iPhone app, in collaboration with Zumobi. Beyond the clean in...

Fake local TV site promotes get rich scheme: It looks like a local TV site, KLMT News 3, complete with the smiling anchors across the masthead and the weather report down the side. But the “story,�...

Dame Agatha Christie remains the gold standard of mystery writers not only for her productivity -- the woman wrote 80 detective novels -- but also for her permanence. One could argue that Sherlock Hol...

Way to go, America and judges: Last night I couldn't figure out who on "So You Think You Can Dance" should go home, but I couldn't agree more with the decision. Before we got to the...

Aubrey O'Day has been hinting for months -- on Twitter and to MTV.com -- that she is about to embark on a new career path after being booted from Danity Kane. And that it will be chronicled by a r...

Neil Patrick Harris has no Emmys on his mantle, but it looks as if he'll be hosting the telecast come September. Harris, who has been twice nominated as the lovable heel Barney Stinson on CBS'...

This has been the episode of "So You Think You Can Dance" that I've been waiting for all season. While I liked some performances more than others, I really enjoyed parts of every dance,...

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) Hung: Comedy. 10 p.m. Sundays, HBO. Who knew that when HBO announced it was green-lighting a series called "Hung" about, let's see, a well-endowed man, it would end up being...

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)True Blood: Drama. 9 p.m. Sundays on HBO. Shows entering their second seasons on pay cable tend to see a rise in ratings - a lot of people are late jumping on the bandwagon an...

It will be interesting, come fall, to see how Julianna Margulies does in her new CBS series, "The Good Wife," about a woman whose husband just got busted in a political corruption and sex scandal case...

Michael Ausiello at ew.com is reporting that Neil Patrick Harris has been tapped to host this year’s Emmy awards Sept. 20 on CBS. In his childhood, Harris starred as “Doogie Howser, MDR...

Our friend Charlie over at Interesting Pile has posted a list of TV show marathons airing over the July 4th weekend. It’s missing some pay cable offerings such as the “Nurse Jackie”...

FX, has announced its fall season schedule. Returning in September are “Sons of Anarchy” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” The drama “nip/tuck” wonR...

Is this much MJ coverage “Bad?” Chris Pizzello photo/Associated Press Haven’t had enough Michael Jackson coverage? I’ve had enough to last a lifetime (maybe the only network...

KAKW graphic KAKW Univision 62, a Spanish-language TV station serving the Austin market, delivered the highest local ratings during Sunday’s USA vs. Brazil soccer match, regardless of language...

For some, "Friday Night Lights" may be about the football, but for most - including star Connie Britton - the end-game is in the relationships. Britton, who shines as Coach's wife and Dillon...

Michael is ready to find love again -- and he wants to do it with twin brother Steven. "I think Steven and I would make a really fun show," says booted bachelor Michael Stagliano during a co...

It's John Carter to John Connor for Noah Wyle. Wyle, who reigned on the little screen as "ER's" Dr. John Carter for 15 years, will carryover his life-saving skills when he leads an army of h...

Before Danielle Staub was a "Real Housewife" -- but after she was an ex-con -- she was on "All My Children." For 58 seconds. Watch the Jersey trouble-maker in her day-time scene, w...

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Quick, give me an adjective.  I honestly don't have an idea how to describe what just happened on So You Think You Can Dance last night, except that they were things that we didn't expect, but so...

ABC has just picked up FX TV Studios' series Defying Gravity from Grey's Anatomy producer James Parriott. The show revolves around eight astronauts from five countries who undertake a mysterious six-y...

As BuddyTV reported previously, The Bachelor star Jason Mesnick and runner-up girlfriend Molly Malaney appeared yesterday on Good Morning America where Melissa Rycroft serves a special correspondent.

And then I started wondering if there's actually anything new with the rest of the Top 10 of the recent American Idol season.  I mean, we've seen contestants outside the final two get record deal...

The buzz over Jon and Kate Gosselin's separation hasn't died down, and more so because of the statement filed by the stars of TLC's Jon and Kate Plus 8.   A week after they filed their divor...

Friday at 8:30pm ET on ABC On the eve of America’s most patriotic holiday, British singer Elvis Costello jumps across the pond to guest voice as an Oxford professor who declares Helen’s recent gra...

Friday at 8pm ET on Fox We know the world's most famous competitive eater, Joey Chestnut, can probably scarf down more hot dogs than a 5th grader, but is he smarter than one? We'll find out when Chest...

Friday at 8pm ET on NBC It’s an episode full of Italian-American guests when “Sopranos” stars Vincent Pastore and Federico Castelluccio, and celebrity chef Mario Batali show up for a dinner whic...

Friday at 9pm ET on Fox Willie Garson ("Sex and the City") guest stars as a gambling addict who finds himself in so much debt, he threatens to kill himself by jumping off the roof of Wharton Memorial.

Two of 14 Voted Off: Teacher's pet Kayla gets thrown into the bottom three, so it's really just a bottom two tonight...

Pilot: Ray Drucker has many qualities, one of them very special.

Top 14 Perform: Probably the strongest show since the top 20 all performed, and we learn about Sonya's Twilight fetish and just how much work Mary really has had done.

School Nurse: Grace's issues are aired, Zoey loses her first patient and Jackie buys an extra phone.

Super Lucky Happy: Andy turns into Judah, Till turns into a lunatic, and lots of people pee their pants.

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I’m in the midst of moving, so I’m stuck in between mountains of cardboard boxes and molehills of bubble wrap this holiday weekend. That means I have little access to the Internet and tele...

I love you, NewTeeVee Station readers, but sometimes I suspect that you aren’t listening to me when I tell you that a show is AWESOME. So, in honor of our humble Station’s 1-year annivers...

Dailymotion announced today that Cedric Tournay has been named its new CEO. Tournay replaces Ian Brotherston, who had only held the post since April. Brotherston will stay on with the company but will...

Facebook expects to “very soon” release a new version of its iPhone app, and via TechCrunch we hear it will enable video uploads from the new iPhone 3GS. Now, this is just one social netw...

Business News: Actress expressed frustration over contract -- Justine Bateman has resigned from the Screen Actors Guild's national board of directors, blasting the moderates who control the board and...

Film Reviews: Poised to be the singing-and-dancing rainstorm after the drought, "New York" is the first major Bollywood release after last year's strike, but it's hardly business as usual.

Film News: 'Public Enemies' takes $6.6 million from 3,319 -- Paramount's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and Twentieth Century Fox's 3-D toon "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs" ended Thursday in a...

Music News: 11,000 tickets available inside Staples Center -- Details of next Tuesday's public memorial for Michael Jackson are being released in Los Angeles by the owners of Staples Center.

Web Exclusive: Project scheduled for 2010 release -- Fox has tapped Nimrod Antal ("Vacancy") to direct "Predators" for producer Robert Rodriguez through his Troublemaker Studios.