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Give Conan's NBC Show an Emmy: TBS

New network launches tongue-in-cheek campaign for old network

(Newser) - Conan O'Brien's network wants him nominated for an Emmy Award—for a show that aired on another network. TBS, where the late-night host/martyr's latest effort will debut in November, is running "for your consideration" ads touting The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien, which crashed and burned on NBC. "...

TV Guide: What to Watch This Summer

 What to Spend 
 Your Summer 
 Watching 
who needs fresh air?
Jun 8, 2010 9:31 AM CDT

What to Spend Your Summer Watching

Mad Men, Top Chef are back

(Newser) - Now that summer's almost here, you might be tempted to turn off the tube and head outside. Bad idea, says the Daily Beast's Jace Lacob . Here are his picks for must-see summer TV:
  • Mourning the loss of Lost? Try NBC's Persons Unknown, which premiered yesterday. "A group of strangers
...

Same Newspaper Prop Recurs in TV, Movies

Everybody's been reading the same news for years

(Newser) - Watch the commercial and notice the quick image of the newspaper at about the 12-second mark. Then go to Slashfilm to see how that very same newspaper page has been showing up in all kinds of TV shows (hey, there's Al Bundy reading it) and movies for decades. It's apparently...

Gossip Girl Guy Popped for Pot Possession

Chace Crawford charged with misdemeanor in Texas

(Newser) - Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford was arrested early this morning and charged with misdemeanor drug possession, TMZ reports . Crawford, 24, was with a friend in a car in the parking lot of a pub when Plano, Texas, police found one unlit joint. He was arrested and charged with possession of...

O'Reilly to Prof: You Look Like a Drug Dealer

Prof: You look like a user

(Newser) - While chatting about immigration issues on his show, Bill O'Reilly turned to his guest, an African-American law professor, and told him he looked...like a drug dealer. "Say you're a cocaine dealer—and you kind of look like one a little bit," he said. To which guest Marc...

Art Linkletter Dead at 97
 Art Linkletter Dead at 97 
May 26, 2010 3:46 PM CDT

Art Linkletter Dead at 97

He got kids to say the darndest things

(Newser) - Art Linkletter, whose People Are Funny and House Party shows entertained millions of TV viewers in the 1950s and '60s and who remained active as a writer and speaker through his ninth decade, died today at age 97. Linkletter was known on TV for his funny interviews with children and...

Cool Cats Explain Lost Finale
 Cool Cats Explain Lost Finale 
May 26, 2010 4:31 AM CDT

Cool Cats Explain Lost Finale

Entire tail in 60 seconds

(Newser) - The Lost finale wasn't that confusing. In fact a few cool cats pretending to be Lost characters explain the whole kitten kaboodle in 60 seconds. The video by Tremendous News also squeezes in a recap of the entire season's highlights. It's catnip to fans, notes the Los Angeles Times.

Bret Michaels Wins Celebrity Apprentice

Glam rocker gets past Holly Robinson Peete

(Newser) - After a month filled with dramatic medical news, Bret Michaels scored an anticlimactic victory in tonight's final of Celebrity Apprentice. The glam rocker, who suffered a brain hemorrhage a month ago today and a "warning stroke" last week, defeated actress Holly Robinson Peete. "Of course," notes Dalton...

Fans Count Down to Lost Finale

You want lists? These folks have lists!

(Newser) - In case you haven't heard, Lost ends its run tonight with a 2½-hour episode that carries six seasons' worth of speculation and the anticipation of pretty much the whole internet. "We feel like Lost deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it’s...

7 Bizarre TV Finales

 7 Bizarre TV 
 Finales 
live up to these, 'lost'
May 23, 2010 5:00 AM CDT

7 Bizarre TV Finales

Was it all a dream? For some of these shows, yes

(Newser) - Warning: Spoilers ahead. In anticipation of Sunday’s sure-to-be-baffling Lost finale, the BBC remembers seven of the most bizarrely memorable series enders:
  • The Colbys: In this Dynasty spin-off, main character Fallon is abducted by aliens.
  • Roseanne: We found out that most of the stuff that happened was really just the
...

We Need Better TV Critics
 We Need Better TV Critics 
opinion
May 22, 2010 3:30 PM CDT

We Need Better TV Critics

Shows are getting smarter, but criticism isn't

(Newser) - If it's true that television is becoming the "future of the filmed narrative"—and just listen to all that chirping in academia about The Wire—then it's time for smarter TV critics, writes Vadim Rizov. The job goes beyond just snarking at the latest episode of American Idol....

10 Careers for Eliot Spitzer
10 Careers for Eliot Spitzer
unpaid prostitute?
May 21, 2010 11:22 AM CDT

10 Careers for Eliot Spitzer

You know, just in case CNN gig falls through

(Newser) - Eliot Spitzer is rumored to be a possible replacement for Campbell Brown on CNN , and in case he doesn’t get that job, Olivia Allin of The Frisky suggests 10 alternatives:
  • Britney Spears’ assistant: “The logic here would be that since he’s apparently attracted to sexual young women,
...

Google Unveils 'GoogleTV'
 Google Unveils 'GoogleTV' 
May 20, 2010 2:34 PM CDT

Google Unveils 'GoogleTV'

It partners with Sony, Intel

(Newser) - Google is hoping to succeed where Apple and so many others have failed with GoogleTV, its attempt to bring the Internet to your television set. Google unveiled the software today, at what the Wall Street Journal called a “glitch-plagued demonstration” in San Francisco. The software will allow you to...

What Do We Tweet About? TV, Mostly
 What Do We Tweet 
 About? TV, Mostly 
opinion
May 17, 2010 4:55 PM CDT

What Do We Tweet About? TV, Mostly

New social media still fixated on the original

(Newser) - Everybody's eager to talk about the social media "revolution." But you know what the social media conversation mostly focuses on? Old media, particularly TV. Just ask Simon Dumenco, who analyzes Twitter data every week for Advertising Age . “Old media still rules our lives,” he writes. “...

Law & Order Not Dead Yet: Creator

Dick Wolf hasn't given up on 20-year-old drama

(Newser) - In what might be the best plot twist ever for a show that turned them into an art form, the creator of Law & Order says the long-running drama isn't dead yet. Although NBC canceled the show last week after 20 seasons, Dick Wolf tells the New York Times he's...

Alec Baldwin Can't Outdo Betty White
 Alec Baldwin 
 Can't Outdo 
 Betty White 

'snl' season finale
May 16, 2010 2:06 PM CDT

Alec Baldwin Can't Outdo Betty White

Final 'Saturday Night Live' host of 35th season overshadowed by 88-year-old

(Newser) - Saturday Night Live ended its 35th season last night with a record-tying 15th hosting gig by Alec Baldwin, who suffered by comparison to last week's scene-stealer, Betty White. "Baldwin hinted at it in his monologue," writes John Teti of the Onion A.V. Club —"after last...

Why QVC Is Brilliant
 Why QVC Is Brilliant 
May 15, 2010 1:57 PM CDT

Why QVC Is Brilliant

For starters, it makes viewers feel like friends

(Newser) - Nearly 25 years after its inception, the QVC network has become "one of the most effective retailing machines ever invented," writes self-described "closet fan" Megan McArdle at the Atlantic . The network didn't reinvent retail, but it's perfected many of its tenets, she explains. Among them:
  • Intimacy: QVC's
...

Law &amp; Order Facing Judgment Day
 Law & Order 
 Canceled, 
 Cast Is Told 
Just short of record run
May 14, 2010 6:13 AM CDT

Law & Order Canceled, Cast Is Told

Cancellation rumors surround long-running NBC drama

(Newser) - Law & Order may be axed one year short of a record-breaking 21-year run. The cast and crew of the NBC drama have been told it has been canceled, reports E! Online , although no official announcement has been and other sources say talks are continuing. A 21st season would have...

John Grisham Shops The Firm TV Show

At least one cable network is reportedly interested

(Newser) - John Grisham may conquer the small screen yet. E1 Entertainment is shopping around a pilot script for a series based on Grisham's book and movie blockbuster The Firm, reports Deadline Hollywood . Grisham didn't write the script but is said to be heavily involved as an executive producer. So far, E1...

5 Reality Shows That Shouldn't Be Popular

James Hibberd explains why we love them

(Newser) - Sure, some reality shows are undeniably awful (Keeping Up With the Kardashians, anyone?) yet ridiculously popular. But there are other, less trainwrecky shows that manage to succeed—in spite of the fact that they really sound like they shouldn’t. James Hibberd offers up the top five in the Hollywood ...

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