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Jan 11, 2010 1:21 PM CST

Sarah Palin Lands Fox News Gig

Ex-governor will be regular contributor

(Newser) - Sarah Palin has signed a multiple-year deal to be a regular contributor to Fox News. Palin won’t get a regularly scheduled show but will host a series that airs occasionally, a network source tells the New York Times . The deal appears designed to allow Palin to pursue other ventures...

20 Best Homer Simpson Quotes

No. 1: 'D'OH!'

Jan 10, 2010 3:55 PM CST

20 Best Homer Simpson Quotes

(Newser) - In honor of tonight's 20th-anniversary celebration of The Simpsons, Washington Post comics columnist Michael Cavna offers his list of the top 20 Homer Simpson quotes. Of course, No. 1 is "D'oh!" Selected other gems:

"Oh, everything looks bad if you remember it."
"I'm going to

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Matt LeBlanc
of Friends
Returns to TV

playing himself!

Jan 10, 2010 3:00 PM CST

Matt LeBlanc of Friends Returns to TV

'Joey' star heads to Showtime, playing himself

(Newser) - Five-plus years after Friends left the air and nearly 4 after Joey went to the big cable box in the sky, Matt LeBlanc is headed back to TV—playing himself. Joey Tribbiani's alter ego has landed a part on the Showtime spoof Episodes, Reuters reports. " I am so glad...

Say Goodbye
to Hannah Montana

tween crisis

Jan 8, 2010 5:29 PM CST

Say Goodbye to Hannah Montana

Miley Cyrus-starring tween sensation will end after Season 4

(Newser) - The fourth season of Hannah Montana, which begins shooting Jan. 18, will be the show's last. The Disney Channel hit, which made an international star of Miley Cyrus, debuted in 2006 and averages 5 million viewers a week. "We're scheduled to wrap after shooting this new batch of episodes,...

State of the Union
Won't Preempt
Lost: Gibbs

the world can exhale

Jan 8, 2010 3:06 PM CST

State of the Union Won't Preempt Lost: Gibbs

Date for speech not set, but it's not Feb. 2: Gibbs

(Newser) - The date isn't set yet, but couch potatoes can relax: President Obama's State of the Union address will not muscle out the 3-hour premiere of the final season of Lost on Feb. 2. "I don't foresee a scenario in which the millions of people who hope to see a...

Quit Bitching About Lost
vs. State of the Union

OPINION

Jan 8, 2010 1:59 PM CST

Quit Bitching About Lost vs. State of the Union

You're a citizen before you're a couch potato, Roston writes

(Newser) - There is perhaps no “greater sign of our civilization’s decline” than the uproar about President Obama’s State of the Union address possibly preempting the season premiere of Lost or an episode of American Idol, Michael Roston writes. “Before we are couch potatoes, we are citizens,”...

Ellen: Simon Is Smart But Mean

'AMERICAN IDOL' RUN-UP

Jan 8, 2010 10:38 AM CST

Ellen: Simon Is Smart But Mean

DeGeneres talks Cowell, Paula Abdul as American Idol returns

(Newser) - Ellen DeGeneres makes her debut as the newest American Idol judge on Tuesday, and she talks Simon Cowell (he’s “smart,” but “mean” and “insensitive”) and more with the Wall Street Journal :

Paula Abdul: “I don't know if I'll be as nurturing as she

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Morgan Freeman Becomes Voice of CBS News

Jan 4, 2010 5:55 PM CST

Morgan Freeman Becomes Voice of CBS News

'It was the right time' to replace Walter Cronkite: network

(Newser) - Nearly six months after Walter Cronkite's death, his voice is leaving the CBS Evening News. His introduction of anchor Katie Couric has been replaced by a voiceover featuring actor Morgan Freeman. The legendary CBS News anchor recorded the introduction, played at the beginning of most newscasts, when Couric started at...

Blago Will Vie
for Celebrity
Apprentice Title

versus BRET MICHAELS, SINBAD

Jan 4, 2010 11:18 AM CST

Blago Will Vie for Celebrity Apprentice Title

Darryl Strawberry, Cyndi Lauper, Sharon Osbourne will also compete

(Newser) - Rod Blagojevich will join some adequately B-list company on the new season of Celebrity Apprentice, which premiers in March. Also appearing on the Trump spectacular: Darryl Strawberry, Bret Michaels, Sinbad, Cyndi Lauper, Sharon Osbourne, and Selita Ebanks, among others. James Poniewozik is excited, he writes in Time . The Blago-Trump faceoff...

Sarah Jessica Parker,
Fire Your Agent

unsolicited advice

Jan 2, 2010 5:21 AM CST

Sarah Jessica Parker, Fire Your Agent

Bad choices put 'Sex and the City' star's career at risk

(Newser) - Not that she asked, but Mike Harvkey has some advice for Sarah Jessica Parker: Stop listening to your agent, and start paying attention to Jennifer Aniston. Since her groundbreaking HBO show went off the air, Parker has made decisions so catastrophic they make him "wonder if Parker reads the...

Fox Stations Will Stay on
Time Warner Cable

Jan 1, 2010 8:22 PM CST

Fox Stations Will Stay on Time Warner Cable

News Corp. makes a deal well past original deadline

(Newser) - Time Warner Cable and News Corp. made a deal tonight that will keep the Fox networks on the cable giant's systems. The agreement came nearly a day after the original midnight deadline and minutes before the kickoff of the Sugar Bowl. Terms were not disclosed, but News Corp. had been...

Time Warner Fox Stations May Go Dark Tomorrow

see ya, homer

Dec 30, 2009 5:24 PM CST

Time Warner Fox Stations May Go Dark Tomorrow

News Corp. memo says no deal in sight

(Newser) - Either News Corp. is getting a little careless with its memos, or it’s trying to ratchet up pressure for an 11th-hour deal. An internal letter from its COO to employees warns that no deal is in the offing with Time Warner ahead of tomorrow's midnight deadline regarding the Fox...

Stop Sunday
'Coffee Hour,'
Start Fact-Checking

OPINION

Dec 30, 2009 9:25 AM CST

Stop Sunday 'Coffee Hour,' Start Fact-Checking

Sunday shows should put guests 'at a maximum disadvantage'

(Newser) - How do we give Sunday morning shows some bite when they’d prefer to stick to the role of “amiable, risk-free coffee hour”? One media expert suggests a midweek online fact check of what was said over the weekend—but why wait ‘til Wednesday? asks Jason Linkins...

Dumbest
TV Biz
Mistakes

decade in review

Dec 29, 2009 6:00 PM CST

Dumbest TV Biz Mistakes

From election-night snafus to the WGA strike

(Newser) - It’s been an embarrassing decade for TV networks, as the Hollywood Reporter proves with its list of the aughties’ biggest industry mistakes:

Hollywood writers’ strike: It was unnecessary and “mutually destructive”—and for viewers, “has there ever been a longer 14 weeks?”
ABC’s rejection of

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The Year's Worst
Commercials

2009 in Review

Dec 28, 2009 12:32 PM CST

The Year's Worst Commercials

From crapping bears to creepy wind-up dolls, these ads flopped

(Newser) - If Hollywood makes a successor to Mad Men is set in this decade, some ads are going to seem really strange. For example, our prescription medicine spots, which already seem comical, will absolutely dumbfound people of the future, writes Seth Stevenson for Slate . And that’s before we get into...

George Michael of Sports Machine Fame Dead at 70

Dec 24, 2009 3:21 PM CST

George Michael of Sports Machine Fame Dead at 70

DC legend pioneered use of game highlights

(Newser) - George Michael, whose syndicated Sports Machine show helped introduce viewers to the magic of game highlights years before ESPN made it obsolete, died today in Washington. He was 70 and suffering from leukemia. At WRC in Washington from 1980 to 2008, Michael became a legend during the heyday of the...

Vatican Praises
The Simpsons'
Take on God

WHO KNEW?

Dec 23, 2009 3:25 PM CST

Vatican Praises The Simpsons' Take on God

Despite his jokes, Homer knows Him 'quite well'

(Newser) - The Vatican's newspaper sees right through Homer Simpson’s superficial ambivalence about—or even ignorance of—God to a soul that finds its “ultimate refuge in” the supreme deity. In a study of that great theological repository, The Simpsons, the editors of L'Osservatore Romano praise its portrayal of “...

Diane Sawyer
Does 'Fine'
in Debut

tv review

Dec 21, 2009 7:29 PM CST

Diane Sawyer Does 'Fine' in Debut

New ABC anchor is no Katie Couric, and maybe that's good

(Newser) - Diane Sawyer slid easily into the "ABC World News" anchor chair tonight, and really, were you expecting anything different? The second woman at the solo helm of an evening newscast "made a strong, if a bit over-animated, debut," writes Robert Bianco. She interviewed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, offered a...

Good or Bad, the
Aughts Were Real

OPINION

Dec 21, 2009 11:31 AM CST

Good or Bad, the Aughts Were Real

Terrible events of last decade encouraged a healthy skepticism

(Newser) - The aughts were quite a shock after the “remarkable air of unreality” that perfumed the end of the last century—but we may have actually learned something, Alan Murray writes. “Unlike the Hollywood-scripted decade that preceded it, this one turned out to be more like the reality-television shows...

The Only 3 Christmas TV Plots

TRADITIONS

Dec 20, 2009 3:43 PM CST

The Only 3 Christmas TV Plots

When it comes time for the holiday episode, don't expect a surprise

(Newser) - Christmas “takes over the airwaves as comprehensively as it does malls, office lobbies, and public service announcements”—but unfortunately, the Christmas TV plotline always falls into one of three categories, writes Torie Bosch for Slate :

Money woes: “A holiday season without gifts doesn't really feel like a

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