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  • New Sheen sitcom confirmed 0 Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 1:57PMHe’s “winning” — again.
  • 'Mildred Pierce,' 'Mad Men' amass Emmy nominations Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 11:53AMHBO's potboiler miniseries "Mildred Pierce" and AMC's stalwart "Mad Men" led the pack as nominations for the 63rd annual prime-time Emmy awards were announced Thursday morning in Los Angeles. "Pierce," based on the...
  • Netflix Launches Today On Nintendo 3DS, 1.5M Daily Users On Wii Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 8:48AMNintendo has announced that movie and video streaming from Netflix will be available today via the Nintendo 3DS handheld for all Netflix members. Those Netflix consumers who pay for a monthly unlimited streaming plan can download the free Netflix application through the 3DS eShop and watch TV episodes and films streamed straight to the console. The service launches with a selection of 2D ...
  • Nintendo confirms Netflix on the 3DS hitting today Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 8:14AMLast night's Netflix / 3DS news was more than just empty promises -- and now we have the official press release to prove it. Starting today, Netflix subscribers with unlimited streaming plans will be able to watch TV shows and movies from the service's selection of online content on their Nintendo 3DS, like the Wii before it . Movies will show up in 2D (darn) on the upper screen of the device ...
  • Netflix Streaming Now Available on Nintendo 3DS Hand-Held Systems Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 7:13AMREDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Starting today, Nintendo 3DS™ owners across the United States and Canada can download a free application that allows Netflix members with unlimited streaming plans to instantly watch TV episodes and movies streaming from Netflix. The attractive, easy-to-use service adds a huge value to the Nintendo 3DS portable system, and again demonstrates how Nintendo 3DS ...
  • Deaths elsewhere: S. Schwartz created 'Gilligan's Island,' 'Brady Bunch' Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 12:06AMSherwood Schwartz, who created "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch," two of the most affectionately ridiculed and enduring television sitcoms of the 1960s and '70s, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 94.
  • 'Gilligan,' 'Brady Bunch' Creator Sherwood Schwartz Dies Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 6:04PMSherwood Schwartz, the prolific television writer and producer best known as the creator of the iconic sitcoms "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch," died Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. He was 94.
  • 'Gilligan's' creator Sherwood Schwartz dies Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 2:06PMSherwood Schwartz, who not only created "Gilligan's Island" and " The Brady Bunch ," but the theme songs those shows embedded into millions of American brains, died this morning.
  • Review: 'Robin Hood' Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 3:32AMCate Blanchett and Russell Crowe in "Robin Hood." Errol Flynn starred in 1938's "The Adventures of Robin Hood." Darth Vader. Batman. Captain James T. Kirk. Now another legendary figure gets the origin-story treatment in Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood."
  • KUHNER: Hollywood's war on Middle America Monday, July 4, 2011 @ 9:41PMPRIME TIME PROPAGANDA: THE TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY OF HOW THE LEFT TOOK OVER YOUR TV By Ben Shapiro Broadside Books, $26.99, 416 pages Hollywood is determined to transform America. This is the central theme of Ben Shapiro's latest book. Mr. Shapiro is a nationally syndicated columnist and radio talk-show host. ...
  • We’re missing the manly men on TV Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 6:43AMGet ready for a fall line-up of television sitcoms that feature men trying to find themselves as, well, men in a world where dads race to get to their child and change his dirty diaper before the wives do.
  • Movie Review: The Best and the Brightest Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 1:32AMEvery year, parents across New York’s social strata are humbled by the private school application process. The angst experienced by the Jasinskis is definitely grounded in reality.
  • The Judy Show Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 12:05AMBuilding on the success of her show '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother,' funny-woman Judy Gold returns to the stage in this hilarious look at her life through the lens of the classic sitcoms of her youth.
  • Independents’Day of Reckoning Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 5:03AMSome make clean break from networks, but going it alone is a...
  • Remaking BET With Originals Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 5:02AMDebra Lee enlivened established leader with signature...
  • Fall TV at first sight Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 9:22PMWelcome to a fast look at fall 2012, a lineup of the usual number of good, bad and funny shows that are so stupid you just wish you could have been at the pitch meetings to find out what people were thinking. This fall, you get cops. Robbers. Cops who...
  • Alien territory: TNT's survival saga, 'Falling Skies,' reminds us that extraterrestrial visitors fall into two camps ... Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 8:18AMLet's all take a moment to feel self-satisfied in knowing that our home, Planet Earth , is the sparkling gem of the universe, the destination hot spot for extraterrestrial races of every variety.
  • 'Hot in Cleveland' cable TV stars get keys to the city from Mayor Frank Jackson Thursday, June 16, 2011 @ 1:39PM"If you cannot get back in, and the door is locked, we want to make sure you can get in," Jackson said as he presented each woman her own key to the city. Updated with video.
  • 'The Nanny' star Fran Drescher returns with ‘Happily Divorced' Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 12:12AMThey don’t make sitcoms like they used to, so TV Land casts talent that used to make sitcoms. And it almost works. Fran Drescher (”The Nanny”) returns in “Happily Divorced” (9:30 p.m.).
  • Sizzling,fizzling summer television Friday, June 10, 2011 @ 5:39PMSummer TV’s not the old song and dance anymore. It’s the new song and dance, with NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” and Fox’s “ So You Think You Can Dance ” (both premiered in May) leading the charge of reality shows.
  • The funniest women of our time Friday, June 3, 2011 @ 12:09PM(MCT) — Who are some of the funniest women right now, besides those “Bridesmaids”? Behold and guffaw.
  • Assisted Suicide Advocate Kevorkian Dies Friday, June 3, 2011 @ 11:16AMJack Kevorkian, the audacious, fearless doctor who spurred on the national right-to-die debate with a homemade suicide machine that helped end the lives of dozens of ailing people, died Friday at a Detroit-area hospital after a brief illness. He was 83.
  • Jack Kevorkian dies at age 83 Friday, June 3, 2011 @ 11:10AMBy COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press DETROIT (AP) -- Jack Kevorkian, the audacious, fearless doctor who spurred on the national right-to-die debate with a homemade suicide machine that helped end the lives of dozens of ailing people, died Friday at ...
  • The Programming Insider: Basketball Dominates on ABC Friday, June 3, 2011 @ 9:28AMIn Today's Issue Prime-Time Metered Market Thursday Ratings: Basketball Dominates on ABC; Love Bites DOA on NBC Ratings Box: What’s Hot/What’s Not On the Air This Weekend: Prime-Time Programming Options TV Tidbits: Notes of Interest TV Trivia Time: Injured Robert PRIME-TIME METERED MARKET THURSDAY RATINGS: Basketball Dominates on ABC; Love Bites DOA on NBC Thursday 6/02/11 Note: The overnight ...
  • Showcase debuts two Toronto-shot sitcoms Wednesday, June 1, 2011 @ 8:56PMThe two sitcoms debut Thursday night on Showcase.
  • Actor best known as John Travolta's sidekick Kenickie in Grease, and Bobby Wheeler in the US sitcom Taxi Wednesday, June 1, 2011 @ 5:58PMActor best known as John Travolta's sidekick Kenickie in Grease, and Bobby Wheeler in the US sitcom Taxi In the late 1970s and early 80s, Taxi was one of the best American television sitcoms. It won 18 Emmy awards and its stars, among them Jeff Conaway, who has died aged 60, became household names. Conaway played the narcissistic, "resting" actor Bobby Wheeler, one of the characters working for ...
  • Salem: Hot fun in the summertime Wednesday, June 1, 2011 @ 2:43PMSometimes you don’t have to go far to find the funny. Sometimes it’s right in your own backyard.
  • QMI's top TV picks of 2011 Sunday, May 29, 2011 @ 1:24AMLove always is complicated, even when it's comedic love. With the traditional fall-to-spring TV season having wrapped up, here's a list of my eight favourite network sitcoms, in descending order of preference.
  • Will The Days of “A Different World” Ever Return? Tuesday, May 24, 2011 @ 11:42AMIn today’s bottom-line market, shows featuring African-Americans are considered risky business, which only makes it harder for black-themed TV shows to get produced and financed. But it wasn’t always this way.
  • Lucky breaks fell into Van Dyke's lap Sunday, May 22, 2011 @ 9:02PM'It never occurred to me to write a book,' said Dick Van Dyke, who wrote a book
  • Big Time Rush Sunday, May 22, 2011 @ 3:39PMRecommended In 10 Words or Less Freaks, Geeks and Stan Lee Reviewer's Bias* Loves: Good sitcoms, Hockey Likes: The Monkees , Some Nickelodeon sitcoms Dislikes: boy bands Hates: Season "volumes" The Show As the father of a rapidly-aging young girl, I've found myselfwatching quite a few television shows I never thought I would gracewith my attention, mostly from the realm of Nickelodeon. One of ...
  • Networks check out retro-inspired sitcoms Sunday, May 22, 2011 @ 9:00AMCOMMERCIAL TV networks and viewers are set for a bounteous swag of new American productions dominated by comedy and a return to  Lost-style drama.
  • The 9 Most Exciting New Shows of the Upcoming Fall Season Thursday, May 19, 2011 @ 1:48PMThe upfronts are all done, and the networks have showed us the goods: Over 40 new series — multi-camera sitcoms, single-camera sitcoms, cross-dressing sitcoms, women-fearing sitcoms, hip chick-starring sitcoms, procedural dramas, spiritual dramas, fairy-tale dramas, Mad Men –inspired dramas, etc. — are coming to your TV beginning in the fall. We've studied them all looking for the best of the ...
  • FINAL UPDATE: TV Watch: Network Edition - Upfront Blog Wednesday, May 18, 2011 @ 8:49AM  Welcome to this special edition of TV Watch, the blog that covers the big four of network television. We're in the last week before upfronts, which means that we'll about a lot of renewals and cancellations in the next week.  To help you find out about the fate of any network shows you might watch (or if you just want to laugh and make jokes about the cancellation of The Event ), I'm putting ...
  • Can women save NBC's fall TV lineup? Tuesday, May 17, 2011 @ 11:09PMNBC is making a big bet that the route to its long-needed comeback will come through female-skewing scripted series.
  • The Programming Insider: The Upfronts, Day Two Tuesday, May 17, 2011 @ 10:14AMIn Today's Issue Prime-Time Metered Market Monday Ratings: Easy Victory for ABC ABC in 2011-12: Seven New Fall Series, Changes on Five Nights Fox in 2011-12: Five New Fall Series, Changes on Five Nights On the Air Tonight: Prime-Time Programming Options TV Tidbits: Notes of Interest TV Trivia Time: A Real Shark   PRIME-TIME METERED MARKET MONDAY RATINGS: Easy Victory for ABC Monday 5/16/11 Note ...
  • Watch previews of most new NBC shows Tuesday, May 17, 2011 @ 10:11AMHere are links to previews of 10 of NBC's 12 new shows for the 2011-12 season. The quality is all over the map.
  • Evening Times Tuesday, May 17, 2011 @ 7:22AMThe country is in financial meltdown and the only prospect of salvation comes from some morally dubious allies.
  • The Morning Fix: 'Thor' and 'Bridesmaids' soar at box office! Shake-up at Dish Network. NBC unveils schedule. Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 8:34AMAfter the coffee. Before the NBC and Fox upfronts. The Skinny: Because it's upfront week, expect lots of TV news in the Morning Fix for the next few days. Hey, if they sent me to France instead of New York,...
  • Editorial: The WastelandRevisited Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 8:33AMFormer FCC Chairman's NAB "vast wasteland" became the rallying cryof every critic of TV...
  • You ask what's next from Betty White? A new book about her life and career, 'If You Ask Me' Monday, May 16, 2011 @ 8:13AMShe likes a cocktail before dinner and a weekly poker night. She has a taste for french fries and hot-dogs, and a jones for crossword puzzles. And, in service to her passion as a writer, reams of lined notebook paper really get her going.
  • New fall TV season: NBC banks on comeback with scripted series starring Christina Applegate, Maria Bello and Katharine ... Sunday, May 15, 2011 @ 12:49PMNBC's fall schedule will include new series aimed at women, including "Up All Night" and "Prime Suspect."
  • Improved comics, TV listings for Tribune readers Friday, May 13, 2011 @ 3:57PMBeginning May 22, Sunday color comics will change to the larger size and more popular four-page stand-alone section.
  • Vulture Watches Old Sitcoms With Bridesmaids’ Rose Byrne Friday, May 13, 2011 @ 2:04PMStaring at a computer monitor at the Paley Center for Media, Rose Byrne is cringing. Dressed down in “utilitarian” jeans and Converse high-tops for what she calls an “anti-fashion day,” she’s watching David Brent, Ricky Gervais’s character from the UK version of The Office , attempt to woo a woman on a blind date. He starts off by making reference to her dead mother’s breasts. “Oh god. Oh god ...
  • Prime time TV blurs family with frisky Friday, May 13, 2011 @ 1:33PMSome critics call it "sleaze TV". One MP has even suggested making most of prime time "adults only" to reflect the increased amount of sexual material on offer.The debate over early evening television programming hit the headlines...
  • TV: Tell, Show, Laugh Friday, May 13, 2011 @ 1:13PMLast night Community ended its second and not final season, where it became a breakout…
  • The Meta, Innovative Genius of 'Community' Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ 9:59AMIt's one of the most inventive shows in sitcom history. But can it make us care about the characters?
  • The Programming Insider: Idol-Ignited Fox Crushes Rivals Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ 9:14AMIn Today's Issue: Prime-Time Metered Market Wednesday Ratings: Fox Wins; CBS a Respectable Second Ratings Box: What’s Hot/What’s Not On the Air Tonight: Prime-Time Programming Options TV Tidbits: Notes of Interest TV Trivia Time: Missing Florida     PRIME-TIME METERED MARKET WEDNESDAY RATINGS : Fox Wins; CBS a Respectable Second Wednesday 5/11/11 Note: The overnight data now includes DVR ...
  • Disney brings new channel to Africa Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ 9:01AMJOHANNESBURG (AP) - Disney sees opportunity in Africa as the continent's middle class and its leisure and retail infrastructure grow, the giant entertainment company said Thursday. Disney executives were in downtown Johannesburg Thursday for the launch in Africa of a new Disney channel in a deal with South African pay-TV company ...
  • Disney brings new channel to Africa, says it sees growing opportunity on the continent Thursday, May 12, 2011 @ 8:30AMJOHANNESBURG - Disney sees opportunity in Africa as the continent's middle class and its leisure and retail infrastructure grow, the giant entertainment company said Thursday.