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Canning Laughter Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:43AMComedian Judy Gold has subtitled The Judy Show , her latest one-woman show, “My Life As a Sitcom.” That’s not quite accurate; The Judy Show never feels like anything approaching a sitcom, despite the obsessive papering of the set’s walls with posters of vintage sitcoms like The Brady Bunch and MASH . Gold has taken what amounts to several stand-up routines, and hastily tied them together with ...
NY Review: 'The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom' Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 3:21PMJudy Gold is probably the only person to have watched more TV as a kid than I did.
Small World -- Make your opinion known Sunday, May 1, 2011 @ 1:16AMVoting is likely most appreciated by those who are least able to do it!
Charlie Sheen kicks off 'Torpedo of Truth' tour in Detroit Saturday, April 16, 2011 @ 5:41PMDETROIT — Charlie Sheen has been pretty well everywhere the past few months, popping up all over national TV, the Internet and in other forms of mass media, blathering on about the "tiger blood" coursing through his veins and decrying the "trolls" who derailed his lucrative acting career.
Charlie Sheen kicks off 'Torpedo of Truth' tour in Detroit Monday, April 11, 2011 @ 9:52PMDETROIT — Charlie Sheen has been pretty well everywhere the past few months, popping up all over national TV, the Internet and in other forms of mass media, blathering on about the "tiger blood" coursing through his veins and decrying the "trolls" who derailed his lucrative acting career.
Sheen heads east to the Midwest to kick off tour Saturday, April 2, 2011 @ 10:21AMAP - Charlie Sheen's "torpedo of truth" is just about ready for launch.
People in the News Tuesday, March 22, 2011 @ 1:16PMSitcom vets returning NEW YORK - Count Fran Drescher of "The Nanny" and Wayne Knight of "Seinfeld" among TV veterans returning in new sitcoms. TV Land network is announcing that Drescher will be back on the air with "Happily Divorced." She will star as a florist who deals with dating after finding out her husband is gay. The network said Monday that "Happily Divorced" will premiere June 15...
TV Land Greenlights Three Sitcoms Including 'Happily Divorced' Starring Fran Drescher, 'The Exes' Starring Donald ... Monday, March 21, 2011 @ 2:49PMTV Land announced today that the network is moving forward with three sitcoms â two new series and a renewal for "Retired at 35." Â These series join "Hot in Cleveland" which is now up to a 24 episode order for season three. Â These pick-ups take TV Land from zero to four scripted sitcoms within less than a year's time, along with several additional sitcoms in development.
TV Land Greenlights Three Sitcoms Including "Happily Divorced," "The Exes" and a New Season of Current Hit "Retired at ... Monday, March 21, 2011 @ 2:40PMThese series join "Hot in Cleveland" which is now up to a 24 episode order for season three.
Charlie Sheen joins the ranks of actors who can be replaced Thursday, March 17, 2011 @ 3:19AMCharlie Sheen has been fired from his role on Two and a Half Men. He would not be the first TV star to be replaced, should the producers decide to press on with the hit TV show.
"Two and a Half Men" Talks Sheen Replacements and Other Sitcoms That Lost Their Stars Wednesday, March 9, 2011 @ 6:02PMSitcom Survival Rates After a Major Replacement
History of the engagement ring Monday, February 14, 2011 @ 1:22PMThe wedding ring is an abstract symbol for many things: eternal and undying love, commitment, and a lifetime promise. However, commercials and advertisements might make one think it is simply a piece of “bling.”
A crazy little thing called love Thursday, February 10, 2011 @ 10:04AMA crazy little thing called love
Thanks for the memories Tuesday, January 18, 2011 @ 11:50PMHe may be pushing 80, but Regis Philbin joyrides like a 13-year-old boy. “We’re driving in the car,” says his friend, comedian Don Rickles, “and he’ll roll down the window and yell out, on Broadway, ‘I’m with Don Rickles! Do you believe this? I’m riding in...
Horrible bosses hit the big screen Monday, December 6, 2010 @ 10:15AMThe success of The Social Network, Wall Street 2, and Undercover Boss may well mark 2010 as the year that film and television embraced business stories. And New Line's star-studded Horrible Bosses aims to carry the trend into 2011.
Suit filed in 'Transformers 3' injury Tuesday, October 5, 2010 @ 2:12PMThe family of Gabriela Cedillo, a Chicago woman injured this summer during filming of a stunt for the movie "Transformers 3," says in a lawsuit that she is permanently brain-damaged.
Retired executive comes to Pinellas to launch national Alzheimer's funding campaign Tuesday, September 21, 2010 @ 5:43PMBy Stephen Nohlgren, Times Staff Writer Tuesday, September 21, 2010 George, left, and Trish Vradenburg kick off a petition drive to increase federal funding for Alzheimer’s research at Villas of Belleair, a 98-bed nursing home for people with dementia. CLEARWATER — The white-haired woman shuffled around a shady, fenced-in yard Tuesday, bracing herself on the arm of a young, uniformed attendant ...
Tough Being a Kid CEO Thursday, September 9, 2010 @ 12:01PMEach day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: Why not everyone can be like Zuck. Despite the successes of prodigies like Mark Zuckerberg, today's Wall Street Journal reports that 20-something entrepreneurs are still finding it difficult to be "the boss." One 23-year-old business owner tells the Journal it was ...
At 61, Diana Nyad ready to swim Cuba to Keys 32 years after first attempt Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 3:33AMIt's Aug. 15, 1978, and Diana Nyad is in distress, slamming into 8-foot waves, bobbing in the tumultuous open waters of the Florida Straits. She's in a shark cage and has been swimming for 41 hours, 39 minutes, since she waded into the surf near Bahía Honda, Cuba.
32 years later, Diana Nyad to try Cuba-Florida Keys swim again Monday, August 23, 2010 @ 10:02PMIt's Aug. 15, 1978, and Diana Nyad is in distress, slamming into eight-foot waves, bobbing in the tumultuous open waters of the Florida Straits. She's in a shark cage and has been swimming for 41 hours, 39 minutes, since she waded into the surf near Bahía Honda, Cuba.
Terence Blacker: Parish councils and a quiet revolution Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 6:11PMThe dawning of this new age of happy liberation from the state (or should that be "miserable betrayal by the state"?) has provided few greater surprises than the suggestion that the parish council, that whiskery old joke beloved of sitcoms like The Vicar of Dibley, will play an important part in the great revolution to come.
Terence Blacker: Parish councils and a quiet revolution Monday, August 16, 2010 @ 6:11PMThe dawning of this new age of happy liberation from the state (or should that be "miserable betrayal by the state"?) has provided few greater surprises than the suggestion that the parish council, that whiskery old joke beloved of sitcoms like The Vicar of Dibley, will play an important part in the great revolution to come.
TCA: CBS Panel In Depth Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 1:25PMMediaweek's Marc Berman takes us through the CBS panel and fall schedule from TCA. Take a look at in-depth analysis of all the additions and scheduling changes that will accompany CBS' fall schedule.
Oprah Tops Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Celebs List, Beyonce Beats Out Jay-Z Tuesday, June 29, 2010 @ 3:49PMIt's that time again, Forbes Magazine has released another installment of their annual 100 Most Powerful Celebrities list. Oprah landed at #1 after taking a backseat to Angelina Jolie last year, and Beyonce came in right behind her at #2 -- a good 13 spots ahead of her husband, Jay-Z. Aside from O and B, the top five consists of director James Cameron, popstar Lady Gaga, and golf giant Tiger ...
Salem: ‘Ward, don’t worry about the Beaver DVDs’ Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 3:45PMComplete six-season Leave it to Beaver series arrives on DVD Tuesday.
'Waitress' seems to fit perfectly on TV screen Wednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 4:51AMTONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: 'Waitress' (2007), 9 p.m., Lifetime.
1 Killed, 1 Seriously Injured In Two-Car Collision Near Enumclaw Friday, June 18, 2010 @ 7:16PMOne person is killed and another suffers life-threatening injuries in a two-car collision near Enumclaw, troopers say.
"Cocoon' principals are sadly mostly gone Friday, June 18, 2010 @ 4:55PMOver the quarter century since Cocoon's debut, four principals became Academy Award winners, most are deceased or barely remembered, and three actors still find steady work.
The perfect mom is no more Friday, June 11, 2010 @ 4:43PMToday’s TV mothers are stressed, yelling and neglectful
People,Places and Things Thursday, June 3, 2010 @ 3:45PMWASHINGTON - If the first British invasion of the White House ended with the house afire, the latest had Barack and Michelle Obama and their kids bouncing in their seats at a tribute concert for former Beatle Paul McCartney.
The State of Philippine Basketball Tuesday, June 1, 2010 @ 8:15AMA country celebrates 100 years of hoops worship.
Upfronts: The week networks moved forward by looking back Thursday, May 20, 2010 @ 9:00PMProgrammers are making a bold gamble on what worked in the past as the 1980s make a reassuring reference point.
Radical shake-up for normally staid CBS Wednesday, May 19, 2010 @ 9:35PMIn a startling move for a network that usually makes changes with the speed and flash of a glacier melting, CBS shook up its prime-time schedule Wednesday, canceling seven shows, adding five and scattering most of the rest to new time slots.
'Modern Family' shows you gotta have heart Tuesday, May 11, 2010 @ 11:21PMCENTURY CITY, Calif. -- After a multiyear, almost decade-long drought, the television sitcom again has a heartbeat -- emphasis on heart. It's not that there haven't been any TV comedies in recent years but they have been fewer in number and largely centered around workplace families ("30 Rock," "The Office"), not flesh-and-blood families.
Promenade Glimmered Briefly; La Cage aux Folles and Million Dollar Quartet Just Glare Tuesday, April 20, 2010 @ 5:16PMLike the madwoman in the 1969 Off-Broadway musical Promenade , who thinks that two escaped convicts are her long-lost babies, I have to live with my own truth, whether you like it or not. And one truth I'm living with these days is that, for me at least, the Broadway musical is over as a ph...
Hinson: Here's a little fatherly advice for you ... Sunday, April 18, 2010 @ 1:05AMLast weekend, I took my 10-year-old nephew, Hub Cub, to see an advance screening of the Oscar-nominated, animated feature film "The Secret of the Kells" at the Tallahassee Film Festival.
Holbrook says anniversary performance will be special Saturday, April 17, 2010 @ 9:37PMWednesday is the 100th anniversary of the death of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and at 7:30 that evening, the Elmira performing arts center that bears his name will present a one-man show to mark the occasion.
'Castle' recap: Casualties of late-night war Tuesday, April 13, 2010 @ 10:28AMBy Mandi Bierly Mandi Bierly on much-anticipated episode that takes off from chat-show world, but gets bogged down in (what else?) talk
Next Act Theatre gets "Names" right Thursday, April 8, 2010 @ 9:15AMProfessional funny guy Benny Silverman was wronged by a friend, and he has been carrying a bitter grudge for nearly 30 years. When he comes face to face with his nemesis, he has the opportunity to bury the hatchet. Will he take it?
'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' is still the champ Monday, March 22, 2010 @ 2:30PMThe two heroes of Earth have a plan of their own that involves working in the same corner, not just trading blows.
Baby lust: Not just for the ladies Monday, March 1, 2010 @ 3:14PMReactions to young, unplanned pregnancy are "staggeringly gendered," but it's not the women who are pleased
Bob Newhart looks back on 50 years in the biz Saturday, February 20, 2010 @ 3:24AMSEPT. 20, 2009 -- Actor Bob Newhart presents the Outstanding Comedy Series award to actress Tina Fey for "30 Rock" onstage during the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
Comedy duo visits film festival Friday, February 19, 2010 @ 10:58PMIt is nearly impossible to talk about Anne Meara or Jerry Stiller without thinking of the other. The comedy duo have shared a long, illustrious life as the team of “Stiller & Meara.” Yet, each has a shirtsleeve long list of accomplishments in their own right — on and off Broadway, Read more...
Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day [Clipjob] Tuesday, February 9, 2010 @ 3:14PMToday at Gawker.TV, Bill Murray dines with Anthony Bourdain, How I Met Your Mother's harem of hotties, Jon Stewart may have ripped off another comedian last night, the best commercials from the...
Challenger space shuttle disaster amateur video discovered Thursday, February 4, 2010 @ 6:01AMVideo of the 1986 disaster was locked in Florida man's basement for almost 25 years Never-before-seen video of the Challenger space shuttle disaster has surfaced after almost a quarter-century locked away in a Florida basement. The chilling amateur footage was recorded by retired optometrist Jack Moss on his new home video camera on the morning of 28 January 1986. The four-minute film captures ...
Video of shuttle disaster discovered Thursday, February 4, 2010 @ 6:01AMVdeo of the 1986 disaster was locked in Florida man's basement for almost 25 years Never-before-seen video of the Challenger space shuttle disaster has surfaced after almost a quarter-century locked away in a Florida basement. The chilling amateur footage was recorded by retired optometrist Jack Moss on his new home video camera on the morning of 28 January 1986. The four-minute film captures ...
Challenger space shuttle disaster amateur video discovered Thursday, February 4, 2010 @ 5:35AMFlorida basement.The chilling amateur footage was recorded by retired optometrist Jack Moss on his new home video camera on the morning of 28 January 1986.The four-minute film captures the moment the ...
Grammys Has Highest-Rated Telecast in Six Years Monday, February 1, 2010 @ 12:27PMBased on the fast affiliate results, The 52nd Annual Grammy Awards on CBS rose to a 14.3 rating/23 share in households, with 25.80 million viewers and as high as a 10.6 rating/24 share among adults 25-54 from 8-11:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Manager can't say yet if Maricel Soriano will transfer to TV5 Monday, February 1, 2010 @ 4:57AMMalou Choa-Fagar, manager of Diamond Star Maricel Soriano, gave an indefinite answer when asked if her ward will transfer to TV5 as rumored. "Nothing's final yet, it's still under negotiation. Will let you know within the week" Malou told Manila Bulletin Entertainment Online on Feb. 1.
Kittitas County educators, experts discuss society's cussing habit Sunday, January 31, 2010 @ 5:31AMELLENSBURG — Disguised by a bleep or not, an f-bomb is hard to ignore. There are certain hot-button words in the English language that evoke emotion better (or worse) than any other words can. Ten words top the list as the most popular … you can use your imagination.