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Kristen Wiig Gets Big SNL Sendoff

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On last night’s season finale of SNL, comic actress extrodinaire, Kristen Wiig, got a big sendoff from host Mick Jagger. SNL will never be the same without this awesomely talented and beautiful actress. Further bad news is that Andy Samberg and Jason Sudakis may also be leaving the show as well, however producer Lorne Michaels [...]

30 ROCK Season 7 Will Be The Last

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The producers and cast of 30 ROCK have decided to end the show after this upcoming season. The show became a vehicle for talented SNL writer and performer Tina Fay to write a prime time comedy that has won more than a few Emmy nominations and Awards. And, although this Tina Fey written production is [...]

CBS Cancels CSI: MIAMI, UNFORGETTABLE & ROB

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Buzz for days was that CBS would likely cancel either CSI: NY or CSI:MIAMI, leading to a waiting game by anxious viewers of both shows. And the ending of CSI_NY on Friday sure looked like a possible exit episode to most viewers. However, it turned out that it was CSI:MIAMI that got cut from the [...]

TBS Picks Up COUGAR TOWN From ABC

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Fans of the Courtney Cox comedy, COUGAR TOWN, can rest easy. TBS will pick the show up from ABC for a shortened 15 episode season, sparing the comedy cancellation. This also gives TBS another fairly proven entity to shore up their lineup of comedy programming. If fans of the show migrate over to TBS from [...]

CBS Sending Legal Notice To ABC Over THE GLASS HOUSE

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Lawyers for CBS are sending legal notice to ABC that they aren’t at all pleased about a proposed new project called THE GLASS HOUSE. It turns out the show is surprisingly similar to BIG BROTHER, and ABC has even hired 18 former staffers from the CBS show to help to develop the claimed ripoff version [...]

Crazy Tanning Mom Becomes Major Joke With Late Night Comics

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Late night comics have received a major gift with the story of the crazy tanning mom from New Jersey. Looking much like a dried out piece of shoe leather, Patrica Krentcil, has made news for her absurd appearance and raised attention from police after she brought her kindergarten aged daughter with her to the tanning [...]

Mick Jagger Will Host SNL

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Mick Jagger has been tapped to host the big season finale episode of SNL May 19. Jagger will both host the show and act as musical guest. With the long demise of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones rank as the greatest rock and roll act still performing together as an a band. Reportedly, Mick Jagger [...]

Jay Leno Turns 62

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Jay Leno, the mechanic turned stand-up comic, turned TV icon has turned 62 today. Jay Leno remains the popular host of the TONIGHT SHOW. But circumstances nearly changed that forever. And most of Leno’s TONIGHT SHOW ratings have since returned after a 2009-2010 terrible fiasco over at NBC in which Leno was set to retire [...]

President Obama Guests On JIMMY FALLON

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Jimmy Fallon scored a major coup by having a sitting president guest star on his show last night. The guest appearance had to be a win-win event for both Jimmy Fallon and President Obama. The appearance likely gave Jimmy Fallon’s show a ratings boost while giving the president an opportunity to shore up his support [...]

Mike Wallace Passed Up Press Secretary Role For Nixon Administration To Do 60 MINUTES

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Mike Wallace, the legend at 60 MINUTES died this past weekend. He was 93. But, many people don’t realize that Mike Wallace was also a big fan of President Nixon and was even offered the press secretary position by the president. Wallace really wanted that job, but also had the opportunity at CBS to do [...]

Chevy Chase Could Quit COMMUNITY Soon

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Having Referred to COMMUNITY creator Dan Harmon as “that bastard”, comedy actor Chevy Chase is having a major league feud with his show’s exec that has become public in the last few days. For their part, the producers of COMMUNITY are very sorry that any details of this difference of opinion has become public. And [...]

Top 9 TV Shows That Should Have Been Made But Weren’t

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Creating and producing a television show that makes it on the air is a difficult thing. Each season, thousands of pilots are written or “conceived,” in the case of unscripted reality programs and out of those thousands, a hundred may be ordered. Of those scripts, dozens are shot, sometimes costing around $2 million each. Of [...]

Katie Couric Guest Hosts ABC’s GOOD MORNING AMERICA, While Sarah Palin Gets Ready To Guest Host NBC’s TODAY SHOW

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You’d think that this was some sort of ratings sweeps week the way that ABC’s GOOD MORNING AMERICA and NBC’s TODAY SHOW are bringing out the big name talent. But, the truth is that ABC’s GOOD MORNING AMERICA is slowly pulling close to the traditional morning TV ratings leader over at NBC. And with Robin [...]

FOX Renews Hit Crime Series BONES

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For the past seven seasons, BONES, has been something like FOX’s answer to CSI. The series will debut with a new season on April 2, with all new darkly funny crime procedural stories. Starring Emily Deschanel, the older sister of Zooey Deschanel, BONES was a little delayed this year because of the birth of her [...]

JERSEY SHORE Producers Intend To Phase Out Snooki & The Situation

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An industry leak claims that two popular characters from JERSEY SHORE will be phased out over the upcoming season in favor of new characters in order to keep the show with some edge. With Snooki’s reported pregnancy, it seems that the producers worry that she won’t be as interesting to viewers, so her role in [...]

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