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Holy crap, this was uncomfortable. Every year (for the last few years) they wheel out Dick Clark, prop him up in front of a camera and let him mumble out the countdown as the ball drops in Times Square. The last 3 years he’s been barely coherent. Last year he effed up [...]

Tyra Banks is ending her daytime TV talk show.

The supermodel-turned-TV-mogul announced she that she will wrap up her talk show at the end of its current season – its fifth — this coming spring.

“This will be the last season of ‘The Tyra Show,’” she wrote on her Web site. “I’ve been loving having fun, coming [...]

On Monday, the finale for NBC’s “The Sing-Off” airs. I’m kinda bummed. I wasn’t going to pay any attention to it, but since there was nothing else on on Monday, I invested some time and totally enjoyed it.

The concept is simple: a bunch of teams from around the country do popular songs a [...]

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Lots of people are calling it creepy and insensitive. I think it’s pretty damn funny.

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NBC’s venerable crime procedural, “Law & Order,” has endured a fair amount of deserved criticism around here lately. Big Hollywood’s thoughtful critiques of the show’s leftward slide and irksome predictability are, sadly, valid. Like many L&O fans, I’ve been forced to admit that recent seasons have been quite disappointing. The word [...]

Bernard Goldberg on the White House’s draconian war on Fox News.

Remember that it was FOX – not the big, supposedly objective, unbiased “mainstream media” that ran with the Van Jones story. It was FOX that kept the ACORN story alive. Both legitimate news stories. And remember that it was only after FOX wouldn’t [...]

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Two weeks into a new season, the talk of television is the Leno effect — and whether it is hazardous to NBC’s health.

On “The Tonight Show,” the host, Conan O’Brien, going for laughs with his guest, Hank Azaria.

It is not just a question of how the new “Jay Leno Show” itself is faring in the [...]

Jesus, they sure killed that goose laying the golden egg, didn’t they?

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9 years ago, a television show hit Showtime that was so outrageous, so different from what was historically shown in the United States, that people had to stand up and take notice. Queer as Folk chronicled the lives of a group of gay friends in Pittsburgh and their trials and tribulations.

The show was received [...]

Pretty amazing stuff from the season premiere of America’s Got Talent last night. I tend to enjoy the show because it’s more relaxed and fun than Idol and they don’t take themselves as seriously. Sure it isn’t as big, either, but the talents are still talents.

First was the EriAm sisters. You never [...]

Proving that when given enough time and surrounded by enough laziness, an inventor will even figure out a tool for ass-wiping.

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The best part is around the two minute mark when his stupid audience is speechless. “Oh my God, he criticized the great one, what do we do? Can we laugh? Does it make us racist?”

Blech.

I’m assuming that, if you wanted to see it, you’ve already seen the Celebrity Apprentice finale from Sunday night. If not, you missed a hum dinger of a cat fight between Poker Champ Annie Duke and the loudmouthed obnoxious Joan Rivers.

For about half the season, Annie and Joan had been going at it, mainly [...]

Imagine my surprise as I turned on Episode 4 of Fringe and saw that they filmed it across the street from my office!

Also imagine my surprise as they reoriented the neighborhood (the skyline isn’t there, and there never was a construction site across the street from the diner). Imagine my surprise as they told [...]

Anyone who has read this site for any length of time knows how fond I am of Paul Pots. The winner of Britain’s Got Talent has the single most amazing voice most of us have ever heard. He’s a superb talent in every respect.

So when I saw someone else was going to do [...]

It’s pretty amazing, now that I think of it. There’s no one who didn’t think the 16 year old girl vote wouldn’t push David Archuleta over the top. In fact, it was so obvious that I didn’t watch any of the finale, opting instead to watch some classic WWE matches on MSG Television.

For [...]

Last night was Neil Diamond night on Idol (WOOHOO!) and each contestant got to sing two songs. The plan, originally, was that the judges wouldn’t comment on the first round of songs and instead give a more complete critique after the second song of both.

After everyone performed the first round, Ryan brought all the [...]

Completely notwithstanding his deadpan delivery, he gets the damn thing completely wrong. What the hell was he looking at when this happened?