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Corporate Press Release Theater: NBC Announces "Green Week" Lineup

This past summer, I wrote, then wrote some more, about NBC’s plans to devote a week of programming, November 4-10, to episodes of its shows with environmental themes. I pretty much exhausted my supply of cheap Deal or No Deal jokes then, so I’m just going to recycle a few highlights from the press release. [...]

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Hey, Guys, Let's Put on a Reality Show!

myspacetv.com From the folks over at myspacetv.com comes word of the social-networking site’s “first co-developed original web series.” (Whatever exactly that means, it involves a sponsorship by the Ford Focus.) Roommates follows four young women, recent college grads, as they get an apartment together in Los Angeles and embark on adult life. (Four other friends [...]

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Heroes Watch: Family Affair

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, eject that “Secrets of Double Dutch” video and watch last night’s Heroes. NBC Photo: Chris Haston One of my past problems with Heroes has been that it cast one of my favorite TV actors, Greg Grunberg, but gave him little interesting to do. That may finally be changing. [...]

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The Morning After: Snipe Hunt

K-Ville, Journeyman, Dancing With the Stars: you name it, you can post about it here. If you watched any program on NBC last night (a Heroes Watch is forthcoming), didja happen to notice that PHENOMENON is PREMIERING this WEEK? By now I’m used to “snipes”–the little in-house show promo ads at the bottom of the [...]