The WGA TV and movie writers’ strike will begin Monday, Variety is reporting. What happens then? When you turn your TV on Monday, there will be no picture. (You may hear a faint hissing sound from the remaining electrons escaping.) Your cable line will dry out and shrivel, not unlike a newborn’s umbilical stump, and [...]

Tonight on Animal Planet: The season 3 finale of Meerkat Manor. This week in the print TIME: I look at the tearjerking bloodbath that the series has become–Shakespeare! Flower! Mozart!–and what it is about this particular animal and this particular show that inspires such passionate, interactive mourning. As in: And I’d link to the article, [...]

Several weeks into its new season, and The Office has finally figured out what to do with its PB&J combo: split them up. Well, not break Pam and Jim up romantically, but give them some physical distance and each their own storyline. First, Jim, who was shanghaied into the A plot by Michael and Dwight, [...]

Well, the Democratic Party and liberal Hollywood finally joined forces to stick it to Stephen Colbert. First came word, delivered to Colbert on The Colbert Report itself, that he had been rejected from the Democratic primary ballot in South Carolina: Then the Writers’ Guild announced that it was going to go on strike, which will [...]