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Strike Watch: The "Fall" "TV" "Schedule"

The talk about a possible Screen Actors’ Guild strike if no contract is reached by the June 30 expiration is turning more serious. Reuters reports that the SAG may vote to authorize a strike if the contract expires, and adds that the networks “are quietly considering a postponement of the traditional September launch of the [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: Wheel of Fortune

So I’ve had a couple weeks to digest the finale now, and I’ve got to be honest with you: I’m not sure I’m liking the frozen donkey wheel. Not the “frozen donkey wheel” in the metaphorical sense, as the code for the surprises in the season finale. I mean the wheel itself, which was in [...]

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Matthew Perry, the 21st-Century Dabney Coleman

The former Friends star continues his de-Chandlerification, striking a deal to star in a new series from Peter Tolan (Rescue Me). In Showtime’s The End of Steve, Perry will play an afternoon talk-show host in Rochester, New York, who’s foul-mouthed offstage and desperate to get out of town to a bigger city. Plus: Perry deserves [...]

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The Morning After: Texas Tea

The Thom Beers empire added to its library of blue-collar reality shows (Ice Road Truckers, Deadliest Catch) the new TruTV series Black Gold, about roughnecks drilling for oil. (Which I’m told is worth something nowadays.) I wrote about the show in a column about the blue-collar genre a month ago, but it’s been so long [...]