Monday night on Dancing with the Stars saw everyone hoofing it to music from movies like Indiana Jones, Psycho and Toy Story.
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Dancing with the Stars Week Four Recap: Cher Visits Movie Night
We hope you got out your popcorn and jujubes, because it was movie night on Dancing with the Stars, complete with honest-to-God Hollywood royalty in the audience.
Dancing with the Stars Results, Week Three: Kristin Cavallari Gets a Reality Check
Welcome to TIME’s Dancing with the Stars recap, where we’ve barely dried our eyes from Monday night’s weepathon.
Dancing with the Stars Recap, Week Three: The Episode Where Everyone Cries
Welcome back to TIME’s Dancing with the Stars recap. Today’s theme: There Will Be Tears.
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The Morning After: New Beginning for Endings
There is a case to be made that most sitcoms should have only enough of a premise to get put on the air by a network. Then the show can ditch whatever it was ostensibly “about” at the pitch meeting and simply be about: Here is a …
Dancing with the Stars Results, Week 2: Elisabetta Canalis is Finito
Welcome to this week’s Dancing with the Stars recap. On Monday night, the show’s judges left fan favorite Chaz Bono with the lowest score and Ricki Lake with the highest. Let’s see how the voters treated them:
Dancing with the Stars Week 2 Recap: Nancy Grace Suffers a Wardrobe Malfunction
Welcome back to season thirteen of Dancing with the Stars. Last we met, L.A. Laker Ron Artest, a.k.a. Metta World Peace, was on his way out. That’s right, America—we voted down World Peace. Explain that to your grandchildren.
Dancing with the Stars Recap: Chaz Bono Shines, Elisabetta Canalis Tanks
Dancing with the Stars kicked off its 13th run last night, proving that it is capable of crafting a buzz-generating cast (and stretching the definition of the word “star”) even after 12 seasons.
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Robo-James' Time Machine: They Were Still the One
It’s almost fall, which means that promos for new fall shows are starting to reach a crescendo. But one thing that we’ve lost amid all the multimedia advertising is what used to be a network staple: the fall-season promo reel. Above, see an example from the ABC “Still the One” campaign in 1977.
What’s most notable about this …
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TCA Roundup: ABC Plays Dress-Up
I checked out of the TCA television critic’s press tour a day and a half early, missing out on the final network to present, ABC, but plenty of TV writers have stayed to the bitter (except for the network-provided chocolate-chip-cookie swag) end. Here’s what they have to report.
* As I wrote earlier this summer, ABC this season will …
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ABC Announces Its Fall Premiere Dates
Following Fox and The CW, ABC today announced its rollout schedule for its new and returning fall shows. While the networks have experimented in recent years with staggered fall schedules to avoid shows getting lost in a pileup of premieres, most of ABC’s new shows will debut traditionally, in late September—the exceptions being the …
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Couric Gets a Talk Show: Is She the Right Woman for the Right (Day)time?
That thing that people kept saying would happen has happened: Katie Couric, formerly of NBC’s Today Show and CBS’s evening news, will host a syndicated talk show for ABC starting in fall 2012. Having left the morning and washed out of the evening, it’s now up to Couric (and her former producer Jeff Zucker, will work with her again) to …
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Upfronts 2011: ABC Embraces the Fantasy
When I interviewed Sopranos creator David Chase back in 2002—before the show’s first season since 9/11—he went on a tear about the theory, then popular among TV executives, that the terror attacks meant that people would want “comfort food” programming. “People are going to want less complexity, people are going to want more …
