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When Paula Abdul announced that she was leaving American Idol, I posted that it was not a good idea for either Abdul or Idol. (If, that is, Abdul actually leaves the show at all.) But thinking about it later, I realized that it had one side benefit: it would solve one of last season’s problems, which was that four judges were simply too …
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More Jay Leno Show news: Jay-Z will perform on Leno’s first show Sept. 14, together with Kanye West and Rihanna.
Ironically, Leno has been saying the new show will probably have fewer musical guests and more comedy than The Tonight Show. Reason: musical guests get the studio audiences pumped up, but they don’t actually draw (or retain) …
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If having everyone you know on Facebook and Twitter get one of those Mad Men Yourself avatars wasn’t enough, get ready for the real onslaught of publicity for season 3 of the show. (I’ve seen the first three episodes and will be reviewing—the third episode, in particular, is one of the series’ best ever.)
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Jay Leno showed up before TV critics in Pasadena yesterday and spilled some more details about The Jay Leno Show, which will be airing on NBC a thousand hours every week starting Sept. 14. Among the plans for the new show:
* NBC News’ own Brian Williams will contribute comedy in a recurring segment about stories not good enough for the …
From Pretty in Pink to Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, John Hughes, who died Aug. 6 at age 59, owned the 1980s teen comedy. TIME takes a look back at his greatest moments
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Exhibit A: A Washington Post reporter accuses Gawker of ripping off his story in a blog post. Gawker editor Gabriel Snyder’s rebuttal says the Gawker post was better (and thus better read) because the original was boring, while Gawker’s post gave the subject (a so-called “generational guru”) the kind of snide, uncensored treatment …
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As the TV critics’ press tour continued in Pasadena, CBS (along with sibling network The CW) wrapped up its presentations and NBC has just begun its portion. Some headlines:
* NBC’s Angela Bromstad answered—or judging by early press reactions, evaded—questions about Jay Leno, Ben Silverman, Kings, Paula Abdul, Chuck and more at …
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Reading Michael Pollan can be as intimidating as it is informative. He’d like you to stop eating so much meat and corn and eat more fruits and vegetables. No, not processed ones, fresh ones. No, not those fresh ones, the locally grown ones, over there. You know, actually, it’d be even better if you grew them yourself. Oh, also, why don’t …
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I missed this the first time around, but ABC has posted a second installment of its online teaser series, “Mysteries of the Universe: The Dharma Initiative”:
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So much for Twitter as a negotiating tactic. Paula Abdul had been carrying out her negotiations to return to American Idol as a judge semi-publicly through her Twitter feed, and last night, she used the service to tell us straight up: She’s leaving the show. Her statement, in the poetic tweet form in which it was conveyed:
With sadness
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Yesterday at the TV critics’ press tour, CBS held a session on the Emmy Awards, trying to explain/justify the format changes designed to ensure that broadcast-network shows (as opposed to cable) get more attention and, hopefully, awards. The awards added nominee slots and revamped the nomination process to create more opportunities for …
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So this weekend, Brian Stelter of the New York Times reported that the long-running feud between MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly had reached a truce, through the influence of the two hosts’ corporate bosses. Citing four sources at both networks, Stelter wrote that the increasingly venomous back-and-forth had been …
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If you’ve never done it before, trust me: a home renovation can stress out even a strong marriage. And Jon and Kate Gosselin’s marriage—well, you already know. So when the first post-separation-announcement Jon & Kate Plus 8 began by flashing back to January, when the couple decided to get their kitchen redone, you had to know it would …
