I’m not entirely sure what it was that sent me into hysterics, but there was a distinct moment last night, probably right around 10:45 p.m., when Comedy Central finally wore me down. Bludgeoning my imagination with a blend of twisted satire and outlandish vulgarity, I completely lost it, laughing harder than I have in quite some …
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Meet Ugly Betty: Submit Your Questions For America Ferrera
For a character known as Ugly Betty, it’s been a pretty beautiful ride for actress America Ferrera.
The 25-year-old came to fame (and won a couple awards) for playing Betty Suarez on the hit ABC comedy series that’s been running strong since 2006. But now the show is drawing to a close – the last episode airs April 14 – and …
Top 10 Shows That Overstayed Their Welcome
After Fox’s 24 announced its final season TIME took a look at other television series that overstayed their welcome.
Walter White: The Most Fascinating Man on TV?
I realize I’m a little late here to be commenting on the most recent episode of Breaking Bad, but first I wanted to take a day and mull over a question that’s been rattling around in my head since the series returned for its …
Lost Finale Means Big Answers For Fans – And Big Business For ABC
In this age of DVR, Hulu and TiVO, live TV events are increasingly rare. But advertisers are betting on the fact that fans of Lost are going to be tuned in live May 23, for the much-anticipated final episode. And when we say betting, we mean betting big.
AdAge is reporting that a 30-second commercial spot during the Lost finale is …
Bring Out The Pitchforks! Stewart, Colbert Slam Party of Incitement
The party of no has become the party of incitement – or at least that seems to be the consensus of the comedic political watchdogs over at Comedy Central. It was the first night back on the air since the passage of the health care bill for both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and both hosts came out swinging against a sub-set …
Breaking Bad Watch: Survivor’s Guilt
Spoilers for the season three premiere of Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:
Amanpour to ABC's This Week; A Good Change, or a Waste of Talent?
Going outside its current stable of reporters and anchors, ABC is hiring longtime CNN international reporter Christiane Amanpour to host the Sunday-morning This Week interview show vacated by George Stephanopoulos. TV Newser has the details; among them, that she’ll start in August, until which White House correspondent Jake Tapper (who’s …
Best Picture: Logorama's Brandscape Painting
Just so you know we’re not all about Oscar complaints here this morning, last night’s awards got one thing 100% right: the award for Best Animated Short went to Logorama, one of the most spectacular things you’re likely to see in quite a while. The 15-plus-minute film tells a hardboiled action-disaster story in a Los Angeles built …
Top 10 MTV Moments
For everyone who remembers when MTV used to play music videos, the news that the cable channel had removed the phrase “Music Television” from its logo only made its long metamorphosis into a reality-tv channel official. TIME …
Stupid PR Tricks: Toyota Dealers Recall Ads, to Punish ABC
Toyota has been making a show of contrition for the acceleration problem that led to a massive recall of several of its models, buying a humbled Super Bowl ad and apologizing publicly. But one group of its dealers is working hard to blow any positive credit the company may have earned, pulling its ads from ABC stations to punish the …
Best and Worst Super Bowl Ads 2010: The Good, the Bad and the (Misogynistically) Ugly
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My quickie reviews of last night’s Super Bowl ads (all of them, with a few exceptions, 68 in total) are up at time.com. I grade them not as an advertising professional but simply as a guy who watches TV and buys stuff, though I try to take the effectiveness of the message into …
The Most Awesome Negative Ad of All Time
Tom Campbell claims that he is a sheep. But I, Carly Fiorina, maintain that he is in fact a wolf! And a pig! And a man wearing a sheep costume! Tom Campbell—I declare thee ManWolfSheepPig! (Thus doing Al Gore’s South Park nemesis one animal better.)
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The bonus of this California …