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Oh My Blog: What's The Big Deal About "New Media" Influence?

Richard Laermer | Posted 06.14.2008 | Media

Read More: Web 2.0, Blogs, Friday Night Lights, New Media, Blogosphere, Media, Old Media, Media News

Sometimes blogs elevate the dialogue, sometimes they're clutter. The nature of the blog itself is that there is no nature. It's like the Bush Administration's risible War on Terrorism: terrorism is not warring with us.

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Why Boston Legal is One of Broadcast's Best

Ed Martin | Posted 05.23.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: William Shatner, Upfronts, David E. Kelley, James Gandolfini, Friday Night Lights, The Practice, Boston Legal, Jon Hamm, Abc, Mad Men, LA Law, The West Wing, The Sopranos, Candice Bergen, Entertainment News

Many series just haven't been themselves since the strike, but Legal has rocked, with episodes so emotionally rich and resonant that they would seem to ensure Emmy nominations galore.

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Network TV Upfront Week 2008: Not So Bad After All

Ed Martin | Posted 05.22.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Samuel L. Jackson, Upfront, Heroes, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Conan O’Brien, Fox, Cbs, Janice Dickinson, George Foreman, MTV Networks, Chris Rock, Maroon 5, Battlestar Galactica, Abc, Frank Caliendo, Univision, Kathy Griffin, Gossip Girl, Nbc, Suze Orman, Friday Night Lights, Stephen Colbert, Joss Whedon, Jim Cramer, Kyra Sedgwick, Taylor Swift, Tom Brokaw, Donny Deutsch, 30 Rock, Jon Stewart, Lauren Conrad, Saturday Night Live, Justin Timberlake, The CW, Jimmy Fallon, Ashanti, Entertainment News

We had been led to expect networks to roll over and play dead in the wake of the WGA strike and amid the recession -- but almost all the networks rallied in grand style for Upfronts 2008.

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DVDs: Friday Night Lights Fights

Michael Giltz | Posted 04.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: TV Shows, Laura Linney, Shirley Temple, Cloverfield, Laverne & Shirley, Puppetry, Friday Night Lights, Sally Mann, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dvds, Movies, Entertainment News

Never -- and I say this with love -- never has a TV drama been so good and then gone so completely off the rails as Friday Night Lights.

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Penn, Carville and the Fat Cats: With Friends Like These...

Matt Littman | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

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The superdelegates are quickly realizing that Obama's ability to put more states in play will increase their chances of victory.

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NBC's New Fall Schedule

Drew Grant | Posted 04.04.2008 | Entertainment

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Heroes will return for a third season, but with a special option on your TiVo remote that allows viewers to execute any character when they get too depressed about having superpowers.

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NBC Greenlights "Office" Spinoff, "Friday Night Lights" As 65-Week Schedule Takes Shape

AP | Frazier Moore | Posted 04.02.2008 | Entertainment

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"Friday Night Lights" will shine again next season. The acclaimed football-and-family drama will return on NBC for a third year after 13 new episodes ...

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Producer Of 'Friday Night Lights' (The Best Show On TV) 'Incredibly Optimistic' For Third Season

AP | DERRIK J. LANG | Posted 03.20.2008 | Entertainment

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LOS ANGELES — "Friday Night Lights" just may score another season. Executive producer Jason Katims said he's "incredibly optimistic" about a th...

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NBC Saves "Friday Night Lights" With Help From DirecTV

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.06.2008 | Entertainment

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This is great news to that small but passionate audience for the best TV series you're not watching. I'm told that Jeff Zucker, Marc Graboff and Ben S...

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"Friday Night Lights," The Best Show On TV, May Get A Season 3

Variety | Josef Adalian | Posted 02.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Best Week Ever, Friday Night Lights, Save Friday Night Lights, Entertainment News

"Friday Night Lights" may shine on for another season -- and on more than one network. NBC Universal execs have decided they want to go the extra yar...

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"Best Week Ever" Tries To Save Best Show On TV

Defamer | Posted 02.19.2008 | Entertainment

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Less than two weeks ago, the staff of Bestweekever.tv put together a spirited and inventive internet campaign whose mission was to convince NBC not to...

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Christianity Returns On TV, Both Good And Bad

NY Times | GINIA BELLAFANTE | Posted 12.13.2007 | Entertainment

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Since the first breeding of reindeer, in other words, any special Christmas episode of a series might be described more or less as Thursday's hour of ...

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Friday Night Lights: Best Drama on TV Returns, and New York Times Throws it a Celebratory English Department Cocktail Party

Bill Barol | Posted 10.05.2007 | Entertainment

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It would be a shame if readers who have never seen the show gather from Ginia Bellafante's NYT review that it's a Lit seminar dressed in shoulder pads.

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