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Against almost every expectation, nearly half of all people watching delayed shows are still slouching on their couches watching messages about movies...
Against almost every expectation, nearly half of all people watching delayed shows are still slouching on their couches watching messages about movies...
Michael Giltz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment
Nothing can replace being in the room, of course, but the 9 DVD set Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Museum Live takes some of the sting out of not being there.
Danny Groner | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment
There's a longstanding precedent in place for TV shows that carry the term "Family" in their headers. Television writers have long played up the hostile, bitter and even violent side to families as a way to offset expectations.
Lauri Lyons | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
When it comes to women in hip-hop, don't call it a comeback. Women have been here for years.
Cracked.com | Posted 09.15.2009 | Comedy
Writing TV shows is hard. We think. Actually it probably depends on the show. Either way, with all those characters and plotlines going on it's appare...
Jilly Gagnon | Posted 09.24.2009 | Comedy
On "Real Estate," a former house-flipper, Samantha Drake (played by the always fabulous Megan Mullally!) learns that life's not always just a bed of perfectly landscaped roses!
Michael Giltz | Posted 09.17.2009 | Entertainment
Firefly is quirky, with the offbeat and clever dialogue we expect from Whedon. But it's also wholly satisfying and fun from episode one
Michael Giltz | Posted 09.05.2009 | Entertainment
The Soloist was oscar bair but no one was nibbling. Down on his luck Downey helps talented but homeless Foxx in this TV movie-ready story.
Michael Giltz | Posted 08.14.2009 | Entertainment
With the new season just around the corner in mid-August, it's a good time to catch up with Mad Men. It is one show that definitely rewards careful rewatching.
AP | Posted 05.05.2009 | Media
LOS ANGELES — Drew Lachey is hosting a new HGTV competition series with a hefty mortgage payoff prize. The cable network said Friday that "HGTV...
Reuters | Posted 04.28.2009 | Media
The Walt Disney Co and Hulu.com have restarted talks over offering shows from Disney's ABC television network on the online video distributor owned by...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 03.29.2009 | Media
As a great man once said: "Woo-hoo." On Thursday Fox said it had renewed "The Simpsons" for two more years, confirming that the animated series will b...
Jerry Zezima | Posted 03.14.2009 | Style
Yes, it's true: Regis Philbin has no passwords. He has simplified his life the way I and millions of other people wish we could simplify ours, but can't.
Gavin Newsom | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media
Our Facebook Drive is about developing a modern communication system that will help create an army of Californians to not only hear our policy ideas but help implement them as well.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 02.25.2009 | Entertainment
Last week, almost everyone supported Margene, but she seemed to be sabotaging herself this week. Rolling over to play "Mommy" for no apparent reason? What's her damage?
Daniel Sweren-Becker | Posted 02.05.2009 | Entertainment
French orphans. Thai hookers. Billion dollar wills. Thank goodness those age-old High School problems are back to take up our time.
Michael Giltz | Posted 02.02.2009 | Entertainment
Yep, it's time to make the switch to BluRay. You should buy a BluRay player and/or start buying movies on BluRay instead of regular DVDs wherever it makes sense. Here's how and why.
Michael Giltz | Posted 01.24.2009 | Entertainment
Here are the top releases from December. Most of them are in the stores now but a few hit shelves in the next week. They saved some great stuff for the end of the year.
Michael Giltz | Posted 01.05.2009 | Entertainment
With Frost/Nixon opening today in select cities, Universal has found the right time to celebrate director Ron Howard by releasing The Ron Howard Spotlight Collection. Which four movies of Ron Howard's do you think are his best?
ABC News | KARSON YIU and DAN HARRIS | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media
Much of reality TV is populated by a "parade of horribles," a pageant of the pathetic. There are the strung-out addicts from VH1's "CelebrityRehab wi...
Michael Giltz | Posted 12.22.2008 | Entertainment
Werner Herzog is well into one of the most eclectic, odd and engaging movie careers, one that jumps from personal epics to quixotic documentary films, and now even Hollywood spectacles.
Michael Giltz | Posted 12.12.2008 | Entertainment
We're in a golden age for documentaries. More of them are shown in theaters and on TV than ever before and more people now have access to video cameras so they can make their own.
Lenore Skenazy | Posted 11.14.2008 | Entertainment
Only Oscar the Grouch seems to have escaped the current crisis unscathed, for reasons that are, in retrospect, obvious: He avoided the real estate bubble by residing in a garbage can.
Michael Giltz | Posted 10.31.2008 | Entertainment
George Clooney is such a savvy, old school Hollywood star that even the movies he makes that don't quite work just seem to add to his stature.
Michael Giltz | Posted 09.09.2008 | Entertainment
The TV series Star Trek is being released on DVD in a new and "improved" version that cleans up and removes old special effects and inserts brand new ones that never existed.
New York Times | BILL CARTER | Posted 11.01.2009 | Media