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The New Anime Series You Absolutely Need to Be Watching

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 05:36:21 +0000

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Dear Hollywood: An Open Letter to the Hardworking Men and Women in the Entertainment Industries | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:47:28 +0000

We humbly suggest that you stand up and tell them to either embrace the age of the Internet or get out of the way so that new, forward-thinking industry leaders can take their place.

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Plan to Revive Two ABC Soap Operas Collapses - NYTimes.com

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:30:53 +0000

After four months of negotiations with actors, producers and unions, the company, Prospect Park, said Wednesday that it had suspended its efforts because of financial challenges. In a statement, it said that contractual demands from the unions “coupled with the program’s inherent economic challenges” led to the decision.

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'Pete & Pete' Reunion: Cast, Creative Crew Reunite In Los Angeles

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:56:51 +0000

There's a reason why a certain generation looks back on "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" with a vast fondness and nostalgia that reaches almost mythic proportions: the show was all about looking back on childhood with a vast fondness and nostalgia in mythic proportions. For the first time since the show ended in 1996, the cast and creative crew behind the early Nickelodeon cult hit reunited for a panel to look back on their now iconic work. Both Petes -- older TV brother Mike Maronna and the younger, stranger TV brother Danny Tamberelli -- were in attendance on Saturday at LA's Cinefamily, as were creators Will McRobb and Chris Viscardi and a host of other cast members.

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Michele Bachmann’s Entrance On Jimmy Fallon? The Fishbone Song ‘Lyin’ Ass Bitch’ | Mediaite

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:15:01 +0000

Earlier this morning, our own Nando Di Fino critiqued Michele Bachmann’s appearance on last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon by saying that that the first half of her segment, when she discussed her family life and Thanksgiving, was much better than her second, where she attempted to make “stale, rehearsed political humor.” However, it now seems that her spot on the show was tainted from the very beginning thanks to a sly commentary from Fallon’s house band, The Roots. In case anyone watching the show was curious why Bachmann’s entrance music appeared to be a rocking ska song, the song’s title, “Lyin’ Ass Bitch,” might explain things.

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NBC’s “Whitney” and CBS’s “2 Broke Girls” : The New Yorker

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:24:26 +0000

The problem is that “Whitney” is a terrible show, though in ways that resonate with our culture’s debates about women and humor. Like so many comedians on TV, Cummings plays an off-brand version of herself, an acerbic photographer with a live-in boyfriend. She resists pressure to marry; she and her dude bicker over household habits; they party with friends at a local night club. But, while Cummings is lacerating and deadpan, her fictional avatar reminds me less of Roseanne, or even of Silverman, than of someone much older: Lucille Ball.

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Netflix, Fox ready to resurrect Arrested Development as a streaming exclusive in 2013 - Engadget

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:35:14 +0000

The Bluth family has been off TV since Arrested Development was cancelled by Fox back in 2006, but after protracted rumors and a reported bidding war the show is ready to return as a Netflix-exclusive series. New episodes should be available in the first half of 2013 and represent another serious push into original content after Netflix signed up House of Cards, which will debut next year. The details are in the press release after the break, including interesting quotes from Fox execs celebrating this "new business model" allowing them to bring back another show, after Family Guy and Futurama made similar trips back from the dead with great success. After a summer of cancellations and PR gaffes, this should bring back goodwill at least from fans of this show, and likely heat up the campaigns to save other gone-too-soon TV shows. So what's next to get the Flatliners treatment? Firefly? Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles? Dollhouse? Community (six seasons and a movie!)?

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'The Munsters' Could Return, but as an Hourlong Drama - NYTimes.com

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:05:39 +0000

NBC has ordered a pilot of a new version of the 1960s sitcom “The Munsters,” reconceived as an hourlong drama, specifically, the network said Wednesday night, a “visually spectacular one-hour drama.”

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NBC Rebooting “The Munsters” — Slice of SciFi

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:41:48 +0000

NBC is desperate for a hit. And with vampires and werewolves being all the rage these days, they’re looking back to a staple of syndication, The Munsters.

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Yes, There Are Black People in Your Hunger Games: The Strange Case of Rue & Cinna | Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:33:39 +0000

There were the usual complaints of actors not meeting book loyalist expectations. However, among the usual complaints of “She doesn’t look as young as I thought” or “Where are Effie’s pink curls?” There was a different kind of shock and surprise toward Rue & Cinna, who will be played by Amandla Stenberg and Lenny Kravitz, respectively.

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NBCs mid-season schedule benches Community, kills Prime Suspect, brings back 30 Rock - HitFix.com

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:46:45 +0000

"Community" is a mess ratings-wise, but it's one of NBC's few shows that still draws largely unabashed love from critics (and from its shrinking but passionate group of fans). Pulling it off the schedule temporarily given the ratings is understandable; pulling it off the schedule while leaving "Whitney" on is not. Either show is going to do the same pathetic numbers on Wednesdays at 8 - away from its "Office" cocoon, "Whitney" could easily do worse than "Community" would - and one move at least buys continued goodwill from the press and viewers, whereas there's no one outside the immediate families of Whitney Cummings and Chris D'Elia who will be happy that show continues to air, week after week.

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Britta'd it | MetaFilter

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:41:55 +0000

NBC's Community is being put on hiatus. Twitter is pissed.

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Boxee Box may integrate live TV via USB dongle, push the definition of 'awesome' to a new level -- Engadget

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:21:19 +0000

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Johnny Depp: 'I'm not ready to give up my American citizenship' | Film | The Guardian

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 23:44:11 +0000

I think it's Depp's own innocence – expressed as indiscriminate adoration for those he admires – that might be what men respond to. It's an odd thing, but a star with a weakness for public hero worship seems to inspire deliriously wide-eyed hero worship in his fans. Depp is a famous enthusiast, with great taste – he loves Withnail & I, The Fast Show, Jack Kerouac, gonzo journalism, hard liquor, good wine and rock guitar. But then, so do a lot of the men in my local bar in Hackney. Only in today's Hollywood, where most heartthrobs are traditionally either too insecure or undiscerning to share these tastes with boyishly humble enthusiasm, do they confer the status of Jean-Paul Sartre crossed with James Dean.

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Louis C. K. Plans Online Broadcast of Comedy Concert | MetaFilter

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:59:02 +0000

Louis C. K. Plans Online Broadcast of Comedy Concert Stand up comedian Louis C.K. announced on the Conan show (forward to about 9'10" into the video for the discussion) that he is taping a comedy special that will be broadcast only on the Internet. The show itself will be performed on November 10...

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