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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
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television program stories: 16 news summaries
TWITTER TAKEOVER

 'Shit My 
 Dad Says' 
 Heads to TV 

Son's lucrative exploitation also includes book deal

Nov 10, 09 11:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Move over, Al Bundy: A project based @shitmydadsays, the Twitter feed engineered by the son of a cantankerous father, has been picked up by CBS. The creators of Will and Grace are on board as executive producers, with that selfsame transcriber of a son taking writing duties. The microblog’... More »

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entertainment • social networking • Internet • sitcom • Twitter • book deal • microblogging • television program • Justin Halpern • Shit My Dad Says TV show

 Brits Eat Up 
 Steamy Yank 
 Vampires 

Fangs a lot, gush new True Blood fans

Nov 9, 09 4:00 AM CST
(Newser) - The sizzling TV vampire series True Blood is ringing just as true with British audiences as with American fans. Why? Brits love the "gripping blend of southern American small-town mentality and hideous murders" in the series peopled by "Daisy Duke" Anna Paquin and her "chisel-cheeked" lover played... More »

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television • vampires • True Blood • television program • Anna Paquin • Stephen Moyer

TELEVISION

DVR Viewers Give Ratings Boost to Grey's, Others

Execs hope these watchers will eventually translate into ad dollars

Oct 14, 09 12:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - TV networks dismayed at low ratings early in the season are getting a ray of hope in the form of the once-feared DVR. Sure, ad buyers won’t pay out when a viewer watches Grey’s Anatomy on TiVo, but that and other shows are gaining a massive audience... More »

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Grey's Anatomy • DVR • digital video • TV ratings • TiVo • television advertising • season premiere • House • television program • FlashForward

TV REview

 Office Wedding Draws 
 Cheers, Tears, Few Jeers 

Jim and Pam's nuptials tug on critics' heartstrings

Oct 9, 09 1:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jim and Pam's wedding on The Office last night was a bit syrupy, but that's A-OK with most critics. And an ingenious twist made a YouTube gag bearable—even funny. Spoilers ahead:
  • "Dunder Mifflin's golden couple managed to pull it off," Tanner Stranksy writes for Entertainment Weekly,
... More »

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entertainment • NBC • The Office • wedding • TV shows • television review • television program

Jackson 5 Skit Sparks Outrage—It's in Blackface

Guest judge Harry Connick Jr. calls out Australian TV performers

Oct 8, 09 12:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - A popular Australian TV variety program is under fire internationally for a skit that depicted Michael Jackson in whiteface and the rest of the Jackson 5 in blackface. Guest judge Harry Connick Jr., was shocked. “We’ve spent so much time trying to not make black people look like... More »

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Australia • racism • TV shows • Michael Jackson • Jackson Five • blackface • television program • Harry Connick Jr. • variety show

Saudi Man
Jailed After Bragging About Sex on TV

He earns 5 years
and 1,000 lashes

Oct 7, 09 2:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Saudi man has been sentenced to 5 years in jail and 1,000 lashes after boasting about his sexual promiscuity on a TV show. Broadcast in July, it features the man displaying sex toys and talking up his exploits. Three friends who appeared on camera got 2-year sentences, notes... More »

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Saudi Arabia • Lebanon • Islamic Sharia law • sex toys • lashing • extramarital affair • promiscuity • television program • jail sentence

tv review

 True Blood Kills 
 With Metaphors 
 (and, Uh, Sex) 

Kinky sex meets social commentary

Aug 28, 09 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Critics are gushing about HBO's hit True Blood, which manages to marry kinky vampire sex to social commentary, writes Gina Bellafante in the New York Times. The barrier-busting series touches on gay marriage, racial profiling, capitalism run amok, and right-wing religious extremism. In the current season, a crazed Christian cult... More »

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gay marriage • HBO • blood • racial profiling • right-wing extremism • True Blood • television program • Anna Paquin • Stephen Moyer

(Newser) - Sassy Anna Paquin has absolutely no trouble stripping down for scenes in HBO's steamy series Tru Blood, she tells Nylon in a let-it-all-hang-out interview. "I'm sorry, maybe there are women who keep their bras on while they have sex. I don't happen to be one of them," quips... More »

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HBO • nudity • sex • stripping • vampire • TV series • monster • sex scene • television program • Anna Paquin • Stephen Moyer • Tru Blood

OPINION

 Fall TV: 
 What to 
 Watch, 
 Skip 



Critics hit press preview tour

Aug 12, 09 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - TV critics got a taste of fall at the Summer TV Press Tour. They pooled their thoughts on the good, the bad, and the ugly for the Los Angeles Times. The bad:
  • The Beautiful Life: TBL: Ashton Kutcher rambled; Elle MacPherson said nothing. And why the “superfluous
... More »

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television • Larry David • Seinfeld • Ashton Kutcher • Jason Schwartzman • Ted Danson • Elle MacPherson • Gordon Ramsay • television program

 Pee-wee Staging Comeback 


Aug 11, 09 4:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Goofy kids character Pee-wee Herman will live again on a Los Angeles stage in a November comeback series by creator Paul Reubens, reports the Los Angeles Times. "I've put him away for a long time but part of him has always been with me," Reubens said in an... More »

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California • Los Angeles • indecent exposure • arrest • child pornography • actor • Pee-wee Herman • television program • kids television • Paul Reubens

 Behind Mad Men Are...Women 

Women directed five of this season's 13 episodes

Aug 7, 09 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The misogynists who populate Mad Men's character ranks might make you think otherwise, but seven of the show's nine writers are women—a rarity in Hollywood, where 80% of primetime programs in 2007-08 had no female writers. “A lot of people think women can only do women shows,... More »

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entertainment • television • writer • screenwriters • scriptwriters • TV series • Mad Men • writers • women's issues • television program

Times, Tribune Critics Next-Gen Siskel & Ebert

Dueling critics Scott, Phillips mark return to old At the Movies format

Aug 6, 09 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - At the Movies, the longtime home of Chicago critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, is getting a new pair of dueling cineastes. AO Scott of the New York Times and Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune will take over the syndicated program, which returns to the air next month. The... More »

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critic • Roger Ebert • movies • film criticism • Gene Siskel • television program • AO Scott

(Newser) - Being back home preparing to take care of his eight kids again apparently isn't crimping Jon Gosselin's love life. He's spent at least one night with his kids' new babysitter, his fourth gal pal in less than a month, reports Radar. Jon and Stephanie Santoro, 23—a cocktail waitress, single... More »

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Pennsylvania • TLC • Jon and Kate Plus 8 • Jon Gosselin • ex-girlfriends • television program

(Newser) - Funny, goofy Lisa Kudrow lived through hell making friends—back in high school. "I used to cry every night," she tells the Telegraph. "With high school, for many people, it’s just a case of trying to keep breathing and getting through it." The former Friends ... More »

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high school • teenager • Friends • Lisa Kudrow • adolescence • television program

(Newser) - For those who thought the Gosselin saga couldn't get more tawdry: The Star reporter who quit after "falling for" interview-subject-and-dad-of-eight Jon is now denying reports that she once pounded the pavement in search of johns, reports the New York Daily News. Another NYC gossip monger tells the News that... More »

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escort • hooker • Jon and Kate Plus 8 • Jon Gosselin • Kate Gosselin • sextuplets • Kate Major • Star (tabloid) • television program • Jon Gosselin interview

 Jon Hangs 
 With Lilo's Pop, 
 Gal-Pal Scribe 
 in Hamptons 

Latest lady love reporter 'couldn't help falling for him,' she tells her paper

Jul 23, 09 4:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Associates of divorcing dad of 8 Jon Gosselin get more and more interesting. He hung out in the Hamptons this week with another quirky dad, Lindsay Lohan's father, reports People. "Jon is a friend, he's a great guy, and my doors were open to him and Kate Major,"... More »

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reporter • Jon and Kate Plus 8 • Jon Gosselin • sextuplets • Hailey Glassman • Kate Major • television program

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