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Television

"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships." -Andy Warhol

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July 2008
- Why I Loved Scully
  
  newser | Salon | Jul 24, 08 1:03 PM CDT
  
  The X-Files ’ Dana Scully was everything women in entertainment today are not: intellectual, nuanced, tortured, Rebecca Traister writes in Salon. So as the sci-fi classic hits the big screen once again this weekend, we need Scully, “the cerebral head of the X-Files, torn between her Catholic faith, her scientific impulse to explain away the inexplicable, and her affection for her partner,” more than ever. More »
- MTV to Remake Rocky Horror
  
  newser | Variety | Jul 24, 08 11:24 AM CDT
  
  MTV will remake the 1975 cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show , Variety reports. Lou Adler, the executive producer of the original film, will stick to the original screenplay, but the new rendition may include additional songs. There’ve been no casting or directing decisions yet, but Adler wants to see it shown a year from this coming Halloween. "But that's up to MTV," he adds. More »
- Obama Buys $5M in Olympic Ad Time
  
  newser | TV Week | Jul 24, 08 6:52 AM CDT
  
  The Obama campaign has bought $5 million worth of network and cable television airtime to run during coverage of the Beijing Olympics, reports TV Week. It's the first major TV airtime purchase by a political candidate in 16 years. NBC and its cable channels will air 3,600 hours of Olympic coverage beginning August 8. More »
- Muppets Spring Back to Life on YouTube
  
  newser | France24 | Jul 23, 08 6:40 PM CDT
  
  The Muppets, largely in retirement since 1981, have been pussyfooting their way back into the spotlight via YouTube, France24 notes. In the past month, Sam the Eagle, the Swedish Chef, Beaker and others have set up accounts, uploading clips on a regular basis and sharing comments like "Meep meep meep-meep meep Meeeeeep?" No word, yet, on whether the comeback is an official one. More »
- 'Sophia' of Golden Girls Dead at 84
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 22, 08 1:37 PM CDT
  
  Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's The Golden Girls, has died. She was 84. The two-time Emmy winner, who suffered from advanced dementia, died this morning at home, her son told the AP. More »
- TiVo-Amazon Deal Offers Onscreen Buying
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 22, 08 10:28 AM CDT
  
  TiVo and Amazon have teamed to introduce a “product purchase” tool that will allow viewers to buy the products being plugged onscreen, the New York Times reports. Soon, when Oprah Winfrey plugs a book or David Letterman talks up his musical guest, TiVo customers will be able to order said book or CD onscreen via Amazon.com accounts. More »
- Mad Men 's Moss Puts Bad Bangs to Good Use
  
  newser | New York | Jul 21, 08 8:25 PM CDT
  
  She’s only 26, but actress Elisabeth Moss has already commandeered a niche: She has a knack for playing “easily underestimated innocents,” Emily Nussbaum writes in New York . Moss describes Peggy Olson—“the secretary with the unflattering bangs” she plays on the hit AMC show Mad Men —as “the one who is stepped on a little bit and has a really good heart.” More »
- Court Tosses Super Bowl Fine
  
  newser | Broadcasting & Cable | Jul 21, 08 1:27 PM CDT
  
  A federal appeals court today threw out the FCC $550,000 fine against CBS for Janet Jackson’s infamous 2004 “wardrobe malfunction.” The decency watchdogs were found to have acted arbitrarily in changing their policy of not punishing fleeting nudity, Broadcasting & Cable reports. The court separately said the network couldn’t be held "vicariously liable" for the halftime breast-baring—that is, liable for something it didn't plan and could not foresee. More »
- Bravo Adds Parker's Reality Art Show
  
  newser | Hollywood Reporter | Jul 21, 08 12:00 PM CDT
  
  Bravo has picked up a Project Runway -style reality art show produced by Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker, the Hollywood Reporter writes. American Artist is slated to feature competition between up-and-comers in varying media; it will be co-produced by Magical Elves, the skill-driven reality TV experts behind Top Chef and Top Design . More »
- SNL Expands Election Coverage
  
  newser | Zap2It | Jul 21, 08 8:42 AM CDT
  
  Saturday Night Live is expanding its satirical coverage of Election 2008, reports Zap2it. NBC will air three SNL primetime campaign specials, plus four consecutive Saturday night shows beginning in September, boosting the number of pre-election live shows to seven. The program will also feature the traditional election eve special " SNL Presidential Bash." More »
- Fallon to Launch Late Night Online
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 21, 08 3:54 AM CDT
  
  Jimmy Fallon is launching his career as host of NBC's Late Night on the Internet, reports the New York Times . Late Night producer Lorne Michaels will produce 10-minute segments with Fallon for an online audience months before he takes over on TV from Conan O'Brien, who's set to replace Jay Leno on the Tonight Show . More »
- 'Brenda' Back on 90210 Spinoff
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 20, 08 12:08 PM CDT
  
  Brenda Walsh will return as an adult to CW's 90210 spinoff this fall, reports the AP, but it remains to be seen whether actress Shannen Doherty has finally grown up. Also slated for comebacks on the angsty teen drama are Jennie Garth and Tori Spelling, but Doherty’s notorious volatility has fueled speculation she’ll revive the onset feuds that caused her to leave the 1990s series. More »
- Michael J. Fox Returns to TV
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 17, 08 12:50 PM CDT
  
  Michael J. Fox will return to the small screen next year in a four-episode guest role on FX's "Rescue Me,” the AP reports. The “Spin City” star, whose symptoms of Parkinson’s disease have become evident since his 1991 diagnosis, will play the wheelchair-bound love-interest of the Denis Leary character’s estranged wife. More »
- Mad Men, Damages Make History With Emmy Nods
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 17, 08 9:11 AM CDT
  
  Mad Men , AMC's sleek 1950s advertising drama, and FX's legal thriller Damages made Emmy nominations history today as the first basic cable programs to gain best-series nods. HBO's John Adams , meanwhile, was the overall frontrunner with 23 bids, including a lead-actor nomination for Paul Giamatti's turn as Adams. More »
- Late-Night Takes it Easy on Obama
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 15, 08 7:16 AM CDT
  
  John McCain has been skewered by late-night comics throughout the presidential campaign, but Barack Obama has escaped relatively unscathed. As this week's New Yorker cover flare-up made clear, satirists are struggling to find an angle on the Democratic nominee. The New York Times speaks to half a dozen late-night hosts and writers, who cite everything from fear of racism to their own favoritism to explain the silence. More »
- Kimmel, Silverman Split Up
  
  newser | Vanity Fair | Jul 14, 08 5:15 PM CDT
  
  After 5 years together, Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have broken up, reps for the newly minted ex-couple confirmed to Vanity Fair today. "Jimmy and Sarah have and will have no further comment," said a joint statement. Confessions of involvement with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck apparently didn't lead to the split of the talk-show host and actress. More »
- NBC: Lots of Law , No Order
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 12, 08 5:51 PM CDT
  
  NBC's relationship with Law and Order producer/creator Dick Wolf has always been uneasy, but now it’s turned into all-out war, the Wall Street Journal reports. Wolf is furious with the network, which he says sells the show to its cable stations on the cheap, then reruns it too often and doesn’t promote it enough. For its part, NBC accuses Wolf of simple greed. More »
- Larry David, Curb Returning
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 11, 08 10:06 AM CDT
  
  Irascible Larry David will be bringing Curb Your Enthusiasm back for a seventh series, reports Reuters. New episodes of the edgy comedy are expected to air early next year, more than a year after last year's series ended in November 2007. HBO bosses says the Seinfeld creator is—you guessed it— enthusiastic about the return to the small screen. More »
- Generation Kill On Target
  
  newser | Variety | Jul 10, 08 4:31 PM CDT
  
  From the mean streets of Baltimore to the meaner ones of Baghdad, the force behind The Wire scores a direct hit with HBO's new Generation Kill , writes Brian Lowry for Variety . Following a cast of Marines during the Iraqi invasion’s first 40 days, the 7-episode miniseries may make you forget it's a work of fiction as it "offers offers a chance to see those troops in their full, unfettered, foul-mouthed glory." It begins Sunday. More »
- Another Shock Jock Gets TV Tryout
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 9, 08 10:55 AM CDT
  
  Wendy Williams, the blunt, compulsively personal, sometimes snarky radio host whose syndicated morning show reaches 12 million people, mostly in New York, is about to debut on TV. Next week, Williams launches an hour morning show on Fox stations in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Detroit, directly competing with more staid programs she's enjoyed shaking up in guest appearances, the New York Times reports. More »

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Emmy award
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Annual presentation for outstanding achievement in U.S. television. Its name is taken from the nickname “immy” for the image orthicon, a television camera tube. The Emmys are presented ...

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television
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television transmission and reception of still or moving images by means of electrical signals, especially by means of electromagnetic radiation using the techniques of radio and by fiberoptic and coaxial cables. Television has become a major industry, especially in the industrialized ...

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