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IMDB
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Jun 18, 09 3:26 PM CDT
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Agent Dale Cooper may be returning to Twin Peaks , at least on the Internet. Kyle MacLachlan—now on the slightly different Desperate Housewives —says he hopes to launch 5-minute webisodes that pick up where the quirky '90s show left off, reports the WENN blog on iMDB. Creator David Lynch won't be involved, however. "David's focus is more on transcendental meditation now," MacLachlan says.
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Washington Post
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Jun 17, 09 8:20 AM CDT
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PBS has voted to enforce its longstanding prohibition on sectarian broadcasts and ban its stations from carrying any new religious programming, the Washington Post reports. As a compromise, the few stations that already air church services and religious lectures will be allowed to continue to do so. Religious discussions that don't favor a particular point of view still have the public broadcaster's blessing.
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People
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Jun 16, 09 6:29 PM CDT
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Susan Boyle will likely be traveling to the US this summer to appear on America's Got Talent , reports People . “If she’s up for it and she is well enough, our feeling is she probably will," said judge Piers Morgan. "Absolutely.” The NBC talent show, back on the air later this month, is the US version of Britain's Got Talent , the show that catapulted Boyle to singing fame.
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New York Times
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Jun 16, 09 1:53 PM CDT
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The Daily Show will begin airing reports from a correspondent in Iran next week, the New York Times reports. Correspondent Jason Jones spent late May and early June filming in Tehran, Qom, and the Imam Mosque in Esfahan for his weeklong series Jason Jones in Iran: Access of Evil. Jones’ dispatches include interviews with former Iranian officials and coverage of the recent presidential election.
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USA Today
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Jun 16, 09 11:01 AM CDT
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Comedian Artie Lange appeared on the premiere of HBO's Joe Buck Live last night, and it sounds as if the host wishes he hadn't. Buck told USA Today he couldn't wait for Lange to finish his obscene, homophobic routine. "I thought that spending time on a treadmill felt long," said the veteran baseball announcer, who appeared helpless as the show ran off the rails. "That was like 8 or 9 minutes that turned into an eternity."
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TV Week
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Jun 15, 09 6:47 PM CDT
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David Letterman has apologized to Sarah Palin, daughters Bristol and Willow, "and everybody else who was outraged" by his joke last week about Alex Rodriguez impregnating the Alaska governor's daughter, TV Week reports. At this afternoon's taping of tonight's show, Letterman expanded on the apology he offered last week, saying. "It doesn't make any difference what my intent was, it's the perception."
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Entertainment Weekly
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Jun 15, 09 4:41 PM CDT
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Sarah Palin is "glowingly happy to be in the national spotlight again and doesn't want to give it up any time soon," Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly observes in the course of offering David Letterman unsolicited advice: "Clam up." The Late Night host returns tonight after being off the air since Thursday—his Friday show tapes earlier in the week—while the flap over his wisecracks about the Alaska governor has inflamed the blogosphere.
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Ryan Seacrest Productions
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Jun 15, 09 2:32 PM CDT
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An interview with Al Roker on NBC’s Today show took a lot out of Heidi and Spencer Pratt, RyanSeacrest.com reports. “I'm still trying to figure out, was the weatherman asking us questions?” Spencer asked, befuddled. “I thought we were getting interviewed by Matt Lauer or something.” Heidi concurred. “He just made it a very uncomfortable and awful experience.”
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Access Hollywood
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Jun 13, 09 11:38 AM CDT
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The next season of Hannah Montana will be the last, Access Hollywood reports. “I give a lot of credit to Miley for taking it to another year,” Billy Ray Cyrus said of his 16-year-old daughter. “She didn’t want it to just end with whatever was the last episode we did. She wanted it to build to where there’s a moral to the story.” Season 4 will start shooting in January. Of course, Cyrus noted, nothing is set in stone. “Anything is possible in Hollywood.”
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Lower Hudson Online
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Jun 12, 09 7:39 PM CDT
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The house of financially challenged actor Stephen Baldwin is going up for auction later this month, the Lower Hudson Journal News reports. The I'm a Celebrity—Get Me Out of Here! star paid $515,000 for the New York state property 12 years ago, but he and wife Kennya have defaulted on paying $824,488 to the bank—not to mention a second mortgage and tens of thousands in possible unpaid taxes.
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Access Hollywood
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Jun 12, 09 1:28 PM CDT
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Adam Lambert finds it “funny” that people are talking about him “coming out” in the new Rolling Stone . “I’ve never been in,” he tells Access Hollywood. Lambert says he didn’t discuss his sexuality during American Idol because he wanted people to focus on his talent. “I chose to kind of ignore the issue until after the voting ended,” says the second-place finisher, but he thought it wasn’t much of a secret: “I sang Cher during Hollywood week.”
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Wall Street Journal
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Jun 12, 09 11:00 AM CDT
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As the US completes the shift to digital TV today, viewers in more than 2 million households will see nothing but static, according to Nielsen and broadcasters’ estimates. Those without signals are likely to be from poorer, rural, and older demographics, the Wall Street Journal reports—though Nielsen research finds that elderly people are the "most ready," TVNewsday notes.
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Los Angeles Times
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Jun 12, 09 9:42 AM CDT
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The country needs more presidential action and fewer presidential TV appearances, Bill Maher writes for the Los Angeles Times . "Every time you turn on the TV, there's Obama. He's getting a puppy! He's eating a cheeseburger with Joe Biden! He's taking the wife to Broadway," he writes. Not only is the president is at risk of overexposure, but "we're kind of wondering when you're actually going to do something."
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New York Times
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Jun 12, 09 7:36 AM CDT
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Taping his show in Iraq this week, Stephen Colbert channeled Bob Hope in an "unexpectedly charming" series of shows, writes Alessandra Stanley in the New York Times . Colbert largely stayed in ultra-right character, though he let it slip in places. His interviews were “pleasant, not barbed,” and his standup was “as easygoing and good-natured as many a Bob Hope performance.”
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Newsweek
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Jun 11, 09 1:10 PM CDT
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“Cougar-aged” women across the continent tuned into American Idol for the first time this season, Joan Raymond writes for Newsweek , after acquiring an obsession with its oh-so-sexy and oh-so-gay eventual runner-up, Adam Lambert. “We became Glamberts,” Raymond writes. “When we got together, we no longer talked about good books. We talked about all things Lambert.” But weirdly, she thinks the “lust” is totally normal.
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Gawker
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Jun 11, 09 9:09 AM CDT
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The Daily Show took a withering look at the state of the New York Times last night, comparing its newsroom to “Colonial Williamsburg,” Gawker reports. “Do you know they still make paper newspapers today?” Jason Jones asks viewers before interviewing Times staff. “Why is aged news better than real news?” he queries an editor, wanting to see “one thing” in the paper “that happened today.”
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Brian Lynch
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Jun 10, 09 12:44 PM CDT
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For once, the latest viral Internet sensation isn’t a crazy video—it’s a crazy theory: 30 Rock is a rip-off of The Muppet Show. Not crazy, blogger Brian Lynch contends, before marshalling “so many facts you HAVE to concede I'm absolutely right.” From Tina Fey/Liz Lemon as the Kermit figure to the show's own coded confession, he’s pretty convincing: “Jenna Maroney” vs. Miss Piggy: “NBC got really lazy on this one, as Jane Krakowski looks like the human version of the beloved Muppet.”
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Radar
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Jun 10, 09 4:26 AM CDT
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Fans may be enthralled with Jon and Kate Gosselin's marital trouble, but they appear to be rapidly growing bored with their TV series, reports Radar. Audience figures for Jon & Kate Plus 8 plunged by more than half this week from an all-time high of 10 million for the season opener. Monday's program was a bit of a special, too, marking the program's 100th episode, that featured chef Emeril Lagasse cooking with 8 kids.
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E! Online
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Jun 9, 09 10:41 AM CDT
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Spiritual fasting, spouse belittling: Just another Monday night on TV. Highlights: Spencer and Heidi Pratt appeared on last night’s I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! but they look to have left the show for good following their were-they-or-weren’t-they-tortured drama, E! reports. The melodramatic pair was in the middle of a spiritual fast when Heidi was hospitalized Saturday, fellow contestants said. Sister Holly takes her place tomorrow.
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HealthDay News
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Jun 8, 09 12:33 PM CDT
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Feeling sleepy? Blame the glowing screen in your bedroom. Researchers studying sleep deprivation in the US say the boob tube is a likely cause, HealthDay News reports. Almost half of Americans say they watch TV right before bed, and that means natural sleep signals, like the dark sky and fatigue, are being ignored. "Many Americans are chronically under-sleeping due to lifestyle choices," said the co-author of a new study.
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