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Arrested Development Reigns as Top Sitcom
 Arrested Development 
 Reigns as Top Sitcom 
best of the decade
Dec 18, 2009 2:27 PM CST

Arrested Development Reigns as Top Sitcom

Arrested Development tops 11 Points' list

(Newser) - Cable dramas and non-sitcom comedies—think Stephen Colbert and Dave Chappelle—grabbed the limelight this decade, but it was still a rich time for sitcoms. 11 Points lists the 11 best.
  1. Arrested Development. Needs no explanation—might be the best sitcom in history.
  2. 30 Rock. Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, and
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Best TV Series of the '00s
 Best TV Series of the '00s 
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Nov 13, 2009 2:49 PM CST

Best TV Series of the '00s

Joss Whedon, Judd Apatow, HBO prominently featured

(Newser) - From the standard (No. 16, Friday Night Lights) to the quirky (No. 29, Wonder Showzen), the long-running (No. 8, Lost) to the canceled-too-soon (No. 4, Freaks and Geeks), The Onion runs down the 30 best shows of the '00s:
  • No. 1, The Wire: This drama “unfolded like a great
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Relationships That Wouldn't Work in Reality

Hollywood cooks up some screwed up matches

(Newser) - Hollywood’s great at making us root for relationships that shouldn’t work. But some of them really shouldn’t work. The Nerve imagines if the following couples moved in next-door:
  • Beauty and the Beast: No, I’m not kissing a dog … he’s really a prince! I swear!
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I Snorted Coke 40 Feet From Obama at DC Dinner: Actor
I Snorted Coke 40 Feet From Obama at DC Dinner: Actor
DRUG CZAR IN TRAINING
Oct 22, 2009 9:05 PM CDT

I Snorted Coke 40 Feet From Obama at DC Dinner: Actor

David Cross, of Arrested Development fame, says he did it on a dare

(Newser) - We’ve all done silly stuff on a dare, but probably not on the level of actor/author/comic/crazy guy David Cross, who says he snorted cocaine not 40 feet from President Obama at the White House Correspondents' Dinner (not, for the record, held at the White House). With cabinet secretaries, Supreme...

Juno's Ellen Page to Write Comedy for HBO

She'll team up with Alia Shawkat, Sean Tillman

(Newser) - Ellen Page is expanding her horizons: the Juno and Whip It star will write and produce Stitch N’ Bitch, a new comedy for HBO. Page is collaborating with Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat and Sean Tillman, also known as the musician Har Mar Superstar. The comedy centers on two hipster...

Arrested Development Film Held Up Yet Again

Will Arnett's new sitcom to blame, but actor promises it's still on

(Newser) - The good news: Will Arnett is teaming back up with Arrested Development writer Mitch Hurwitz on a new TV show. The bad news: That show is one of the reasons the Arrested film is still held up, he tells the New York Daily News. But the “movie is definitely...

This Fall's Top Guy Shows
 This Fall's Top Guy Shows 
TV preview
Aug 24, 2009 5:50 PM CDT

This Fall's Top Guy Shows

(Newser) - Fall is right around the corner, and with it, thankfully, comes new TV. Esquire runs down the top shows men should be looking forward to:
  • Modern Family: A mockumentary in which the guy who played Al Bundy plays the head of three different families.
  • Sons of Anarchy: “Hamlet with
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Mel's Babymama: Don't Judge!
 Mel's Babymama: Don't Judge! 
GOSSIP ROUNDUP
Aug 11, 2009 11:51 AM CDT

Mel's Babymama: Don't Judge!

Plus, Angie: hot or too skinny? It's anyone's guess.

(Newser) - Oksana Grigorieva may be carrying Mel Gibson’s love child, but she wants “to be judged by my art, by my music,” she tells Reuters in her first interview. “How can I be judged for falling in love? We live in the same city. I don’t...

This Summer, Catch Up on Neglected TV Series

(Newser) - As the American Idol dust clears and you resign yourself to never understanding Lost, TV's fallow season looms, just begging you to catch up on some excellent viewing you might have missed. NPR blogger Linda Holmes has some suggestions:
  • Mad Men: "Works very well when you can grab
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Cera Joins Arrested Development Movie

(Newser) - Fans of the family Bluth, rejoice. Michael Cera has signed on to the Arrested Development movie, reports E! Online. Details have been sketchy, but Cera—whose role as George-Michael Bluth on the show helped propel him to teen stardom in movies such as Superbad and Juno—had reportedly been the...

Arrested Development Film Is a Go

Rising star Cera is on board for adaptation

(Newser) - After years of rumors and crossed fingers, the Arrested Development movie is finally on, the New York Daily News reports. "The movie is going to happen this year, and Michael Cera is on board. Trust me," said Jeffrey Tambor, patriarch of the dysfunctional TV family. Cera, whose career...

Quirk Is the New Kitsch (Sigh)
Quirk Is the
New Kitsch
(Sigh)
Aug 16, 2007 5:13 PM CDT

Quirk Is the New Kitsch (Sigh)

Atlantic writer traces the devolution of idiosyncrasy into idiocy

(Newser) - Quirk is the “ruling sensibility” of today’s culture—random narrative, “mannered ingenuousness”—and it’s become exhausting, writes the Atlantic's Michael Hirschorn. “This American Life” has been the standard-bearer, but the quirk it purveys hasn't held up well in expanding from radio to TV.

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