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NBC’s Tuesday football huge 29 December 2010 at 9:52 am by admin

TV News: ‘Kennedy Center Honors’ down for CBS — NBC’s special Tuesday night edition of top-rated franchise “Sunday Night Football” obliterated the primetime competition last night, with only CBS offering up any kind of a resistance.

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+ Fox rejects Cablevision’s 1-year offer By admin 27 October 2010 at 9:52 am and have 1 Comment

TV News: Network says cabler’s proposal for stations alone is ‘not acceptable’ — With the start of the World Series hours away, Cablevision made a move to end the standoff with Fox by offering to pay the fee it has sought for its Gotham stations for one year. Fox, however, said the offer was “not acceptable” and amounted to Cablevision trying to get a “discounted ‘package rate’ without buying the entire package.”

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+ Football still king on Sunday By admin 18 October 2010 at 10:25 am and have No Comments

TV News: NFL action doubles up baseball in overnights — NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” has dominated another Sunday ratings race in key demos, thumping Game 2 of baseball’s National League Championship Series, which once again was not available to a good chunk of the Philadelphia market due to Cablevision’s dispute with Fox over carriage fees.

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+ Tony Danza’s A&E series Teach is the opposite of the joke we expected it would be By admin 01 October 2010 at 10:16 am and have No Comments

When I first heard about A&E’s plan to air a reality series starring Who’s the Boss star and The Contender 4 host Tony Danza that followed him as he taught high school English for a year, I was skeptical and suggested it might be a colossal joke. As it turns out, Teach, which debuts tonight at 10 p.m

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+ Sig Hansen, Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand quit Deadliest Catch By admin 28 September 2010 at 8:39 pm and have No Comments

Northwestern captain Sig Hansen and Time Bandit captains Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand have all quit Deadliest Catch over the Discovery Channel’s $3 million lawsuit against the Hillstrands. With the death of Phil Harris earlier this year, that leaves the show without any captains who’ve been on the show since the beginning, and only one real captain star, Wizard captain Keith Colburn. The three men told the Hollywood Reporter in a statement: “We have been through…

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+ Australia’s Top Model announces wrong winner during live results show By admin 28 September 2010 at 12:21 pm and have No Comments

The winner of Australia’s Next Top Model sixth cycle first thought she lost, after the host announced the wrong winner during the live finale last night. Amanda Ware actually won, but only learned that in the middle of runner-up Kelsey Martinovich’s celebration after she was first announced as the winner.

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+ ABC promises Bachelor Brad Womack is now "healthier" and "really ready" after "intensive therapy" By admin 28 September 2010 at 8:07 am and have No Comments

The 15th star of The Bachelor is Brad Womack, the star of the show’s 11th season and the first bachelor to reject all of the options presented to him by the producers, leading to scorn and seething anger from some fans that lingers today because he shattered the illusion that it was possible to find true love on TV. It’s also an extreme continuation of the show’s recycling of its previous contestants, which turns it..

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+ Sarah Palin booed on DWTS, but ABC insists boos were for the night’s highest scores By admin 28 September 2010 at 7:54 am and have No Comments

Jennifer Grey and Derek Hough got their score, a 24 out of 30, and Derek said that was “great, fantastic,” because it was a great score. But pretty quickly there was audible booing from the audience, prompting Derek to look quizzically out toward the audience and Brook Burke to say, “There’s booing in the ballroom; don’t know why.” Jennifer Grey said, “Why is there booing?” Then the show cut immediately to Tom Bergeron, who introduced…

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+ Survivor Redemption Island: season 22′s big twist By admin 27 September 2010 at 7:50 am and have No Comments

Besides giving Russell Hantz and Rob Mariano a chance to redeem themselves and win Survivor again for a third and fourth time, respectively, the CBS reality competition has introduced a major twist that gives voted off contestants a chance to return to the game. Thus, redemption seems to be the likely theme for season 22, which could even be called Survivor: Redemption Island, though that’s an educated guess

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+ Kitchen Nightmares chef/owner found dead By admin 27 September 2010 at 6:46 am and have No Comments

Campania owner Joseph Cerniglia, who appeared on an early episode of Fox’s Kitchen Nightmares, was found dead on Friday. His body “was found floating in the Hudson River, authorities said Sunday,” and “[t]he cause of death is under investigation, but ‘no criminality’ is suspected,” according to The Record.

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