CBS green lights 'Genius Bar' TV show

Apple's Genius Bar will soon be able to add entertainment' to its list of things it does for people, as CBS has given two thumbs up for a show pilot titled Genius Bar. The show apparently follows the employees of a place similar to Apple's Genius Bar and their adventures with "the cool, hip and beautiful" employees of a nearby Ambercrombie & Fitch
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Amazing Race Picked Up For 11th Season

The four time Emmy winning "Amazing Race" on CBS was just renewed by them for another season, which will be the shows 11th edition. The show where 12 teams of 2 follow clues around the world has been getting strong ratings on its new Sunday night slot. The 10th edition of the show has been averaging over 10 million viewers per episode. Every week the last team to arrive at a set pit stop could be eliminated. Over the weeks the number of teams gets less and then at the end the last few teams rush to get to the finish line and win the prize which is 1 million dollars. The show does a good job of putting together the teams of 2 of which both members have some kind of relationship with each other. The relationship could be brother/sister, friends, dating, married or whatever. The key in this race apart from being quick and smart is also being able to work together under pressure. This last thing is usually the downfall of lots of the teams because if you are fighting its going to distract from the goal. I enjoy this show and never miss it and is not just because one team this time is a Miss New York and a Miss California although being a guy that is a plus. The reason I watch it is you get to see all parts of the world and also see all the crazy things the teams have to do and watch as some times overcome as some teams fail. Its a show where you can pull for you favorites and at the same time hope that others fail. The Amazing Race is at 8pm on Sundays, check local listings.

'Blade' TV Series will not have eternal life

SpikeTV has put a stake in the heart of the 'Blade' tv series, according to the blog of one of the series' stars.
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Next Real World Season 19 Casting Calls in October

More casting calls for the next Real World 19 season have been announced by Bunim-Murray, the producers of the Real World, for October 2006.The Real World casting calls for October are in Tucson Arizona, Austin Texas, Tallahassee Florida, Long Beach California, Athens Georgia, Sacremento California, Ames Iowa, Minneapolis Minnesota, Cincinnati Ohio.
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Back to the Future coming to Universal HD

We always give Universal HD a hard time, we make jokes about Knight Rider and other old shows that they choose to fill their schedule with. We do realize they're coming around and now they are going to show one of our favorite movies, Back To The Future.
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Scrubs Season 6: NBC may have no choice but to renew

For those who are anxiously awaiting the return of Scrubs with season 6, fear not. Some media analysts think that NBC may have no other logical choice for their network. Sure, that sounds bad for Scrubs, but good for Scrubs fans.
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TIME article: How Lost changed TV and its future

There are no simple answers when it comes to Lost. When we left the addictively weird serial about the survivors of a plane crash on a desert island, we had just made a startling discovery: the island is linked to the world outside. That revelation, while it seems small, was momentous for fans. It destroyed a whole bunch of theories--for instance:
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Survivor Cook Islands Recap: Cecilia Eliminated

Last night's episode of Survivor Cook Islands certainly proved to be an interesting one and had a few twists and turns that I definitely wasn't expecting. Now, on to the recap: The Aitutaki tribes members start the show off by sitting around their camp talking about Billy's supposed love at first sight with Christina...
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"Jericho" Ratings Higher On Second Week

The second outing of the drama "Jericho" on CBS showed higher ratings than last weeks premiere; The show was up 5% from the previous week and had a viewship of 11.4 millions. This is good news for a show that is well done but is a really intense drama.

Lost Season 3 - All The Promos in One Video

All the Lost Season 3 promos put together in one video. I don't know about you, but I'm excited to see what happens next Wednesday.
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Networks Encouraged by Viewer Sampling

Although no instant hits emerged, television networks were encouraged by the willingness of viewers to at least sample some new shows during the eagerly-awaited fall premiere week.
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Why Heroes Needs Heroes

This is a story of characters around the globe who become super humans and may perhaps meet one another someday. From bending time, space and flying this series has it all.
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Roger Moore's son to play The Saint

Roger Moore played Leslie Charteris' creation Simon Templar, alias The Saint on TV in the 1960's. Now, Roger's son Geoffrey Moore is slated to reprise his father's role in the latest version of The Saint on TV. Will there be a new Volvo C70 for The Son of The Saint to drive, following in his father's Volvo 1800 tire tracks?
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Dancing with the Stars: Breakdown of Remaining Couples

A look at the frontrunners to win the third season of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars".
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Chevy Chase to star in Mel Gibson-based Law & Order episode

In a Law & Order episode that begins filming this week, Chevy Chase guest stars as a TV celebrity who spews religious epithets after being pulled over by police for drunken driving, the network said Tuesday, the episode will air November 3.
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Happy Hour Pulled From FOX Schedule

Happy Hour a show on FOX was the first of the new shows to get pulled. While the show wasn't cancelled it is on life support. FOX pulled the show from the schedule until after the baseball playoffs in November at least. The show was 87th in the ratings with a viewership of 4.4 million viewers.

Monday Night Football Breaks ESPN Record

Yesterdays Monday Night Football game on ESPN was the highest rated show ever on ESPN. The game between the New Orleans Saints who had there first home game since hurricane Katrina and Atlanta drew an audience of 10.8 million. This was the third straight week that Monday Night Football broke ESPN's viewership recond. The game was the highest rated programme on any channel broadcast or cable for the night. After moving Monday Night Football from sister network ABC where it was losing money to ESPN they seem so far to have made the right decision.

NBC Nightly News Retakes Title

The CBS Evenning News with new host Katie Couric was number one in the ratings for her first two weeks but last week NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams retook that crown. The Nightly News show finished first with 8.2 million viewers on NBC followed by The CBS Evenning News with 7.7 million viewers and right behind World News Tonight which Charles Gibson at 7.6 million viewers. The fact that the CBS Evenning News dropped to second isn't that big of a surprise a lot of the viewers were tuning in because they were curious to see how Katie Couric was as a host. The key over the long term is to see how the numbers settle and who builds the best following of the three hosts.

Housewives Premiere Weaker Than Last Year

The third season premiere of Housewives on ABC was down in the ratings from last seasons premiere. This season premiere had 23.8 million viewers in the 18-49 group and was the nights top show, but last years premiere had 28.4 million viewers for that age group. Last season became lackluster as the season went on so I wonder if some of the viewers went elsewhere. The season is still young and may change but if the lower numbers continue ABC may grow concerned.

Clinton Gets Big Ratings On Fox News Sunday

Former President Clintons apperance on Fox News Sunday gave that show its biggest ratings in three years. The heated debate between Clinton and host Chris Wallace is also a popular video on You Tube.

Heroe's Premieres Tonight At 9pm On NBC

Tonight is the premiere of Heroe's on NBC at 9pm. This show has been getting a lot of buzz recently, its a show about normal people across America with special powers. Its a show that you might expect to find on NBC's owned Sci Fi Channel on cable instead of network television. The buzz was helped by a special tie in with Yahoo. These people or Heroes eventaully become intertwined with each other and together they protect everyone else. The plot kind of sounds like a Marvel Comics story but from the clips i have seen it looks interesting. The question is can it be a wide audience show or just have a cult following.

MTV Espanol Rebranded MTV Tr3s

MTV Espanol will be rebranded starting on September 25th with the name MTV Tr3s with the goal of expanding the reach of the channel. The 24 hour bilingual music channel has new VJ's and a comic Carlos Santos with new shows, which is all part of the goal to become more than just a spanish version of MTV.

HBO Renews Entourage For Fourth Season

The hit HBO show Entourage has been renewed early for a fourth season with a commitment for at least 12 more episodes. The insider view of Hollywood is in the middle of its third season at the moment which is also its most sucessful to date. No date for airing of the fourth season has been anounced yet by HBO although it will probally be in 2007 sometime.

American Idol Has Top Ad Rate Again

For the third year in a row American Idol on FOX will have the highest ad rates on television. The price for a 30 second ad on the show will range from $500,000 to $700,000 the publication Advertising Age reported on Thursday. The ad rates will probally go even higher as the season goes on and the competition becomes more intense on the show. Last seasons finale ads cost $1.3 million each and i wouldn't be surprised if its higher this year. Another show House is getting a boost from American Idol and follows it on Tuesday nights is getting an ad rate of $400,000 per 30 second spot.

Cartoon Network releases a VOD service

Cartoon Network finally buys into video on demand. The service is similar to Toonami Jetstream, where videos are only on the site for a set amount of time. My favorite episode of Billy and Mandy is on here! Awesome!
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Scripps Wants Tribune's Food Network Stake

Scripps the controlling shareholder of the Food Network wants to buy out Tribune's 31% share of the channel. Scripps already owns the controlling share of the channel but wants the rest. Tribune has been in the news a lot recently concerning major shareholders the Chandlers ex owners of the Los Angeles Times who want Tribune to sell assets to raise the stock price. For Scripps this may have seemed like the best time to get Tribunes share of the Food Network which does very well.

"Jericho" Has Strong Ratings In Australia

The new CBS show "Jericho" had stong ratings in its series premiere in Australia. The show was shown on Australias Network Ten less than 24 hours after its CBS debut. Season premieres usually start in January in Australia but Network Ten decided to premiere this show early. The show averaged 1.22 million viewers which doesn't sound like much but it is a 41% share of viewers 16-39. You wouldn't think a show set in the midwest of America would do so well but with its themes and the times we live it it seems to have struck a cord down under.

Grey's Anatomy Beats CSI In Ratings

The season premiere Thursday night of CSI on CBS was beaten in the ratings by the season premiere of Grey's Anatomy on ABC. This was a big surprise as CSI has been the top drama on television for a while. Grey's Anatomy had 25.4 million viewers for its premiere while CSI had 22.6 million viewers; The CSI viewers is a drop from last years premiere which had 29 million viewers. This is ABC's best Thursday night ratings since May of 2000.

ABC continues FREE Full Episode streaming

ABC has relaunched its popular full episode player with shows including Grey's Anatomy, LOST, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, Six Degrees, The Nine, and The Knights of Prosperity.
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Average U.S. home has more TVs than people now, Nielsen says

That threshold was crossed within the past two years, according to Nielsen Media Research. There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people, the researchers said.
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Seth Meyers to Co-Anchor `SNL's `Update'

Seth Meyers gets the plum job of "Weekend Update" anchor next to Amy Poehler in a newly streamlined "Saturday Night Live" this season, the show's creator and executive producer, Lorne Michaels, said on Thursday. Meyers, entering his fifth season on the late-night institution, must replace the popular Tina Fey on the fake-news anchor desk.
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CW Network Has Good Openning Night

The new CW Network had good ratings on its openning night with the two hour season premiere of "America's Next Top Model". The show gave the fledgling new network a primetime win in its target demographics of 18-34 and 18-34 women. A total of 5.3 million people tuned in for the Tyra Banks hosted show. This is a really good start for this network and it will be interesting to see how the other CW shows do.

New SNL Cast Revealed

The cast for the upcoming season will be made up of Fred Armisen, Will Forte, Bill Hader, Darrell Hammond, Seth Meyers, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis, Kenan Thompson and Kristen Wiig. Cast members not returning are Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Chris Parnell, and Horatio Sanz.
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LOST Stars Ordered to keep their clothes ON

No more skinny dipping for the LOST crew!
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Horatio Sanz Leaves SNL

Horatio Sanz has confirmed that, although he initially denied it, he will NOT be returning to Saturday Night Live this year. Who's going to be the next cast member cut?
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"Jericho" Series Debut Tonight On CBS

Tonight on CBS at 8pm is the premiere of the new series Jericho. The main character in this is called Jake and he returns home after a long absence to a small town in Kansas called Jericho. The reason he returns is to pick up some money his grandfather left for him; He visits his family including his dad who has control of the money, but him and his dad have a bad relationship so his dad says no to giving him the money. Jake leaves empty handed and heads out of town as a nuclear bomb goes off miles away in Denver. Another driver is watching the explosion too and ends up crashing head on to him. Jake is the only one to make it and walks with a bad leg back to town. On the way he rescues stranded kids in a school bus and drives it back to town. The town is cut off from the outside world and in the dark when the power goes out. People in town start to push and shove at a gas station and it nearly turns in to a riot until the school bus with kids arrive. Jakes dad who is also the mayor tells them about another explosion in Atlanta and gives an inpassioned speech and calms them down. Outside town a prison bus is found overturned and when the Sheriff checks it out you hear a gunshoot and then later you see the Sheriff shot on the ground. So now it seems with all the other problems there are dangerous prisoners on the lose too. In town there is also a ex St Louis cop that just arrived and there seems to be more to his background than just that. A blonde is driving out of town when she runs over loads of dead birds in the road which hints at radiation problems in future episodes. The review might sound like a movie of the week or miniseries because that is what the first episode seems like. The show is well acted and in fact I did enjoy it, but my problem with it is the end of the world as we know it theme is a little depressing. Its fine as I mentioned before for a miniseries or movie but will people tune in every week with the sad theme. The show I think owes a lot to ABC's Lost but this time instead of being stranded on an island they are stranded on a virtual island cut off from everything else. The show could grow a following like Lost but I think it could have a tough time. The show maybe would have been a better fit on basic cable where with lots of showings it would have time to build an audience.

CW Network Premieres Tonight

Tonight is the night that the new CW Network premieres with America's Next Top Model as its first show at 8pm. The CW is the new network formed from the WB and UPN networks which both were money losing. The idea with CW is to put the best shows from the former networks together with some new shows and hopefully make money. The fact that you have one less network competing for ad dollars will help but I still think it will be a tough climb for them. Building a network until it makes money can take years and the FOX network paid big bucks for the NFL to jump start its goal of becoming a success. The new network does have popular shows such as 7th Heaven, Gilmore Girls, Veronica Mars and Girlfriends as well as America's Next Top Model so it does have a good base to build from. The CW has a lot of former WB shows on the schedule so is the CW going to go after the former networks young teen viewers only or will it try to be a broader network. The long term question is how long the owners of the new network will hold out losing money until the network becomes profitable. Click on the story title to see the CW networks new promo clip.

Download Tom Green Live episodes for free

Tom Green has is back. He broadcasts a weekday (Mon-Fri) comedy-talk show. The link indexes about 20 Tom Green Live episodes and allows you to download directly (instead of watching the stream).
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NBC's Show Looking for Your Submissions

NBC has a new Carson Daly Viral Video show and they're looking for your submissions or original content with a $1000 weekly prize, $100,000 grand prize and the opportunity to gain exposure to a national audience. Go to www.itsyourshowtv.com for all the information.
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Watch the full pilot of HEROES on Yahoo!

Full episode of Heroes pilot episode, the new show about average people with incredible powers. The show will play commercial free a full week before it airs on television.
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ABC Looking Flat On Monday Without Football

Now that Monday Night Football has left ABC for its cousin cable channel ESPN it seems to me that ABC doesn't know what to do on Monday to replace it. They have a returning show in Wife Swap at 8pm and another showing at 9pm followed by Supernanny at 10pm. While i do like both shows it seems a stop gap measure to me until The Bachelor Rome premieres on October 2nd at 9pm.

Deal Returns And Studio 60 Tonight On NBC

The likeable Howie Mandel returns tonight as host of the hit gameshow Deal Or No Deal on NBC at 8pm. This time the prizes are bigger and also includes a big prize a viewer can win as well. After Deal Or No Deal at 10pm on NBC is the much antipated premiere of "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" a show which features a stellar cast and has been getting much buzz. I haven't seen it yet but it does sound interesting.

This Week Is The Big Premiere Week

This week is huge for most of the United States television networks as they premiere the largest number of their fall shows starting tonight. The big three traditional networks ABC, CBS and NBC have a lot riding on this weeks premieres. FOX premiered a lot of its shows last week and the new CW's big premiere week is next week. Other shows have already premiered or will premiere later for the networks, in some cases all the way in to November. The interesting part always is how many of the new shows will survive and which returning shows start to fade.

Steve Irwin's Memorial Service to Air on Animal Planet

Animal Planet is airing Steve Irwin's memorial service exclusively in the U.S., commercial-free, on Tuesday, September 19, from 9-10 p.m. ET/PT, with an encore broadcast airing 12-1 a.m. ET/PT.
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"The Class" Series Debut Tonight On CBS

CBS which over the last few years had great success with its Monday night block of comedies premieres a new one tonight at 8pm called "The Class". I must admit when I first read about this one it didn't seem like a show I would like. It is a comedy with a large cast and I pictured people walking in and out making wisecracks and then leaving, kind of a cross between Friends and Laverne and Shirley. After seeing the first episode I must say im pleasantly surprised and did find it entertaining. One man decides to get together for his girlfriends anniversary members of their third grade class for a surprise party for her. These are people that haven't seen each other since then and he calls and gets together as many as he can from their class picture. The former classmates for the most part have many problems from the angry girl, man living with mom, beauty that married the jock and not happy, to the guy that's going to commit suicide right as the phone for the party is ringing. The characters are very formulaic but what sets it apart is good acting and a quirky script. The girlfriend doesn't like the surprise and dumps him in front of all the people. The problem with a large cast is will people care about all the characters and can the script writers make all the characters interesting and funny. At some point they might have to concentrate on a few central characters and it will be interesting to see if they have the time to develop the show. The show is helped by being together with all the other CBS comedies on Monday night but will it be able to compete with Wife Swap on ABC and Deal Or No Deal on NBC at the same time it remains to be seen.

Deal Or No Deal Sexy Video

What do you do if you want to promote a game show season premiere and make it appealing to men? If you are NBC you put a sexy music video of the girls of Deal Or No Deal on You Tube.
Deal Or No Sexy Video Link

The Amazing Race 10 Premiered Tonight

The Amazing Race 10 premiered tonight and the contestants begun there race around the world. The twelve teams that make up this season are filled with more realistic and diverse people than any in previous memory.
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WB's Last Night Is Tonight

The WB Network has its last night of programing tonight before it switches over to the CW on most stations on Wednesday. Tonight the WB is showing some classic shows that made the network as well as some of the various promo ads over the years. The shows being shown are all series premieres at 5pm is Felicity, 6pm is Angel, 7pm Buffy The Vampire Slayer and at 9pm Dawson's Creek. I think this is a very classy way to fade in to television history and even though the network didn't have a really long life its a shame to see it go.

The Amazing Race Season Premiere Tonight

Tonight at a special time of 8:30 pm on CBS is the season premiere of one of my favorite shows "The Amazing Race". If you are not familar with the show its where several groups of two people that have some connection follow clues and race around the world as they compete against the others. The first pair to make it over the finish line receives a one million dollar prize. Every week one the last team to arrive at that episodes pit stop could get eliminated and get send home. The race is more that just who is the fittest it also takes brains and even charm at times to get help from the locals on the way. Probally the most important thing isn't being fittest its being able to work well with your partner even after being exhausted and not argue. Early on its fun to guess who will make it to the end and who will self distruct at some point. The mixture of teams is always well done with totally different people from different walks of life. Some teams help each other at times and some don't but its interesting to see how people react under stress. If you like reality shows and haven't watched this one before i say give it a try.

Lukas Wins CBS Rockstar Supernova Show

Lukas Rossi a 29 year old Canadian from Toronto has won the CBS television show Rockstar: Supernova. The prize in the show is to be the front man of a new rock group being put together by Tommy Lee, Gilby Clarke and Jason Newsted. The band was going to be called Supernova but after a lawsuit by an Orange County, Calif band of the same name they are going to have to come up with a new name. Lukas will be busy whatever the bands name finally is because they have a release date for an album on November 21st and a tour starting December 31st with an appearance at The Joint which is in the Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas.

CBS Survivor Debut Has Lower Ratings

The latest installment of CBS's Survivor debuted to its lowest ratings of a premiere since season one. Thursdays premiere called Survivor: Cook Islands had an audience of 15.5 million in the 18-49 age group which compares with 19.2 million for the last premiere Survivor: Exile Island back in February. Over the last few weeks there has been plenty of discussion over this seasons idea to break up the Survivors by race; General Motors the shows main sponsor for six years, pulled out soon after this was announced although they said it had nothing to do with the race issue. Because of all the discussion over seperating the teams by race you would have thought that people would have tuned in at least for the first episode to see what happens. I don't know if people were turned off by the idea or it was just the fact that some of the Survivor audience has moved on to other shows. Survivor was the show that started the reality craze on network television and I still enjoy it. The show was up against mostly weak competition except for a couple of new comedies on Fox so even though the audience was 15.5 million it will be interesting to see what happens when the other networks premiere their shows and how much of that audience remains with Survivor.

"Dog" The Bounty Hunter Out On Bail

Duane Chapman or as his better known on the A&E series "Dog The Bounty Hunter" has been released on $100,000 bail. A condition of his bail is that him and his son and another employee have to wear electronic monitoring divises while on bail. The three of them are in trouble for bounty hunting in Mexico when they caught Max Factor heir Andrew Luster who was wanted for rape charges in the United States on three women. Andrew Luster was later convicted and sentenced to 124 years in prision. Because Dog refused to had over Andrew Luster the local police arrested them and after making bail they didn't return for there court case. Bounty hunting is illegal in Mexico so now Mexico is trying to return them to faces charges. The whole seen was filmed by A&E camera crews for a future episode of the show.

Lost Secrets Revealed Online

Fans of ABC's hit SF series Lost who played this summer's alternate-reality game The Lost Experience got a big payoff if they stuck with it: the secret to Hurley's numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42) and revelations about the Dharma Initiative and the Hanso Foundation.
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Review: Survivor Cook Islands Premiere On CBS

Okay this past Thursday saw the premiere of Survivor: Cook Islands on CBS. The longtime popular show has tried sometime new in the face of softening ratings that is dividing the teams by race. When this idea was announced the shows main sponsor General Motors bailed out and it caused a lot of negative stories to be written. I believe the idea is not a good one and playing races against each other to grab ratings is a dangerous idea. In a worse case senario the show could play to negative racial stereotypes which would not be good for anyone. Okay after seeing the first episode where there are four teams divided by race it does seem at least so far to be an interesting show. The four teams are the Asian, Hispanic, Caucasian and African American and that is also the position each team finished in the competition with the African American team losing one member in tribal council. The interesting part about the African American team was that the group consisted of three women and two men; where the two men made all the decisions on there own but at triabal council the three women voted one of them out. Another interesting part was how the Asian team was made up of people from countries all over Asia but when it came to competition they worked well together. I am open minded and will give the show a chance, when the Amazing Race did a family addition I was worried, but it worked out okay so i will give Survivor: Cook Islands a chance.

Dog the Bounty Hunter, Duane Chapman, arrested

Along with two family members stemming from a arrest of a Max Factor air in Mexico where bounty hunting is illegal.
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Mr. T Signs as Voice of Collection Agency

Apparently Mr. T has signed on to be the official voice of a collection agency that handles Time Warner Cable.
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Miami Newscaster is FHM's Sexiest (and yes, there's pics)

channel 7 here in sunny south florida. and let's just say she "doctored" her qualifications as a journalist.
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WWE Wrestler Hulk Hogans Car Catches Fire

The car was being driven by a juvenile who can not be named, according to police. Hogan has a 16-year-old son, but police would not say if the driver of the car was a relative.
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The picture shown in the story is enough to make a grown man cry it looks like a total loss.

HBO's The Wire gets the green light for a fifth and final season

After the controversial cancellation of Deadwood, fans of The Wire are relieved that HBO is giving series creator David Simon a chance to finish the story. Often cited as the best TV show no one's watching, praised by the critics but ignored by most everyone else, the show lingered in limbo for months while HBO decided whether to renew.
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House Bloopers

A video of bloopers from the production of House, Season 2.
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O.C. star ready to quit

O.C. actress Rachel Bilson is set to follow in the footsteps of fellow O.C. star Mischa Barton and leave the Fox show for the big screen.
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Big Brother Finale Recap

Everything starts off with a recap of the entire Big Brother All Stars season, showing just how badly Chill Town worked everyone over, they really did a great job.
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Mike Boogie wins Big Brother 7 which means Erika comes in second again and Janelle wins the special jury prize which wasn't a surprise. I must say I loved this season even though season six messed up and im sad its over.

Jeopardy And Wheel Of Fortune In HD Now

Jeopardy and Wheel Of Fortune are now being broadcast in HD or High Definition which makes them the first syndicated show to be done in that format.

TBS Launches New Online Video Service - VeryFunnyAds

TBS recently launched, VeryFunnyAds, a broadband video service offering up funny commercials from around the world. TBS says that there will be many advertisements never before seen by the American viewing public.
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CBS releases promotional trailer for remastered Star Trek episodes

Michael Okuda assures fans, "We're going to preserve the original, but bring it a little more into the 21st century."
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AOL to stream NBC shows before their TV debut

AOL on Monday plans to announce that it will offer two new NBC programs on its Web site a week before their broadcast TV premiere. The shows, "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip" and "Twenty Good Years," are produced for NBC by Time Warner-owned Warner Bros. Television.
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CNN Headline News To Scrap Afternoon Newscast

CNN has announced that its 4-6pm eastern afternnon newcast on CNN Headline News has been scraped so they can focus there efforts elsewhere. The show hosted by Thomas Roberts and Kathleen Kennedy will be replaced by expansion of the show before and after it. In recent times the channel has gone through many changes going from a channel that showed news in 30 minute rotating newscasts with one anchor to its current form where they have two anchors in two blocks of news that are more like CNN and MSNBC.

"Housewives" Star Is Done With Television

Eva Longoria of "Housewives" on ABC has said she is done with television after the show comes to an end. Eva said she like television and the regular routine it provides but says she will not do anymore series for television.

Katie Couric Ends First Week At Number 1

The CBS Evenning News with new host Katie Couric has finished her first week at number one in the ratings for the first time in six years. The CBS telecast had a rating of 10.2 million viewers per night with NBC Nightly News at 7.13 million and ABC World News Tonight at 6.9 million. Im sure this numbers are inflated as lots of people tuned in because they were curious and gave the show a try. The question in the coming weeks will how many of the people that normally watch Brian Willliams on NBC or Charles Gibson on ABC will switch on a permanent basis to the CBS Evenning News.

China's Next Top Model?

A local version of the hit show "America's Next Top Model" is coming to China starting in January. The US version is now seen in 110 countries and 12 countries including England, Australia and Canada have there own local versions.

The Simpsons Roll On

Matt Groening Continues On With The 18th Season of the Simpsons
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The season premiere is on tonight at 8pm on Fox.

HBO's "Wire" Exposes Public Schools

The New York and LA Times gets the story right, im talking about their reviews of HBO's "The Wire" which starts its fourth season tonight. If you've missed the first three seasons, you've missed...
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A Sneak Peek Of "Simpsons" Online Friday

"Viewers who take pleasure in the antics of Bart and Homer Simpson will be treated to an exclusive online look at the season-premiere episode of "The Simpsons" beginning Friday, two days before its network debut on Fox."
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Review: Nanny 911 On Fox

I just watched the season premiere of Nanny 911 on Fox and it is very similar to Super Nanny on ABC. But the main difference is there are three English nannies instead of just the one on Super Nanny. Each week a different nanny goes to a house where the're are out of control children. Over a weeks time the nanny helps them solve their problems which sometimes can be as much the parents as the kids. The nanny will observe first and then put together some rules and provides leadership to help them. The show is so close to Super Nanny in format that you could be confused if you switched between the two. The show is a feel good show with a family each week coming to deal with their problems and usually resulting in a happy ending as the nanny is leaving at the end of the week. The show is a bit corny but i must say it is worth watching. If you want to watch it the show is now on Friday nights at 8pm on Fox.

FX To Show Eddie Izzard Comedy

The FX Network has picked a comedy series about a con-artist family starring british comedian Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver called "The Riches" for thirteen episodes.

Big Ratings For "House" Premiere On Fox

The third season premiere of House on Fox was watched by an estimated 19.4 million people which was up 22 percent from last years premiere.

Ellen To Host The Oscars

Ellen De Generes is going to host next years Oscars it was announced today by the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Ellen has hosted both the Primetime Emmys as well as the Grammys twice and did a good job so im sure she will be great at this.

Letterman On CBS For 4 More Years

David Letterman has just signed a deal that will keep him on latenight on CBS for four more years through the 2009-2010 season. Daves competition at that hour Jay Leno is leaving in 2009 when Conan o Brien will take over the Tonight Show. The new deal was a little bit surprising considering he had heart surgery in 2000 and was also kept of the air for shingles in 2003, so it was thought he might want to walk away. Dave is one of the highest paid people on television and even though Jay Leno has higher ratings im sure he will do okay in his new deal. His show is very entertaining and im glad to see it will continue for several more years.

Reporter gets beat up while confronting fraud suspect

A television reporter was severely beaten on-camera Tuesday, when he confronted a couple during a fraud investigation. A woman shouted obscenities at the camera crew before her husband started a physical assault.
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Discovery Network Plans Steve Irwin Tributes

The Discovery Network channels such as Animal Planet plan to run marathons of Steve Irwins shows and clips from over 200 appearances on the networks. The popular host of shows such as The Crocodile Hunter died from a stingray barb Monday while filming another show. Its was Steve show The Crocodile Hunter that put Animal Planet on the map and produced several imitators. The host was always hyper and would put himself right up close to deadly animals such as crocodiles, snakes and spiders.

ESPN Monday Night Football By Wal-Mart!!

ESPN has signed a deal with Wal-Mart for them to sponsor Monday Night Football to promote Wal-Marts HDTV's.

Katie Couric To Make CBS Evening News Debut

Tonight Katie Couric makes her debut as host of the CBS Evening News after co hosting NBC's Today Show for fifthteen years. Katie is the first female solo host of one of the major networks evening news shows. Some of the articles I have read have said that people won't watch a woman in that position. I disagree I watched Elizabeth Vargas hosting World News Tonight on ABC and she did an amazing job; If Katie does half as good as a job Elizabeth did she will be fine. I'm sure Katie will get big ratings at first as people are curious and tune in to check out the programme. After the jump at first it will be interesting to see who many of those people continue to watch her instead of Brian Williams on NBC or Charles Gibson on ABC. The show Katie Couric is taking over is third in the ratings which in some ways means they are free to try new things. The landscape is changing in many ways with more people getting there news from the internet so having a women instead of a male anchor makes the show a little bit different to the past norm which isn't a bad thing. I by the way don't watch any of them often on television but i do watch the ABC World News Video Podcast with Charles Gibson everyday on my computer.

Rosie Makes Debut On "The View"

Today Rosie O Donnell made her long awaited debut on ABC's "The View." Rosie is replacing Meredith Vieira who left in June to host NBC's "Today Show" this fall. The show has a brand new set for its tenth season and other than that and, Rosie joining the cast the show the show seems to be the same show we are all familiar with.

Crocodile Hunter Has Died

Steve Irwin or as he is more widely known as The Crocodile Hunter on television has died. Steve was diving off the northeast coast of Australia when he was killed by a stingray barb through the chest. Steve was known on his show for getting up close to dangerous animals such as deadly snakes, spiders and crocodiles on his show. The shows were always entertaining apart from being educational and he will be missed.

Big Brother All Stars On CBS

Before season four of Big Brother on CBS I would watch occasionally but from then onwards I got hooked. The show if you are not familiar is a reality show where people or houseguests as they are called are locked in a specially constructed house for the summer with cameras everywhere filming everything that goes on. The house guests compete against each other for things such as Head Of Household or Power Of Veto both of which have the power to alter the game. Each week usually one person is voted out by the other guests and has to leave the house. A jury of ex house guests votes for who will win the grand prize out of the last two members in the house. In the house alliances form and people back stab and lie to each other in order to stay in the house; The show is like Survivor in that respect but much more intense because of the close quarters and also without tribes the line on alliances is less clear. This season is the all star season with houseguests from past seasons competing against each other. Four members of last season Season Six went in and had an alliance together plus they were good at winning competitions so they should have easily got rid of the other members; But of course they made stupid discussions which costed them so now we are down to the last four with one member of Season Six left. The show is like being a fly on the wall and watching how people manipulate each other to get closer to the prize money. Im sure Freud would have found this show interesting in the study of people, I don't know what it says about me but I cannot miss an episode.

BBC Robin Hood Tapes Stolen In Hungary

Sheriff of Nottingham's press release reads "Dammit, Guisburne!"
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9-11 Show Concerns Some CBS Affilates

A powerful and moving documentary concerning the events of 9-11 is causeing concern for some CBS affiliates. The documentary hosted by Robert De Niro includes the only known footage of the first plane hitting the World Trade Center. The problem which has caused trouble and forced two dozen CBS affiliates to cancel or delay broadcast of the show is the language used by the firefighters in the programme. Since the Janet Jackson incident on the Superbowl the FCC has cracked down on indecent content and raised the fine from $32,500 per incident to $325,000 per station. This programme has already aired twice without incident but affiliates are afraid of big fines now. I don't have a problem with keeping bad language off broadcast television especially in the early hours of primetime. There is rough language in this programme but it shows bravery under intense pressure and yes the language is rough but i believe the show should be shown as is with a disclaimer of course to warn parents. The content of this show is hard to watch but it shows people coming together and risking everything to help strangers in a horrible day for America. This country is known for freedom of speech and this programme is a snapshot of America at its best overcoming a horrible day and if FCC fines stations for showing this they would be doing a great injustice to the American people.

Ellen In Three Car Accident But Okay

Television talk show host Ellen DeGeneres was involved in a three car accident with a suspected drunk driver in Los Angeles on Friday, Ellen had neck and back pain but not any serious injures.

Bill O'Reilly Booed at Agassi Match

Bill heard the voice of the people that he claims to have come from. I supposed that NY'ers know that Westbury is not in Levittown.
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MTV Awards Suffer Big Hit in Ratings

The downward spiral of the MTV Video Music Awards' TV performance continued Thursday night as the ceremony's audience plunged from last year. With digital media, including video-heavy Internet sites, competing for its core young audience, MTV has struggled to maintain its status as the coolest place for youth, last night's show was widely criticized.
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You're Fired Carolyn Says Donald Trump

Carolyn Kepcher who became widely known after her apperances on NBC's The Apprentice has left the Trump Organization. It has been reported that she was let go because her television stardom had gone to her head and she was too distracted from her work for Trump. Whatever the reason why she left its a little sad because she was tough and interesting to watch on the show. For the upcoming season in Los Angeles where production has already wrapped she was replaced by Ivanka who is Donalds daughter and George was replaced a lot of the time by Donald Trump Jr who is one of Donalds sons. Because the show is set in Los Angeles and the 78 year old George works for Donald on the East Coast his lessened role on the show was expected.

Beverly Hills 90210 & Melrose Coming to DVD

Two huge shows from the 90's Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place are finally going to be released on dvd. Both shows first season will be released on November 7th at a price of $62 each or $108.99 for combo set of both. I grew up watching both of them especially 90210 so I must say im looking forward to there release. Because of music rights issues the music in the early issues has been replaced which i hope doesn't change the feel of the shows but im sure will be okay.