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Best News Ever: Netflix Enters the Original Programming Game

This just in: Netflix is entering the original content game by reportedly outbidding the likes of HBO and AMC for David Fincher’s HOUSE OF CARDS, a new series starring and executive produced by Kevin Spacey that dramatizes the political manoeuvrings following the end of Margaret Thatcher’s tenure as British Prime Minister. According to Deadline Hollywood, [...]

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AMERICAN IDOL Exit Interview: 10 Questions with Ashton Jones

You looked like you were in such pain when you found out that you were going home. What exactly was going through your head in that very moment? Ashton Jones: You know what, it really was not pain. It was moreso leaving the stage and the friends that I had made, and I just had [...]

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On TV Tonight: Tuesday March 15, 2011

NET 8PM 8:30PM 9PM 9:30PM 10PM 10:30PM ABC No Ordinary Family (R) V Detroit 1-8-7 CBS NCIS (R) NCIS: Los Angeles (R) The Good Wife (R) CW One Tree Hill (R) Hellcats (R) FOX Glee Raising Hope Traffic Light Lights Out (FX) NBC Biggest Loser: Couples America’s Next Great Restaurant (R)

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Elizabeth Mitchell Peels Back the Mystery Surrounding Tonight’s V Finale

On tonight’s second season finale of V, the Fifth Column will have a solid sixty minutes to fight for our planet’s future. And while forty-four minutes (subtracting for commercials!) of screen time wouldn’t normally seem like enough time for a ragtag group of freedom fighters to stave off whatever nefarious plan a royally peeved Queen [...]

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TV Ratings: Monday March 14, 2011

Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millions Time Network Show Rating 18-49 8PM ABC The Bachelor 12.33 3.9/12 FOX House 10.17 3.5/11

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Brilliant Television Writing Does Not Guarantee Television Viewers

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  In response to my  recent article “Superheroes Are Dropping Like Flies! An Investigation Why Television Seems to be the Genre’s Kryptonite,” one commenter offered his opinion that superhero shows are failing because the shows are not well-written.  But unlike in the movie Field of Dreams, the theory of “If you build it, they will [...]

7 Posted in Battlestar Galactica, breaking bad, dollhouse, Eli Stone, Everwood, Featured, Kings, Mad Men, Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Veronica Mars, WTF?!

Morning Static: SOUTH PARK, GOOD CHRISTIAN BITCHES, EVERWOOD & More!

• Should all TV shows die by the end of their second season? Discuss. • From the department of it’s news to us, SNL’s Bill Hader writes for SOUTH PARK. • Kristin Chenoweth is a… GOOD CHRISTIAN B*TCH! • Good News: When EVERWOOD’s fourth and final season is released on DVD it will contain the [...]

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Fox Announces Summer 2011 Schedule #fail

Making our decision to re-activate our dormant Netflix.ca subscription a foregone conclusion comes this just announced Fox Summer Schedule, 100% devoid of new scripted programming. See for yourself after the jump.

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On TV Tonight: Monday March 14, 2011

NET 8PM 8:30PM 9PM 9:30PM 10PM 10:30PM ABC The Bachelor The Bachelor:After the Final Rose CBS How I Met Your Mother (R) Mad Love Two and a Half Men (R) Mike & Molly (R) Hawaii Five-0 (R) CW 90210 (R) Gossip Girl (R) FOX House Chicago Code NBC Chuck The Event Harry’s Law MISC Pretty [...]

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PaleyFest 2011: SUPERNATURAL Dazzles Fans with Sneak Peaks, Spoilers and a few Surprises!

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  For their second return visit to PaleyFest, SUPERNATURAL set out to charm and entertain their fans.  As if appearing in person before thousands of their most fervent fans was not enough, SUPERNATURAL began its presentation with a highlight reel, an extended clip from their recent episode “The French Mistake,” and a sneak preview of [...]

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