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Today’s TV Addict Top 5: Favorite Recurring Characters

Oh, sure, everybody loves Raymond. But for some of us, it’s all about his sister-in-law, Amy. Every show has them: The recurring characters who make you smile when they pop up. Who are our faves? Glad you asked! Mankini, THE SOUP He’s a man. In a bikini. He’s Mankini! Even on a show featuring clips [...]

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Our Television Pie Theory: An Analysis of Available Viewers and How We View Competition on Television

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So many shows, so little time!  Is it wrong to love “the competition”?  With so many fun TV shows competing against each other in the same timeslots each night, it is enough to make any TV viewer extra-fatigued trying to find creative ways to watch everything.  Then there is the haunting feeling that you are [...]

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Sing, Kermie! Sing!

Oh, Hollywood, when will you learn not to tick off Miss Piggy… or her fans? The minute Richard M. Simms — executive editor of Soaps In Depth magazine and a regular contributor to this site— heard that producers of this year’s Oscar telecast were opting not to have the nominated songs performed, he knew someone [...]

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Death of a Salesman

You can fool most of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time… but you have to get up pretty early in the morning to fool us here at The TV Addict. (We’re big fans of sleeping in, so anything you pull before, say, 9 a.m.? Chances are, [...]

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In Praise Of The Electric Purple Nurple

If you happened to be casually flipping channels over the past few nights at 10 p.m., there’s a decent chance you may have come across a scene right out of 24. There sat a man, stripped to his skivvies, being tortured in some rather creative ways. First, he had hot wax poured upon his… er… [...]

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How a Holiday Trip to the “Video Store” Turned into an American Horror Story!

Even in death, Blockbuster Video continues to haunt us. This past holiday, your very own TV Addict found ourselves in the somewhat unenviable position of having to rent an old-fashioned physical DVD (No, we were not vacationing in Amish country). Where things get complicates is that with most video stores being a thing of the [...]

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On TV Tonight: Thursday December 29, 2011

NET 8PM 8:30PM 9PM 9:30PM 10PM 10:30PM ABC Happy New Year, Charlie Brown Grey’s Anatomy (R) Grey’s Anatomy (R) CBS The Big Bang Theory (R) Rules of Engagement (R) Person of Interest (R) The Mentalist (R) CW The Vampire Diaries (R) The Secret Circle (R) FOX Bones (R) Bones (R) NBC Community (R) Parks and [...]

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Happy Holidays from theTVaddict.com

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We interrupt your regularly scheduled holiday proceedings to wish each and every one of you a safe, healthy and happy holiday season. May all of your [insert your holiday here] wishes come true.* Particularly if they happen to coincide with a few of ours (Which you can see after the jump).

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Creator Steve Niles Shares the Scoop on Chiller TV’s New Series REMAINS and Its Preview Webisode REMAINS: ROAD TO RENO

  While the holidays may seem like an unusual time of year to debut a new zombie movie, both ChillerTV and creator/executive producer Steve Niles are enthusiastically ready to unleash yet another supernatural terror onto television screens this month.  In a recent conference call with press, Steve shared why he is drawn to zombies and [...]

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What the Success of Louis CK Might Mean for the Future of Television

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When we first got wind of Louis CK’s plan to disrupt the traditional means of distributing content by offering up a brand new standup special for an affordable through his personal website louisck.net, our first thought was where do we sign-up? Our second thought — after eagerly handing over our $5 to CK via a [...]

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