Suburgatory
When crafting the final episode of Suburgatory's first season, showrunner Emily Kapnek had one very simple goal: give ABC no choice but to renew the freshman comedy.
"I really wanted to create a lot of loose threads so that there was no way they couldn't pick us up for Season 2," Kapnek told reporters at a special preview screening of the finale. "The main goal ... was really just to stir the pot. It was about finding a way to create all these great natural cliff-hangers with the stuff that we've had bubbling throughout the season and not fully losing the comedy. ... [ABC needed to be] dying to know what...
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Glee, Lea Michele and Chris Colfer
The Glee waiting game is over. At least a little. When announcing Fox's 2012-2013 TV schedule, entertainment president Kevin Reilly finally gave Gleeks a glimmer of what Season 4 will look like following the New Direction seniors' graduation. Instead of selfishly making Rachel (Lea Michele) and Kurt (Chris Colfer) hang around McKinley next year like Lima losers, the show will follow the duo to a performing arts school in New York — where they'll run into the likes of Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker — while also still keeping up with New Directions. But will the show be able to pull it off? We look at why this approach may or may not succeed...
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Crossbones
NBC has acquired some extra booty to add to its 2012-2013 TV schedule. The network has ordered pirate drama Crossbones, from Luther creator Neil Cross.
In 1715 on the Bahamian island of New Providence, home to the first functioning democracy in the Americas, the notorious pirate Blackbeard...
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Mitchell Guist
Mitchell Guist, a cast member of The History Channel's Swamp People, has died, Baton Rouge's WBRZ reports.
According to Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Wauespack, Guist suffered a fall in a boat shortly after it launched into the Belle River in St. Martin Parish on Monday morning. Witnesses said...
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Britney Spears, Demi Lovato
It may have been one of the worst kept TV secrets in recent history, but Simon Cowell was still happy to boast the additions of The X Factor's new judges Britney Spears and Demi Lovato.
"We delivered," Cowell said at Fox's Upfront presentation for advertisers on Monday. "This has taken a year to get where we got to today and...
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Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer
The Avengers continued to obliterate records at the box office — becoming the first film to make more than $100 million in its second week of release, Box Office Mojo reports.
The Avengers grossed an estimated $103.1 million to easily hold on to the top spot. The Marvel superhero film also became the movie to reach $300 million and $350 million the fastest, and the movie...
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