Lena Dunham
You can thank the premature death of Luck for the quick renewals — and returns of Girls and Enlightened. (Both will return in January 2013.) "When we made the decision to pull the plug on Luck while they were in production on the second season, we did not have a backup plan," Michael Lombardo, HBO's president of programming, told reporters at Television Critics Association fall TV previews on Wednesday. "We have new shows coming up next year, but we did not have anything ready for that period." Both series will air their 10-episode second seasons with originals running through March.
HBO also came loaded with plenty of other announcements, including a film starring Larry David, a Rolling Stones documentary and the future of True Blood and Game of Thrones. Check it out:
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Kristen Wiig
We'll take "Things We Never Expected from Saturday Night Live" for a thousand.
Answer: Tears of the "awwwww" kind.
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Kristen Wiig
Mick Jagger may have been the host and the musical guest for Saturday Night Live's season finale, but the show belonged to Kristen Wiig, who, after seven years, is leaving the show.
And the final episode was proof of just how much star power the show's losing. For the night's final sketch, Wiig and other cast members posed as...
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Tom Selleck
The timing is as uncanny as the sleuth is eternal. On the heels of CBS announcing a promising new modern-day Sherlock Holmes series Elementary for fall, PBS' Masterpiece Mystery! wraps the second season of brilliant contemporary Sherlock movies on Sunday (check local listings) with its most dizzying and dazzlingly literary adventure yet.
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Mick Jagger
Rock legend Mick Jagger will serve as both host and musical guest on the May 19 season finale of Saturday Night Live, NBC announced Thursday.
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Barack Obama
First lady Michelle Obama admitted to Jay Leno that President Barack Obama sings all the time, and obviously, she wasn't lying.
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Vintage MTV logo
Before The Real World, The Hills and Snooki, the M in MTV stood for music.
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Adam Levine and Christina Aguilera
The Voice may have crowned Javier Colon its first winner, but it also brought about a collaboration between two of its coaches.
Christina Aguilera and Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine debuted their song "Moves Like Jagger" on the NBC singing competition show this summer and now have unveiled their music video featuring footage of The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger himself showing off -- what else? -- his moves. The video also features various models trying to mimic his iconic loose-limbed dancing.
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The Defenders
The Defenders (Friday, 8/7c, CBS)
Now here's some stunt casting to get your nostalgic juices flowing. The guest judge in this week's episode of the breezy Vegas courtroom drama is Dan Aykroyd, who clashes with Jim Belushi's Nick Morelli during a court hearing. (Aykroyd's first blast of fame came while playing alongside Jim's legendary brother John in the original Saturday Night Live cast — and later as Blues Brothers.) Even better news: ...
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Mick Jagger
Mick Jagger will make his first-ever live appearance on the Grammys stage, CBS announced Thursday.
The rock legend will perform as part of the telecast's "In Memorium" tribute, which pays homage to those in the music world who have died in the past year. Jagger will be joined on stage by his band and Grammy winner Raphael Saadiq.
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