A quick look back at some of what got this critic talking about TV this week:
THE MAIN EVENT: Now that's how you do a TV debate, as the veep candidates squared off Thursday night in a lively encounter that made for great TV, unlike last week's unfocused and lost-in-the-weeds presidential face-off. Rousing, contentious, scrappy, with an actively engaged moderator...
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This week on TVGuide.com's mobile app, guest curator Mike Proulx offers his picks for the best shows television has to offer.
Proulx is a senior vice president and director of digital strategy at advertising agency Hill Holiday, where he focuses on cross-channel integration and social media. He is the co-author of Social TV, about engaging television audiences through the Internet, mobile apps and social media. Proulx also conceived, produced and co-hosted the TVnext summit in the winter of 2011, which brought together TV industry luminaries, and hosts the social TV web series The Pulse on Lost Remote.
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One day after ABC announced that Kelly Ripa's new Live! With Kelly co-host would be named on the Sept. 4 episode, TMZ reports that Michael Strahan has been picked to succeed Regis Philbin.
Live! With Kelly co-host to be named on Sept. 4 — who should get the job?
The former NFL champ has...
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Kelly Ripa's new co-host will make his or her debut on Tuesday, Sept. 4, ABC has announced.
Ripa, who's been hosting Live! With Kelly without a permanent co-host since Regis Philbin's departure in November, will kick off a brand new season on Monday, Sept. 3. The broadcast will mark Ripa's first time hosting solo. She'll be joined by her new partner the following day, when the pair will welcome guests Claire Danes and American Idol winner Phillip Phillips.
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It's official — Abby Elliott will not be returning to Saturday Night Live.
Elliott, the daughter of former SNL cast member Chris Elliott, is leaving the sketch show after four seasons, Splitsider reports. The announcement comes after stars Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg said their goodbyes on last season's finale.
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