Hoarders
Only people dead inside could watch Hoarders and simply say, "they crazy!" Sure, there's insanity on parade, but by the end of most episodes, after all the human excrement has been shoveled away, there's usually nothing left but sympathy. For the sufferers. For their families. And especially ...
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Sarah Palin, Kate Gosselin
Did Sarah Palin ask for $1 million an episode to do a second season of her ratings-rich Sarah Palin's Alaska? Did the former governor and Vice Presidential candidate reject TLC's offer of another season? Or did TLC pull the plug for political reasons, worried about the practicality of running a second season with a (possible) presidential candidate? The answer: none of the above.
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Fringe
Now this is how you remind people that you've moved nights! Friday, January 21 at 9/8c, the relocated Fringe finally returns to our present with the greatly anticipated appearance by Back to the Future's Christopher Lloyd.
Guest starring as Walter's musical hero, the man we'll always love as Doc Brown will not just be playing the keys, but also play a key role in the week's wacko case. In addition, we're hearing ...
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Jake and the Neverland Pirates
Jake and the Never Land Pirates (Series premiere in February, Disney Channel)
Yo, ho, ho! It's a pirate's life for David Arquette, who voices a parrot named Skully in this new animated preschool show about a crew of kid buccaneers and their adventures outwitting the legendary Captain Hook. ...
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Lie to Me
Two lies don't make a truth, but the two new back-to-back episodes of Lie to Me airing tonight are honest fun. In the first, Cal Lightman (Tim Roth) investigates a mental hospital that may be holding a patient against his will and promptly begins to lose his own mind after he's mysteriously medicated. "Cal starts to descend into madness," says exec producer Alex Cary. "He's quite aware of ...
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Marcia Cross
Ok, last night's Desperate Housewives went somewhere wonky right at the end and we need to figure this out together, people. No, I'm not talking about how the hour wasn't completely idiotic (as it's wont to be most weeks), I'm talking about the gun bit.
It all started when Bree invited ...
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Ashley Benson
How fitting that a character we first met while she was shoplifting has stolen our hearts. As the former fatty-turned-trim troublemaker Hanna Marin on ABC Family's addictive hit Pretty Little Liars, 21-year-old Ashley Benson is bringing a killer combo of humor and humanity to a role that could have been a cookie-cutter clone of all the Queen Bee teens who've come before. ...
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Spencer Grammer
Classes are back in session for the fun-loving kids of Greek, the college dramedy that began Season 4 last week with Casey (Spencer Grammer) starting the next stage of her life: law school. So expect less partying, more studying? Not according to Grammer! ...
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Sam Huntington, Meaghan Rath, Sam Witwer
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Question: I know you like the BBC version of Being Human, as do I. So I am curious if you have seen any previews of Syfy's version of Being Human. Are we looking at an Office-like success or a Coupling-like failure? I will take a peek. However, I am so in love with the original version, I am not sure if I can accept this version. — Pam
Matt Roush: I'm with you, Pam. I've seen three episodes ...
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Steve Carell
Spoiler Alert! As Steve Carell prepares to shoot his final episodes of NBC's The Office before transitioning full-time to the big-screen, could it be possible that his doofus character, Michael Scott, is also destined for showbiz success?
At the Hollywood opening of Hair's three-week run at the Pantages Theatre, Office alum Melora Hardin told me her character, Jan Levinson, is about to ...
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