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Boston Legal and Other Announced Releases

• Feb 11, 2009 04:52 PM ET
• by The DVD Team
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Boston Legal - Season 5

New releases announced today, February 11:

Boston Legal - Season 5 will be coming out May 5

Open All Hours - The Complete Series will be coming out June 9

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30 Rock, Mad Men Lead SAG Nominations

• Dec 18, 2008 11:11 AM ET
• by Joyce Eng
• 31 Comments

Elisabeth Moss, Alec Baldwin

30 Rock and Mad Men have won the love of Emmy voters, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and now their peers: The quirky comedy and advertising drama continued their streaks Thursday morning with three Screen Actors Guild nominations each.

Alec Baldwin and Tina Fey will look to defend their SAG crowns in the male and female comedy categories, while the Rock cast looks for its first comedy ensemble statuette. The cast will face off against those of ...
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Ratings: CBS Is First with Laughs!

• Dec 9, 2008 04:43 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 12 Comments

Two and a Half Men

Monday's ratings in review:

8 pm/ET
Charlie Brown and his scrawny tree topped the hour with 11.37 million total viewers. Combining for second, CBS' Big Bang Theory hit yet another (!) all-time high — 10.8 mil, up 600K from its last fresh outing — and Mother (10.49 mil, +450K) delivered its biggest audience since Britney circa March 24.

Opposite a fuller slate, Chuck (6.93 mil) dipped 320 thou and Sarah Connor (5.2 mil) dropped 11 percent. Gossip Girl (3.01 mil) slipped a hair.

9 pm
CBS comedies ruled, with Men (15.65 million viewers) enjoying its best numbers since February and Worst Week (10.6 mil) gathering its largest audience since its premiere. Boston Legal placed second, averaging 10.2 mil over its two-hour swan song — a 21 percent surge from its previous episode.

Heroes (7.78 mil, -220K), Prison Break (5.39 mil, -410K) and Privileged (1.9 mil, 0300K) all dropped, though the CW charmer matched its best numbers in target demos.

10 pm
CSI: Miami dominated with 13.6 million viewers, down 500K. Lagging behind Boston, My Own Worst Enemy (3.96 mil) continued its lame-duck decline.

David E. Kelley: ABC Shunned Boston Legal; "Satisfied" with Series Run

• Dec 9, 2008 10:04 AM ET
• by Joyce Eng
• 141 Comments

James Spader and William Shatner, Boston Legal

Boston Legal closed its doors for the final time Monday night, ending a five-year run and a two-decade-old era in the process. With its two-hour bow, Legal's goodbye means it'll be the first time in 22 years that television is without a topical David E. Kelley program on air.

But it didn't have to end this way.

"ABC didn't want us back," Kelley told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "It's as simple as that. They didn't ...
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Tonight's TV Hot List: Monday, Dec. 8, 2008

• Dec 8, 2008 04:00 AM ET
• by TV Guide News
• 6 Comments

Josh Radnor and Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother

How I Met Your Mother
8:30 pm/ET CBS
Ted and Barney have progressed from slap bets to outright fighting.

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Britney and Christina Gross and Tacky? Not Anymore in this Week's Top TV Moments

• Dec 5, 2008 01:44 PM ET
• by TV Guide News
• 38 Comments

Britney Spears, Katie Couric, Christina Aguilera

Is there nothing that television can't make us do? Britney Spears did her best impression of a pop star, making us doubt her icon status. She didn't say a word, but Katie Couric — for a moment — made us forget the real news. And Christina Aguilera did what we thought was impossible: She made us fall in love with the Grammys again. Check out our Top Moments of the week ...

Tonight's TV Hot List: Monday, Dec. 1, 2008

• Dec 1, 2008 04:00 AM ET
• by TV Guide News
• 1 Comment

Betty White

Boston Legal
10:01 pm/ET ABC
Tonight's episode is on drugs. Now that doesn't mean this show's trademark frivolity is chemically induced.

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Mega Minute: Boston Legal's Big Goodbye, Mother Casts a Sister & More

• Nov 24, 2008 04:42 PM ET
• by Matt Mitovich
• 8 Comments

Now playing in this week's Mitovich Mega Minute:

• A hint at one of the surprises Boston Legal has on tap for its two-hour series finale.

• Who else on 24 is coming "back from the dead"?

• How I Met Your Mother casts Ted's sister. (But what has Ted so worried?)

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Tonight's TV Hot List: Monday, Nov. 24, 2008

• Nov 24, 2008 04:18 AM ET
• by TV Guide News
• 2 Comments

Lance Bass and Lacey Schwimmer

Dancing With the Stars
8 pm/ET ABC
It's all come down to this: the finals! Brooke Burke, Lance Bass and Warren Sapp duke it out to get their hands on that coveted mirror-ball trophy.

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Reader's Jeer of the Week: Liberal Doses of Boston Legal

• Nov 21, 2008 10:53 AM ET
• by Bruce Fretts
• 45 Comments

William Shatner, Boston Legal

From Lou May...

Jeers to Boston Legal. The Nov. 17 episode was positively obnoxious. This did it for me. I have long objected to David E. Kelley inflicting his political views on his audience, but this was deplorable, belittling anyone who didn't vote for Obama. (Read discuss and vote on Lou May's complete Jeer after the jump.) read more