Family Guy
Fox has pulled a March episode of Family Guy after a mash-up of clips made the series look like it was portraying a bombing at the Boston Marathon.
In the clip, which has nearly 140,000 views on YouTube, a scene from the March 17 episode, "Turban Cowboy," depicts Peter Griffin accidentally blowing up a bridge while using a terrorist's cell phone. However, the clip places that scene directly after an unrelated one, in which Bob Costas asks Peter Griffin how he won the Boston Marathon.
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Adam Scott
The Masters boosted CBS to a win Sunday.
The dramatic final round, which saw Adam Scott defeat Angel Cabrera in a two-hole sudden-death playoff, delayed CBS' prime-time lineup by 57 minutes, but lifted every show for an average of 12.4 million viewers and a 2.6 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic for the night. (Preliminary numbers are not available for The Mentalist, which aired after 11 p.m. ET.)
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Poppy Montgomery
Sometimes even network executives admit they've made mistakes. After canceling Unforgettable last year, CBS is bringing back the cop drama this summer. AMC changed its mind about dropping The Killing and, most recently, Lifetime decided to revive Drop Dead Diva.
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Michael Raymond-James, Sonequa Martin-Green
CBS topped Sunday with NCAA basketball coverage, while Once Upon a Time hit a series low.
CBS averaged 10.1 million viewers and a 2.4 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic for the night, thanks to March Madness overrun that delayed prime time by 45 minutes.
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Once (6.8 million, 2.1) dropped two-tenths to a new all-time low ...
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Josh Charles, Julianna Margulies
CBS topped a slow Sunday that did not see a single show grow.
The Amazing Race led the way for CBS, drawing 8.7 million viewers and a 2.2 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down two-tenths from last week. The Good Wife (9.02 million, 1.5) was flat and The Mentalist (9.8 million, 1.6) dipped ...
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Max Greenfield, Zooey Deschanel, Lamorne Morris
Fans of New Girl and The Mindy Project will have to wait one more week for their favorites comedies to end this season.
Fox announced Tuesday that the network was pushing the season finale dates back a week to...
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Lee Tergesen, Radha Mitchell
Red Widow took a plunge in its second week, while Revenge returned to its best numbers in two months.
Red Widow fell 20 percent from its premiere last week, drawing 5.3 million viewers and a 1.2 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic Sunday. Lead-in Once Upon a Time (7.4 million, 2.2) was flat and Revenge (6.8 million, 2.0) was up ...
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Radha Mitchell
Red Widow showed little life in its much-publicized two-hour premiere.
The ABC drama bowed to a soft 6.8 million viewers and a 1.4 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic Sunday, down 36 percent from both GCB's and 666 Park Avenue's debuts in the slot last spring and in the fall, respectively. Red Widow ties Zero Hour as ABC's lowest-rated scripted series premiere ever. And we all know how that turned out.
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The Following, Glee
Fox announced season finale dates for American Idol, The Following, Glee and a host of other primetime shows Thursday, as well as premiere dates for its summer lineup.
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Jimmy Fallon, Michelle Obama
This week, the Oscars happened! Host Seth MacFarlane's opening monologue, which featured the musical number "We Saw Your Boobs," sent lots of people into a tizzy, and Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence gave a backstage press conference that charmed the masses. First Lady Michelle Obama stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and taught everyone the nuances of "mom dancing," and a basketball cheerleader sunk a you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it shot from half court. Check out those clips and more in this week's Top Videos:
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