Mariska Hargitay, Jay Leno
Conan O'Brien isn't the only who has a bone to pick with NBC.
"It ruined our numbers," Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay told More magazine of The Jay Leno Show. Leno's show bumped her series to 9 o'clock from its longtime 10 o'clock time slot. "The first four episodes, we were considerably...
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Barack Obama
President Barack Obama won't bump Lost, but he may bump American Idol: The president will deliver his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Jan. 27 at 9 p.m. ET, the White House announced. Spokesman Robert Gibbs previously promised not to schedule the speech on Lost's Feb. 2 season premiere.
Obama won't bump Lost premiere
The address will be streamed live on WhiteHouse.gov and is expected to be carried on the major networks. Schedule changes have not been announced yet, but the speech will conflict with ...
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Anthony Anderson, S. Epatha Merkerson, Jeremy Sisto
NBC will replace some of its current programming chaos with lots of Law & Order.
The network's post-Leno-at-10 plan, released Thursday, includes a mix of scripted and unscripted programs filling up the prime-time slot. Law & Order will move from Fridays to Mondays beginning ...
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Leverage
Leverage
10/9c TNT
After a four-month absence of new episodes, the catchy con-job series returns to continue its second season. Forget crimes of passion — tonight there are crimes of fashion. Nate Ford and his crack crew of surreptitious scammers and schemers slip into the high-fashion world in their bid to trounce a tyrannical sweatshop owner. Guest star Jeri Ryan reprises her role as slinky Tara Cole, a temporary member of Nate's team. The episode is preceded by a 10-hour marathon of Leverage shows.
Read on for previews of New Adventures of Old Christine, Law & Order: SVU, Great Performances and High School Reunion.
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Jon Hamm
Oscar winner Kathy Bates, Jack Black and Mad Men's Jon Hamm will pop up in key guest spots this spring on NBC.
Bates will guest-star on The Office as the...
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Sharon Stone
Sharon Stone is joining the cast of NBC's Law & Order: SVU, TVGuide.com has confirmed.
In multiple episodes this spring, the 51-year-old Stone will play...
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Grey's Anatomy, NCIS, Chuck
Every week, editors Mickey O'Connor and Adam Bryant answer your burning questions. Want some TV scoop? Please send all questions to mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
Some are saying that Meredith will sleep with Alex on Grey's Anatomy. Please tell me it isn't true. I'm freaking out! — Kate
ADAM: First off, we're not going to identify Alex's hookup, but we will help narrow down the list of candidates. Take a deep breath, Kate: Everything's going to be fine. Meredith and Derek's marriage by Post-It will not be torn asunder. Callie's eye won't be wandering back toward the men's side of the locker room either. "Callie and Arizona get a little sexy soon," says Jessica Capshaw, who plays Arizona. "We see a little girl-on-girl action. America was asking for it and America got it."
We know about the new, kung-fu-enhanced Chuck — what's going on with Sarah this season? — Karen
MICKEY: Yvonne Strahovski tells us that Sarah's role will change significantly this season. She'll go from...
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Dick Wolf
Former advertising executive Dick Wolf got his start in television writing for shows like Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice. But his greatest accomplishment is Law & Order, which mastered the TV-show-as-brand concept by cornering the market on cops-and-courts procedurals. (This year it ties Gunsmoke's record for longest-running scripted television program.) L&O laid the groundwork for two successor series: Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Wolf, one of the influential television industry players interviewed for TVGuide.com's Best of the Decade section, talked with us about the germ of the idea that led to his gritty TV empire. He also told us what he watches.
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30 Rock
NBC is holding its annual "Green Week" Nov. 15-22.
Al Gore will make his second appearance in a green-centric story line on 30 Rock, where Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin) must ask the T.G.S. staff to reduce its carbon footprint. Kenneth the page is put in charge of making sure the staff sticks to their goal.
Watch full episodes of 30 Rock in our Online Video Guide
"These green episodes are a fun and entertaining way to raise environmental awareness," network executive Beth Colleton said. "We are also very committed to green production practices at NBC Universal."
She said they've published green production guides for TV and film hoping they will encourage a more eco-friendly industry.
NBC released this list of other "green" highlights:
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Taylor Swift
A Taylor Swift-dominated Country Music Association Awards dominated the rest of its TV competition, according to early Nielsen estimates.
See photos of all the country stars on the red carpet
The 43rd Annual CMA Awards averaged 16.8 million viewers over its three-hour telecast and was the most-watched CMA Awards in four years. ABC also won every half-hour in the adults 18-to-49 demographic.
Although CBS ran a distant second, the lack of ABC's comedy block helped boost sitcoms The New Adventures of Old Christine (7.6 million viewers) and Gary Unmarried (7.7 million viewers). Christine pulled ...
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