Mark Harmon, Cote de Pablo
America loves its football, but the top action on TV this season wasn't on the field — it came via CBS' still-potent NCIS. In its tenth season, NCIS managed to beat NBC's Sunday Night Football as the ...
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Shannon Richardson
An actress who had minor roles on The Vampire Diaries and The Walking Dead was arrested Friday in connection with allegedly sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg last month, CNN reports.
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Rutina Wesley, Poppy Montgomery, Alyssa Milano
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Please tell me you have some Pam-and-Tara scoop for True Blood? — Lila
NATALIE: The state of Louisiana will declare war on vampires, so there won't be any time for Tara and Pam to braid each others' hair and talk about their feelings about their hot kiss in the finale. However, their relationship will deepen as a result of two shocking events: 1) Pam will find out (for the first time) who Nora really is to Eric and...
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Kerry Washington
TV executives must have been happy to put a fork in the 2012-13 season. Ratings dropped across the board for broadcast networks due to fading reality franchises and the failure to launch any major new scripted hits. Cable also slumped, with audience levels flat compared with the previous season. And with the number of viewers who time-shift growing, the path to success is more treacherous than ever. Here are the shows that navigated the bumps — and the ones that became ratings road kill.
Winners
The Bible
Let us now praise...
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Andrew Lincoln
Already itchin' for more Walking Dead? Season 4 won't premiere until October, but AMC has released a first look to tide us over until then.
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Superman comic
Who doesn't love free stuff? Comic book fans — and those who'd like to be — can pick up free samples on Saturday during the 12th annual Free Comic Book Day. The event, which will be hosted at over 2,000 comic book shops across the country, features dozens of special limited editions including Superman, Star Wars, Archie and The Smurfs. More than four and a half million copies are expected to be distributed during the day, which aims to introduce newcomers to the genre.
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Chris Hardwick
It's no surprise that self-proclaimed TV nerd Chris Hardwick says The Walking Dead is his favorite show right now.
"Yes, Walking Dead [is] one of my favorite shows," Harwick says. "I host a show after it [Talking Dead] and I know you're probably like, 'You're just saying that because you host a show after that!' Maybe, or maybe not, [but] I wouldn't have hosted that show if Walking Dead wasn't one of my favorites."
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Hardwick, whose TV taste ranges from Walking Dead and Doctor Who to the '80s series Greatest American Hero, is currently working on his next project: voicing a snake for Nickelodeon's new animated show Sanjay and Craig (premieres Saturday, May 25 at 10:30 a.m./9:30c).
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Larry Gilliard Jr.
Another Wire alum is heading to The Walking Dead.
Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. has joined the ...
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Candice Glover and Angie Miller
Fox topped a repeat-heavy Wednesday with American Idol.
The two-hour show averaged 12.2 million viewers and a 3.2 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down two-tenths from last week.
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Survivor, CBS' only new show of the night, was second with 9.8 million and a 2.7, flat with last week.
Sandwiched by repeats, ABC's How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life) (4.8 million, 1.5) was down ...
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Duck Dynasty
Aw shucks, y'all -- Duck Dynasty ends its third season Wednesday night.
That is god-dog bad news for the people who enjoy watching forest-dwelling duck-hunters trade jokes.
Wait, what — you've never seen Duck Dynasty?
In a nutshell: A&E's Duck Dynasty follows the Robertson family like Keeping Up with the Kardashians follows the Kardashians. It's a modern-day Beverly Hillbillies, except it's apparently real.
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