November 11, 2009

"Dollhouse" canceled
All of this season's 13 episodes will air, but Fox has told Joss Whedon that "Dollhouse" won't be renewed.


Jeff Zucker will inexplicably lead the joint Comcast/NBC venture

The man who led NBC into the ground will continue to stay at the helm.


Reality TV has ruined television — and America!

"The influence of Reality TV has been insidious, pervasive," James Wolcott complains in Vanity Fair. He goes on to list the damage reality is responsible for: 1) Reality TV has lowered network property values, 2) Reality TV has annihilated the classic documentary, 3) Reality TV wages class warfare and promotes proletarian exploitation, 4) Reality TV has debased the time-honored art of bad acting, 5) Reality TV encourages and rewards vulgar, selfish, antisocial, pissy-pants behavior and 6) Reality TV gives voyeurism a dirty name.


"V" viewers flee from 2nd episode

About 26% of last week's viewers fled the sci-fi series. PLUS: Why "V's" mothership doesn't make sense.


Jon Gosselin unveils his comedy acting chops in Funny Or Die video

Watch the "Jon & Kate" star poke fun at himself by going back in time.


Parents TV Council is apparently disappointed by "Gossip Girl" threesome

The conservative watchdog acknowledged that "there was no explicit sex scene" on Monday's episode, but is anxious to see what the CW will air next week.


"Hank" yanked

Kelsey Grammer's ABC comedy has been canceled, but it's unclear if the remaining episodes will air. PLUS: Grammer rejected porn role.


"Sh*t My Dad Says" Twitterer is a wannabe scriptwriter — he didn't polish his dad's tweets

"The most that I'll do is change a word here or there to make it fit in the 140 (characters allotted by Twitter)," says 29-year-old Justin Halpern, who says he recorded some of his dad's words as proof.

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