Stop the TV pop-ups!
"Across the networks," says Frazier Moore, "the pop-up ad is alive and well and inescapable, undermining THIS show to shill for some OTHER show, which, when that show airs, will likely be defaced with promos for yet ANOTHER. And on it goes."
Body language experts analyze Sarah Palin's Oprah interview
Said one psychology professor: "She averaged between 30 and 40 blinks per minute, and that’s a normal blink rate, which should suggest that she’s not uncomfortable." PLUS: Oprah steered away from making news.
It's official: Will Arnett is joining his wife on "Parks and Recreation"
He'll make a cameo as an MRI technician. PLUS: Justin Theroux to romance Leslie Knope.
"Jon & Kate" lets Kate dump on Jon
Last night's TLC clip job second-to-last episode featured unseen clips of Jon Gosselin looking like a jerk.
Zach Galifianakis interviews Conan O'Brien and Andy Richter
"When you go home at night and watch yourself, do you….touch it?"
"Absolutely, this is on my mind," she says, "but hopefully my going there will bring some attention and make people watch because it's not just about watching Amanda, it's about bringing awareness to the show." But she points out that "it's not a teenage show," and adds that she wasn't completely sold on the new "Melrose" until she saw the 2nd epiosde. "And I went, 'I'm in. If I'm not the one who killed Sydney, I'm in.'"
The "Mad Men" star teamed with "SNL" writers to turn in one of the worst episodes in a while. "You could tell from the very first moments she lurched onstage wearing a forced smile and a deer-in-headlights look of mortification that never left and proceeded to make sweet love to the cue cards," says Nathan Rabin. "Everyone on SNL reads cue cards but Jones was especially egregious. She stared at those cue cards so intensely I’m surprised she didn’t burn a hole right through them. Though she excelled in a clever if fairly obvious taped faux-education film about how to throw the perfect incredibly repressed early-sixties Mad Men-style dinner party, Jones pretty much had two modes: stone-faced or giggly."
It's a bad night when 
The slur "douche" — without the "bag" — has been used approximately 76 times on 26 TV shows this year, according to the Parents Television Council. That is up from 30 uses on 15 shows in all of 2007 and just six instances on four programs in 2005. Why is "douche" suddenly so popular? "As a writer, you’re always reaching for a more potent way to call somebody a jerk," says "Community" creator Dan Harmon. "This is a word that has evolved in the last couple of years — a thing that sounds like a thing you can’t say.”
Lisa de Moraes argues that "Dollhouse" could've lived if Whedon didn't chase the big money of network TV and settled for cable, where he'd be more successful. "Joss Whedon gets nothing BUT breaks," she says in an online chat. "This show never should have been picked up in the first place. Then it never should have been picked up for a second season. He's the luckiest guy working in TV today. Period. Like I said, he has a very loyal, but small, fanbase and had he not gotten greedy and gone for the Big Broadcast Bucks, this show might have survived and flourished on a cable network. Joss Whedon needs to think more about his fans and less about his wallet. If he did, he would do his work for a cable network which can sustain a show that attracts this sized audience. He did not serve you well. Shame on him."
"I’m still shaking my head," he says, "because in many ways it reminds me of Richard Hatch in season one. It’s as though the rest of the players are playing a different game. It certainly doesn’t mean he’ll win or even make it to the end but there is no denying he is playing a different game than anybody else."
One of the problems with the AMC remake is that we've been there, done that, says Tim Goodman. "The original allowed a new generation of writers to tear up convention, American television viewers have seen everything from 'Twin Peaks' to 'Lost,' 'The X-Files' and all kinds of science fiction series up to 'Battlestar Galactica.' The notion that being vague and ominous and weird can be all that it takes to bring viewers on a ride is simply outdated. People have already seen that. They need a payoff. They need answers."
Here comes another remake: ABC is teaming with the man behind "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" on a modern-day remake of "Charlie's Angels." The remake will also include the involvement of original "Angels" producer Leonard Goldberg, who was involved with the '70s series and the movie version. This isn't the first attempt to revive the "Angels" franchise on TV. Aaron Spelling tried to bring his franchise back to television in a version called "Angels 88," which never got off the ground.
The former Alaska governor's new book reveals that she wanted to play a journalist who interviews Tina Fey as Palin. But "SNL" vetoed the idea. According to The Hill, the book also reports that Palin's aides "balked at her planned interaction with actor Alec Baldwin." Palin's campaign wanted her to tell Baldwin, "Hey, weren’t you supposed to move to France after the election?"
"The show had its shot, and then some," says James Poniewozik. "Yes, Fox meddled too much early on. The first several episodes of the show forced a case-of-the-week procedural format on it that didn't really fit. But it got a promotional campaign to rival Barack Obama's general election. It got a second-season order with one of the lowest ratings for any renewed broadcast show ever. And once it found its voice, Fox committed to it and, apparently, let it be the show Whedon envisioned." PLUS: 
"You ever watch that TV series 'Mad Men?'" the former president asked a Chicago crowd on Wednesday. "If I keep watching this program, will I ever find a happy person? Great television. Good drama. But a lot of really painful reminders in that show about how black people were supposed to run the elevators… were supposed to ask permission before they get on an elevator. The way women were treated is appalling, and only occasionally funny to me."
But "Glee" gets no comedic respect because it's a musical comedy, as Troy Patterson points out, "and according to TV-biz conventional wisdom, many people feel such revulsion for that genre that they will not read this article any further, much less consider watching an hourlong show. Their loss. At its best, 'Glee' is not just entertaining but elating, dramatizing Breakfast Club-quality teen angst with the aid of tight production numbers covering new and classic popular songs."
