Did CBS go too far with "Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman"?
If a kid googles Frosty, they might end up watching these naughty Frosty videos from "Two and a Half Men" and "How I Met Your Mother."
Oprah keeping Harpo in Chicago
Even if Oprah Winfrey leaves town, her production company will continue to be headquartered in the Windy City.
"Dexter"-loving teen pleads not guilty to strangling his brother
Andrew Conley, 17, told police that killing his little brother made him feel like "Dexter."
Kate Gosselin: My kids are still "sobbing" over "Jon & Kate's" cancelation
"They cried in the van on the way home from school the other day, she tells Barbara Walters in "The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2009" special. "I finally admitted to them, they kept asking, 'Where's the camera crew? Where's the camera crew? We miss them.' And I said, 'Our show is over.' …Eight sobbing kids driving home from school." PLUS: Another reality show? Why was Kate working in a North Carolina restaurant?
Mark Wahlberg: "Entourage" should follow the "Sex and the City" movie model
"People have always complained that the episodes are too short," he says. "And that the seasons aren't long enough, and they want more."
Real-life profs are thrilled to be teaching at "Lost" University
Professors from UCLA, USC and Caltech teach a variety of classes, from physics to philosophy. "It's the perfect marriage of entertainment and education," says Caltech professor Sean Carroll, who teaches Introductory Physics of Time Travel for Lost University. PLUS: Is the "Lost" Season 5 DVD worth buying?
Watch Simon Cowell's 1990 TV debut on a gameshow
As the Guardian notes, Simon's appearance on "Sale of the Century," which he won, "was all self-deprecation and smiles, without a needlessly crushing putdown in sight, is a masterclass in how to preserve your dignity through that crucial first foray in front of camera."
"Better Off Ted" returns tonight, but wouldn't it be better off on Wednesday night?
"Ted" is funnier than ever, but it's stuck behind a "Scrubs" that nobody is watching. Meanwhile, ABC's Wednesday comedy block of "Modern Family," "The Middle" and "Cougar Town" is a hit. PLUS: "Ted" struggles in its first two episodes back.
The TNT series debuting tonight really gets the midlife crisis men face right, says Tim Goodman. "There's some spot-on and sharp humor throughout, but it never gets too light and breezy," he says. "There's an underlying seriousness – just shy of real gravitas – that anchors the series. If 'Men Of A Certain Age' eschews the easy clichés as it has in the first few episodes, there's real potential for drama here (though it's TNT – nothing is going to be too heavy). A series that honestly looks at aging, change and the reluctant acceptance of who you are and what you've accomplished would be great for television. You can only have so many vacant teen vampire dramas."
In what could be a sign of things to come, the pizza maker wants no part in the stereotypes of the MTV series. "The content of this particular program is not right for Domino's Pizza," says a spokesperson. Meanwhile, the actual 
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation appeared to 
His original plan was to focus on the sexuality of the "Dollhouse" encounters, but Fox was too "twitchy" about it, says Whedon, adding that "when the show turned into a thriller every week, it took something out of it that was kind of basic to what we were trying to do." But why would Fox turn down sex? "First of all," says Whedon, "network television has taken great treads backwards in terms of dealing with sexuality or the body or anything. I mean, now on cable everybody is prancing about naked and whatnot. On the networks, it’s gotten different since I was last making TV."
Basic cable was mostly a backwater of game shows and broadcast repeats when "Monk" launched in 2002. Yet as Scott Collins and TV historian Tim Brooks point out, "Monk's" big ratings and buzz led to the creation of other basic cable hits, from "The Closer" to "Mad Men." "Now original scripted series (both dramas and comedies) are all over the cable dial," says Brooks. "'Monk' had a lot to do, I think, with sparking that."
Two more seasons seems like the perfect amount of time to wind down the HBO comedy, Wahlberg says. "We'll see; there could be more," he said at the premiere of "The Lovely Bones." "But then, a movie." An HBO spokesperson says two more seasons aren't out of the question. "It is not out of the realm of possibility," says the spokesperson.
The actor explains the unusual career move in a Wall Street Journal essay: "I disrupted the audience's suspension of disbelief, because no matter how far I got into the character, I was going to be perceived as something that doesn't belong to the incredibly stylized world of soap operas. Everyone watching would see an actor they recognized, a real person in a made-up world. In performance art, the outcome is uncertain—and this was no exception."
Disney not only owns the Muppets but it one of its record labels owns the U.S. distribution rights to Queen's catalogue. And, as the Wall Street Journal points out, it just so happens that the Muppets' viral video for 
The downer recession storylines has gotten to Meghan Keane, who writes: "Now Jim has developed into the most depressing archetype: a mediocre man who has already realized his full potential. Gone is Jim's charming lack of enthusiasm for his job. Now he's proving exactly where a lack of drive is likely to lead you—to the mediocrity of middle management, where one is gripped by the fear of losing whatever corner of inanity you've carved for yourself in the workplace."
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