"Breaking Bad" has its best-ever ratings
Sunday's Season 3 premiere attracted 3.3 million viewers total.
Justin Bieber, 16, flirts with Barbara Walters, 80
The teen sensation says he's into a girl like Babs.
"Life" beats "Planet Earth"
About 11.8 million caught the Oprah-narrated sequel.
Coming to IFC: Onion News, David Cross, Will Arnett, Kids in the Hall
The Onion's fake newscast "Onion News Network" will become a real fake TV newscast that will look like its cable news brethren. The Independent Film Channel has also acquired “Death Comes to Town" from the Kids in the Hall gang, and "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret," featuring Arnett, Cross, Spike Jonze and Amber Tamblyn.
"Gossip Girl" duo start their own produciton company
Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage have started Fake Empire.
Watch 22 TV theme songs mashed up in 7 minutes
As performed by twins. UPDATE: Those aren't twins!
HBO making a documentary on the Louds — TV's 1st reality family
"Cinema Verite" will tell the story of the PBS clan who rose to fame and controversy on "The American Family."
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"Fringe" will do a musical episode during Fox's "Glee"-themed week
As SciFiWire explains, "No, it's not some Broadway-themed virus or a Sondheim-style alternate-universe storyline: The musical numbers, which cover popular songs, represent a hallucination by the show's resident mad scientist, Walter Bishop."
Ted Danson: "One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself"
"The first time I see it," he says of one of his many TV performances, "I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I’m 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I’m not Cary Grant or whatever."
Starting tonight, "Dancing" will enclose its stars in a glass walls in the ballroom
The "Dancing with the Stars" set got a makeover. "We brought the backstage room to the front of the stage, so rather than have the contestants hidden away during the show they will be with the audience, front and center, and much more a part of the show,” says exec producer Conrad Green. PLUS: Handicapping the "Dancing" stars.
Shannen Doherty has actually gained weight from "Dancing"
The former "90210" star has also broken out in hives because she suffers from stagefright, especially when performing on live TV. She says of her weight-gain: "I eat so much now, it's insane. (MP3 link) PLUS: 10 reasons why Shannen should win.
Nobody knows how much Oprah will be a part of the Oprah Winfrey Network
According to this New York Magazine profile, no one can seem to figure out yet exactly what OWN is going to be.
"Skins" movie is in the works
The British teen sensation is headed to the big-screen, featuring the two casts that make up the show's first four seasons.
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Edie Falco on "Nurse Jackie" — "It's a TV performance for the ages"
"Nurse Jackie," in its 2nd season, "has certified Falco's rank as a star of the first magnitude, through a performance that is beautifully spare and completely free of all visible signs of vanity," says Robert Bianco. "Falco allows us to see straight into the heart of this funny, angry, dedicated, addicted nurse and mother, and that includes showing us things Jackie herself may not know are there."
Falco's showboating is too distracting on "Jackie"
"Jackie" Season 2 posters look religiously iconic // There won't be a tone change
Doctor Coop will tweet in real time // Meet the brains behind "Jackie"
"United States of Tara" remakes itself as a good show for Season 2
"It's hard to think of a show that's done a better job of course correction between seasons," Maureen Ryan says of tonight's premiere. "Almost everything that didn't work in Season 1 is gone, and this year, the recalibrated 'Tara' is firing on all cylinders. Tara may still have trouble integrating her multiple personalities, but the show itself has achieved a very satisfying synthesis."
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“It wouldn’t be like my old show where it’s celebrities promoting stuff," Rosie O'Donnell told her Sirius radio listeners this morning. "It would (be) more like the radio show, where you get an hour on a topic that you like, whether it’s autism or something funny like a comedian that you love. You’d get an hour to sit and chat to one person about one thing."
The 29-minute "Curb Your Enthusiasm" episodes were too dense to cut down to 21 minutes for syndication, so TV Guide will air each episode in a one-hour timeslot with 7-to-10-minute panel discussions of each episode, covering ethical issues the show raises. Susie Essman will host the panel, with guests including the NY Times' ethics columnist, sports figures, rabbis and intellectuals, according to Essman herself.
