Jun 22 2012
Justin Bieber may be on course to have the top-selling album of the year, but TV-wise, he’s a major flop.
The pop superstar’s hour-long NBC concert special, “Justin Bieber: All Around The World,” pulled in only 3.3 million viewers, making it the network’s lowest-rated broadcast on...
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Jun 15 2012
Forget socks and barbecue equipment, what you really want to get for the dad in your life is a new TV.
Not a big-screen behemoth, though — chances are one of those is already in the living room — but a little TV that’ll fit snugly into a kitchen corner, the...
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Jun 12 2012
HBO is selling the ultimate TV geek prop — a life-size Iron Throne from “Game of Thrones.”
All season long, fans watched as a vicious war was waged for control over the king of the Seven Kingdom’s fabled throne, but, as it turns out, all that bloodshed was totally unnecessary...
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Jun 09 2012
Family feuds are big business now, thanks to the success of History’s “Hatfields & McCoys” miniseries.
NBC has snapped up Charlize Theron’s modern-day series based on the famed 19th century Appalachian fighting families, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The series will update the setting to a contemporary city, with...
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Jun 01 2012
Summer’s finally here and so are “Today” and “Good Morning America’s” Friday-morning concerts.
If you think waking up in time to catch the 8 a.m. performances is hard, imagine being the musicians that need to show up for 6 a.m. rehearsals.
“When we give [musicians] the...
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May 25 2012
It’s 1984 and Carrie Bradshaw, the style icon from “Sex and the City,” is a small-town high school girl with an itch for the big time.
That’s the setting of “The Carrie Diaries” — the CW’s hotly anticipated prequel to “Sex and the City.”
The new series doesn...
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May 24 2012
Meet the TV movie version of “Tot Mom” Casey Anthony.
Canadian actress Holly Deveaux, 19, is set to play the infamously acquitted 26-year-old mother in Lifetime’s made-for-TV “Prosecuting Casey Anthony,” according to reports.
The movie is based on prosecutor Jeff Ashton’s best-selling book, “Imperfect Justice,” and will focus...
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May 23 2012
Meet the TV movie version of “Tot Mom” Casey Anthony (right).
Canadian actress Holly Deveaux, 19, (left) is set to play the infamously acquitted 26-year-old mother in Lifetime’s made-for-TV “Prosecuting Casey Anthony,” according to reports.
The movie is based on prosecutor Jeff Ashton’s best-selling book, “Imperfect Justice,” and...
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May 23 2012
'Game of Thrones” is bucking to be the one with the battle scene to beat for all future TV series.
This Sunday, HBO debuts “GoT’s” highly-anticipated “Blackwater” episode — the brutal battle that the fantasy series has been barreling towards since Season 2 premiered last month.
Fans denied a big...
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May 20 2012
TV doctors used to be a dime a dozen.
Shows like “Chicago Hope,” “ER” and “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman” were long-running hits in the late ’90s and early 2000s.
Then, “Nip/Tuck,” “House” and “Grey’s Anatomy” elbowed their way onto the schedule to make lasting impressions on fans.
But...
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