Feb 07 2012
Call him “The Late Show” Most Valuable Player — when it comes to the Super Bowl.
For the past eight years, “Late Show” producer Brian Teta has snared the winning Super Bowl quarterback for a first appearance on Dave — including Eli Manning’s sitdown with Letterman last night.
It takes a...
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Feb 06 2012
Judge Jackie Glass turns to one of her TV heroes to help her decide a case on tomorrow’s episode of “Swift Justice” (11 a.m./Ch. 9).
Glass, who’s a huge fan of Bravo’s “Real Housewives” franchise, invited “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kandi Burruss into the...
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Feb 03 2012
ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” will rip a page from the “art imitating life” playbook when Wisteria Lane’s nosy neighbor, Mrs. McCluskey (Kathryn Joosten), is diagnosed with lung cancer — mirroring Joosten’s real-life battle.
Joosten, 72, is a two-time lung cancer survivor who was first diagnosed with the disease in...
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Feb 03 2012
Yesterday I wrote a story for The Post TV section about Brigitte, the year-and-a-half-old Pied French Bulldog who plays “Stella” on “Modern Family” opposite (mostly) Ed O’Neill, Sofia Vergara and Rico Rodriguez.
As part of the story, I’d asked one of the “Modern Family” powers-that-be, who turned out...
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Feb 02 2012
This may be “The Year of the Dragon” on the Chinese calendar, but it’s shaping up as “The Year of the Dog” in Hollywood.
Canine co-stars are generating big buzz in movies including “The Artist” (Uggie the Jack Russell terrier) and “Hugo” (Blackie the Doberman).
Leading the charge on...
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Feb 01 2012
Jane Velez-Mitchell used to have “Issues” — but, starting next Monday, those days are history.
That’s because her HLN show, now called “Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell,” is dropping the “Issues” part of its title. Beginning this Monday, Feb. 6,the show (which airs at 7 p.m.) will simply be...
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Jan 31 2012
Call it cable’s version of “The Hatfields and the McCoys” — including feudin’ brothers on competing reality shows.
Animal Planet has fired an opening salvo at History’s new series, “Mudcats” — a ripoff, Animal Planet says, of its most successful show, “Hillbilly Handfishin’.”
The similarities are hard to ignore. Like...
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Jan 31 2012
A highly emotional moment on “Shark Tank” last week — where the show’s entrepreneurs began arguing about the economics of exporting jobs overseas — has unexpectedly struck a chord with the show’s fans.
It began when inventor Donny McCall appeared on last Friday’s show seeking $100,000 — and offering...
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Jan 31 2012
It will be hard to miss writer/comedienne Sarah Colonna as we near the Feb. 7 release date of her new book, “Life As I Blow It,” which tracks her life and career from her formative years in small-town Arkansas to her standup career — and lots of carousing, self-discovery and...
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Jan 28 2012
The trick of reviewing a new TV show is to predict if that show’s intended audience will buy into its premise — without feeling like they’re being insulted (or, worse yet, lectured to).
“How To Rock,” Nickelodeon’s newest ’tween series, is targeted at that fickle group of kids...
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