Apr 08 2012
The Titanic sank 100 years ago this month, and today, many people remain obsessed with the ship that’s now disintegrating 2.35 miles below the ocean’s surface, 375 miles south of Newfoundland. To commemorate the shipwreck’s centennial, everybody’s getting into the act with specials and documentaries...
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Feb 05 2012
The Super Bowl isn’t just another football game — it’s more like a week-long televised national party. It’s NBC’s turn to air the game this year and the multimedia conglomerate — composed not just of the NBC broadcast network but of myriad cable nets, Web sites and social...
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Jan 25 2012
MIAMI — Charlie Sheen thinks Ashton Kutcher is doing a great job replacing him on “Two and a Half Men,” but the show really ought to end this year.
“I’ve done what he’s done,” Sheen told The Post this week at a TV programmers convention, where he is trying...
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Jan 15 2012
Jorge Garcia was filming scenes for ‘Alcatraz’ on a mountaintop in Vancouver when we caught up with him.
Q. What about this character and this story interested you?
A. Whenever I’d run into J.J. [Abrams] he’d always say, “Listen before you sign to do your next thing...
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Jan 15 2012
March 20, 1963. Two guards arrive by boat at Alcatraz Island. Inside the infamous prison, they discover that everyone has disappeared. Three hundred and two prisoners and guards. Vanished.
Cut to the present day. While a group of tourists gets a close-up look at the empty jail cells and the...
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Dec 31 2011
It’s been 20 years since John Grisham’s “The Firm” was published, and 18 years since the blockbuster movie starring Tom Cruise.
Now NBC is turning “The Firm” into a TV series starring Josh Lucas and premiering Jan. 9 (9-11 p.m./Ch. 4).
To get back into the...
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Nov 13 2011
Last spring, when Charlie Sheen spontaneously appeared to go insane and then head out on media tour, no one in the media thought his show, “Two and a Half Men,” could go on. That turned out to be dead wrong.
The companies behind the show, producer Warner Bros. television and...
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Oct 23 2011
A swashbuckling Snow White, a vegetarian Big Bad Wolf who does Pilates, a mayor of a small town who’s also an Evil Queen: Fairy tales are coming to prime time, but not in a way we’ve ever seen them before.
NBC’s “Grimm,” which premieres on Friday, is...
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Aug 28 2011
It’s been ages since MTV made its name on music videos (“Jersey Shore” provides the network’s bread and butter these days) but the channel’s Video Music Awards remains one of its signature events. “Videos as an art form are still very near and dear to our hearts...
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Aug 27 2011
It’s been ages since MTV made its name on music videos (“Jersey Shore” provides the network’s bread and butter these days) but the channel’s Video Music Awards remains one of its signature events. “Videos as an art form are still very near and dear to our hearts...
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