"Television is a goddamned amusement park."
Some of the blaring headlines would have you believe that George Clooney is going to guest star on this season of Downton Abbey, but that’s not exactly true. Instead, he’s apparently filmed a guest spot alongside his Monuments Men buddy and Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville in an Abbey sketch to benefit ITV’s December Text …
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NBCs late-night perennial Saturday Night Live will kick off its 40th season on September 27, according to NBCs website. Hosting duties will fall to Parks and Recreation’s Chris Pratt, his first appearance as host. An exciting yet somehow obvious choice to host, Pratt is fresh off his meteoric rise in film after starring in the …
At the beginning of the Fall TV Season, Megan turned to her crystal ball to try to predict which of the new shows would live, which were in trouble and which were probably doomed to cancellation. One of the shows she had targeted for the bottom of the list was FOX’s new reality show Utopia …
Chuck Todd debuted as the new host of Meet the Press this weekend with a big interview of President Barack Obama. And he blew it. The smug-prick look on Chuck’s stupid face when he says the words “You’ve not said the word Syria so far” like he knows he’s the only one who got the …
Because clowns aren’t creepy enough already. Thanks American Horror Story! And then I don’t even know what the hell is going on here, but it looks like more clown shenanigans. And finally, a dude swallowing a sword which is just weird, not creepy.
Please enjoy this trailer for Martin Scorsese and Dave Tedeschi’s documentary covering the 50 year history of the venerable The New York Review of Books which began in 1963 with the belief that that intelligent discussions about literature were as important as literature itself. The 50 Year Argument airs on HBO on September 29.
It had begun to seem like Joan Rivers would be with us forever, but now she’s gone. I remember her most vividly from the 1980s when she was a frequent guest host on The Tonight Show, long before the unpleasantness between her and Johnny Carson when she started her own competing talk show. Joan was …
Sorry for the BuzzFeedy “You won’t believe….!” click-baitery, but the news strikes me as a little bit spoilery and I didn’t want to be the one blow it for you even though it’s spread all over the internet. Anyway, buried way down at the end of a long interview with one of the show’s cast …
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SyFy has announced ambitious plans to make a 6-hour miniseries out of Arthur C. Clarke novel Childhood’s End. Originally published in 1953, the classic novel tells the story of a group of seemingly benign aliens, the Overlords, who take over earth near the end of the 20th Century and guide it toward becoming a peaceful …
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You can already hear the knives being sharpened all over the internet as a nexus of hate builds for this thing. Or is that just me? First photo! See Allison Williams as Peter Pan: http://t.co/9JtZk5nFxd pic.twitter.com/60cAl3jDDb — TODAY (@TODAYshow) September 3, 2014