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Really Fiction? Crime victims say TV drama hits too close
How would you feel if a traumatic personal event suddenly appeared as the plot of a prime-time entertainment program? During 19 seasons of Law & Order (and four spinoff series), a few hundred people have found out.
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REINFORCEMENTS: Networks roll out midseason replacements
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Obama to appear on Leno's show
The White House says President Barack Obama will appear this week on Jay Leno's talk show, perhaps adding a lighter touch to his bid to resuscitate the moribund economy.
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Liberal media watchdog begins anti-CNBC drive
Some critics are seizing on comedian Jon Stewart's attacks of CNBC to launch an online petition drive urging the network to be tougher on Wall Street leaders.
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Wwwhat? Sites spawned by sitcoms take on lives of their own
In the olden days, "555" alerted any viewer to a fake phone number in a TV show or movie. Thankfully, today, there's no equivalent for fake Web sites. For a show such as CBS' Monday night sitcom How I Met Your Mother, this has been boon. If a character on the sitcom mentions a fictional Web site or blog, there's no need for the Web address to remain fictional.
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Hefner's ex, 'Bachelor' reject to compete on 'Dancing with the Stars'
Hugh Hefner's ex-girlfriend Holly Madison and "The Bachelor" reject Melissa Rycroft each have a new potential love in their lives: "Dancing With the Stars."
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Nickelodeon stands by Chris Brown as nominee
Nickelodeon says it has no plans to remove Chris Brown as a nominee for its annual Kids' Choice Awards, despite the singer's felony charges for allegedly beating up his girlfriend Rihanna.
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Area band's performance to hit television
Guitar riffs bounce off a concrete floor and drown out the murmur of a kerosene heater. The drummer, lost in the beat, closes his eyes to the riding lawnmower he's facing. The singer's voice, with an amped up Eddie Vedder quality, kicks in to vibrate the metal legs of folding chairs where his only two audience members sit.
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In Demand: From acclaimed but little watched to two hot series
Lance Reddick doesn't get to smile a lot on the job. As federal agent Phillip Broyles in Fox's hit drama Fringe, he is icy -- and possibly sinister -- as the head of an interagency team investigating a pattern of bizarre, deadly incidents. Flip the channel, and you might also catch Reddick, a Baltimore-born-and-raised actor, in his recurring role as the stern and smartly dressed Matthew Abaddon, whose last name may be a fearful omen for the survivors of the plane crash of ABC's Lost.
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NYC's West 53rd Street briefly to become 'U2 Way'
Rock band U2 is getting official recognition for its stint this week on David Letterman's show.
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Jimmy Fallon makes his debut as 'Late Night' host
As Jimmy Fallon prepared to debut as host of NBC's "Late Night," he found his predecessor, Conan O'Brien, in his dressing room, still packing up.
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For Shizzle: Snoop Dogg takes on the variety-show format
No surprise here, but Snoop Dogg is not a big worrier. Tucked into a banquette at a Hollywood nightclub last week, the rapper seemed entirely at ease about the prospects of his new MTV variety show, Dogg After Dark.
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Spring brings new series to television
As the economy continues to head south and ratings slide for the broadcast networks, March and April bring new series to television. Mystery, comedy, reality and fantasy are in the mix.
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Grammys are picture perfect - that's the problem
The red carpet at the 51st annual Grammy Awards was just the right mix of sparkle, glamour and sophistication. That was the problem.
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Man sets world record for TV watching
Suresh Joachim has broken his own Guinness world record for nonstop broadcast-television watching, clocking 72 hours in the Swedish capital.
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Howie Mandel hospitalized with irregular heartbeat
TORONTO (AP) — Howie Mandel has been hospitalized in Canada with an irregular heartbeat, his publicist said.
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NC company's recycled yarn on TV show
A product made by a North Carolina textile company will be featured on a program on the Discovery Science Channel. The show "How It's Made" will do a segment on recycled yarn, including Unifi's Repreve, which is made from recycled polyester yarn at Unifi's plant in Yadkinville.
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Finding Its Niche: New network is growing
In recent weeks, the upstart My Network TV has accomplished something that would have been considered unthinkable just two years ago.
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Color Block: TV networks are lagging in diversity efforts, report finds
Nearly 10 years after the NAACP condemned a "virtual whiteout" in broadcast TV, the group said that major networks have stalled in their efforts to further ethnic diversity on-screen and off.
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Big Shoes: Fishburne joins CSI 'with a great deal of humility'
As a devoted fan of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Laurence Fishburne feels sorry for the act that has to follow William Petersen, the face of the long-running hit CBS show.
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Leno to get a 10 p.m. talk show next year
NBC announced yesterday that Jay Leno will be the host of a show five nights a week at 10 p.m., after he leaves the Tonight show next year. NBC had announced nearly five years ago that Conan O'Brien would move to Tonight and succeed Leno.
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BUZZ-WORTHY: Showtime's programming is keeping it strong
A drug dealer, a serial killer, a sex addict and a king with a penchant for beheading his comely wives -- bad sorts are doing a lot of good for Showtime.
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Blockbuster to rent through new on-demand device
Blockbuster Inc. will start renting movies and television shows through a new gadget that may give consumers another reason to bypass the struggling video chain's 7,500 stores.
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Americans watching more TV than ever
Despite the ability to watch video on computers and cell phones, Americans are viewing more television than ever.
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Taste For 'Blood': HBO's vampire series has slowly built an audience
Catching the wave of a public fascination with vampires, HBO's True Blood has steadily increased in stature to become the cable network's most popular series since The Sopranos and Sex and the City.
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