Predicting the Emmy winners and losers
McClatchy Newspapers
9/17/2008, by Neal Justin
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - You'll have to forgive network executives if they show up for Sunday's 60th Emmy Awards wearing black armbands and stealing swigs from a flask of whiskey hidden under their tuxedos. This is cable's year to shine _ and the networks have no one to blame but ...
Is there an Emmy in the ‘House'? Tune in Sunday night
McClatchy Newspapers
9/17/2008, by Hal Boedeker
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - At 60, will Emmy have a Hugh Laurie moment? Isn't it time? The race for best dramatic actor is the most competitive at the annual awards, which air at 8 p.m. EDT Sunday on ABC.
Laurie has never won for playing the brilliant, sarcastic doc on Fox's "House." He'll have ...
Milo Ventimiglia meets some real heroes on USO tour
Zap2it.com
9/16/2008, by Kate O'Hare
Zap2it.com (MCT) - For his 31st birthday on July 9 this year, "Heroes" star Milo Ventimiglia got a surprise party and a cake _ but he had to go quite a ways for them. The celebration took place during the 66th annual USO tour, to Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan. Ventimiglia went along, with Chairman ...
If it seems like you've seen these TV series before — you have
McClatchy Newspapers
9/16/2008, by Neal Justin
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) - The most intriguing characters of fall TV include a geek with a computer in his head and lust in his heart; a gun-toting mom trying to protect her son from time-traveling killers, and a skilled doctor with a less-than-McDreamy social life. Sound ...
Television news briefs
Zap2it.com
9/9/2008
Zap2it.com
(MCT)
NBC PLANS MUPPETATIONAL CHRISTMAS
Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear and the rest of the Muppets will help NBC celebrate the holidays this year. The network has announced its holiday-specials lineup for this year, and it's a little bigger than usual. The Muppet special, titled ...
‘Do Not Disturb,' premiering Wednesday on Fox
McClatchy Newspapers
9/9/2008, by Glenn Garvin
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - It's hard to imagine a network spending several million dollars on a TV show purely for the sake of vengeance, but I can't think of any other explanation for "Do Not Disturb." Last fall, Fox offered up "Back To You," a witty, character-driven sitcom with Kelsey Grammer ...
Jerry O'Connell returns to comedy in new Fox sitcom ‘Do Not Disturb'
McClatchy Newspapers
9/9/2008, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Jerry O'Connell plays the general manager of one of the hippest hotels in New York in the new Fox comedy "Do Not Disturb." Jerry O'Connell? On a television comedy? Really?
Until he starred in last year's ABC comedy "Carpoolers," a series that crashed and burned ...
With the death of George Carlin, cerebral comedy just took a big hit
McClatchy Newspapers
6/23/2008, by Roger Moore - The Orlando Sentinel
Wonder if he got "the two-minute warning"? George Carlin's fans know what I'm talking about. It's part of a routine he did in the '70s, about the possibility of getting notice that you're about to die ... a voice inside your head that goes, "TWO MINUTES. Get your (Bleep) together."
His spirit's ...
Television news briefs
McClatchy Newspapers
6/19/2008, by Zap2it.com
'TOP GEAR' BUCKLES UP HOST TRIO
NBC has put a trio of hosts behind the wheel of its adaptation of the BBC hit "Top Gear."
Comedian/car collector Adam Carolla, rally driver and stunt performer Tanner Foust and HGTV host Eric Stromer will try to fill the shoes of U.K. hosts Jeremy Clarkson, ...
Tori Spelling returns ‘Home'
McClatchy Newspapers
6/19/2008, by Luaine Lee - McClatchy-Tribune News Service
PASADENA, Calif. - Who says you can't go home again? Tori Spelling and her actor-husband Dean McDermott have done just that. After hosting their reality show at a B&B in Fallbrook, Calif., for two years they've decided to move back to the bright lights where it all began.
As the daughter of the ...
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