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NBC Gets Frisky With New Show: Playboy

As Playboy clubs are relaunched, show about clubs arrives

(Newser) - Playboy is coming to primetime. NBC ordered the pilot of the imaginatively-titled Playboy, a one-hour drama about the Playboy bunnies working in a Chicago Playboy club in the 1960s. There were once 22 Playboy clubs around the world, but all closed by 1991, Variety notes. The show arrives just as...

11 Completely Unnecessary TV Remakes

Did we really need the first 'Love Boat,' let alone the second?

(Newser) - Hollywood is constantly churning out movie remakes that really should never have been greenlighted, but TV doesn’t get off scot-free. The Huffington Post lists 11 boob-tube remakes we really never needed to see:
  • Knight Rider: “The original starring The Hoff is a camp classic,” writes Ross Luippold,
...

10 Most Quickly Canceled TV Shows

Don't feel too bad, Lone Star

(Newser) - After just two episodes, Fox’s Lone Star has been canceled —but that’s nowhere near surprising, writes Jace Lacob on the Daily Beast . The broadcast network business has become increasingly “cutthroat,” and Lone Star was severely ratings-challenged (although people seemed to like it ). “Unlike...

Twitter Gets Another Sitcom
 Twitter Gets Another Sitcom 
Sep 28, 2010 10:19 AM CDT

Twitter Gets Another Sitcom

It's sort of like the roommate version of $#*! My Dad Says

(Newser) - Fresh off the premiere of its first Twitter-based comedy, CBS is developing another. The network acquired a script deal for Shh … Don’t Tell Steve, based on a Twitter feed about a guy secretly tweeting everything his slob of a roommate does (sample: “Steve, just now, yelling from...

12 TV Shows You Should Be Watching

Forget new shows: You're missing out on these old shows

(Newser) - This fall, instead of trying to figure out what NBC's sure-to-be-mystifying The Event is actually about, why not pick up a great show that's already on the air? Kevin Fallon gives his 12 picks in The Atlantic :
  • Cougar Town: Don't count Fallon among the many Cougar Town haters . He calls
...

Frasier Spinoff Bared in Grammer Tweets

Rep blames rogue tweeter for revival talk

(Newser) - Kelsey Grammer—or, at least, whoever updates his Twitter account—has thrilled Frasier fans by suggesting a revival of the popular program is in the works. In a series of posts, "Grammer" said he was seriously considering a spin-off show involving several Crane family members, the Independent reports. A...

10 Fall Shows You Must Watch
 10 Fall Shows You Must Watch 
tv preview
Jun 1, 2010 9:34 AM CDT

10 Fall Shows You Must Watch

Matthew Perry and Hawaii Five-O are both back

(Newser) - It’s never too early to start scheduling your DVR for fall’s new TV. Entertainment Weekly critic Ken Tucker lists the 10 shows he’s most eagerly anticipating:
  1. Mr. Sunshine: Matthew Perry is the owner of a sports arena and has Allison Janney for a boss. Tucker calls the
...

8 TV Shows Set to Become Movies

Hopefully, some will be better than SATC2

(Newser) - Sex and the City 2 may have gotten downright awful reviews, but that doesn’t mean you must give up hope for all future TV-to-movie projects. The Frisky takes a look at eight that are particularly exciting:
  1. The Smurfs: Seems like a terrible idea…until you hear that Neil Patrick
...

7 Bizarre TV Finales

 7 Bizarre TV 
 Finales 
live up to these, 'lost'
May 23, 2010 5:00 AM CDT

7 Bizarre TV Finales

Was it all a dream? For some of these shows, yes

(Newser) - Warning: Spoilers ahead. In anticipation of Sunday’s sure-to-be-baffling Lost finale, the BBC remembers seven of the most bizarrely memorable series enders:
  • The Colbys: In this Dynasty spin-off, main character Fallon is abducted by aliens.
  • Roseanne: We found out that most of the stuff that happened was really just the
...

10 Actors Who Regularly Kill TV Shows

And some of the series had real promise, too...

(Newser) - Certain actors bring bad luck (or, in some cases, just plain bad acting) with them to every TV show they’re a part of. Courtesy of Screen Junkies , 10 actors who’ve been on so many canceled series, they should never be allowed on the small screen again:
  • Blair Underwood:
...

Mike Tyson's New Reality Show Is About...Pigeons

Yes, pigeons.

(Newser) - In what may perhaps be the strangest celebrity news of the day, Mike Tyson is getting his own television series…about pigeons. Animal Planet is teaming up with the former boxing champ for Taking on Tyson, which will follow his involvement with competitive pigeon racing, Broadcasting & Cable reports. “...

Why 30somethings Love Teen Soaps

 Why 30somethings 
 Love Teen Soaps 
confessions of a 90210 junkie
Mar 9, 2010 1:00 PM CST

Why 30somethings Love Teen Soaps

90210, Gossip Girl help us escape...and the clothes are nice, too

(Newser) - Like many 30somethings, Taffy Brodesser-Akner grew up alongside the cast of Beverly Hills, 90210—the show that gave her, “stuck in an all-girls yeshiva in Queens with no prom to speak of,” a chance to have “a real teenage experience.” But why, she wonders, is she...

How 3D Will Affect Your Fave TV Shows
 How 3D Will Affect 
 Your Fave TV Shows 
SHARK WEEK? WAY SCARIER NOW
Jan 6, 2010 10:19 AM CST

How 3D Will Affect Your Fave TV Shows

If you thought Conan O'Brien's hair was big before, just wait

(Newser) - Some television shows, like The View, will remain unchanged by the coming 3D revolution—but others will never be the same. Adrian Chen takes a look at how some of your favorites might be affected, in Gawker :
  • Winter Olympics: “Coverage now 90% luge.”
  • CNBC: “Busty news anchors
...

7 Simpsons Life Lessons
 7 Simpsons Life Lessons 
Jan 5, 2010 11:34 AM CST

7 Simpsons Life Lessons

Matt Groening's sitcom can really teach us something

(Newser) - The Simpsons is more than just a cartoon—it’s spawned essays, books, and lecture series, and the Telegraph takes a look at the lessons it can teach us:
  • Family is the most important thing: Contrary to former president George Bush’s beliefs, The Simpsons celebrates family—complete with a
...

The Only 3 Christmas TV Plots
 The Only 3 Christmas TV Plots 
TRADITIONS
Dec 20, 2009 3:43 PM CST

The Only 3 Christmas TV Plots

When it comes time for the holiday episode, don't expect a surprise

(Newser) - Christmas “takes over the airwaves as comprehensively as it does malls, office lobbies, and public service announcements”—but unfortunately, the Christmas TV plotline always falls into one of three categories, writes Torie Bosch for Slate :
  • Money woes: “A holiday season without gifts doesn't really feel like a
...

After 20 Years, The Simpsons Is Irrelevant

 After 20 Years, 
 The Simpsons 
 Is Irrelevant 
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY
Dec 17, 2009 11:49 AM CST

After 20 Years, The Simpsons Is Irrelevant

But the show has influenced much of modern TV, says author

(Newser) - Today marks the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons, a show that has influenced everything from modern TV to the president’s speechwriter—but is now barely relevant. “There will never be another show or entertainment program as wide-reaching as The Simpsons,” says John Ortved, author of The Simpsons:...

Don't Miss Men of a Certain Age
 Don't Miss 
 Men of a Certain Age 
TV REVIEW
Dec 7, 2009 1:16 PM CST

Don't Miss Men of a Certain Age

Star turns from Romano, Braugher, Bakula buoy new TNT dramedy

(Newser) - The male midlife crisis is hardly a groundbreaking subject, but Men of a Certain Age doesn’t need novelty to augment the poignant and hilarious truth it deals in. The new TNT series “proves a powerful yet mercifully amusing experience—bittersweet, poignant, and wise," Tom Shales writes. "...

In a Decade, 'TV Became Art'
 In a Decade, 'TV Became Art' 
opinion
Dec 7, 2009 12:51 PM CST

In a Decade, 'TV Became Art'

The Wire , The Sopranos , Six Feet Under , Mad Men —get the picture?

(Newser) - For television, the past decade has been “as the sixties are to music and the seventies to movies”—some of the worst content ever was produced, but the cream of the crop rose to the level of art, Emily Nussbaum writes. Sure, “you could easily memorialize the...

The Office Is Downright Depressing
 The Office Is 
 Downright Depressing 
blame jim
Dec 4, 2009 1:41 PM CST

The Office Is Downright Depressing

Jim Halpert illustrates 'the worst purgatory of 30-something life'

(Newser) - The Office has turned from funny and charming to the most depressing show on television, and it’s all thanks to once-beloved character Jim Halpert. “The show has taken the story of a man with a promising future and given him an interminable present,” writes Meghan Keane for...

Poehler's Parks Show Has Gotten Good
 Poehler's Parks Show 
 Has Gotten Good 
TV review
Dec 2, 2009 12:46 PM CST

Poehler's Parks Show Has Gotten Good

NBC sitcom is refreshed in second season, but lacks viewers

(Newser) - Television critics far and wide, including Jonah Weiner, are coaxing viewers to tune in to Parks and Recreation, the underdog of NBC’s Thursday night comedy block. It “has gone from an erratically funny nonevent to astonishingly good,” Weiner writes in Slate , and if you watched during the...

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