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This Saturday Night the curtain falls on Season 33 of a program begun in the Fall of my freshman year at University. NBC’s Saturday Night’s first few episodes were mostly forgettable. The show began on 11 October 1975 at 11:30 pm where for 90-minutes cast members, Chevy Chase, Dan Akroyd, Gilda

Here's a couple of links to keep all of you happy out there in cyberland. If you haven't heard, television is going to hell. Ratings are down, shows suck and its probably going to get worse. If the writers strike wasn't the worse possible thing that could happen to home entertainment, than bringing back the writers had to be.

______________ 3:20 p.m. UPDATE: Just after publishing this post, I read on one of the RSS feeds to which I’m subscribe, that The Unit has been renewed. ______________ It seems network television executives have lost some of their collective network brain power and viewer understanding during the writer’s strike last Fall, which lasted into almost early Spring.

Warning it contains a mild teeny spoiler, so if you don't want to be spoiled don't watch. Due to the Writer's Strike,Heroes will not be returning until the fall season but will open with a 3 hour season premiere.

Britney Spears got good news in court yesterday–she’ll receive an "expansion of time" with her two children, and the court said she could be granted overnight visitation in the next month. This should be welcome news to ex Kevin Federline, who can soon resume his life of crashing parties and

Everyman was my first shot at Philip Roth. It has encouraged me to read more of him, for no reason other than if Everyman is an accurate representation of what Roth is capable of, there’s no reasonable explanation for why he is heralded as one of our greatest American novelists. I didn’t like the book.

After a less than mediocre return of the NBC hit “The Office” former fans of the show picketed the Writer’s Guild offices demanding the writers go back on strike. “Seriously, I mean, what the fuck was that episode?” said angry fan Matt Warner.

Mode magazine simply won't be the same without Rebecca Romijn and her hot tranny self. Why is the blonde bombshell leaving Ugly Betty? Let's find out from Dotspotter user, showbiznews… Television star Rebecca Romijn is quitting the hit show Ugly Betty after this season, claiming the new writers on the show have wrecked her character.

The New York Comic Con Convention was held this weekend, at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan. Among the attendees was Milo Ventimiglia, boyfriend to Hayden Panettiere. Milo and his co-producer, Russ Cundiff, were there to discuss their soon-to-be-released comic book mini-series, Rest.

Mondays used to be so sparse when it came to watching TV, especially after Prison Break became so ludicrous that I abandoned it. (Speaking of, the fact that they're bringing the supposedly-beheaded Sara back next season is kind of insulting to eve... Read and post comments | Send to a friend