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AS BRITISH SOLDERS GO FREE, STEPHEN COLBERT KIDNAPPED!

Freedom fighter, purveyor of truth and pillar of the national community at larges action figure has been kidnapped! TVgasm has [...]


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Nielsen Ratings: Sunday February 11, 2007

THE 49TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS was music to CBS’ ears last night pulling in Jennifer Hudson sized ratings and easily [...]


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Nielsen Ratings: Friday February 9, 2007

Last week ended with good NUMBERS for CBS, which came in number one in nearly every hour of prime-time. The [...]


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Nielsen Ratings: Wednesday February 07, 2007

Superbowl Sunday CBS bet on CRIMINAL MINDS to win, when they placed the first half of a two part episode [...]


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Nielsen Ratings: Tuesday February 6, 2007

In the predictable world of the Tuesday ratings, AMERICAN IDOL was number one again pulling in 30something shares. Newly coupled [...]


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Nielsen Ratings: Monday February 5, 2007

Why is PRISON BREAK losing out to DEAL OR NO DEAL? In fact, why is DEAL OR NO DEAL beating [...]


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Art Buchwald’s Hollywood connection

Art Buchwald has died after somehow surviving for close to a year without functioning kidneys. The syndicated [...]


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Weekend Box Office: Pursuit of $$$$$$$

Well, never underestimate the power of a movie star. And the phrase ‘movie star’ describes Will Smith about as [...]


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Newsgasm: Leaving Las Vegas?

This week, on an episode of The Ellen Degeneres Show, Las Vegas star Vanessa Marcil stopped by the studio [...]


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Slow Newsdaygasm: Free Ruben Studdard Edition

Looking for something to do on New Years? Trying to do New Years on a budget and only have money [...]


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The Ghost of TV Future: What’s new?

A whole bunch of new shows have been announced by various networks in the last 12 hours. And for [...]


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Spielberg presents The Brothers McFashion

When he’s not showing up in movies as a sometimes leading man, Ed Burns is best known as ” the [...]


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Wetten dass..? Hasselhoff?

Hey, isn’t that new NBC game show Identity just What’s My Line on steroids, pumped up with that new Apocalypto [...]


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TIVO ALERT: SCIFI You’re My Hero!

For those of you who haven’t had a chance to board the HEROES fan train and want to know what [...]


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Muncie 911! Celebrity cops invade the Heartland

Muncie, Indiana is suddenly the new television hotspot. A week after the local high school passed on a chance [...]


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Jesus Christ Kramer!!

With all the hubbub surrounding the Michael Richards’ rant at The Laugh Factory, it was only a matter of time [...]


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After OJ, here comes Mike Tyson with ‘If I Bit Off His Ear…’

Now that OJ Simpson has officially got a two-hour infomercial on Fox for his new book, Ha Ha, I Killed [...]


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Jack Black to compete against amateurs!

Jack Black, our favorite little fat guy, people’s hero and rock god, will executive produce — and occasionally star [...]


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Who The Hell Is Louis Klein?

If any of you have ever stayed in line at 30 Rock on a friday night in hopes of getting [...]


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Newsgasm: American Chopper meets The Biggest Loser

Big Paul and Junior and the gang at Orange County Choppers make for some watchable television on Discovery’s American [...]


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Newsgasm: Welcome Back, Epstein– to the “anti-O.C.”

If you were on the Venice Walk in sunny Los Angeles over the weekend, you might have noticed a Seventies [...]


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What The $%*( Are Those Rating Numbers?!

I’ve been getting emails from readers for nearly 2 years now asking various “industry” questions. None more frequently than this [...]


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Weekend Box Office Wrap-up with Sutter Cane

Producers and directors seem to really hate all the emphasis on box office and budgets in the media. Costner [...]


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Newsgasm: Pot really does lead to stronger drugs

Imitation remains the sincerest form of television, especially when it comes to edgy new series venturing into uncharted territories. Some [...]


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Has Anyone Checked On Mickey Rooney Lately??

R.I.P. Fella’s It’s been a tough 24 hours for TV fans. Last night, we learned about the loss of Ed Bradley, [...]


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Newsgasm: Smith comes back to life– online

Smith was the most expensive and most-hyped new CBS series of the season. With an all-star movie cast including [...]


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Newsgasm: Duchovny heads back to prime time

Looks like the movie career isn’t working out so well for David Duchovny. The former Fox Mulder could be [...]


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Newsgasm: The Pickle gets a sitcom

Kellie Pickler may be a crap singer, but she sure made us laugh on American Idol with her country bumpkin [...]


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Newsgasm: VH1 celebrates tabloid babies of the year

We read the first line of VH1′s press release and felt vindication at last: “No year has ever been bigger [...]


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Newsgasm: Lost fans left with “nuggets”

Everyone agrees that ABC is taking a big risk, yanking Lost off the schedule for thirteen long cold weeks after [...]


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Newsgasm: The Terminator turns to TV

On the groggy morning after Arnold Schwarzenegger’s landslide re-election as California’s governor, we find that his Terminator franchise lives on. [...]


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Newsgasm: Bravo books hotel docu-soap

Bravo has a thing for working stiffs– as long as they’re good-looking and have glamourous jobs. So in the [...]


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Clipgasm: Rosie blesses hick couple, upstages Amazing Race

It’s the television appearance of the day that’s gotten the most talk but fewer views because most of us don’t [...]


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Newsgasm: Will success spoil the hillbillies?

The Kentucky coalminers are turning out to be winners, after all. We told you yesterday about Dave and Mary [...]


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Newsgasm: NBC seeks Grease-y Broadway Idols

The long search to find the next Jeff Conaway ends on Friday, when casting for the reality series, Grease: You’re [...]


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Clipgasm: Inside Anna Nicole Smith

Thanks, Entertainment Tonight. We’d have to say this segment is what the phrase “takes the cake” was written for. [...]


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Clipgasm: Faith Hill freaks out at the CMAs

Now this is how we like our awards shows– and this is really how we like our country music [...]


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Newsgasm: New Yorkers won over by Amazing Race losers

Guess who’s sleeping over with Tom and Terry? If you haven’t seen last night’s episode of The Amazing Race, beware of [...]


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Newsgasm: From The Rich List to the Sh–

Pity poor Éamonn Holmes. The Irishman is a fixture on British television, a colorful presenter and personality who’s moved [...]


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Newsgasm: Gangway! It’s Survivor on a pirate ship!

Pirates won’t be confined to the movie screen next summer. CBS will cash in on the launch of [...]