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tis the season
The End of Comedy As We Know It
So Housewives wasn't the only thing that ended last night. The rest of comedy did too. No more 30 Rock, Parks & Recreation, or The Office until autumn. Let's see where things were left. More »
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Comment by DahlELama: It's been so wonderfully refreshing to see The Office find its way back to greatness. John Krasinski stole the show... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Five Ways Parks & Recreation Is Different from The Office
Amy Poehler's Parks & Recreation premiered last night. We thought it was pretty good. Detractors' complaint? It's too much like its older bro, The Office. To which we say: Nonsense! They're so totally different.
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Comment by saythatscool: One more key difference? I want to fucking punch Steve in the head, but I want to fuck Amy whilst punching... 5 Responses | Other threads
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trade roundup
Fat Women Need Bachelors Too
Movies get directors, and they also get Matthew McConaughey. The Office actors just got rich, and fat people just got validated, in glorious reality show form. More »
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Comment by oboesqueaks: "Fat Housewives of Fat City USA Population: You" Please! Is this also known as Real Housewives of Jackson, MS? 3 Responses | Other threads
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'The Office' Porn Features Almost As Many Couplings As The Actual 'Office'
Worried that The Office has become mired in too many relationship subplots? Have we got the NSFW version for you! More » -
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Jessica Alba, Cloris Leachman Join Jack Black as Glitzy 'Office' Temps
NBC will leave no stunt unplayed in its attempt to own Super Bowl Sunday, with Jessica Alba and Cloris Leachman now confirmed to appear alongside Jack Black in that night's special hour-long Office episode.
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By STVComment by HallieMarie: Okay, maybe these people just appear within a fictional movie? I mean, that might not be so bad. As long... 3 Responses | Other threads
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bruce springsteen
The Boss, 'Office' to Battle 'Wipeout' in Super Bowl of the Soul
Chalk up another victory for the creative class: ABC's obstacle-course competition hit Wipeout will return for two episodes on Super Bowl Sunday, directly challenging both NBC's halftime show featuring Bruce Springsteen and a special postgame edition of The Office. It's the biggest such counterprogramming battle in five years, and as with everything else pertaining to the network these days, the Peacock might be in trouble.
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By STVComment by NoGrumpys: For true counter programming on Super Bowl day try THE PUPPY BOWL on Animal Planet WOOF! 1 Responses | Other threads
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dexter
WGA Awards Recognize Every Half-Decent Show On TV With Its Own, Worthless Nomination
The Writers Guild unveiled its 2009 TV nominees this afternoon, revealing a radical shift in taste that rotated only one new drama and two new comedies into the year's Best Series nominations — all replacing old nominees that weren't on the air this year. Let's hear it for attrition!
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By STVComment by kyle4: Let's hope that nom for Dexter is for Season's one and two and not three. Three is nearing the shark... 1 Responses | Other threads
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john krasinski
John Krasinski's Harmonizing with Aimee Mann Not Quite Jim-and-Pam Level
John Krasinski is a true renaissance man: in addition to his work on The Office, he can count a Sundance directorial debut and a facility for Muppet arms to his credit. Still, one thing that may need a little more work is his incipient singing career, which he humbly debuted this past weekend in Los Angeles.
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Comment by scoutastic: Having attended the show I can tell you that was not what i would call 'singing' by John. But he... 1 Responses | Other threads
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the office
Supersize This: NBC announced its midseason scheduling moves today, including not just Celebrity Apprentice news but an ER mercy kill on March 12 (the new drama Kings will take over ER's longtime Thursday night berth). And which show gets the plum post-Super Bowl slot? That would be The Office, which is — you guessed it — supersizing to an hour for the occasion. Sorry, Rainn! [THR]
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the office
Rainn Wilson As Sick of Super-Sized 'Office' Seasons As You Are
Though Ricky Gervais's version of The Office folded up shop after two six-episode runs, that wouldn't amount to even half of a current season of the Steve Carell-toplined Office, which is continually pressed into service for hourlong episodes, spinoffs, and expanded seasons by NBC. Though the moves have pumped up ratings for the sitcom, the results are not always well-regarded by critics — or by a burnt-out cast, says Rainn Wilson: More »
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Comment by icallthebigonebitey: I am definitely interested in that Phyllis spinoff. Is Bess finally going to come out of the closet? Will Aunt... 3 Responses | Other threads
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the office
Great Moments In FCC Baiting Presents: 'The Office' Training Call
On The Office last night, we learned that Dunder Mifflin customer service rep Kelly Kapoor threw an America's Got Talent finale party, where she gave out personalized gift mugs featuring every worker's face over a blue star. (In a nice touch, you can purchase said mugs at the NBC online store. We'll take six Phyllises—something about her smile puts us in the mood for warm beverages.) More »
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By SethComment by coolhandjennie: This was the scene that made me have to finally cop to the fact that I like the American version... 1 Responses | Other threads
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ricky gervais
Handbags and Gladrags: If the presidential election doesn't work out for Sarah Palin, Ricky Gervais thinks she has a future in television comedy. Comparing her to the role he played in the UK version of The Office, he says, "Sarah Palin is David Brent. She is! There's so much comedy value in watching her talk." Certainly, we can't think of an Office moment as awkward as that Katie Couric interview — but does that make John McCain her Gareth? In other news, Gervais is playing hard-to-get when it comes to the Oscars, which he has been tipped to host. "I don't think I'd get the freedom I needed," he told the BBC. Executive producer Bill Condon, if we even hear you so much as mention the words, "Howie Mandel"... [Yahoo] -
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Television's Mid-Fall Report Card
It is already October 15th! How did that happen? I guess you could say that the Earth rotated around the sun a specific number of times and that days winnowed into nights which bled into days and so on and so on in the circle game. I think that's it. So, how have we been spending these ever-marching autumn hours? Watching TV, of course! Lots and lots of TV. Some has been good (Mad Men, The Daily Show), some has been bad (90210), and some has just been puzzling (Two and a Half Men?). So as we approach the ever-important November Sweeps Week—when networks set their ad rates based on inflated, extraordinary episodes that don't actually reflect typical week-in, week-out quality—let's take a second to give a quarter term report card. How has television been faring, you know, quality-wise (because we already know that ratings are in the toilet)? We'll analyze after the jump.
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Comment by bringmemyTofu: "How I Met Your Mother" has really been growing on me. I would give it a solid B+. 9 Responses | Other threads
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Comment by strega: Even as a joke, Willis' friends hitting on that is plain scary. Or desperate. 1 Responses | Other threads
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the office
Jim and Pam Sittinโ In A Treeโฆ
Our country is self-destructing before our very eyes. Banks are collapsing, wars are raging, politicians are canceling their appearances on Letterman, but at least we can still rely on true love. Thatโs right, on last nightโs hour-long season premiere of The Office, we finally got the satisfaction of seeing ... um, well, something that can only be described as an epic spoiler. Fans of The Office who dutifully tuned into NBC last night, please follow along after the jump to continue the conversation. Those of you who DVR'd it, well, you might want to continue along to another post. More »
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By Nick MalisComment by Dave J.: I was predicting EPIC FAIL for that relationship. I still think that smarmy dude from her class is going to... 4 Responses | Other threads
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short ends
'Short Ends?' That's What She Said!
· This montage of every "That's what she said" from The Office is a little long but guaranteed to put a smile on your face. (3...2...1...) [YouTube] More »
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By SethComment by Lapinot: Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Pรฉrigord Palin. 1 Responses | Other threads
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imdb
Free to Good Home: IMDb yesterday uncorked about 6,000 movie and TV titles available for free viewing via Hulu, including recent episodes of The Office, 24 and Battlestar Galactica; site officials also noted that new episodes of some series — 30 Rock among them — will be available in advance of their airdates this fall. Not so with the site's full-length features, however, which, beyond classics like The Night of the Hunter and Some Like it Hot, include Dude, Where's My Car?, Liar Liar and The Scorpion King, finally testing the critical consensus that their makers can't give these films away. We shall see! [IMDb via NYT] -
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How To Talk About Fall Television (That You Might Not Be Watching)
That slight crisp in the air this morning signals to us that autumn is fast approaching, with its hayrides and pumpkin picking and legion of miserable children tromping off to their imagined doom. But also it means television, sweet and glorious non-off-season TV like Gossip Girl and, um... other... shows. Many other shows! So many, in fact, that you can'tโeven with the aid of DVR techmologiesโbe expected to watch them all. But in this increasingly (for the past few hundred years) pop-driven culture, it's important that you are least able to talk about the zeitgeistiest shows out there, so after the jump we'll give you a few key talking points for some of the most buzzed about series soon to be (or, in a few cases, that already are) flickering on your idiot box. More »
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Michael Scott to Crack Awkward Racial Joke Following Darryl's Drug Bust
Though dating Kelly Kapoor could drive any man to self-medicate, never did we think that Darryl from The Office had quite as extensive a stash as his portrayer, Craig Robinson, has been revealed to possess. According to TMZ, Robinson was busted late last month for driving under the influence, and what officers found led them to charge him with two felonies: More »
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Comment by sephtical: Wow, Cannabinoids is the pearl that came out of this Oyster. Here i am 29 years old, thinking I've... more » | Other threads
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tina fey
Fun and Games: And now, another installment of "You Win One, You Lose One" (NBC Thursday night edition)! Win: 30 Rock's Tina Fey and The Office star Steve Carell are teaming up to play a married couple in the big-screen comedy Date Night! Lose: It's being directed by the hacky Shawn Levy, who made Big Fat Liar and Cheaper by the Dozen. Win: Fey's costar Alec Baldwin is in talks to romance Meryl Streep in an untitled comedy... Lose: ...written and directed by Nancy Meyers, so it will no doubt be a cream-colored, two-hour-plus slog that looks like it came straight out of a Lands' End catalog. Thanks for playing! [Variety]
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mindy kaling
Mindy Kaling's Misadventures in Ethnic Stereotypes Have 'em Rolling at 'Letterman'
Our hearts go out today to Mindy Kaling, the Office co-writer/producer/star who last night confronted the indignity of Indian-American typecasting in a wrenching appearance on Letterman. That said, to the extent we acknowledge her Emmy-nominated prime-time offerings over the last few years, we also think it best for everyone's sake that her call-center appearance in Baby Mama — complete with accent admittedly lifted from The Simpsons' Apu — found its way to history's dustbin with no more damage than it caused during last night's broadcast. We guess we can all laugh about it now, but hear the full, traumatizing story after the jump. Stay strong, Mindy. [CBS] -
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Diplomatic 'LAT' Alleges That Steve Carell Is Simply 'Too Creepy' To Win An Emmy
Though Steve Carell is a perennial Emmy nominee for his work on The Office, he's never taken home a trophy of his own (even as the show itself won the Outstanding Comedy Award in 2006). Now, the LAT's easily excitable Tom O'Neill thinks he's nailed the reason why: Carell is just too darn creepy in the role. More »
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Comment by DickWhitman: I think he's charming, adorable, and even a little bit sexy. But I like pussy, so what do I know? more » | Other threads
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nbc
Is NBC's Ben Silverman About to Be Cancelled?
A while back, those savvy kids over at New York magazine's Vulture posed the provocative question: "Is Ryan on The Office a thinly veiled Ben Silverman?" In a case of life imitating art imitating life, it looks like Silverman may follow in his fictional wunderkind's footsteps: rumors are flying that the NBC co-chairman is about to be fired. Says Page Six: More »
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trade roundup
On The Fifth Day, 'The Dark Knight' Made $200 Mil. And It Was Good.
ยท The Dark Knight has now become the fastest movie in history to earn $200 million: it made that in five days, three days faster than previous record-holder Spider-Man 2. Do you know how much guyliner that could buy the Mayor of Gotham? Tons! [THR] More » -
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The New Teri Garrs: Five Actresses We'd Want To Get A Beer With
The Teri Garr interview in the Onion's AV Club is unabashedly awesome; she's simply her no-nonsense, snarky self for several thousand lovely words. Garr, who has suffered from Multiple Sclerosis for a long time and in 2006 had a brain aneurysm that left her pretty damaged, has since gone through tough rehabilitation and is back making public appearances. The good news is that the aneurysm seems to have severed Garr's give-a-shit nerve, and so the entire interview is just completely real and funny. When asked about her "long-suffering" "doormat" character in Mr. Mom, Garr says, "Oh God. Because I'm a long-suffering doormat in my own life, I guess. That's why I was always cast as that. And because they only write those parts for women. If there's ever a woman who's smart, funny, or witty, people are afraid of that, so they don't write that." [Jezebel]
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defamer
Ben Silverman's Idea Of 'Family Friendly' Programming Includes Rockin' MILFs And Prepubescent Erections
Earlier this month, NBC's resident rock star Ben Silverman announced his plans to deliver a warm and cuddly hour of programming in NBC's 8-9pm block. But last week's triumphant return of 30 Rock and The Office was notably filled with "vulgarities" one doesn't normally associate with family fun. As Silverman promised during the heart-warming press conference, he intended on making sure the first hour of primetime was "about family, and it's about heroes, real and super. It's good endings and the good guys winning." But as the NY Times points out today, the "good guys" are more likely to get bleeped than share PG lessons with viewers, and "winning" is more likely to be associated with causing erections on MILF Island. More »
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'The Office' Dedicates Episode To Internet Piano Prodigy
Last night's Office rerun brought a tear to our eye, and not because of the hilarious antics of that wacky Dwight Schrute. In case you missed it, at the end of the episode they showed an incredibly sweet video of a 15-year-old boy playing The Office theme on his piano, followed by an "In Memoriam" note. That boy was Nathan Alden Robinson, who died last month of complications from the flu. More » -
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Ben Silverman Is Bringing 'Saturday Night Live' To Thursdays
Wunderdouche Ben Silverman unveiled NBC's ambitious 65-week schedule to advertisers today in New York, covering this summer and all of next year with wall-to-wall Steve McPherson ass-kicking action. Included in the programming onslaught: a dreaded Office spin-off and four weeks of primetime Saturday Night Live, Variety reports. More »
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Jenna Fischer Will 'Piss On Your Face' If You Whisper The Wrong Sweet Nothing In Her Ear
While many bright-eyed actresses with big dreams will hit the casting couch circuit in an attempt to land their first break, Jenna Fischer wasn't willing to give it up after an entire year spent pounding the Los Angeles pavement. But now that she's a big star, she understandably has some choice words for the screenwriter who, a few years back, gave her shit for refusing to drop trou for him. In an interview with Playboy, Jenna tells a story about what happened after she ran into Halloween 5 screenwriter Shem Bitterman at a party one year into her move-west-and-act life plan. Apparently, her non-interest in starring in a "like, really raunchy" new film of his spurred the scribe to claim she was clearly "not a real actress." And while the old Jenna did nothing but go home and cry her newbie eyes out, the emboldened Office star has this to say to the Bitterman today:"What an asshole, I should have told him, 'How about I piss on your face? Does that make me a real actress? Let's try that. I'll do that right here. I'll do that today.' Bring me Shem Bitterman."
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defamer
EW's Most 'Dateable' Small-Screen Players Make Us Swoon And Squirm
Every TV nut (well, isn't that all of us here?) has, at one point or another, spent a little time fantasizing about certain fictional characters on their favorite shows. These fantasies tend to be either soft-focus daydreams (say, dreaming up elaborate schemes in which they "bump" into you at a party) or something a bit more hard-core (picturing them while giving your significant other the old in-out). On that note, the clever list-makers over at EW decided to compile a Top 30 reader's choice collection of the small-screen boys and girls who most frequently make cameos in those illicit fantasies. But, with no offense to the site's readers, we have some serious vetoes to charge. After the jump, our picks for who falls under Strongly Agree (the predictable Jim Halpert) and those we brand as a Vehemently Disagree (four words: Bree. Van. De. Camp), as well as the most erroneous, mind-boggling oversight missing from the group: More »
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Comment by Furious George: @whoneedslight: Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes. Veronica Mars is possibly the most fuckable TV character of all time. 1 Responses | Other threads
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defamer
Steve Carell's Image Taken Hostage By Brazilian Office Services Company
Early strike hero Steve Carell, whose refusal to cross his writers on the picket line helped to shut down production of the show, may also find himself the victim of those who refuse to pay for valuable promotional work. In a timely, if unsolicited, e-mail promotion that found its way to our inbox this morning (excerpt pictured), Carell's cartoon likeness is being used by a Brazilian company hawking some kind of office-related product. More »
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By MarkComment by Sweet Panda Love: It's also possible that Steve Carell just bears an uncanny resemblance to any number of Brazilian middle manager type male... more » | Other threads
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short ends
Nick Counter Is A Weiner, Declares 'Grey's Anatomy' Star Heigl
· A striker on the Grey's Anatomy-boosted Prospect Studios picket line sent in this photo of Katherine Heigl proudly decrying AMPTP president Nick Counter's weinderdom. This is the picket sign by which all subsequent efforts will be judged. More »
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By MarkComment by Diplomatic_Flamingo: 24 died with Tony Almeida, and I have yet to be convinced otherwise. There was the quite enjoyable era of... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Report: NBC Sees Way To Squeeze Another Half-Hour Out Of 'The Office,' Plans Possible Spin-Off
In a move that would further reinforce perfectly storming NBC co-chairman Ben Silverman's programming philosophy that it's much easier to clone a proven hit than waste a lot of time generating untested "new ideas," TVGuide.com reports that the network is planning a spin-off of The Office, a show the Peacock has already supersized to within an inch of its life with the hourlong episodes that kicked off the first few weeks of this season: More » -
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The WGA Vs. Temptation
· The Writers Guild, SAG, AFTRA, and the Teamsters picketed FremantleMedia yesterday over the game show Temptation, a protest that followed four writers walking off the show last month because they are working way too hard on a Sale of the Century clone not to have Guild benefits: "'We worked 14 to 18 hours a day on 'Temptation' for two months,' said guild member Aaron Solomon, head writer for Temptation and one of the four who walked. 'The fact that Fremantle wouldn't negotiate with the WGAW felt like a slap in the face.'" [THR] More » -
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Where Would Ben Silverman Sit?
While being a "perfect storm" of a television executive certainly sounds glamorous, the demands placed on an individual possessed of a heretofore unseen combination of populist taste, dealmaking experience, and the ability to look at a hit foreign series and say, "Yeah, that would probably work in America. Buy ten episodes!" can sometimes slow a party-train to a crawl. Consider the plight of NBC's Ben Silverman, who on Saturday night had a difficult decision to make about his Emmys seating arrangement, a choice that carried significant political ramifications. Reports TV Week's blog: More »
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By MarkComment by westvillagegirl (exiled in chicago): A friend of mine attended a party at Ben Silverman's house the other day, and there were tigers. Yes, tigers.... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Jenna Fischer Gently Breaks The Divorce News To MySpace Friends
America's Sitcom Sweetheart Jenna Fischer won over all of our hearts playing The Office's lovelorn, plain Jane receptionist: Men fantasized about being with her, while women simply wanted to be her, marching into salons across the country and demanding they be given the mousey perm sensation known as "the Pam." But as is so often the case with objects of public fascination, what seemed like an impossibly glamorous existence outfitted in the finest sensible flat-soled shoes and cardigans masked a hidden pain—both of the lower back (she fell down a flight of stairs at an NBC upfronts party in May and spent most of the summer recovering), and of the heart. A blog post appearing today on her MySpace page has announced the end of her marriage of six years to Slither writer/director James Gunn: More » -
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NBC Head Kevin Reilly Relieved Of His Classy-TV-Making Duties
NBC head Kevin Reilly, who just weeks ago optimistically unveiled his network's fall slate to advertisers with the fighting, Muhammad-Aliesque couplet: "We've got the class and next season we're ready to add some mass," has been relieved of his Deal or No Deal-replicating duties once and for all, in a Memorial Day weekend surprise shakeup ordered from on high by NBC Universal's Peacock King, Jeff Zucker. Reports LA Weekly's Nikki Finke: More » -
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Pam Suffers Freak 'Accident' At Upfronts; Karen Held For Questioning
· Victims of the upfronts II: Pam is down! We repeat, Pam. Is. Down.ยท (Don't worry, she's going to be OK.) More »
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