Netflix to Launch Entire Kevin Spacey Series in a Single Day
Never let it be said that Netflix doesn’t understand how its users watch TV shows–all at once, in a binge-y, snack-filled fugue state. Read More
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Homeland, Real Housewives Both Have Great Nights on Sunday
One was a big Emmy winner; the other one less so. But the cable dramas toplined by Claire Danes and Caroline Manzo both had fantastic Sundays. Homeland, the somewhat surprising Emmy champ for Best Drama, scored its best night ever with 1.7 million viewers, as part of pay-cable network Showtime’s best Sunday night ever. Meanwhile, Read More
We May Never See a Munsters Remake on NBC
The Hollywood Reporter writes today that the much-anticipated game-changer for NBC–a reboot of fantastical sitcom The Munsters called Mockingbird Lane, starring Portia de Rossi as Lily (a vampire) and Jerry O’Connell as Herman (a Frankenstein’s monster of sorts), is in trouble–perhaps because viewers have to deal with a vampire and Frankenstein’s monster that are married. Read More
Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Renewed
The summer’s reality juggernaut, TLC’s pageant-queen-at-home series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, has been renewed for a second season as well as three of what the network is terming “HOLLAday specials” for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Read More
‘Gaycism’: It Gets Worse! Same-Sexer Showrunners Bring Scourge to New Series
Last season, television’s most anodyne evening got a shot of hipness in the form of Sex and the City executive producer Michael Patrick King’s new series, 2 Broke Girls. The CBS comedy about young ladies in Brooklyn was an instant hit, kicking off a season-long discussion about girl-women on TV (viz. Girls, New Girl) and Read More
Bethenny Frankel Gets Her Daily Talk Show
After a pilot period this summer, erstwhile Real Housewife of New York Bethenny Frankel is to get a daily talk show, Bethenny, in 2013. Read More
Showtime Wins First Series Emmy With Homeland, Mad Men Reign is Over
Mad Men didn’t quite make history. Read More
Who Will Win Emmys? Amy Poehler? Lena Dunham? Breaking Bad?
The Emmys, television’s slightly-less-glitzy answer to the Oscars, are this Sunday, and we have some relatively uneducated guesses as to which of the nominees will bring home an oddly spiky statuette. Read More
HBO Orders New James Gandolfini Pilot
With its more recent series taking them in period (Boardwalk Empire), fantasy (Game of Thrones), and youth-oriented (Girls) directions, HBO may be returning to the tried-and-true. Read More
PETA to Protest NBC’s Animal Practice
PETA members are planning to dress in black and wear monkey masks outside Rockefeller Center in order to protest the new series Animal Practice, the new sitcom starring a capuchin monkey named Crystal. Read More
