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The Simpsons Mocks Karl Rove, Corporate Partner Fox News

The Simpsons, the venerable Fox network animated series, made light of Karl Rove’s election night antics–attempting to un-call a decisively won election for President Obama–with an animated “chalkboard joke” at the beginning of last night’s episode. It reads “I will not concede the election till Karl Rove gives me permission”–a lesson Megyn Kelly et al. seem to have literally taken to heart for a time last Tuesday. Read More

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Internet Delivers Pilots for The New Normal, The Mindy Project Online [Video]

For all those folks in Utah who will not be able to watch Ryan Murphy’s The New Normal because their Mormon God does not approve of Andrew Rannells’s lifestyle, worry no more! NBC has posted the entire first episode, which premieres on regular television September 11, on both Hulu and NBC.com today.

Also online is the pilot for The Mindy Project, which so far has raised no objections from any major deities, but will definitely be of help to hipsters who do not own a TV set.

Well, it’s 5 p.m. here, anyway. Work is practically over. Just put on your headphones and enjoy. (Or don’t enjoy, whichever you prefer. We’re certainly not going to tell you how to watch your programs.) Read More

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Mike Strahan on 'Live! With Kelly' (ABC)

Michael Strahan Drafted as Kelly Ripa’s New Co-Host

From the NFL to Fox sports to Live! With Kelly–Michael Strahan must have himself a really good publicist. Rumors abounded on TMZ yesterday that the New York Giants defensive end would finally fill the empty chair left vacant by the departure of Regis Philbin last November.

This morning, WABC, a syndicate of the network that produces the morning show, announced that the 6-foot-5 Fox Sports commentator would be offcially joining the 5-foot-3 human percolator on September 4.

Which leaves just one question: Out of all the 59 hosts that ABC has used as rotating guest hosts, why Mr. Strahan, a name that carries far less cachet than say, NY1′s Pat Kiernan, Mario Lopez, Seth Meyers or Alec Baldwin? Read More

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Fox Catches Mole?

Fox News claims to have identified their mole, the “long-standing, current employee of Fox News Channel” who has been slipping Gawker intel for the past two days, including unreleased video footage of pre-show banter between Mitt Romney and Sean Hannity and a picture of the office’s flawed bathroom stalls—where Bill O’Reilly defecates. Read More

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‘House’ Producers Announce Show Will End

In a press release, the producers and star of Fox’s medical series House have announced that the current season (the show’s eighth) will be its last. “By April this year [we] will have completed 177 episodes, which is about 175 more than anyone expected back in 2004,” wrote executive producers David Shore, Katie Jacobs and Read More

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Friends 2.0: New York Television Festival Winner on His NYC-Based Sitcom

The Seventh Annual New York Television Festival wrapped up its festivities Saturday night with an awards show unlike the Emmys or Golden Globes. Sure, Damon Lindelof and Jason Sudeikis were there, but Instead of handing out statues to shows already on the air, networks like Fox, IFC, and FX offered “guaranteed deals” to winning independent scripts.

One of the night’s biggest wins came from FOX-NYTVF Comedy Script Contest, which offered a $25k prize in addition to a network development deal. The winning sitcom, Adulthood for Beginners, is the brainchild of New Yorker Robby O’Connor, who spent his  former life as a book scout for Paramount and a development executive for Dimension Films. For the past two years he’s  held the occasional odd job as a nanny or personal assistant to subsidize script-writing. Read More