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By Daniel D'Addario 1/31/12 11:20am

Paul Brittain, Everyone from X-Factor Leaving

Featured player Paul Brittain is leaving the cast of Saturday Night Live effective immediately, Entertainment Weekly reports. Mr. Brittain will be most fondly remembered for his inept sex-ed tutor character; sources told EW that the parting was “amicable.”

Last night, another show shed some weight as well–Idol rival The X-Factor, which struggled in Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 5/19/11 6:12pm

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Upfronts! TV’s Annual Party Brings Stars and TV Affiliates to New York

NBC played a snippet of the Friends theme song during the video preamble to their “upfront” presentation to advertisers on Monday, and one could imagine that the network missed the good old days. Robert Greenblatt, NBC’s newly installed chairman of Entertainment, said during his opening speech: “In the past, nobody did it better than NBC. Read More

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