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This is just like magic!

Stephen Fry To Be Ron Weasley’s Butler in Superhero-Themed Sitcom Super Clyde

by Rebecca Pahle | 4:00 pm, March 17th, 2013

He’ll be the “Alfred to [Rupert Grint]‘s Bruce Wayne.” I’m having a hard time handling how happy that sentence makes me.

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Oh My Stars and Garters

Downton Abbey Brings In Record Numbers For PBS Premiere

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:00 pm, January 8th, 2013

The United States had to wait what felt like an excruciatingly long time to see Season 3 of Downton Abbey but boy, did we show up in style. The English drama not only had a record number of viewers on PBS, it demolished last season’s premiere, and it was second only to CBS in its time slot for the night. 

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All this has happened before...

Because You Can Never Have Enough Twilight (No, Not That Twilight), CBS is Rebooting The Twilight Zone

by Rebecca Pahle | 4:15 pm, December 19th, 2012

When I first saw this headline cavort across my browser I confused Bryan Singer with Bryan Fuller for a second (easy mistake to make) and thought the latter was the one doing a The Twilight Zone reboot. Alas, the Bryan in questions is not the one behind Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, and the upcoming Hannibal, but rather the one behind X-Men, X2, and House M.D..

Sigh. But it’s probably a good thing that it’s not Fuller, as it’s well-known that his involvement increases a show’s chances for premature cancellation tenfold.

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Candy Crowley Will Be the First Female Presidential Moderator in 20 Years

by Alanna Bennett | 4:15 pm, August 13th, 2012

We told you a while ago about three rather impressive teenage girls who were petitioning the Commission on Presidential Debates for the commission to appoint a female moderator to the presidential debates. When we last checked in on them, the trio weren’t doing so well; the office of the commission wouldn’t see them.

News came out today, however, that either someone was listening or they’d had their own plans all along: The first female presidential moderator in 20 years has been named for this election season; another will moderate the vice-presidential debate. So let’s congratulate them.

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CBS is Planning to Reboot The Brady Bunch…With Vince Vaughn?

by Alanna Bennett | 4:00 pm, August 5th, 2012

Sigh. America’s entertainment business is not always known for its ingenuity. It’s pretty much a begrudgingly accepted fact at this point that the big-budget film industry is much more interested in investing in projects that are either continuations of current big-bucks franchises or built off of what was once long-ago a big-bucks franchise. Some of these are pretty good; some are terrible. This is also true, to a somewhat lesser extent, when it comes to the world of television. Case in point: The Brady Bunch–that mind-blowingly wholesome epic saga of mixing families and hosting variety shows–might splash back into our world sometime soon.

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Thank You?

The Draw Something App Is Getting Turned Into A Reality Show By CBS

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:00 pm, June 16th, 2012

You’ve probably heard of the Draw Something app by now. You know, the one no one’s playing anymore? Well anyway, CBS has decided to turn the Pictionary-like game into a reality show. What in the what?

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Misleading Headline of the Day

All That Ado Over Footage From Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing Is Basically Nothing [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 5:44 pm, April 30th, 2012

Hey, did you hear that there was footage from Joss Whedon‘s Much Ado About Nothing floating around the internet? Did you get all excited about it? Yeah, you can stop. There are maybe a few seconds of it in what is really just another video about The Avengers. Whedon talked about his career this weekend on CBS This Morning, and a tiny portion of Much Ado was shown, and then about six or seven minutes of Avengers footage that you’ve already seen. We’ll meet you after the jump once you stop yawning. He talks about Buffy and her feminist origins, too.

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Ask a Muppet

This Was How Jim Henson Pitched The Muppet Show to CBS [Video]

by Jamie Frevele | 3:29 pm, April 6th, 2012

Not a fresh and shiny and new video, but making the rounds today is what’s being called the original pitch to CBS for The Muppet Show. If anything, it’s a wonderful example of Muppet humor, not to mention a look into how Jim Henson wanted to sell his show. And wouldn’t you know it, just in time for the holidays, it get downright biblical!

(via Neatorama)

Previously in Muppets

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Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

CBS Greenlights Show About Nerd Women! Conan O’Brien Is Helping!

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:17 pm, January 26th, 2012

Well here’s something completely unexpected. CBS is creating a comedy pilot from Conan O’Brien’s Conaco in association with Warner Bros. Television, for something called Super Fun Night. And guess what? It’s about a group of nerdy women. It also stars one of the actresses from Bridesmaids. This could be amazing. 

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Oh Hollywood

Astute Observation at TCA: Women Have Always Been Funny

by Jamie Frevele | 11:08 am, January 11th, 2012

The Television Critics Association is currently in the midst of their winter press tour, and on the subject of comedy, some smart young whippersnapper pointed something out: there are a lot of female-driven sitcoms on the teevee right now! Not only that, some of them are actually catching on! (Some of them like a virus, right Whitney?) But the people in charge of these shows had a response to this observation: Yes indeed! Because women have always been funny. But thanks for finally noticing!

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