…is a great waste of time

Finale. Aw, this is a little sad. Tonight brings the very last episode of "Moonlight," which CBS wouldn’t renew. The show has a smallish but very loyal audience, and many believe but for disruption of the writers strike, it would have become a hit. In the final episode, Mick and Josef move to protect their kind after a murder threatens their exposure.
Premiere. If you tend to think of CMT viewers in stereotypes, "Mobile Home Disasters" brings to mind something involving tornadoes, I’m sure. But really this is like a budget version of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." Tonight, the deserving family getting their digs re-done consists of single dad Jim Bigelow and his six boys.

Freeman Agyeman returns to SciFi and "Dr. Who" as Martha Jones, who hips the good doc to the return of archenemies the Sontarans.
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Watching the "My Name Is Earl" or "The Office" season finales on NBC tonight? Executive producer Bobby Bowman and star Nadine Velazquez aka Catalina will be blogging "Earl" here at 9 for half an hour or so. Paul Lieberstein aka Toby (right), who’s at the center of tonight’s "The Office," will be blogging here at 10. You can go to each site ahead of time to leave questions.
Bet you thought I was going to use a picture of Catalina, didn’t you?
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Word is that Jonah Hill of "Superbad" is going to star in a remake of "21 Jump Street," the 1980s Fox undercover-cops-in-high-school show that started things for Johnny Depp and Richard Grieco. I’m assuming that he’s not taking it seriously. But it gives me an excuse to make you watch this hilarious but dubiously SFW video from his recent "Saturday Night Live" hosting stint:

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Fellow fans of THE OFFICE.  It pains me in every way possible to say this, but I’m not going to be watching tonight’s season finale live.  I know, I know, but it can’t be helped.  While all of you on the East Coast are watching the episode I’ll be at the Fox Upfront party here […]
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[The following contains minor spoilers for tonight’s episode of THE OFFICE. Nothing beyond the episode title and description, but I’m warning you all the same.]
If the title of tonight’s fourth season finale of THE OFFICE is to be believed then we will be saying goodbye to Toby Flenderson, who until he recently became a […]
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Later today Fox will formally introduce their plans for the 2008-09 TV season to advertisers at their Upfront presentation. But here’s a sneak peek at what we will be seeing on Fox next season. They have some new shows that I’m really excited about, including FRINGE and DOLLHOUSE  (which honestly sounds like the […]
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Fox wants you to feel their electricity. No, really. "“Broadcast television needs a jolt. We feel it’s our responsibility, as the No. 1 network for the last four seasons, to provide that electricity,” Fox Broadcasting Entertainment Chairman Peter Liguori says in prepared remarks he’ll deliver at 11:30 am ET upfront presentation to advertisers in New York. “The goal of our business is entertaining viewers…they’re our lifeblood, and it’s incumbent upon us to make sure their first and favorite entertainment destination is Fox.”

I’m waiting for the conference call to start, but the press release just landed in my In Box, and the schedule is about as has been reported in recent days, with the most focus on dramas from J.J. Abrams ("Lost") and Joss Whedon ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"). They’re not exactly reinventing the wheel, but they are, among other things, putting something besides repeats on Friday night. Of course, […]

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One important member of the new 90210 family was missing when the full cast together for the first time at The CW Upfronts in NYC on Tuesday.  But no one knew he was missing, because no one knows who he is.
Rumor has it that the Executive Producers of the new 90210 spinoff on Fox are […]
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Fox announces its fall schedule today, and the first news is that Sunday Nov. 23 has been set as the airdate for the two-hour "24" prequel movie. Weirdly, there’s no title given, but what we’ll call "Prequel" was shot on location in South Africa, with Kiefer Sutherland as super-agent Jack Bauer battling yet another international crisis. Meanwhile, back home, Cherry Jones is being inaugurated as president.
All this is set a few months before the regular season, Day 7, which begins in January and features the return of Carlos Bernard as Tony "Isn’t he dead?" Almeida. CTU has been dismantled and Jack is on trial. But yet another crisis for the new president brings an investigation led by FBI Agent Janeane Garofalo. And despite CTU’s demise, Mary Lynn Rajskub and James Morrison return as Chloe O’Brien and Bill Buchanan.
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Presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain, made a bold announcement last week when during an interview on THE DAILY SHOW he announced that Dwight Schrute would be his running mate on the ticket come November. It was an obvious choice and one, frankly, we all saw coming. But what Senator McCain didn’t anticipate […]
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