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Hot ‘Shot’
May 8, 2012 | 4:00amHistory’s “Top Shot: The Game” is poised to blow the competition away. The Facebook target-shooting game, based on the network’s marksman-competition series, “Top Shot,” has become a bona fide Web...
Cop therapy
May 6, 2012 | 4:00amIf there’s one thing that cop shows have taught us, it’s that cops would sooner take a bullet than sit around exploring their feelings with each other. Too bad for...
'Grimm' cast talks favorite episodes and finale in video
May 4, 2012 | 5:35pm"Grimm" fans, here's a little video of the main cast members talking about their favorite episodes of the season - "Game Ogre" was oft name-checked - fans pilgrimaging to Portland...
Greatest hits
May 4, 2012 | 4:00amWhen music legends both young(ish) and very old gather together, you know you’ll be in for a good show. HBO’s “2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony,” airing...
Marilyn Manson 'No Reflection' video: Watch immediately
May 2, 2012 | 7:05pmIf you're jonesing for an antidote to girls with Starburst-colored hair prancing around in skimpy/terrible outfits, good news: Marilyn Manson is back. See? "Born Villain" - containing this track, "No...
Holy crossover
April 29, 2012 | 4:00amIt's always a weird thrill for viewers when characters from popular TV shows spend time in each other’s universe. It’s like, what’s Mork from Ork doing in the Cunningham’s living...
'Total Blackout' host Jaleel White on why you should be scared of the dark: a Q&A (also 'Psych' and 'DWTS')
April 25, 2012 | 6:34pmThere’s no escaping Jaleel White these days – he’s on TV at least three times a week now. (As long as fans keep voting for him on “Dancing with the...
Baby, it’s whew
April 24, 2012 | 4:00am‘Giuliana & Bill” is about to become a family show. In a carefully choreographed announcement, Giuliana and Bill Rancic — who’ve extensively chronicled their efforts to conceive a baby on...
Dead end shows
April 22, 2012 | 4:00amHere are some great ideas for TV shows. * A middle-aged mother, once married to a CIA agent, learns that her son has been kidnapped in Rome and she sets...
Quirky quartets
April 15, 2012 | 4:00amSomehow television producers got it into their thick heads that women hang out in packs of four. This notion was first advanced in 1985 on the senior-citizen sitcom “The Golden...
'CSI's' Anthony Zuiker is back with BlackBoxTV Web fears
April 13, 2012 | 9:58pmWho amongst us can forget the skin-crawling creepiness of that freak, Sqweegel, when he slither-crawled into view online in conjunction with the "Level 26" horror thriller novel or in the...
H’wood on the Jersey shore
April 13, 2012 | 4:00amTurns out “Jersey Shore” has been really good for show business at the Shore. Despite complaints that it misrepresents the Garden State, the MTV reality series has actually helped drive...
‘Who’ York
April 12, 2012 | 4:00amThe TARDIS has landed in Central Park. Here’s an early look at a scene being shot for the fifth episode of the upcoming Season 7 of BBC America’s cult sci-fi...
How ‘Bag’ works
April 11, 2012 | 4:00amWhen traveling, there are only two types of luggage, says “Baggage Battles” star Mark Meyer — carry-on bags and lost bags. It’s those lost bags, purchased at airport lost luggage...
‘Teen 2’ mom weds again
April 10, 2012 | 4:00amSecond time around’s the charm — hopefully — for “Teen Mom 2” star Leah Messer. The 19-year-old mother of twins married her fiance, Jeremy Calvert, just a year after divorcing...
Stealing time
April 10, 2012 | 3:57amThe Kardashians are getting longer. Despite fan grumbling over Kim Kardashian’s quickie divorce from NBA star Kris Humphries last fall, E! is supersizing the new season of “Keeping Up with...
'Meat Men,' it's what's for dinner tonight
April 9, 2012 | 10:58pmFood Network's latest reality series is taking you behind-the-scenes of the meat industry - but not in a "20/20" pink slime expose kind of way. "Meat Men" is actually about...
'Game of Thrones,' inside the HBO store exhibit
April 9, 2012 | 6:46pmIf you're a "Game of Thrones" fan, you're well aware that Season 2 has already kicked off and that it's as good as you'd hoped it would be, given what...
‘Dream’ come true
April 9, 2012 | 4:00amThink of “Dream Machines” as being “Pimp My Ride” for sci-fi geeks. When series stars Marc and Shanon Parker were tapped to build a custom jet car for 50 Cent...