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Sports

“E:60”: Dustin Pedroia, Polo Horse Deaths, Terrance Haynes And Jason Belmonte

May 5, 2009 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan Features on the May 5 (7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s sports newsmagazine series E:60: The Darkest Day in Polo — A few weeks ago, the genteel world of polo was rocked when 21 prized horses died during the U.S. Open Polo Championship in Wellington, Fla., the Super Bowl of the sport. Lechuza Caracas, one of eight teams in competition, was one win away from the semifinals and favored to win until the team’s horses became ill and started falling to the ground one by one. Spectators watched in horror as veterinarians, players, grooms and total strangers worked together […]

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NBC Announces New Series, More Returns

May 4, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By RabbitEars At this morning’s “In Front” held in New York City before advertisers, NBC announced six new series for the 2009-10 TV season, along with four returning series pickups. Returning are Heroes, Southland, Parks and Recreation and six episodes of Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday (NBC caught lightning in a bottle last year with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Will Ferrell as George W. Bush; we’ll see how the next batch of Weekend Updates fares). These returns are in addition to the previously announced pickups of The Office, 30 Rock, The Biggest Loser, The Celebrity Apprentice, Law […]

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Sci-Fi & Fantasy

FOX Renews “Fringe” For Second Season

May 4, 2009 StayTuned Staff

FOX has renewed Fringe, the No. 1 new series among Adults 18-49, with a full second season, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, President, Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company. “Fringe proved to be a notable addition to our schedule all season and it really has fans buzzing as it builds to a fantastic season finale,” said Reilly. “J.J. and the whole Bad Robot team have been phenomenal partners, and we look forward to years of making great television with them.” “Fringe continues to gain momentum, creatively and with viewers,” said J.J. Abrams, series co-creator and executive producer. “We couldn’t […]

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Drama

Lisa Edelstein Offers Insight On The Season’s Final Two Episodes Of “House”

May 1, 2009 Lori Acken

By Lori Acken So, House‘s are-they-or-aren’t-they-totally-doing-it duo officially totally are. Unless they totally are House’s ultimate, come-out-of-the-shower-Bobby! hallucination. Like Amber, who’s getting juicier screen time as the come-hither (and let me bust your balls) otherworldly spokesperson for House’s conscience than she ever did as merely mortal Cutthroat Bitch. So which is it? Lisa Edelstein — who plays the series’ long-suffering Dean of Medicine, Dr. Lisa Cuddy, a.k.a. the “uddy” half of Huddy — ain’t tellin’. No matter how many angles entertainment journos took to pry it out of her during an afternoon conference call aimed at shedding just a leeeeettle light […]

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Sports

Where To Watch The Kentucky Derby

April 30, 2009 Ryan Berenz

By Ryan For those of you interested (I’m mostly talking to you, degenerate gamblers and C-list celebrities in ugly hats), the Kentucky Derby is this Saturday on NBC. I really can’t tell you anything about this year’s Derby, other than every day this week it seems like some potential favorite has been scratched due to injury. Are there even any horses left in this thing? I Want Revenge as been installed as the 3-1 favorite. I’m taking Papa Clem at 20-1. What the hell. I like his name. He’ll probably have to be put down right on the track. Here’s […]

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Comedy

Obama Speech Bumps Penultimate “Scrubs” To Next Week

April 30, 2009 StayTuned Staff

President Obama’s speech Wednesday night pre-empted the next-to-last episode of Scrubs, and creator/producer Bill Lawrence has announced that the episode — “My Chief Concern” — will now air on Tuesday, the day before the hourlong finale. Lawrence also sounds off about the rumors of a possible ninth season, making it sound a lot more likely than what has been reported in the past. He insists, however, that the ninth season would be more like a spinoff, a la Frasier, than it would be the continuing adventures of J.D., Turk and Elliot. Many of the cast members have signed on to […]

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Weather Channel Forecast Calls For Extended Periods Of Al Roker

April 30, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By RabbitEars Famed NBC Today show weatherman Al Roker is going to be entertaining and informing people about their local and national forecasts on a second network starting this summer at a to-be-announced date. Wake Up With Al will be a new weekday series airing 6-7am ET on The Weather Channel, which Roker will be co-hosting with current Weather Channel meteorologist Stephanie Abrams. “Simply put, Al Roker is synonymous with weather,” says Lisa Gersh, interim CEO of The Weather Channel. “He has an energy and a style that jumps off the screen, and we already know that people want to […]

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Music

New Eminem Video Premieres On Cinemax

April 29, 2009 Jeff Pfeiffer

By RabbitEars In the first for the network, Cinemax exclusively debuts the latest, never-before-seen, uncensored music video from Eminem. The video is for the song “3 a.m.” — the third track to be released from his new album Relapse, which is coming out May 19 and is his first original studio album in over four years. Fortunately, the video — directed by Syndrome — does not air at 3am; you can see it at 10pm ET/PT this Saturday, May 2. _________________________ Credit: Karin Catt