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Comedian jokes about Simon Cowell and Ryan Seacrest during Friday’s episode of her talk show.By Gil Kaufman
Ellen DeGeneres and Randy Jackson on Wednesday’s “American Idol”
Photo: FOX
Let’s face it: everyone had a rough first week on “American Idol.” The guys, for the most part, tanked, and the women were only marginally better. Even the judges had [...]
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‘It’s such a male-dominated industry that I feel like females need more of a voice,’ Atlanta MC says.By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Sway Calloway
Ludacris and MTV News’ Sway
Photo: MTV News
NEW YORK — According to Ludacris, there’s just too much testosterone in hip-hop.
So with his forthcoming Battle of the Sexes album, the Atlanta rapper decided [...]
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Here’s tonight’s TV lineup (all times Eastern).
At 7:30, Cartoon Network has a new ‘Batman: The Brave and the Bold.’
At 8, NBC has The Olympics.
FOX has The NAACP Awards at 8.
The CW has a new ‘Smallville‘ at 8.
PBS has a new ‘Washington Week’ at 8, followed by new episodes of ‘NOW’ and ‘Bill Moyers Journal.’
MyNetwork TV [...]
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How many Doctor Whos have there been over the years, anyway? The newest is Matt Smith, and I mean newest in two ways. He’s the latest guy to play the Doctor and he’s also the youngest to play him (he’s 27). Here’s a preview of the new season, which starts on BBC America on April [...]
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Everyone knows that today’s horror remakes are the gutter trash of cinema. No one expects much from them, and the only hope is that a bunch of teenage boys who have never heard of the originals will go see them. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Remakes in general can be high quality, [...]
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Your friends and neighbors want to kill you. It’s a simple concept, the basic underlying idea that drives the zombie movie genre, and it’s the hook in Breck Eisner’s fantastically efficient remake of George A. Romero’s 1973 cult film. The Crazies, while not technically a zombie movie, mines that fear of your fellow man losing [...]
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Season-nine semifinalists’ rocky live debut has ‘Idol’ experts and fans concerned.By Gil Kaufman
Tim Urban
Photo: FOX
The early semifinal rounds of “American Idol” are always difficult. You are bound to have some early hopefuls falling victim to first-time-on-TV jitters, a few dark horses soaring before an eventual crash and a handful of singers proving they were lucky [...]
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‘I wanted to go over there and help,’ says Allen, who will perform on ‘American Idol’ and talk about his trip.By Eric Ditzian, with reporting by Jim Cantiello
Kris Allen helps out in Haiti
Photo: Fox
Kris Allen’s “American Idol” appearance on Thursday (February 25) will not just be a homecoming for the show’s reigning champ, but also [...]
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Rapper threatens to quit after negative feedback on his philosophical tweets.By Jayson Rodriguez
Lil Wayne
Photo: James Crump/Getty Images
Less than a week after officially joining Twitter, it looks like Lil Wayne may now give up on the micro-blogging service. He sent word on Thursday (February 25) that he’s going to stop using Twitter because the feedback led [...]
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Remember that proposed remake of the British crime series ‘Prime Suspect’ for NBC? You can forget about it… for a while anyway. NBC has shelved ‘Prime Suspect’ till June and the reason why is all about casting. This, my friends, is exactly what we were saying when the idea first surfaced.
The notion that you’re [...]
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