Your Thursday Night TV Lineup

Whitney Jefferson · 03/18/10 05:00PM

TONIGHT: Andy Samberg plays a park ranger on Parks and Recreation, Liz Lemon thinks she's met her future husband, ABDC gets inspired by Usher, and March Madness begins (and unfortunately, takes over TV for the next few weeks.)

Media Company Abuses Self on YouTube

Ryan Tate · 03/18/10 03:54PM

YouTube's big court fight with Viacom is unearthing some fun stories, like this one: Viacom secretly doctored its content to look stolen, uploaded it to YouTube, and then promptly reported itself for copyright abuse, having forgotten about its own ruse.

Sure, You're Broke. But at Least Grandma's Moving in With You.

Hamilton Nolan · 03/18/10 03:13PM

The Way We Live Now: As one big family. Extended families living together are back! By necessity, borne of poverty. Still, something we can embrace. Unlike sewage wage freezes and worthless garbage homes and crazy old Senate alien coots.

Tiger Woods Will Sext With You Now

Remy Stern · 03/18/10 03:01PM

You've heard about Tiger Woods' very naughty text messages by now, haven't you? We went ahead and built a Tiger clone in the office this afternoon. Send a text message to 646-450-2708 and you'll get a reply from our Tigerbot in minutes. [Update: The Tigerbot is a bit overwhelmed right now; apologies if you don't get an immediate response.] It's free, of course. It's also most definitely NSFW, though, so be careful you don't leave your phone lying around for your significant other and/or co-workers to see.

Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day

Whitney Jefferson · 03/18/10 03:00PM


Today at Gawker.TV, the hosts of The View turn into puppets, George and Robin flub up their lines on GMA, Ugly American's pilot episode, and how last night's Top Model is more like a Japanese game show thank you think.

Addicted: Room for one More

Daniel Barnum-Swett · 03/18/10 02:39PM

Last night was the premiere of TLC's newest road-to-recovery reality show. A&E's Intervention casts a long crack-addled shadow in the genre with its consistently captivating profiles of people hitting rock-bottom and the experts who help them. So, is Addicted necessary?