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How Small Town High School Drama Could Destroy Sarah Palin
Adrian Chen · 03/31/10 10:48PMJerry Bruckheimer Plans to Ruin Several Other Types of TV Show
Ravi Somaiya · 03/28/10 02:33PMDamages Makes Ballsy Plot Decision
nightintern · 03/24/10 01:31AMSince Damages started airing on the FX Network, it's always had a fun—and creative—time playing with viewer expectations. Now, the series is taking the bold step of having an in-show character recreate the first season as a film.
Tonight's 90210 Gave Us Déjà Vu
nightintern · 03/24/10 01:04AMDid some of the Gawker.TV interns get work at 90210? On tonight's episode, the kids at West Beverly Hills High made some creative editing to a school gossip program. If only cutting up a Heidi Montag interview was this easy...
The 10 Kinds of Television Cameos
Mike Byhoff · 03/22/10 11:45AMThe cameo is one of television's oldest tricks to drum-up interest for a show. But not all cameos are created equal. Inside, a list of the kinds of cameos, why they exist, and just how effective they are.
FX's Justified Is As Good As It Is Bad
Zach Mack · 03/17/10 12:00AMTonight was the series premiere of Justified, a new crime drama on the FX Network. Expectations were high due to the network's past success and its star, Deadwood's Timothy Olyphant. Unfortunately, it was kind of disappointing.
Kathy Griffin Takes Over Law & Order: SVU
nightintern · 03/04/10 12:17AMParenthood: Another Notch on NBC's Failure Belt
Matt Toder · 03/02/10 11:47PMIn another example of the continuing disaster that is NBC, Parenthood—the widely-hyped series based on the 1989 movie—premiered tonight. And as expected, there were a ton of soapy tropes and many a tear shed. Inside, two standout moments.
Tabloids Admirably Cover Genital Scalding
Hamilton Nolan · 07/28/09 08:36AMSuspected South Carolina Serial Killer Shot Dead by Cops
Hamilton Nolan · 07/07/09 08:31AMFashion Houses Are Burning
Hamilton Nolan · 05/28/09 11:28AMBillionaire Indian Tycoon Stars in John le Carré Novel Come to Life
Hamilton Nolan · 04/30/09 08:49AMMadoff Movie To Be Just as Good as Madoff's Business
Hamilton Nolan · 04/24/09 10:00AMJewish Damsel in Distress Rescued By Swashbuckling Gays
Richard Lawson · 03/03/09 03:57PMHomeland Security Thwarts Foreign Sandwich
Hamilton Nolan · 02/25/09 12:55PMRevolution Strikes the NYU Food Court!
Hamilton Nolan · 02/19/09 11:00AMObama Repeats Oath Without Bible
Ryan Tate · 01/21/09 11:10PMChaunce Hayden's Strip Club Movie Revealed!
Hamilton Nolan · 01/07/09 12:04PMNew P.T. Anderson Play Shatters Snoopy-Humping Taboo
STV · 08/06/08 05:50PMThe Paul Thomas Anderson Stage Revue we'd mentioned a while back was finally unveiled last night at Largo, where Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph reportedly performed a succession of new sketches with Jon Brion's musical accompaniment. And according to one eyewitness who espied Jack Black and Paul Dano among his fellow attendees, the show was a little less There Will Be Blood than Punch-Drunk Love, with liberal, Altmanesque doses of I Really Don't Feel Like Writing Another Feature-Length Screenplay Right Now tossed in for good measure: