Comedy television is back. I say this with complete conviction. After a decade full of questionable programming mostly due to reality show one-offs and Two and a Half Men, television finally has its act together. It’s been developing for years and we’ve now reached the pinnacle, the apex, the proverbial peak of the comedic mountain. This Thursday, September 17, television will provide perhaps its funniest night in over ten years. Here’s your breakdown:  (more…)

This Sunday, the most beautiful women in the world, from places you never even knew existed, will gather for the 2009 Miss Universe competition. And at the end, a new champion will be crowned the most gorgeous woman in all of existence. So we thought we’d introduce you to these 84 super-hotties before the voting begins. And while we’re at it, we might as well skip to the best part – the bikinis! (more…)

Network TV has been dying for years, but in the 2008-2009 which ends this coming month, it finally croaked.  If some of you don’t care, well, no crap.  Did you check out Better Off Ted the other night?  Yeah, me either.

It didn’t used to be like this — networks rolling out dozens of new shows each year only to cancel them four episodes into their runs.  In 1953 — yep, I’m going way back — an episode of I Love Lucy aired that played on 71% of all television sets in the United States.  Just yesterday I heard that ABC is considering renewing Scrubs for a ninth season.  The percentage of television sets tuning into Scrubs in its eighth season?  3.5. (more…)

John Madden is calling it quits.

NBC said Thursday that the burly ex-coach who has been one pro football’s top broadcast analysts has decided to retire. The 73-year-old Madden has been working for the past three seasons on NBC’s Sunday night NFL game. His last telecast was the Super Bowl between Arizona and Pittsburgh.

Madden’s football video game is one of the highest sellign video games in history, check out 20 Years of Madden Coveres for a good perspective of how the NFL has evolved since 1990.

Check out all the details and tune to ESPN at noon for the press conference.

Animal rights group, PETA, known for their use of sex and female nudity in their ads, has been banned by NBC from running their newest advertisement during the Super Bowl. The ad, named “Veggie Love” shows super-hot, nearly naked models getting hot and naughty with a bunch of vegetables. Nothing like “hide the cucumber,” but definitely sexy, nonetheless.

But apparently it was all too much for the total p*ssies over at NBC, who sent back this actual list of shots they require be cut-out if the ad was to be accepted: (more…)

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Writing letters to Santa is so 20th Century. This year, kids in the know are forgoing the jolly ol’ fat man for 30 Rock’s funny ol’ black man, Tracy Morgan Jordan. In this video, he’ll answer everything from what kind of crayon he’d make (if he made crayons) to “What is time?” Sure, the answers might not “make sense,” but with the way things are going these days, making sense also seems to be a thing of the past. So pay attention boys and girls, you might just learn yourself something…you know, or not. But you’ll laugh your ass off either way.

Not only is Thursday officially All Hallows Eve-Eve, but it also marks the long anticipated return of 30 Rock.  So what better way to celebrate this spooky-scary day of sweetness than with Tracy Jordan’s instant Halloween classic Werewolf Bar Mitzvah?  There is none.  You are welcome.

Check Out the Original Clip and The Full Song After The Jump.

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Nerds Rejoice! Today marks the season premier of the sexiest supernatural show on television, Heroes! With all the superpower babes in the cast, from Hayden Panettiere to Kristen Bell, we realized that these babes aren’t just sexy, they’re “special sexy.” Not to be confused with just “special” – that’s something else altogether. So to celebrate the show’s triumphant return, we’ve put together a massive compilation of all the hottest superhero chicks ever. Up, up and away!

I really hate television. The advertising, the soap opera endings to every popular show, local commercials that are all of a sudDEN LOUD AS F**KING BALLS. I cannot stand it. So, short of major sporting events that I give a crap about, I don’t really turn on my T.V set. Not sure why but the T.V. feels like a naggy woman in the room, demanding that I buy her things.

That said, television is going through a bit of a renaissance, coming out of the dark ages of the 90’s fictional fluff and finding more real, interesting stories in characters. (Battlestar Galactica, anyone?) Still, I cannot be bothered to turn my set on, because even the good shows share time and ad space with a complete bevy of reality TV garbage.

So I like the programming but cannot stand the delivery. What am I to do? Like most problems, this one can be solved by the interweb’s dump truck tubes. TV is available everywhere online. Most of it perfectly legally! Some of it in legal gray areas! Lets take a look.

Check out the Ultimate Guide to Free TV Online after the jump! (more…)

 From New York Times:

Tim Russert, the host of “Meet the Press,” and NBC’s Washington bureau chief, has died. He was 58.

Mr. Russert was a towering figure in American journalism and moderated several debates during the recent presidential primary season.

Tom Brokaw, the former anchor of NBC Nightly News, came on the air at 3:39 p.m. that Mr. Russert had collapsed and died early this afternoon while at work. He had just returned from Italy with his family.

Mr. Russert hailed from Buffalo and worked for two prominent New York Democrats, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Gov. Mario Cuomo, before being hired in 1984 by NBC in its Washington bureau. He became bureau chief four years later.

For those of you that pay attention to politics, you know that Russert was one of the few anchors on television that still deserved the title of “journalist,” not just “talking head.” He was one of the few that actually made watching the election news interesting. And now we’re not going to have him around for the most important election in our lifetime. His expertise and integrity will be greatly missed.

Make sure you pour out a good portion of your Friday night 40oz for this dead homie.

Tim Russert’s Wikipedia