As the agonizing seconds between now and the Labor Day airdate of The Unauthorized Saved By The Bell Story on Lifetime tick by, there's little respite for fans who simply cannot wait to learn what really happened behind the scenes of a teen sitcom that aired two decades ago. But now — thank god — there's another… » 8/18/14 6:00pm 8/18/14 6:00pm

It's no secret that dealing with cable companies is only slightly less miserable than dragging yourself naked through the fires of Mordor. But there are ways of handling the irritating things big corporations do to you. Pulling a gun on a cable worker is not one of those ways. » 8/01/14 10:00am 8/01/14 10:00am

In a somewhat surprise merger, Comcast is set to acquire Time Warner Cable for about $45 billion, uniting the two biggest cable companies in the U.S. When reached for comment about the merger, representatives from both companies said "someone would be by between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to explain it more." And this has been… » 2/12/14 11:25pm 2/12/14 11:25pm

Starz has produced a series based on Diana Gabaldon's Outlander novels, and, if you like sexed-up, violent period dramas, you'll probably be into this. » 1/12/14 12:30pm 1/12/14 12:30pm

Earlier this week, Crossfire, the ancestral home of partisan cable TV shouting, returned to CNN because apparently no one has any new ideas for a TV debate show that isn't bad. And while reviews for the the program's zombie reanimation were tepid-to-negative, one in particular stuck out for its confusingly enraged… » 9/10/13 4:00pm 9/10/13 4:00pm

When I was in high school and college, I worked at a nursing home, and when there was no more Boggle to be played or Jello to be eaten, residents loved watching Fox News, hours and hours of men yelling and attractive, smart blonde women pretending to be dumb and concerned. » 7/23/13 12:50pm 7/23/13 12:50pm

In case you missed it: Less than a week after threatening to murder Big Bird and then chuckling about it in front of millions of horrified but oddly entranced Americans, Presidential Candi-bot Mitt Romney has dealt another overly theatrical middle finger to the kids in America — he's become only the third candidate in… » 10/09/12 1:35pm 10/09/12 1:35pm

Piggybacking on success of the maybe-real, maybe-fake documentary Catfish (spoiler alert! Someone lies on the internet!), MTV has begun casting a TV spinoff of the show. So if you or someone you know is about to become entangled in a web of lies, if you're maintaining multiple fake social networking accounts or… » 7/05/12 11:00am 7/05/12 11:00am

We give our dogs so much in life—multiple walks a day, belly rubs, bones, treats, expensive trips to the vet, and, often, precious real estate in our very own beds. Yet now it appears that we might also need to get them their own TVs so that they can watch their own cable channel while we're away at work trying to… » 4/26/12 6:30pm 4/26/12 6:30pm

The New York Post points out that ratings at Lifetime and Hallmark are slipping, while other networks like the History Channel and MTV are gaining shares of women viewers. » 4/13/11 5:15pm 4/13/11 5:15pm

The Oprah Winfrey Network was born today! Now you can watch as many shows about Oprah, Oprah's celebrity-friends, self-improvement philosophers, love bowls, and Miracle Detectives as you want. Will people tune in and "OWN it," lol, or ignore it? » 1/01/11 11:00am 1/01/11 11:00am

In the wake of Shit My Dad Says, the internet has spawned yet another TV project. Alexi Wasser's "provocative" blog, ImBoyCrazy.com, will be a half-hour comedy on Showtime. You know, the lady network? » 10/29/10 2:33pm 10/29/10 2:33pm

A new makeover show on We, You're Wearing That?!?, lets mothers and daughters dress each other. Oh yes, we're going to watch this. » 8/11/10 6:50pm 8/11/10 6:50pm