Since leaving the Today show, 57-year-old Ann Curry has stayed on at NBC, doing a few special reports here and there. But now there is a "window" in her contract — meaning she could leave NBC and go somewhere else. What will become of Ann Curry?
It wasn't enough for NBC to announce it would annually desecrate a beloved musical
What have we done?
On tonight's episode of Parks & Recreation — the last to air until January because NBC wants more people to watch Sean Saves The World/ oh my god NBC what are you doing? — Leslie Knope and Councilman Jamm pair up for a gender-bending rendition of the karaoke favorite "Summer Nights." Here's the entire performance.
So! How does Angela Lansbury feel about the fact that NBC is reimagining Murder, She Wrote with Octavia Spencer in the lead role? Well, someone asked her. Guess what? She is NOT happy.
I've just been tipped off that 30 Rock producers Tina Fey and Robert Carlock have just received a straight-to-series episode order for a new comedy starring Ellie Kemper. The premise? Girls who've been abducted.
The Today show always gets really really really into Halloween, and this year the theme was classic TV Throwback Thursday. The perfect excuse to get Matt Lauer in a red swimsuit.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC is working on a remake of the CBS mystery-drama Murder, She Wrote — with Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer in the Angela Lansbury role. Yes yes yes yes yes. Would watch.
This morning on Today, Al Roker was about to do the weather when he took a detour and introduced a woman who works at a non-profit. Simone Jhingoor was prepared to talk about the Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation — which sounds great and important — when suddenly, her boyfriend, Chirag Shah, showed…
Attention gladiators: Kerry Washington will host Saturday Night Live on November 2! Questions: Will there be a Scandal skit? Will there be a Save The Last Dance skit? Should we snarkily congratulate NBC for managing to get a black woman on the show? (She's the ninth black woman to host, out of 751 total shows.)…
Yes, your nightmares
The GOP faithful, ever ready to storm the moral high ground and erect a glittering, priapistic citadel, jumped all over
Broadcast network television has been hemorrhaging viewers over the last several years. The increasing popularity of complex, well-written cable dramas like Mad Men and Breaking Bad has raised the bar for TV. Networks like the perpetually-ailing NBC are slowly figuring out that they can no longer get by with a few…
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This morning, around 7:30 a.m. on the Today show, Matt Lauer announced that he had intended to bring viewers a live, exclusive interview with Paula Deen — but she hadn't shown up at the NBC studios.
As you may recall, when writing about the Today kerfuffle surrounding Ann Curry's departure, Brian Stelter noted
Part of Ryan Murphy’s television triumvirate has suffered a major blow with news that NBC will be cancelling The New Normal. That’s not really too shocking, given the fact that a) The New Normal’s Bryan Collins was kind of a meaner, more ill-tempered version of Kurt Hummel who grows up to realize that he’s not quite…
Whitney was cancelled
While you're crying with happiness over Parks and Rec getting renewed
As Janet Jackson herself predicted in 2001: Maybe we'll meet at a bar / He'll drive a funky car / Maybe he'll be a Qatari-born retail billionaire / And I'll convert to Islam. Sure enough, rumor has it that Jackson has retired from show business for good and adopted the religion of her husband Wissam al-Mana, who she…
A huge New York magazine cover story about the rubber band jungle of ill will and corporate fuckery that NBC's Today has become will probably make you realize how terribly unimportant feuding morning show anchors really are in the grand cosmic scheme of things. Then you'll come to the bit about how NBC's corporate…
There's trouble brewing at NBC's Today show: With a mix of news, human interest and silliness, Matt Lauer and his cohorts used to be America's number one choice each morning. Now Today has dropped in popularity and ABC's Good Morning America sits on top. What happened? Well, a lot. A lot happened.
NBC may once again be trying to politely shovel koala bear night show host Jay Leno into the dustbin of yesteryear, according to two "high-level industry sources." The rumor, which NBC has categorically denied, is that the 2013-14 television season will be the last for Leno, who reportedly took a steep pay cut from his…
NBC has taken their Ann Curry ostracization to whole new level by unceremoniously banishing the much-maligned morning show anchor to Today's Phantom Zone of recorded video. Curry, according to Page Six, will no longer be allowed to appear on live TV, perhaps out of a general fear among Today producers that she'll…
Hey study group. Guess what? NBC boss Bob Greenblatt is "absolutely hopeful" that your favorite show Community will be back for a 5th season, which would be such a great and uplifting thing to hear if there was in fact a shred of realistic possibility that this could actually happen. I'm mean I'm sure Greenblatt is …
Pippa Middleton, esteemed author of a ho-hum party-planning book
The Biggest Loser, NBC's cash cow "reality" hit that teaches grown-ass men and women to hate the fat away, is now allowing teens on the show. I think their new tagline is, "Because adults shouldn't be the only one running on treadmills until they puke." There's no better way to get children on the fast track to eating…
First, Downton Abbey premieres in the U.S. on Jan 6, then the show gets a fourth season
According to some NBC poll, two percent of those surveyed think that Romney's economic policies favor the poor. I know it's a small number but still EXSQUEEZE ME?? Who are these two percent? A slightly intoxicated Scrooge McDuck who decided it would be fun to fuck with the pollsters? James Spader in Pretty in Pink?…
