When MTV first announced its new series Faking It, about two girls who pretend to be lesbians at a super liberal Austin, Texas high school in order to became popular.... Well, I gave it pretty heavy side-eye. But I admit, I'm hooked already.
FOX, the brilliant network that's bringing you this summer's surefire hit show about a group of women duped into believing they have been chosen as the possible true love of Prince Harry, has dropped the first promo for I Wanna Marry Harry. There's still not much detail available about how exactly the production…
Last night, Dancing With the Stars went full Disney. Unfortunately there was no Fox and the Hound contemporary dance, but they did make time for Ariel to shake her mermaid-shell bra around for the kiddies. So we've ranked all the Disney dances from best to worst!
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Ashton Kutcher's television program Two and a Half Men was extra-special Thursday night: Kutcher was joined by his fiancée/the mother of his unborn child Mila Kunis, who was a guest star on the show. Kunis played a free spirit who spends her life hiking and, one night, hikes right into Kutcher's character Walden's life. …
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New Yorker television critic Emily Nussbaum recently sat down and talked with Anaheed Alani for "Why Can't I Be You," a regular Rookie column where Anaheed interviews women about their exciting or inspiring careers. During their talk, the women discussed Nussbaum's preference for strongly written teen shows like Freaks…
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The opening credits would probably look something like this. We're so excited about the return of Game of Thrones on Sunday, we asked our friend Garrison Dean to imagine what the show would look like if it was a classic 1970s-1980s sitcom. But what he came up with was way more insane than we ever expected.
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Transparent, a TV series written by Jill Soloway and features a later transitioning trans woman named Maura, has been given the green light for production of a full season.
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Tonight, How I Met Your Mother ends its 9-year run by revealing, finally, how mopey-ass Ted Mosby finally met the woman who would eventually let him put two babies in her. But devotees of the show know that it's about a lot more than inside jokes among a group of unusually clever and often drunk friends. They know it…
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Many of us watch morning television like it's a NASCAR race, just waiting for the wrecks. And boy, Morning Joe really delivered yesterday, when Mika Brzezinski literally pulled a real, live cat out of a tote bag. Her cohost's cat, no less!
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You already knew that Animal Planet had a way of distorting reality. They present documentaries about the existence of mermaids and Bigfoot and only barely acknowledge that it's all nonsense. But now evidence is mounting that some of the shows they air actually harm animals.
In a timely announcement, the Writers Guild of America East is hoping that New York will include a tax incentive as part of their state budget for television shows that hire women and people of color for their writers' rooms. It's not a ton of money, but it's certainly an interesting strategy.
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Don't get us wrong. We love The Muppets. Everybody loves the Muppets. But we love some Muppets more than others, because some Muppets are better than others, while some made us groan whenever they appeared on-screen. Here are a dozen Muppets that completely suck felt.
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Game of Thrones comes back to television in just a few weeks, and already we're feeling the imperative: All Men (And Women) Must Freak Out. But why is Game of Thrones such a huge cultural phenomenon, among all other fantasy series? It comes down to two huge cultural trends, that are rooted in our widespread anxieties…
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Veronica Mars was a teen sleuth whose superpower was storytelling. She was adroit at making up clever lies and crafting fake identities, but it was always in the service of piecing together the truth — which was another story she constructed. Now she's starring in a big crowd-funded movie, which turns out to be about…
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Gird your loins, people. Netflix just unleashed a sneak peek at the new season of Orange is the New Black, in the form of these awesome pictures.
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Baby Olivia may not be old enough to know what the mystery behind the identity of the Yellow King was all about, but she's old enough to smile adorably while someone takes pictures of her in recreations from the show and that's good enough for me.
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As the popular ensemble sitcom How I Met Your Mother draws near the end of its nine-season run, a downer of a fan theory is starting to look more and more feasible. The theory: The Mother has been dead this whole time. M. Night Shyamalan'd!
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ABC's Mixology might very well be the Dads of midseason TV shows. This is a show with characters who repeatedly call women bitches or whores and who argue that men aren't real men unless they're slapping you across the face.
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The premiere of Game of Thrones season four may be months off — but you can get a good look at what's new in Westeros right now, with these newly released images. Including all your favorite (surviving) characters, like Tyrion, Daenerys and Jon, plus a few new faces. And they all look pretty miserable. Can't wait.
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In October, at the start of the third season of New Girl, Vulture's Amanda Dobbins wrote a piece titled with its basic premise: "New Girl's Nick and Jess Relationship Isn't Working." As you can likely tell, Dobbins' argued that New Girl was an example of yet another television relationship that had will-they-won't-they'd …
