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Arrested Development Day is fast approaching, and, aside from their structure, we still don't know much about Netflix's 15 new episodes. But a new interview with the show's set decorator — and photos from the scene — published in House Beautiful Tuesday give us some tiny spoilers. Perfect for over-analysis.
Rapper Riff Raff is taking his issues with James Franco into the world of daytime television.
Even though the second installment is seven months away and even though every other blockbuster has gotten desperate on social media, they're whetting the appetites of rabid young fans, one would-be viral Catching Fire image at a time.
On last night's Daily Show Jon Stewart explained how the Senate blocked the U.S. from signing on to a UN arms treaty — a treaty that is decidedly anti-Bond villain.
Contrary to crazy reports, Alec Baldwin will not be on your television while you are fast sleep—at least not yet: NBC announced this afternoon that Last Call with Carson Daly, the show you did not know was still on, has been renewed for a 13th.
The wee hours of the morning may be welcoming none other Baldwin into NBC's new late-night lineup, which leads to a bunch more questions, all with very sensible (if provocative and potentially dangerous) answers.
State lawmakers have it in their minds to regulate all kinds of things, which means last night Jon Stewart played a new Daily Show game he likes to call "Sodomy! Zygotes! Welfare!"
Neill Blomkamp's District 9 followup — about which we knew next to nothing until this week, and which, as of last night, has a full trailer out in the wild — is officially going to be the next great sci-fi movie. Yes, the buzz is that good.
Since the stabbing that wounded 14 people at a Houston-area college, one student has been taking some of the credit for apprehending his fellow student.
Less than 24 hours after the, shall we say, misguided Brad Paisley and LL Cool J song went viral, YouTube videos featuring the song appear to have been taken down — but it might not be YouTube doing the pulling, exactly.
All of the invite news leading up to DC's Nerd Prom can be a confusing batch of pomp and absurdity, so we'll be updating this handy, interactive, and officially unofficial guest list of media outlets and celebrities until that grandest of evenings is finally upon us.
The closest thing the Internet has to its own version of the Oscars now has its nominees and, well, Dunham might have to clear some room on her starting-to-be-very-full shelves: she's been nominated for that Obama video. Yeah, that one.
An audience at the West End production of Billy Elliot last night didn't really care that a song in the show slandered the name of the recently deceased — and still reviled — former prime minister. Last night, a show of hands said so.
You would think that a movie adaptation of a book as widely read as The Great Gatsby wouldn't really have a spoiler. Apparently, director Baz Luhrmann came up with one.
The new Superman movie's new TV spot doesn't really have much new footage, but it doesn't prove that Zack Snyder is prepared to beat us over the head with almost religious sounding music and questions of identity. When do we get more than that?
The former president's Twitter philosophy? "There's nothing worse than a friendless tweeter." Well now he has close to 34,000 Twitter followers for the new account Colbert took the liberty of setting up for him: @PrezBillyJeff.
Mourning for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher wasn't entirely ceremonious. In fact, it was tampered with a reminder that she was also widely hated by people even in her own country. So how are Britain's papers—including their often biting tabloids—dealing with the news on their front pages?
In a new interview, The Roots drummer/face man tentatively confirmed that his band will remain the ultimate in-house band for Jimmy Fallon — or at least that The Roots are "staying" with him.
Today we know all too much about former Mickey Mouse Club stars like Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, and Ryan Gosling, but the original Mousekeeter turned teen star was Annette Funicello, who has died at the age of 70 after a close relationship with Walt Disney himself defined her career.
Ebert was eulogized Monday at a funeral mass, with his family, colleagues, and fellow Chicagoans speaking of a man who shared himself with the world and fought as "a soldier for social justice."
The big spoiler of last night's Mad Men premiere wasn't the gorgeous symbolism, or really even the year in which the series picked up. It was a familiar face, at least to fans of short-lived TV shows.
We finally have a full trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra, and while the movie looks great, well, this thing is a cosmetic nightmare. Of course, that's a good thing for the life story of Liberace.
The Summer of Love has come and gone, never to be recorded in the official Mad Men record as the show's historical context — at once subtle and yet always looming — heads deep into the shadows of a complex year.
We're sure some people were excited by the news Friday that the Hallmark Channel will be launching a kitten-themed competitor to Animal Planet's immensely popular (but apparently speciesist) Puppy Bowl come halftime next February. We are not those people. Are you?
According to the strict media spoiler rules of the notoriously secretive show runner, the most revealing parts of Sunday's two-hour premiere include "partnerships" and, well, office-building architecture. Don't worry, we're not really spoiling anything here.
Call this the anti-Veronica Mars. A James Franco "guided" performance art piece called BirdShit is going up at MoMA PS1 on Sunday and needs $30,000. So he's asking for the money on Indiegogo.
It's hard to write about Mad Men before a season premiere because — well, because there are a lot of rules about this stuff. But some outlets have succeeded at offering (excited!) fans some (somewhat important!) insight into what's ahead.
As we mourn the passing of Roger Ebert, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that another film and journalism icon who recently died, Nora Ephron, will be the subject of an HBO documentary.
Movie fans, journalists, Chicagoans, and, truly, all Americans lost a hero yesterday when they learned that Roger Ebert had died following his lengthy battle with cancer. We've collected some of the words — and images — from those remembrances.
On The Daily Show last night, Stewart went after Jeff Zucker's newfangled approach at CNN, taking aim at hologram goats, vegetarians who eat bacon, and horrifying murder recreations.
We've seen Sunday's two-hour season six opener, but we can't say much about it. We can, however, gently point you to Netflix for ten previous episodes that you might find very helpful.
Friday marks the re-release of Jurassic Park in 3D, and Entertainment Weekly has put together a fun oral history of Steven Spielberg's classic blockbuster, which reveals that the iconic puppet playing the iconic dinosaur had something of a mind of its own.
Your save the date for the Bluth family reunion has arrived. You have a little over a month to prepare, and prepare you must. Like so.
Remember how Gatsby's green light was so important? No? Did you not write an entire five-page essay on that once? Well, now Florence and the Machine will sing about it to you.
The grade-school antics of the Late Night Feud of 2013 may have officially concluded with NBC's announcement that Jimmy Fallon would take over for Jay Leno. But, come on, late-night television is full of comedic egos and big contracts — you thought they were going to stop the fun there?
Stewart compared the process of getting genetically modified foods legislation passed to buying porno, then hiding it under a bigger purchase that might include, say, Mountain Dew and Funyuns. And then came the "flatulent grandpa."
This afternoon we became excited because we heard some rumblings about a trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. How exciting, we thought to ourselves. Might we get a peak at Katniss and Peeta's victory tour? At new characters Finnick Odair and Johanna Mason? At the arena for the Quarter Quell? Then a teaser for a teaser broke our hearts.
Now that we know that Jimmy Fallon is officially taking over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno in 2014, there's one big question remaining: Will the Roots go with him?
After weeks of very public infighting and very bad jokes, NBC confirmed Wednesday afternoon that Fallon will replace Jay Leno in February 2014. And according to interviews in a detailed report breaking the story wide open, Leno insists that this is not a repeat of the Conan O'Brien affair — even after all the recent high-profile nastiness.
The indefinite suspension didn't last very long for the Florida morning-radio hosts who used a chemical name for water in a public health scare gone weird, and according to an official at the local health department they also won't be charged with a felony.
Honey, don't stop — touring, that is. Yes, the Stones announced today that, after shows in New York and London last year, the world's oldest biggest rock band is going back on the road in 2013.
At the outset of his show last night Jon Stewart decided to poke fun at North Korea — you know, until North Korea actually started to scare him.
NBC has now signed, sealed, and almost delivered its next host of The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon, who has the contract in hand to prove he'll take the biggest promotion in late night — even if nobody really knows when he'll actually take it.
Schools are moving exams so fans can come to his concerts. His pet monkey has problems. He has targeted TMZ with a prank. Punches are being thrown. Clubs are getting angry. The only solution to the descending weirdness of this kid's life... is a grownup or two.
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to have cocktails and play weird games with Michael Bluth, Leslie Knope, Schmidt, and Veronica Mars? Well, you're about to be in luck. And so is the struggling network.
In his first partially revealing interview ahead of season six, creator Matthew Weiner claims that the AMC show's legions of fans might have more control over the show—and the mystery of Don Draper's love life—than anyone thought. Sort of.
Following recent news that Egypt's Jon Stewart Bassem Youssef was arrested for insulting Islam and president Mohamed Morsi, Stewart himself came out on the offensive for Youssef on his Monday night show.
In a show of solidarity, or something like that, Fallon opened his show last night with an unlikely duet: a parody of West Side Story's love song "Tonight" featuring his supposed nemesis.
We've seen the infamous "green light" in some of those rocking trailers, but it was all Moulin Rouge-esque spectacle. So here's a perplexing situation brought to our attention by new character posters released as part of the marketing blitz: Is this going to be all anachronistic music and fantastical set pieces, or just more of the same you learned in tenth grade?
Herein, some standouts from the writing-specific categories in today's National Magazine Award nominees that may not have stood out the first time, for your couch and/or train ride home tonight.
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