Television
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Google's YouTube Kids Ads are deceptive, consumer groups sayApr 10, 2015 7:10 am - Google Inc.'s YouTube Kids app violates safeguards for children by deceptively blending advertising and programming, according to consumer groups that are asking U.S. re...
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'Game of Thrones' beer, Marvel stars in Chicago and moreApr 10, 2015 6:00 am - There's a lot going on in the pop culture universe these days. To wit: • The "Star Wars" saga debuts today on the Digital HD format with the same movie transfers and muc...
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Conservative groups attempting to kill prospective ABC showApr 09, 2015 4:46 pm - NEW YORK - Conservative groups are trying to kill in the cradle a prospective ABC sitcom about a family upended when a teenage son comes out as gay because sex columnist...
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Buffalo Grove High grad's stuntman job 'like recess all day long'Apr 07, 2015 5:30 am - He can leap from tall buildings in a single bound. He's more powerful than a villain's loco motive. And if you catch Hollywood stuntman Chris Brewster in action, you'll ...
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Zachary Knighton talks returning to TV after starring in cult favorite 'Happy Endings'Apr 06, 2015 6:00 am - WASHINGTON - Don't worry: Zachary Knighton knows you want "Happy Endings" to come back. Knighton, who played the earnest, V-neck wearing food truck owner Dave Rose o...
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In TV's Silver Age, a logjam of shows that are 'pretty good,' but not greatApr 06, 2015 6:00 am - Remember when people at parties started talking about television the way they once talked about movies? It was the late 1990s, early '00s - the dawning that we were ...
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AMC's 'Mad Men' prepares to sign offApr 05, 2015 6:30 am - It's being billed as "the end of an era." And for AMC, the farewell of "Mad Men" certainly is. When the series premiered on July 19, 2007, AMC was a small basic cable ch...
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Old meets new in 'Curb'-like 'Comedians' on FXApr 03, 2015 5:45 am - The fifth season of FX's critically acclaimed “Louie” gets a new lead-in for its Thursday, April 9, premiere, and it's another half-hour comedy about real-life comedians...
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'Big Time in Hollywood, FL': Greatness achieved, in a delusional wayMar 31, 2015 6:00 am - Either I've lost my marbles or “Big Time in Hollywood, FL” is a work of near-genius. Disguised as precisely the sort of sketchy Comedy Central fare that viewers might be...
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Questionable tweets by new 'Daily Show' host Noah draw fireMar 31, 2015 1:00 am - NEW YORK - A day after Trevor Noah was declared the new host of "The Daily Show," complete with the blessing of the exiting Jon Stewart, graphic tweets targeting women, ...