Television
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TV shows get into the wine bizMar 14, 2014 5:45 am - Mr. Carson, bring me my wine! And you, too, Mr. Spock. In what is perhaps the strongest evidence yet of wine's power to unite, fans of upper-crusty period drama "Downton...
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Up, up and away for a live TV special from spaceMar 14, 2014 1:01 am - NEW YORK - National Geographic Channel is targeting a subject that's literally over our heads, bringing it down to Earth in an ambitious two-hour special. Airing Friday ...
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Shatner's Twitter exit a joke with pal BergeronMar 14, 2014 1:01 am - LOS ANGELES - Tom Bergeron is leaving "America's Funniest Home Videos" at the end of next season, but William Shatner is not quitting Twitter. The two became linked when...
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'Jeopardy' champ Chu unseated after 12-day runMar 13, 2014 1:00 am - NEW YORK — “Jeopardy” champ Arthur Chu, who won big money while taking heat for his renegade style, has been defeated. Chu came in third place with zero dollars on Wedne...
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Leno, Murdoch among TV Hall of Fame inducteesMar 11, 2014 11:00 pm - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Bill Maher took advantage of pal Jay Leno's Television Academy Hall of Fame induction to offer a spirited attack on what Maher called undeserved ...
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Rodriguez gives it to viewers straight with El ReyMar 11, 2014 5:38 am - NEW YORK - In the past year, Netflix, with its online, all-at-once D.C. thriller "House of Cards," has jolted the medium we used to know as "television." Now TV could be...
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NBC wants viewers to 'Believe' in Abrams' latestMar 10, 2014 5:30 am - One theme that runs through much of J.J. Abrams' work as a writer and producer is family, from the ad hoc families of the college students on “Felicity” and the castaway...
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About a boy who plays the boy on new NBC sitcomMar 10, 2014 4:45 am - NEW YORK - It wasn't hard for Benjamin Stockham to figure out his role as Marcus, the title character of NBC's new sitcom "About a Boy." "It was pretty obvious from the ...
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TiVo founders try to reprogram Internet videoMar 09, 2014 6:00 am - SAN FRANCISCO — The founders of DVR pioneer TiVo are shifting their focus from broadcast TV to broadband Internet as they introduce a new device designed to make it easi...
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'Cosmos': A fond return to the vastness of spaceMar 09, 2014 5:45 am - When astronomer Carl Sagan's landmark PBS series “Cosmos” first aired in the fall of 1980, the Voyager 1 spacecraft was flying past Saturn and its moons, sending back as...