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Zombies creep their way into our hearts

February 12, 2012

After a contemplative start to Season 2, the action picks up as ‘The Walking Dead’ returns with new episodes on Sunday.

No holds barred for 'Shameless' writers: Macy

February 10, 2012

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Here's an assignment for the screenwriters behind "Shameless" and its eye-popping stories: Discuss what the heck you've wrought, and how.

CNN suspends Martin for 'offensive' comments

February 09, 2012

NEW YORK, N.Y. - CNN suspended political analyst Roland Martin on Wednesday for "offensive" tweets during the Super Bowl that some critics said were anti-gay.

Dr. House hangs up his Fox TV stethoscope

February 08, 2012

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Fox's medical drama "House" is ending its eight-year run this season.

NFL, NBC sorry for M.I.A. gesture

February 06, 2012

Performing with Madonna on their new single Give Me All Your Luvin’ during the halftime show at Super Bowl XLVI, singer M.I.A. faced the camera and held up a middle finger Sunday night.

Dr. Oz's health effort nets 1 million participants

February 06, 2012

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Television already has "The Biggest Loser." Dr. Mehmet Oz is looking for the biggest number of losers.

Letterman celebrates 30 years in late-night TV

February 01, 2012

NEW YORK, N.Y. - David Letterman has marked three decades in late-night television with one of his favourite guests.

Reality TV booms in Louisiana

February 01, 2012

NEW ORLEANS - Alligator hunters, raccoon wranglers and crawfish catchers in Louisiana's critter-filled swamps and bayous are increasingly common on television.

Paula Abdul exits 'X Factor'; third to leave show

January 31, 2012

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Paula Abdul joined the exodus from Fox's disappointing "The X Factor," attributing her departure to business trumping all else.

Scherzinger, Jones not returning to 'X Factor'

January 30, 2012

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Nicole Scherzinger and Steve Jones are out at "The X Factor."

Shirley MacLaine to join TV show 'Downton Abbey'

January 30, 2012

LONDON - Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine is joining Britain's popular television series "Downton Abbey."

TV bullies

January 30, 2012

Television shows us that behind the front, bullies are mostly insecure poseurs, desperately in search of love and their peers’ approval.

Spartacus returns with more blood, sex and action

January 25, 2012

Spartacus fans are gearing up for the show’s return to television and with it, all the controversial blood, sex and action that has made the series so provocatively popular.

CBS pumps up the raunch factor

January 25, 2012

Last week seemed typical for CBS’ sitcoms on Monday night, television’s most popular — and raunchy — night of comedy.

Emily Maynard is the chosen ‘Bachelorette’

January 24, 2012

It was announced yesterday that Emily Maynard, the 25-year-old single mom who was the chosen one on “The Bachelor” with Brad Womack, but then broke up with him shortly thereafter, will...

Kiefer Sutherland tackles a more cerebral role in the new series Touch

January 24, 2012

Kiefer Sutherland says he wasn’t looking to come back to TV so soon after his eight-season, Emmy-winning stint on 24.

The importance of Portlandia

January 19, 2012

In one sketch during the new season of Portlandia, the characters played by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein decide to watch a single episode of Battlestar Galactica before they head out to a...

Hot new winter TV shows

January 19, 2012

The wind is howling, the snow is falling and even your dog doesn’t want to go outside. We could tell you to curl up with a good book, but we’re sure most of you would rather put on your...

Buffy’s balancing act

January 18, 2012

Sarah Michelle Gellar made her name in television — with seven seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer — before heading to film and then bowing out of entertainment entirely to start a...

A new view on Chelsea

January 18, 2012

In Are You There, Chelsea? — the new sitcom based on Chelsea Handler’s best-selling books — Laura Prepon plays Chelsea Handler and Chelsea Handler plays her sister Sloan.

How good is your neighbourhood?

January 16, 2012

As co-host of Million Dollar Neighbourhood,  Bruce Sellery helps families address their money problems with tough love.

5 minutes with: Amber Bacon

January 16, 2012

Amber Bacon, a Port Coquitlam, B.C., nurse and the only Canadian who had a chance to woo The Bachelor, talks to Metro about her time on the show, not getting a rose and her message to Ben Flajnik.

Streep, Clooney win top awards at 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards

January 16, 2012

It was a night of surprises and snubs Sunday evening at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards, where the best in film and television from the past year was honoured by the Hollywood Foreign Press.

Ricky’s golden glib award

January 15, 2012

Perhaps the biggest question for most Golden Globe viewers this year was exactly how far Ricky Gervais would go with his second opportunity as host after last year’s eyebrow-raising skewering...

Make no mistake: Alcatraz is not Lost 2.0

January 15, 2012

Jorge Garcia, who played Hurley in the cult drama Lost, is heading back to another island with a different bunch of people in J.J. Abrams’ new supernatural thriller Alcatraz.

Cast of Less Than Kind come together after sudden death of actor Maury Chaykin

January 12, 2012

Overcoming the loss of your lead actor can be detrimental to a television series.

‘It was a way we could get inside Napoleon’s head’

January 12, 2012

Jon Heder says one of the best things about his new Napoleon Dynamite cartoon is that fans will no longer be asking him “that” question.

What once was lost...

January 11, 2012

Actress Mercedes Masöhn, of the new series The Finder, shares her list of things she’d like to find

Russell Crowe joins the ‘republic’

January 09, 2012

Republic of Doyle has pulled out all the stops for its third season premiere – nabbing big-time movie star Russell Crowe for a guest spot.

Bomb Girls blasting gender roles

January 02, 2012

In 1995, Oscar nominee Meg Tilly left Hollywood to write, and raise her family, including a son with Colin Firth.


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