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Hillary Atkin

Creative Arts Emmys a Chance for Unsung Heroes to Roar — Even Without Tiger Blood

Even as Charlie Sheen was getting ready to be the brunt of barbs at Sony Pictures Studios during the taping of his Comedy Central roast, his nemesis, Chuck Lorre, and former “Two and a Half Men" co-star Jon Cryer were…

MTV’s No-Host Video Music Awards: Much More to Go Gaga About Than Just Beyonce’s Baby News

MTV’s Video Music Awards are known for generating zeitgeist pop culture moments — like Kanye West’s infamous onstage interruption of Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech in 2009 — and this year’s edition was no exception. The buzziest moment — which generated…

The ‘Baddest Show in Late-Night’ Is No More — and TBS May Have to Face the Consequences

The “baddest show in late-night,” as host George Lopez called it, is now relegated to the history books — and if there is such a thing, the television business etiquette books, under the chapter of “How Not to Fire Your…

NBC’s Upcoming ‘Playboy Club’: Nostalgic Fun or Something More Sinister? Is It OK to Ignore the Sins of the Past by Saying Hey, It’s Just a Prime-Time Soap, Baby

Comparisons to "Mad Men" were brushed aside. The controversy over a Salt Lake City affiliate’s refusal to run the program was glossed over — because another station picked it up. The argument was set forth that the show is about…

Royal Couple Melt a Royal Awkward Moment at the Variety Venture Capital and New Media Summit

It was wall-to-wall coverage on Los Angeles local news stations for the 48 hours between Friday and Sunday afternoon that William and Catherine, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, traversed Southern California from Skid Row to Santa Barbara, leaving a…

NBC’s ‘The Voice’ Distinguished Itself From ‘Idol’–and Found a Winning Formula

Any one of the four finalists on NBC’s bangup freshman show "The Voice" could have taken the title. We thought Vicci Martinez, Dia Frampton and especially Beverly McClellan were each worthy of being the champion. But it was Javier Colon…

CBS’s Nina Tassler, Film Star Annette Bening Among Honorees at Women in Film Gala

It was a momentous night for CBS as several of its luminaries took center stage Thursday, June 16, at the Women in Film 2011 Crystal + Lucy Awards in Beverly Hills. Hosted by Melissa McCarthy of the network’s hit show…

Pushing the Envelope at the MTV Movie Awards

It’s an awards show that always tries to push the envelope, whether it’s having Sacha Baron Cohen fly across the audience and swoop down, bare bottomed, on Eminem or an unexpected girl-on-girl kiss, like the one between Sandra Bullock and…

Meredith Vieira, Anne Thompson, Chelsea Handler Among Honorees at 36th Annual Gracie Awards

The late comedienne Gracie Allen would have been proud. The 36th annual edition of the awards bearing her name, the Gracies, went off without a hitch–and with a lot of laughter, appreciation and applause along the way. Hosted by Patricia…

Educating Ray Romano: Nothing Like a Peabody Award to Put Things in Perspective

Ray Romano definitely knows what a George Foster Peabody Award is now. The co-executive producer and co-star of TNT’s "Men of a Certain Age" is the new owner of one of the prestigious golden statuettes, awarded Monday in New York…