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Actor/Environmentalist Ed Begley Jr. Gets New Series on Planet Green

Ed Begley Jr. wll be in 13 more episodes of "Living With Ed," Variety reports. The series has been ordered by Planet Green, which has been airing reruns of the show, which originally was on HGTV. Furthermore,  the channel will…

The Perils of Live Blogging the TV Critics Tour—on an iPhone

TVWeek’s own Chuck Ross gets flummoxed at the TV Critics Association’s summer press tour by a screaming baby,  modern technology, tough competition and Joan Rivers, in his latest must-read blog entry. (Gawd, this part is so embarrassing): —Chuck Ross

AMC Partners With Eight O’Clock Coffee for ‘Mad Men’ Social Media Promos

AMC, along with gourmet coffee bean maker Eight O’Clock Coffee, has come up with three viral marketing and social media applications to promote the new season of "Mad Men," which starts August 16. One will be a trivia game, "Which MadMan…

Mike Fleiss on Why There Are More Bachelor Than Bachelorette Stars: Because Many Men Won’t Compete, Saying Instead, ‘Forget that chick, let’s go to Hooters’

Mike Fleiss, the reality show creator of the Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise on ABC–which had another successful run this summer, culminating with its traditional "After the Rose" special Tuesday night–tells the Los Angeles Times why we’ve seen eight Bachelors but only five Bachelorettes. The reason….

Jackson’s Chef Talks Publicly About Doctor’s Routine of Carrying Oxygen Tanks Out of Jackson’s Room; Investigators Tell AP that Theory is an Anesthetic Caused Jackson Heart to Stop

"With toxicology reports pending, investigators are working under the theory that the powerful anesthetic propofol caused Jackson’s heart to stop, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press," the wire service reports. That’s from a story that focuses primarily on…

How the Silverman NBC Exit Story was First Reported Publicly by….Ryan Seacrest??!!

Though it had been rumored for months that Ben Silverman was going to leave NBC, when the event actually happened, it was first reported not by a professional reporter, but by Ryan Seacrest on his Twitter account. The Los Angeles…

Surprise: Madoff’s First Prison Interview NOT With a TV Outlet

It’s no secret that many of the TV news outlets have been fighting for weeks to land the fist interview with Bernie Madoff, who’s been convicted of running a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. So it came as surprise when it turned…

Video: William Shatner, Oral Poet Extraordinaire, Delivers Sarah Palin’s Farewell Speech on ‘Tonight’ With Conan

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TV Veteran–and New Media Mogul–Barry Diller on the Microsoft-Yahoo Deal

In an earning call, Barry DIller spoke about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal announced today, wherein Yahoo will outsource its search-related advertising platform to Microsoft (which introduced its bing search engine recently). The bottom line: Strong competition to Google is good. Read…

Google Partners with Visible World to Make its Auction Based TV Initiative More Attractive

Google has been pushing its auction-based Google TV initiative for some time now. According to the Wall St. Journal, Google "is teaming up with Visible World Inc., a well-known New York technology company that uses software to create multiple versions of a…