News: CBC renews The Ron James Show, picks up Men
with Brooms and Insecurity

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The Hollywood Reporter’s Etan Vlessing reports that The Ron James Show has been renewed for a second season. CBC has also greenlit two new sitcoms, Men with Brooms and Insecurity.Men with Brooms is based on the 2002 Paul Gross film, which[...]

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Taking the Stage: It's like Fame (but not
everyone's talented)

post from TVgasm Recaps on 05 February 2010 10:00:00 PM. © TVgasm Recaps

***Please welcome our newest recapper, Real Black Sheep! On this weeks episode of taking the stage, we meet the new kids, re-unite with our old enemies, and learn that even MTV can't rig high school talent shows!...

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TV Ratings: Thursday February 4, 2010

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Source: MediaWeek, Ratings: in millionsTimeNetworkShowRating18-498PMFOXBones11.933.2/10CBSSurviving[...]

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Tired of Just Looking at the Cast of 'Jersey
Shore' Now You Can Look Like Them!

post from TV Squad on 05 February 2010 09:27:00 PM. © TV Squad

Oh, American parents. Will their television ever give them a break? First, they worried about their kids watching seedy reality shows like 'Jersey Shore' and now they have to worry about something far worse: their kids LOOKING like they are from 'Jersey Shore'.

Apparently, the "guido" heavy reality show has inspired its own style and not just among groups like Italian Americans or women bashing douchebags. Everyone is catching on to the 'Jersey Shore' look.

Here are some of the tell-tale signs that your kids might be falling into the "Jersey" crowd: Ed Hardy glittering shirts, ab revealing tops, hair that defies all known laws of physics and can even stop bullets. If your child exhibits any of these symptoms, please seek professional help immediately, starting with your barber.

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Soup is Good Food

post from Too Much Free Time on 05 February 2010 09:05:32 PM. © Too Much Free Time

This week’s Project Runway was sponsored by Campbell’s Soup. It was a fun challenge, with the American Heart Association and all, but the dresses on the most part were underwhelming, IMO. See all the looks here.

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THE DANNY THOMAS SPECIAL

post from INNER TOOB on 05 February 2010 08:35:00 PM. © INNER TOOB

"Danny Thomas?
WHAT is a Danny Thomas?"
Kolac
'The Dick Van Dyke Show'
I always like finding TV characters reading actual magazines from the real world because it helps lock in the time period for that episode. (Unless of course the scene takes place in the dentist's office - who knows how long those magazines have been there?)

Anyway, I was watching an old episode of 'Make Room For Daddy' and there was Danny Williams reading "Look" magazine, so I sprang into action. ("Sprang" being a matter of perspective for one so sedentary.)

Learning first that "The Visiting Englishman" was broadcast in 1953, I googled for 1953 "Look" covers. (What also helped in the search of course was the subject of the cover. Who couldn't recognize Marilyn Monroe?)

So it turned out to easy enough to find, but that's when the real Toobworld fun began.

Check out the cover: One of the other stories in that issue was a profile of Danny Thomas, the comic who plays Danny Williams.

This is a classic in-joke that I'll be sending along to David Bianculli, who collects them. But for the televisiology of Toobworld, it's something more.

As with a lot of real life actors, we know their televersions exist in Toobworld alongside the characters they play. Their appearances on talk shows and game shows guarantee that. (Although we don't like to rely on those for Toobworld purposes unless the game show or talk show figures into a fictional plot. Like when George Wendt and Corbin Bernsen did the 'Tonight' show on an episode of 'Seinfeld', or when Betty White and Allen Ludden played 'Password' with 'The Odd Couple'.) We know that Danny Thomas has a bona-fide televersion without the crutch of game shows and talk shows (despite my fondness for his final appearance on the 'Tonight' show, doing the spit take with fellow guest Macauley Culkin), because of his appearances as himself in several shows:

"That Girl"
- Those Friars (1971)

"The Lucy Show"
- Lucy Helps Danny Thomas (1965)

"The Joey Bishop Show"
- Weekend in the Mountains (1964)

"The Jack Benny Program"
- Jack Goes to Nightclub (1959)
- Johnnie Ray Show (1953)
In "It May Look Like A Walnut!", an episode of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show', Danny Thomas appeared in Rob Petrie's dream as Kolac, leader of the Twiloites. Everyone remarked on the similarity of appearance between Kolac and Danny Thomas, so even Rob's sub-conscious acknowledged that Danny Thomas existed in the TV Universe.

Sometimes the TV characters got to meet the actors who played them: Mork and Robin Williams, Moesha and Brandy Norwood, and Lucille Carter and Lucille Ball. But in this case, Danny Williams only got to read about Danny Thomas. (He was probably checking out the competition. After all, how many big-nosed Lebanese comics named Danny were playing the clubs at that time?)

BCnU!

PS:
I started writing up this piece because I stumbled on a cache of 'Make Room For Daddy' episodes at VintageTV4U. It wasn't until I was finishing it up on Friday morning that I found out that today, February 6, marks the 19th anniversary of his death.

So in the end, this became a Hat Squad memorial to a very funny and a very good man......

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Keith Olbermann Denies that 'Countdown' is Going
Down

post from TV Squad on 05 February 2010 08:35:00 PM. © TV Squad

Fox and MSNBC have been attacking each other with more frequency (but probably less violently) than the Black Spy and the White Spy, and one of their main forms of ammunition have been their respective ratings.

So naturally 'Countdown', hosted by the rather large (both in stature and physical size) talking head Keith Olbermann, had to respond to a report that appeared in the New York Post's "Page Six" column claiming that his show is one baboon hair away from cancellation hell.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Friday TV Quiz: Who Said That Line Quiz

It's officially the weekend, which means it's time to kick things off with my weekly quiz! Were you paying attention to your favorite shows?

Question 1 of 8"May the best stalker win."

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HAPPY BURRTHDAY: GOT MILK

A little convergence of the return of 'Lost' with today's salute to Aaron Burr on his birthday......

With the sixth season premiere of 'Lost', we saw the return of the character Neil aka "Frogurt". He sat between Boon Carlysle and John Locke on Flight 815 in the new reality created by the detonation of the Jughead bomb. We saw him meet his death in the original timeline when a flaming arrow pierced his chest. And he was in one chapter of the online webisodes known collectively as "The Missing Pieces". So we may seen his life continue on 'Lost' now, in an alternate reality. But what of his life in the main Toobworld before he boarded Flight 815 in Australia?

I think we've seen an earlier example of his life gone wrong......

video details and more

BCnU!

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new and noteworthy tv: 2/8-2/14

Well the Olympics are kicking off and as always I have to decide how much I want to watch and how much I can take. Noted below are NBC events but there’re plenty of cable selections like msnbc, CNBC, and USA if you want to catch more triumphs, defeats, and heartwarming stories from the cold.MondayCelebrity [...]

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