ABDC Taping Today!

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'Dancing with the Stars': Maksim Chmerkovskiy
thankful to avoid bottom two

post from Matt Carter's feed on 21 April 2012 01:11:45 PM. © Matt Carter's feed

Maksim Chmerkovskiy has already made it rather clear that he is not a particularly big fan of the "dance deul" twist on "Dancing with the Stars," primary because it forces the results show into something that...

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The Sunday Night TV Dilemma...

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When I was a kid, Sunday nights were dreaded in my household. They were the nights I had to cram for Monday's tests, sure, but mostly I had a few hours before an early bedtime to mentally prepare myself for the week of school ahead. I never liked going to class, even in elementary school. Kids learn at different rates, and I always felt like I would be better suited to just read the material

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'House' series finale: Amber Tamblyn confirms
return as Masters

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While the following is certainly not going to serve as good news for those hoping that either Lisa Edelstein or Jennifer Morrison will be returning to "House" for the series finale, the show is at least choosing to...

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TV Ratings: 'The Finder' Rebounds, 'Grimm' Dips

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ABC and NBC tied overall, even as Fox's quirky procedural regained footing after last week's series low.

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TV ratings: Fox's 'Fringe' and 'The Finder' rise;
'Supernatural' at series low

post from Matt Carter's feed on 21 April 2012 12:09:15 PM. © Matt Carter's feed

The ratings struggles for primetime network TV extended to the just-released ratings for April 20, even though at least one network in Fox received some sort of reprieve.Both "The Finder" (with a 1.2 rating in...

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The Rovers calls Time on Betty

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This is Betty Williams weekend on the blog and rightly so. We all want to pay tribute to the[...]

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus' 'Veep' Prep: C-SPAN

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NEW YORK -- One of the ways Julia Louis-Dreyfus prepared for her role as Vice President Selina Meyer in the new HBO comedy "Veep" was to study how to answer questions in a public setting by not really answering them.

She watched a lot of C-SPAN.

"Some politicians are better at it than others," she said. "It's a performance. Particularly these days. People don't really answer questions. In this culture of sound bites and 24-hour news ... people are careful about how they speak."

Out of the public eye, the fictional vice president feels free to speak. A lot. The central theme of the comedy, created by Armando Iannucci and debuting Sunday at 10 p.m., is letting people within the Washington power structure say what they're really thinking, in all its cynical glory.

In one episode, Meyer is encouraged to circulate at a reception, only to find that most of the people had already left – one of the many little indignities a vice president faces every day.

"How do I mingle with so few people?" she complains to her staff. "Did Simon mingle with Garfunkel?"

Louis-Dreyfus has a strong track record with the last characters she has chosen to portray on television, winning Emmys as Elaine in "Seinfeld" and the "old" Christine in "The New Adventures of Old Christine." That alone makes Selina Meyer worthy of notice.

The actress grew up in the Washington area, familiar with the political power structure, and sought out the script when she heard about the Meyer role. She thought it would be fascinating to play a character so close to power yet ultimately powerless. The show's tag line, on all the posters, is, "the buck stops somewhere near here."

"I love my character," she said. "I love her narcissism, I love her rage, I love her ambition and I love the fact that she's a political animal."

"Veep" is essentially a non-political show about a political world, a workplace comedy where the work is supposedly looking out for the nation's interests. You never learn Meyer's political party. You'll never see the president, although a running gag whenever Meyer returns to the office is asking the receptionist, "Did the president call?"

The show revels, maybe a bit too much, in the freedoms afforded by pay cable, with plenty of salty language and situations. Safe to say no episode of "The West Wing" ended with the vice president stricken with diarrhea and carried out of a frozen yogurt shop to her limousine.

Everything is a political calculation. When Meyer considers getting a dog, an aide says, "maybe we should get a rescue dog. It will play great." Meyer mulls whether to contact the National Weather Service to remove "Selina" from next year's list of hurricane names. Even the frozen yogurt flavor is debated.

Louis-Dreyfus spoke with three vice presidents to research her role, along with aides and journalists. She declines to say if anything specific in the show comes from a real vice presidential experience.

"I don't want anyone to think it's a parody of a specific person," she said, "and I also want to keep the lines of communication open.

"No kidding," she said. "I went to these people with questions, not about policy or decisions. My questions were much more personal and humanistic: What is it like to have this coterie of Secret Service with you at all times? Do you at a certain point not notice them anymore? Do they laugh at your jokes? If you're having a private conversation with somebody in your family and the Secret Service is there, does that factor in your conversation, their presence? Stuff like that."

She's made a single, eight-episode season of "Veep," and hopes to make several more.

"Do you like to laugh?" she said. "Because you might get a chuckle out of it. You'll see Washington portrayed in a way that it's never been portrayed before. I know there's nothing else like this on television anymore. It's fun. It's fresh."

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David Bauder is on email at dbauder(at)ap.org or Twitter (at)dbauder.

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Former 'Idol' Winner Launches Vegas Show

LAS VEGAS -- "American Idol" Season 5 winner Taylor Hicks is getting his own short-term show on the Las Vegas Strip.

Casino officials announced the Alabama native will headline an eight-week show at Bally's Las Vegas beginning June 26.

The singer's show in Las Vegas is a return to where his winning run began in 2005. Hicks had been in New Orleans the night before Hurricane Katrina struck and was given a free airplane voucher when his flight was cancelled.

He used the voucher to fly to Las Vegas, where he auditioned for "American Idol" and ultimately won over viewers with his renditions of southern soul, R&B, country and blues songs.

He's the first "American Idol" winner or finalist to secure a Las Vegas residency.

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Bill Maher: Republicans Are At War With Common
Sense

Pink slime: it's what's for dinner.

On Friday's "Real Time," Bill Maher blasted Republicans for being "at war with common sense," for not only refusing to admit that pink slime in our meat is bad, but also going so far as to visit a pink slime factory and give it a taste.

Maher made the further point that political divisiveness has reached such a fever pitch, that now anything a liberal says, "no matter how sensible, is automatically evil," as far as the right is concerned.

Watch the clip above and let us know what you think in the comments. Would you cook up some good, ol' American pink slime for your family?

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