'Teen Mom 2's' Jenelle Evans officially off
probation

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After being forced to deal with a variety of legal issues for most of the past 18 months, there is finally some good news coming for "Teen Mom 2" star Jenelle Evans: she no longer has to deal...

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5-year-old wants to kill Justin Bieber: yes, TLC
can drag Toddlers & Tiaras lower

post from reality blurred on 25 April 2012 11:25:20 AM. © reality blurred

TLC has released a clip teasing tonight's episode of Toddlers and Tiaras in which a five-year-old says she wants to kill Justin Bieber. Yes, the show that gave us a mother doping her kid up has found a new low. In the clip, which is below, 5-year-old Bridgett says she wants to be an exterminator when she's an adult. That's on the disturbing/amusing line as she tells us, "I like to kill the worms; I... keep reading »

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DEATH Comes To 'Grey's Anatomy'

post from TV on HuffingtonPost.com on 25 April 2012 11:24:31 AM. © TV on HuffingtonPost.com

The grim reaper is heading to Seattle Grace. Series creator Shonda Rhimes told TV Guide Magazine a beloved character will die on the "Grey's Anatomy" Season 8 finale. And while she was at it, Rhimes confirmed it's a season finale, not a series finale.

"A lot of our writers were crying, which is a very rare thing," Rhimes said. "There's some really shocking, horrible moments."

Could it be Derek (Patrick Dempsey) or Meredith (Ellen Pompeo)? Contracts for both stars are up at the end of Season 8 and both Pompeo and Dempsey have dropped hints about their futures on "Grey's."

HuffPost TV was on the set of "Grey's Anatomy" in March and discussed the possibility of the show continuing to Season 10. "A lot of people say that," Pompeo said. "Personally I think that sounds a bit arrogant ... to assume that people will tune in for 10 years," Pompeo said. "[But] for as long as we have them tuning in, I'm very grateful to them for that."

In March, Rhimes said she was hopeful they'd return, but was preparing for a possible exodus. "Our goal is to have Derek and Meredith move in to the completed dream house," she told TV Guide Magazine in March. "And our residents will be interviewing for jobs all around the country." However, now she won't comment on whether or not Pompeo and/or Dempsey will return to "Grey's Anatomy," saying it won't be clear until the Season 9 premiere.

"We sort of end with our breaths held," she said. "It's a great moment. We were joking in the writers' room that if this was the series finale we'd be good to go. But we've been told very clearly it's not."

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Time 100 gala: Stephen Colbert, 'Saturday Night
Live' stars appear (photos)

post from Matt Carter's feed on 25 April 2012 11:20:15 AM. © Matt Carter's feed

On Tuesday night, Time Magazine held ther annual event higlighting some of their 100 Most Influential People, and as per usual there were a good many celebrities who managed to turn up for an appearance.Stephen Colbert has always shown...

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Biggest Loser - Fat (Second) Chance

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Season 13, Episode 17: Fifteen contestants return to campus to compete for a spot in the finals!

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Maureen Ryan: 'Girls' Isn't Racist, Television Is

post from TV on HuffingtonPost.com on 25 April 2012 11:04:50 AM. © TV on HuffingtonPost.com

You know what I would really love to see?

I'd love to see a huge outcry when, next fall, the broadcast networks unveil schedules that are full of TV shows that are full of white characters and which will be, for the most part, created and run by men.

You know what I'd love to see?

I'd love to see a mass campaign catch fire, one in which thousands of TV viewers bombard the heads of the broadcast networks and cable networks, asking those executives why they don't commission more shows from women and people of color.

I've written about the sexism in the TV industry many times. By any measure, the television industry is woefully behind the times and shockingly unwilling to change. According to statistics from the Writers Guild of America, women have never exceeded 28 percent of working writers, and according to statistics from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, the representation of women in television has actually dropped from 35 percent in the 2006-2007 season to 15 percent in 2010-2011. Also according to the WGA, writers of color have faced the most relentless bias of all: They've never been more than 10 percent of the working writers in the TV industry.

As many TV writers pointed out in the piece I wrote about the industry's lack of progress last September, women and people of color, who are often treated as the tokens they usually are, are typically the junior members of a writing staff, hardly able to challenge those around them and push for the kind of stories that would reflect their lives and worldviews more accurately. There are precious few female showrunners and showrunners of color, and that's just wrong for any number of reasons.

You know what I would love to see? My colleagues in the media writing about these matters regularly.

There are a few exceptions (Alyssa Rosenberg is always worth reading on these topics), but most of the people who write about TV just trudge along with our eyes focused on the new shows coming down the pike, or on the buzzed-about shows, or on the critical favorites that we can't stop jabbering about. We don't often enough lift our eyes from the day-to-day grind long enough to take a look at the bigger picture. We rarely contemplate, let alone write about, the fact that most of scripted television reflects the worldview of a pretty small slice of humanity.

It's very rare to find voices in the media who regularly talk about the documented sexism and the racism of the TV industry as a whole. But you can't swing a cat without hitting another think piece about the lack of diversity on "Girls."

Why are there so many stories about this one show on HBO, of which we've seen exactly two episodes? Where are all the pieces taking television studios and networks to task for commissioning shows that have, for the most part, been created by and will be run by middle-aged, upper-middle-class, heterosexual white men? Standard caveat: I have nothing against middle-aged, upper-middle-class, heterosexual men (I'm married to one, after all), but don't television executives -- or those in the media -- ever stop to think that viewers grow ever more weary of the repetitve tales that tend to result from repeatedly going to this particular well?

Where are the think pieces taking networks to task for the millionth procedural about a troubled male cop or the millionth comedy about a guy who has problems with women? Why are we holding Lena Dunham's feet to the fire, instead of the heads of networks and studios? That troubles me, not least because it's easier (and lazier) to attack a 25-year-old woman who's just starting out than to attack the men twice her age who actually control the industry.

I am not going to wade too far into the fine points of the debate about "Girls" and race, which has been covered to death at this point. The short version of my opinion: Sure, "Girls" could use more non-white faces, and if the show gets additional seasons, I hope that Dunham finds ways to both hone her vision and to skilfully incorporate the undeniable diversity of any bohemian enclave.

Other than that, I have to say that I'm absolutely astonished that, of all shows, this is the one that is being attacked for being too white. I could list the shows on television with all-white casts, but then we'd be here all day. If I threw a roster of the shows that are all white but feature the occasional token non-white person, we'd be here well into the evening.

We are taking "Girls" to task, but not the dozens of other shows on television that do the same exact thing? I understand that "Girls" carries the expectations and dreams of a certain segment of the audience, some of whom want their reality reflected. I really do get that.

But can I just say that "Girls" adds greatly to television's diversity by reflecting a worldview not often seen on the small screen?

This is a show in which a particular female point of view is not filtered or adulterated or otherwise bastardized. It's not a show in which female characters are neutered, cute-sified or created to please male viewers. As I said in my review, part of what makes it so refreshing is that it isn't editing itself or censoring itself in order to avoid offending any particular audience segment. The specificity of the show's female point of view is part of what makes it a good show, and that's also what makes it as rare as a nuanced, non-white recurring character on "The Sopranos."

I'll be honest, I am tired of "Girls" taking brunt of the criticism for a massive failure on the part of the television industry as a whole, especially given that it's doing something that very few other shows on television do. And I'm really surprised that nobody seems willing to recognize that this show is presenting a voice and a viewpoint that is not the norm on television. Shouldn't we be celebrating that, at least a little bit?

In closing, I entirely agree with Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic, who wrote a great essay about the "Girls" situation:

"It is not so wrong to craft an exclusively white world -- certainly a significant portion of America lives in one. What is wrong is for power-brokers to pretend that no other worlds exists. Across the country there are black writers and black directors toiling to bring those worlds to the screen. If HBO does not see fit to have a relationship with those writers, then those of us concerned should assess our relationship with HBO."Â

But it's not just HBO. It's TV.

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House - Dream a Little Dream

post from Television Without Pity on 25 April 2012 11:00:00 AM. © Television Without Pity

Body and Soul: Park has sexy dreams about Chase, and an eight-year-old has unsexy dreams about being strangled by old people.

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Buzz Lines: What's Your Favorite Quote From Jaws

Steven Spielberg's 1975 classic Jaws stands alone as the mother of all Summer blockbusters. There's surf, sand, sun, and, of course, a mega-sized great white shark. 37 years after its original run, Universal is finally releasing the flick on Blu-ray in August. Let's celebrate by citing our favorite lines, though I don't think we're gonna be able to fit Quint's epic U.S.S. Indianapolis monologue into one bullet. What are your favorite quotes from Jaws?

"You're gonna need a bigger boat." - Brody
"Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women " - Quint
"That's some bad hat, Harry." - Brody

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We Shine the Spotlight on Rachel G. Fox

For such a young actress, Rachel G. Fox is a well-known face to television viewers. Vividly[...]

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Primetime Highlights - Apr 25 - 'Don't Trust The
B', 'Revenge', 'South Park'

For Wednesday, April 25th 2012 LA TV Insider Examiner recommends: Best Friends Forever (NBC, 8:30pm) – “Single and Lovin’ It” – Jessica (Jessica St. Clair) gets back into the dating game after receiving a...

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