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Fox and Cablevision Reach Deal After Two-Week Blackout
October 31st, 2010
The Fox network was restored to 3 million Cablevision homes late Saturday more than two weeks after the channel was blacked out.
The two companies said they were able to come to an agreement for a new distribution agreement “in…
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Is It Just Me: Does Size Matter on Mike & Molly?
October 19th, 2010
Are there really men the size of Mike (Mike & Molly’s Billy Gardell) on the police force? Do they not have to pass a physical? —Carol Osika, Emerald Isle, N.C.
“Police recruits entering the academy are required to pass a physical and several fitness tests before graduating,” confirms Roderick Drew of the Chicago PD…
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Seven Emmy-Worthy TV Shows Within TV Shows
July 18th, 2010
Filed under: Features
Every year, the Academy of Television Arts and Science hands out hundreds of Emmys in categories that cover every inch of TV minutiae except “Best use of eyebrows by a cable newscaster” and “Best catering.” One major category of meta-TV awesomeness, however, has been unjustly ignored by the Academy: shows within shows.
These fictional blocks of television programming creep up in a variety of situations — a character may work as a TV personality in the narrative, or we may just see characters watching the tube while they’re chilling on couch. They may fill up just 30 seconds of screen time, but shows within shows have to be flawless in order to drive the story and serve their often-comedic purposes. So here’s our attempt to recognize the best TV shows within TV shows.
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Gene Roddenberry’s Son Resurrects Decades-Old Pilot
January 22nd, 2010
- Jan 22, 2010 11:00 AM ET
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Joyce Eng
Gene Roddenberry
A pilot by late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry has been picked up — nearly 40 years after it was originally conceived.
Roddenberry’s son, Rod Roddenberry, will team with Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment to develop The Questor Tapes, a Gene Roddenberry sci-fi pilot from the early 1970s that was never ordered to series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Majel Barrett Roddenberry, “first lady of Star Trek,” dies at 76
“My father always felt that Questor was the one that got away,” Rod Roddenberry said. “He believed that the show had the potential to be bigger than Star Trek.”
Questor focuses on an android with incomplete memory tapes that searches for its creator and the meaning of its existence. The pilot ultimately aired as a TV movie in 1974.
The final frontier: Roddenberrys’ ashes going into space
Gene Roddenberry, who was posthumously inducted in the Academy of TV Arts & Sciences Hall of Fame Wednesday, died in 1991 at age 70. Some of Roddenberry’s ashes were shipped into space in 1997, and his remaining ashes will be launched into space this year, along with those of his wife, Majel Barrett Roddenberry.