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Al Alberts, Singer and TV Host, Is Dead at 87
Mr. Alberts was a founding member of the singing group the Four Aces and a longtime television talent show host in Philadelphia.
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Jan Leighton, Actor Who Played Everyone, Dies at 87
Mr. Leighton, appeared in so many commercials, print advertisements and industrial films as historical figures that he was both ubiquitous and anonymous.
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Leighton Meester
The TV Watch: For Some, a Search for Celebrity Is Worth Any Risk
In totalitarian regimes, some people take huge risks for the freedom to be themselves; in this democracy, some people take huge risks for the freedom to be a celebrity.
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Kate Gosselin
Arts, Briefly: Thanksgiving Parade Draws Viewers for NBC
NBC’s morning broadcast of the “Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade” delivered the highest ratings for that program in three years.
Arts, Briefly: CBS Is Criticized for Blurring of Video
An appearance by the singer Adam Lambert on “The Early Show,” the CBS morning program, on Wednesday has led to further complaints.
Video Game Review | Left 4 Dead 2: Got Zombies? You Need Your Friends
In Left 4 Dead 2, a new zombie game that is similar to its predecessor, your job is simply to survive and kill nearly everything that moves.
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The Game
Television Review | 'Ed Sullivan’s Rock and Roll Classics — the ’60s': That Fuddy-Duddy Guy Really Put the Bomp Ba Bomp in His Variety Show
“Ed Sullivan’s Rock and Roll Classics — the ’60s,” a compilation of performances on the variety show in the 1960s, anchors the seasonal public television pledge drive on Saturday.
Arts, Briefly: Oprah to Film at White House
Her one-hour Christmas special will include an interview with President Barack Obama, her first with him since he took office, Ms. Winfrey announced on her blog.
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Arts, Briefly: CBS Takes First Place
On the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, “Criminal Minds” and “CSI: NY” lifted CBS into first place as the most-watched network in prime time.
Get Aboard, Wise Guy. Next Stop, the Bada Bing.
A “Sopranos” bus tour of New Jersey features sites like Holsten’s Confectionery, the Pizzaland shack and the auto-body shop run by Sal Bonpensiero.
Arts, Briefly: Disney Is Developing ‘High School Musical’ in China
Disney's Chinese film version will be released there next summer, a Disney spokeswoman told Agence France-Presse.
Goodbye, Hello: Resuscitating a Sitcom
On Tuesday, ABC is bringing back the hospital comedy “Scrubs” but relocating it to a medical school, with some original cast members returning as professors.
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Scrubs
Television: Taking on Midlife and All Its Crises
Ray Romano’s new series, the bittersweet “Men of a Certain Age” on TNT, follows three middle-aged buddies as they begin to face their mortality.
Arts, Briefly: Donny Osmond, ‘NCIS’ Are Ratings Winners
According to Nielsen’s estimates, the two-hour “Dancing With the Stars” finale on ABC drew 19.2 million viewers, but CBS won the night overall.
The TV Watch: Community Standard or Double Standard?
The fallout over Adam Lambert’s performance on the American Music Awards is a reminder of TV’s policy on gay men: Do tell, just don’t show.
On ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Health Can Take Back Seat
Some contestants of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” say that dangerous weight-loss techniques are common.
Lou Dobbs Weighs Senate Run, as a Steppingstone
A spokesman for the former anchor Lou Dobbs said he may run against Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey.
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United States of Tara
Arts, Briefly: Dancing to the Top
For the sixth time in seven weeks, ABC earned the most viewers on Monday night as “Dancing With the Stars” drew a season best: 20.5 million from 8 to 9:30 p.m., according to Nielsen’s estimates.
Arts, Briefly: Curtains Are Drawn at the Gosselin House
About 4.3 million viewers watched the final installment of “Jon & Kate Plus 8” on Monday, Nielsen said.
Video Game Review | Borderlands: The Thrill’s in the Gunplay, With Lots of Guns to Play With
With its gritty sense of style and comic-book-inspired art direction, Borderlands by Gearbox Software is one of the finest guilty-pleasure shooter games of recent years.
Television Review | 'Ben 10: Alien Swarm': Teenage Hero Wears His Powers on His Wrist
In making a live-action movie out of a children’s cartoon that exists in large part to sell products, Cartoon Network hasn’t succeeded in creating something that will interest older teenagers, let alone adults.
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Ben 10
Arts, Briefly: Music Awards Strong, but CBS Is Stronger
The American Music Awards drew its largest audience in seven years on Sunday as ABC attracted 14.2 million viewers, more than 2 million better than last year.
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Television Review | 'Frontline: The Card Game': In Love Affair With Credit, It’s Business as Usual
“The Card Game,” a new “Frontline” report having its premiere on Tuesday on PBS, explores the questionable practices of the American credit card industry.
Television Review | 'Apollo Wives': The Women Left on Earth When Space Called Men
“Apollo Wives,” a breezy documentary being shown Tuesday on BBC America, gives the spouses of the Apollo astronauts a chance to talk about the space program as they saw it.
White House Pushes Science and Math Education
The plan will enlist companies and nonprofits, including “Sesame Street,” to spend money and time to encourage students to pursue science, technology, engineering and math.
Looking for a Leader in the Post-Oprah Landscape
A wide range of contenders, some of them linked to Oprah Winfrey herself, will vie for the dominant role in daytime.
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Oprah Winfrey
Jay Leno
Rachael Ray
Ellen DeGeneres
The Media Equation: A Triumph of Avoiding the Traps
Oprah Winfrey’s gut intuition, about knowing when to say no and when it is time to go, is worth studying at every business school in the country.
Television Review | 'The Lost JFK Tapes': In Small Details, a Day That Stunned the Nation
This program creates a moment-by-moment account of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy from numerous film and photographic sources.
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John Forsythe
National Geographic Channel
Arts, Briefly: Dreamworks Looks ‘Under the Dome’
Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television are teaming up with the author Stephen King to produce a limited series for cable based on Mr. King’s latest novel, “Under the Dome,” Variety reported.
Television Review | 'Find My Family': Reuniting Lost Relations, Leaving Time for Tears
Based on the first episode of “Find My Family,” soul means tears.
Let’s Take It Outside
Unlike rival small-claims shows, “Street Court” goes right to the dispute’s heart, bathroom or front lawn.
Green Inc. Column: New Voices on Climate Change
Most television weather presenters have studiously avoided using their slots to discuss global warming. But that may be changing.
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United States of Tara
Paul Wendkos, Director of ‘Gidget’ Surfer Movies, Is Dead at 84
Mr. Wendkos was a movie and television director best known for the frothy surfer film “Gidget,” but whose other productions ranged from thrillers to historical dramas.
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Paul Rudd
Sunday Routine | Seth Meyers: Mostly, It’s About Recovering From ‘S.N.L.’
The “Saturday Night Live” fixture starts slowly and builds toward the palate-cleansing act of doing some improvisational comedy.
The TV Watch: The Fine Art of Quitting While She’s Ahead
It’s a measure of Oprah Winfrey’s outsize stature that the news that she would shut down “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in September 2011 buckled the media world.
Music Review | Melinda Doolittle: A Survivor of ‘Idol’ With Heart
The former “American Idol” contestant Melinda Doolittle performed on Thursday evening at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
Arts, Briefly: Bill Moyers to Leave Weekly Television
The PBS mainstay Bill Moyers said he was retiring from weekly television and would end his Friday night public affairs show, “Bill Moyers Journal,” on April 30, 2010.
Arts, Briefly: A ‘Flash’ in the Pan?
Once one of the brightest hopes of the new fall schedule, the ABC series “FlashForward” declined to some of its lowest ratings of the year on Thursday night.
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ABC
Bill Moyers to End His Run on Weekly Television
Bill Moyers will end his Friday night public affairs show "Bill Moyers Journal" on April 30, 2010.
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Bill Moyers
Serving Up Rockers, Out of Their Shells
A new cooking show on the Independent Film Channel combines invites musicians into the kitchen.
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Independent Film Channel
Familiar Faces Chasing Perps and Plots
Steven Seagal and Jesse Ventura each have a taste of reality, to varying degrees, on two new programs coming to cable.
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Steven Seagal
Jesse Csincsak
Film: Opening Wide His (Repaired) Heart
After heart surgery, the comedian Robin Williams has become more introspective and more grateful for what he has.
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Robin Williams
A Daytime Network Franchise Bets on Her Future With Cable
The media mogul Oprah Winfrey will end her daytime talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” in 2011 as she prepares to start a cable channel of her own.
Google to Caption YouTube Videos
The move is the first major step toward making millions of videos accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people.
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Arts, Briefly: Crime Pays for CBS
CBS finished first in the ratings on Wednesday with a crime-filled lineup.
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Nickelodeon’s Stepchild, Eager for More Love
As the musical children’s show “Yo Gabba Gabba!” continues to take significant steps into mainstream popular culture, its producers crave more support from its network.
Arts, Briefly: Sarah Palin Generates High Ratings for ‘Oprah’
Sarah Palin delivered the highest audience in two years to “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on Monday.
Arts, Briefly: Even With Locklear, ‘Melrose’ Lacks Bloom
The return of Heather Locklear to “Melrose Place” did little to improve that CW drama’s ratings.
Television Review | 'Terror in Mumbai': Using Tapes and a Timeline to Trace the Mumbai Massacre
“Terror in Mumbai,” a new HBO documentary having its premiere on Thursday, uses interviews, videos and intercepted calls to untangle the attacks in that Indian city last November.
Arts, Briefly: New ‘Oprah’ Spinoff for Interior Designer
Oprah Winfrey’s production company is proposing a daytime talk show starring Nate Berkus, an interior designer and a regular on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
