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“American Masters: Mel Brooks — Make A Noise”: Review

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“American Masters: Mel Brooks — Make A Noise”: Review

American Masters: Mel Brooks — Make a Noise Monday, May 20 PBS, 9pm ET (PBS programming varies regionally) Of all the anecdotes Mel Brooks shares in his American Masters special, it’s one that takes place back before he ever walked onto a film set that is perhaps the most telling. During his Borscht Belt days, Brooks entertained the Catskills resort crowds by playing drums. Why did he pick the drums, out of any other instrument? Because drums made the most noise. Throughout his many decades in show business, Brooks has been that lovable ham, with a need to entertain that [...]

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Dance Moms Season 3 Tell All Reunion Part 2 recap: For Crying Out Loud!

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Dance Moms Season 3 Tell All Reunion Part 2 recap: For Crying Out Loud!

Welcome back, Dance Moms nation. Did everyone have a nice Mothers Day, even if you didn’t get your own TV special to commemorate it? Are you ready for — or dreading — our two-week sabbatical until Dance Moms starts up again June 4 with what’s looking like a doozy of a summer season? But right now we’ve got one more hour of Dance Moms Season 3 Tell All Reunion (and dance moms in jewel-toned dresses) to get through, so let’s have at it. We begin with a solo Abby once again, and this time JC Superstar Executive Producer wants to talk [...]

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The Rumble on the Rails wrestling on NBC Sports Network

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The Rumble on the Rails wrestling on NBC Sports Network

The Rumble on the Rails on NBC Sports Network and Universal Sports is a live wrestling event featuring national teams from the USA, Russia and Iran competing at Grand Central Terminal in New York City on Wednesday, May 15. Before you get all excited that Nikolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik are going to be there, it’s not that kind of wrestling. It’s a showcase of Olympic wrestling (which is on the verge of being dropped from the Olympics) held by Beat the Streets, an organization which promotes wrestling for New York City’s urban youth. NBC Sports Network will air [...]

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NHL playoffs second round TV schedule

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NHL playoffs second round TV schedule

NHL playoffs second round TV schedule for games on NBC Sports Network, NBC and CNBC. NHL PLAYOFFS SECOND ROUND TV SCHEDULE All times Eastern. *If necessary EASTERN CONFERENCE (1) Pittsburgh Penguins vs. (7) Ottawa Senators Game 1: PIT 4, OTT 1 Game 2: Friday, May 17, Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7:30pm, NBCSN Game 3: Sunday, May 19, Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 7:30pm, NBCSN Game 4: Wednesday, May 22, Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 7:30pm, NBCSN Game 5*: Friday, May 24, Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7:30pm, TBA Game 6*: Sunday, May 26, Pittsburgh at Ottawa, TBA Game 7*: Tuesday, May 28, Ottawa at Pittsburgh, TBA (4) [...]

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How I Met Your Mother recap: “Something New”

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How I Met Your Mother recap: “Something New”

For an episode called “Something New,” How I Met Your Mother resorted to pretty much all its old tricks in its eighth season finale. Except, oh OK, we did get to see the mother, even if Ted hasn’t quite gotten to meet her. It starts a week before Barney and Robin’s wedding as the two of them try to have a nice dinner but instead encounter an obnoxious couple played by Casey Wilson (Happy Endings) and Keegan Michael Key (Key & Peele), who are actually billed as “Obnoxious Woman” and “Obnoxious Man.” They do obnoxious things like demand Barney and [...]

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Discovery premieres first independently produced landmark natural history series, “North America”

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Discovery premieres first independently produced landmark natural history series, “North America”

“We called [North America] the most extreme continent, and we always talked about it being an extreme continent, and every single month there was something else to remind us of why that was true.” — Huw Cordey, North America series producer “By all measurement, [North America] is the most extreme continent on the planet.” — North America executive producer Keith Scholey In separate conversations with Huw Cordey and Keith Scholey, producers of Discovery Channel’s new seven-part natural history series North America, the word “extreme” came up quite a bit. Over the course of three years producing the series, they and [...]

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NBC primetime schedule 2013-14

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NBC primetime schedule 2013-14

NBC has put out its lineup of primetime shows for the upcoming 2013-14 season, including returning series, and eight new dramas and six new comedies. NBC hopes its schedule this upcoming year will be bolstered by its coverage of the Winter Games in February 2014. NEW NBC 2013-14 SERIES About a Boy – Based on the Nick Hornby novel (which was also made into a Hugh Grant film), this midseason comedy stars David Walton as Will Freeman, the ultimate man-child whose life is changed by a needy single mom (Minnie Driver) and her oddly charming 11-year-old son (Benjamin Stockham). The [...]

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FOX primetime schedule 2013-14

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FOX primetime schedule 2013-14

Along with other cool announcements like next summer’s 24: Live Another Day, Kevin Reilly, chairman, entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company, this morning unveiled the FOX primetime slate for the upcoming 2013-14 season. Along with five live-action comedies, FOX will be debuting four dramas, as well as its first event series. Plenty of FOX favorites will also be returning to the schedule next year. NEW FOX SERIES 2013-14 Dads – A new live-action, multi-camera comedy from Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild. Stars Seth Green and Giovanni Ribisi as two successful gaming entrepreneurs and childhood best friends whose lives get [...]

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On Demand DVD New Releases May 13-19

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On Demand DVD New Releases May 13-19

Cloud Atlas is certainly the most ambitious of this week’s titles. With a budget of over $100,000,000, the film is one of the most expensive independent films made to date. Nominated for a Golden Globe award, the film involves cast members playing multiple roles, covering different time periods, races and even sexes, and was shot with two separate but parallel filming units, with unique crews for each. On Demand DVD New Releases May 13-19 Back to 1942 A deadly drought in 1942 takes its toll on central China’s Henan province during the war against Japan. Tim Robbins, Adrien Brody, Daoming Chen (NR, 2:15) [...]

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FOX is bringing back “24″ as 12-episode event series “24: Live Another Day”

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FOX is bringing back “24″ as 12-episode event series “24: Live Another Day”

FOX announced today that its iconic series 24 will have its clock restarted in Summer 2014 with the airing of 24: Live Another Day, a 12-episode event series representing 24 hours. Kiefer Sutherland will return to reprise his role as Jack Bauer from the Emmy-winning 24 series in this upcoming miniseries that FOX says will resume Jack Bauer’s story several years following the events of the final season of 24, which ended in 2010. 24: Live Another Day will reunite Kiefer Sutherland with showrunner Howard Gordon, and, according to a FOX release, “retain the real-time, pulse-pounding, fast-paced format with split [...]

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