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Five Amazing, Ridiculous Soap Opera Plots

The Taste Debuts Tomorrow with Judges Bourdain, Ludo, Nigella Lawson Brian Malarkey

When a chef sees something he likes, he inevitably wants to make it, but better and with his own twist. Perhaps that was the rationale behind culinary luminaries like L.A. favorite Ludo Lefebvre and Anthony Bourdain of Travel Channel fame, hitching their wagons to The Taste, a new reality competitio ... More >>

Why Is Everyone So Pissed About the EDM Reality Show?

As the Hollywood-based casting guru behind Jersey Shore and A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, Doron Ofir knows how the lowbrow culture game is played. But even the man who gave the world Snooki might have been caught off-guard by the outrage over one of his latest projects: a competitive EDM reality ... More >>

The Big Bang Theory of Product Advertising: In the Cereal Aisle, Dudes Rule

Last week the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory offered a spot-on observation about something funky in the world of cereal. As the brainiac crew of scientists settled into breakfast, astrophysicist Raj (played by Kunal Nayyar) began to rattle off the names of cereal mascots like Tony the Tiger, Toucan ... More >>

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Doug Stanhope

5. I Don't Know Dick Bob Wiltfong combs through love letters by some guy named Dick. The Improv, Sat., Dec. 1, 6 p.m.

Fabio Viviani on Life After Top Chef Why "Success Is Personal"

See also: Top Chef Tour: Richard Blais vs. Fabio Viviani at Hollywood & Highland See also: Top Chef Masters Recap: "Do You Want to Be Comforted, or Do You Want to Be Thrilled?" It's 10:00 a.m., and chef Fabio Viviani is eating cereal with chocolate milk. "Whole grain Cheerios, because fiber is good ... More >>

'Bachelor' Producers Who Met on Set Are Getting Married (and Chris Harrison's Officiating)

This is too perfect. According to Glamour Magazine's wedding blog, two producers who met and courted each other while filming ABC's hit romance series The Bachelor (and The Bachelorette) are getting married in California this summer. And Chris Harrison, career goob behind the tearful interviews and ... More >>

Barry Rothbart

The Daily Show on the Park Slope Food Co-op Monday Night's Vote: The Hummus Shall Remain

It is classic Daily Show. An intrepid Christiane Amanpour type diving into a roiling human rights stew. A few foils setting themselves up for easy ridicule with every utterance. A righteous skewering of extremely small-scale activism-gone-absurd in the land of $1,000 strollers. Samantha Bee brin ... More >>

The Nerdist Writers Panel

Food Network Update: Record Ratings in January Trisha Yearwood is Getting Her Own Show

Hulu​Thanks to gems like Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, the Food Network reported the highest ratings in the network's history in January. Overall, the network was ranked seventh in cable primetime television, and their viewership was 40 percent higher than one year ago. Celebrity Cook ... More >>

Ben Flajnik: Winemaker First, TV's The Bachelor Second

Sonoma MagazineIn the vineyard with The Bachelor and partners​Most people dream of quitting their day job to be on TV. ABC's The Bachelor Ben Flajnik says his reality star turn is a means to an end: His heart is in winemaking. (He auditioned for The Bachelorette originally as a way to pursue ... More >>

Jay Leno's Sikh-Temple-as-Mitt-Romney's-Summer-House Joke Enrages Some in Indian Religious Community

Oh no he didn't. Jay Leno is in hot water this week after a quip about Mitt Romney's summer house was accompanied by a photo of the Sikhs' sacred Golden Temple in India, a grand palace indeed. Romney's real summer home, or at least one of them, is right here in Southern California, and isn't half ... More >>

Angel City Eats: Where Joe Friday Kim Kardashian Meet Over Donuts This Weekend

jgarbeeA Gumdrop Sculpture In Progress​Beginning this weekend at Gallery KM, Joe Friday ("Dragnet") gets to spend the next six weeks with Kim Kardashian. We're sure that Mr. Friday is thrilled. At least there will be plenty of yin-yang marshmallows and food-inspired sculptures on hand. The e ... More >>

An Evening with The League

Beavis and Butt-Head Returns to MTV October 27: Here's Our Top Ten Music Video Moments From the Old Show

Get More: Beavis and Butt-Head, MTV Shows It's official: The Beavis and Butt-Head re-boot now has a premiere date on MTV: Thursday, October 27th at 10PM. Exciting for fans, but will it be as edgy as it once was? When it debuted in 1993 Beavis and Butt-Head displayed a pathological lack of compass ... More >>

UPDATE: How to Get Tickets for Prince's Los Angeles Residency!

​ [UPDATE: 4/11/11 -- Here are more details on how to get tickets for Prince's LA residency:] Will the internet crash tomorrow morning? We just received a press release announcing the first three dates up for grabs of Prince's "21 Nite Stand" in L.A.: In an effort to make the show affordab ... More >>

IDIOTS ON PARADE!

Surprise: Six Of 10 Highest-Earning Reality-TV Stars Are Based In Los Angeles

The $6 million talent​Not that we didn't know this already. Or that we're very proud of it, in the end. But for better or worse, the Daily Beast has compiled a list the top 10 reality-TV earners, and over half are living (at least part-time) right here in the entertainment capital of the worl ... More >>

Are NFL's Chargers Coming To L.A? Rumors Abound That Staples Center Owner Phil Anschutz Has Taken A Stake In The San Diego Team

Los Angeles Chargers?​Updated with Earvin "Magic" Johnson's comments on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. First posted at 11:32 p.m. Tuesday. Laker legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson announced on Jimmy Kimmel Live! early Wednesday that he's teamed up with the Anschutz Entertainment Group to bring an NFL team t ... More >>

Have Fondant, Will Travel: Ace of Cakes Canceled

The Food Network announced that Ace of Cakes, the reality show that followed Duff Goldman and the staff of his Baltimore bakery, Charm City Cakes, has been canceled. Ace of Cakes will begin its 10th -- and final season -- this January. The show began in 2006. As Goldman wrote on his Charm City Ca ... More >>

Will You Watch 'Conan' At 11 Tonight, Or Stick With Jon Stewart?

Pulse2Back up off my slot, Stewart​All the bleeding gingerhearts on Team Coco finally lay down their arms tonight. After 10 months following "The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour," Conan O'Brien fans will gather J.Bieb-style outside the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, w ... More >>

And the Winner Is...The Television Networks!

Bob Newhart's 50th Anniversary in Show Business

UPDATE: Was the "Katy Perry's Jiggling Boobies on Sesame Street" Scandal a Publicity Stunt for Youtube?

Sesame Street/Youtube Conspiracy?​[UPDATE: We're gonna play a little Oliver Stone here, so bear with us. - A couple of days ago a video "preview" of Katy Perry's jiggling boobies' appearance on Sesame Street was posted all over the web. - Gawker commenters were riled up into sanctimonious outr ... More >>

Top ChefUpdate: Season 7 Winner, Season 8 Rumors Top Chef: Just Desserts

BravoTop Chef: Season 7 Winner Kevin Sbraga​ Wednesday night on the Top Chef Singapore-based finale, host Padma Lakshmi announced 31-year-old chef and New Jersey native Kevin Sbraga winner of the cooking competition's seventh season, edging out New York-based contestants Angelo Sosa and Ed Co ... More >>

Larry King Pulls The Plug On 'Larry King Live,' Says He'll Still Host Specials

​Larry King, the 76-year-old talk show host who's been smeared by critics over ratings and poked fun of by comics for his age, stated Tuesday that he's calling it quits. The Los Angeles-based Larry King Live show has been on the air for 25 years. At the beginning of Tuesday's program, he mad ... More >>

Top 10 Fictional T.V. Food and Drink

Previously, we gave you our Top 10 Fictional Movie Food and Drink list. Now we're taking on the T.V. version. Not surprisingly, there were a lot of options to choose from and some of you, we're sure, will feel that a few of your favorites are missing (feel free to let us know). So with apologies in ... More >>

The Cooking Channel: More Options For Your 24-Hour Food Cycle

If you like your food on your television screen as much as you like it on your plate, you're in luck. Debuting Memorial Day, May 31st, the Cooking Channel will provide non-stop food television, featuring new shows by Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse and Rachael Ray. If this sounds a whole lot like another ... More >>

Today in "Man Bites Dog" News: Simon Cowell Calls Rage Against The Machine Fans "Stupid" and "Cynical"

Young, strapping, sweaty Morello action​Rolling Stone reports that The Nighwatchman himself, Tom Morello, has endorsed his UK fans' attempt to make Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name" (their incendiary 1992 single) the number one song in the country for Christmas week. A little b ... More >>

Why the Comcast/GE/NBCU Deal May Harm Consumers

Does Big Media = Behemoth Media = Bad Media?

Balloon Boy Story Has Wings

In 1987 we had Baby Jessica, an 18-month-old who fell into a Texas well and remained stuck there between October 14 and 16. Her ordeal provided daily fodder for the relatively new 24-hour cycle of cable news. She was a sensation for days and weeks afterward, and she even inspired a television movie. ... More >>

'All My Children' Moves to Glassell Park

Glassell Park is about to turn into Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, as ABC's long-running soap opera All My Children is about to ABC​move from its New York studio to facilities in the Los Angeles neighborhood. ABC TV News reports that the move will occur in December, followed by shooting in the we ... More >>

Life is Good for Seacrest, MGM, Letterman and WME

But for Conan? Not So Much.

Summer Movies: Villains and Heroes, Robots and Mad Men

Secret plot for Wall Street 2, huge tracking for Transformers 2

Oprah Free Chicken Coupon Chaos: The Backlash, The Rain Check, The Reckoning

Poultry pandemoniumAs our nation's saga of poultry pandemonium continues, this just in: KFC locations to hand out chicken rain checks to poor disgruntled saps who were denied free grilled fowl despite their original Oprah-website-issued free chicken coupons. Confusion reigns in the Oprah free chicke ... More >>

Preschool Confidential

Season two of seminal kids’ show Yo Gabba Gabba! has arrived. DJ Lance Rock and others attempt to explain its allure

Jeff Lewis: The (Nanny) Camera Hates Him

Getting wiggy with the star of Flipping Out

Big Gives

Some philanthr-Oprah

ELLEN'S GAY

Two frosted haired ladies walk stiffly through the ebbs and flows of sidewalk traffic on West Alameda Avenue in Burbank. The street is lined with WGA strikers circling the Disney, NBC and Warner Bros. studios. The ladies, residents of the O.C. are here to enjoy their recent retirement. Tops on their ... More >>

Bob Barker

God in Botany 500

What Would Darwin Do?

Grease: You’re The One That I Want

ˇAsk a Mexican! Repellent Insect

Kara Saun

Who Wants to Be a Ratings Millionaire?

The D-Lister’s Guide to Reality-Show Happiness

Kathy Griffin, fan and foe to countless reality celebs, puts her own life before the camera

My Life on the Couch

Bill Clinton’s Oprah Moment

London Calling

The American Embassy, plus Andy Richter and Bernie Mac

Kids in the Hall

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