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  • Overdue Crush of the Week: James Denton

     

    We've never really given much thought to James Denton -- or any thought really -- mostly because we never had much patience for Desperate Housewives (we watched three episodes on DVD in 2005 and felt irritated). But, you know, he seems like a nice enough guy, and apparently he's willing to rock out for a good cause.

    Lo and behold, a few days ago, we're watching a re-run of Philly on Universal HD, and suddenly, James Denton as the dashing and chilvarous Judge Augustus Ripley, cloaked in his judicial robes, blustering around the courthouse, fighting for justice makes us stop and say out loud to the TV, "Wow, you are hot."   Perhaps some would say it's too late to jump on this bandwagon, but, in the immortal words of Aaron Sorkin, let's forget the fact that we showed up a little late to the party, and embrace the fact that we showed up at all.    


    Posted Aug 22 2008, 03:32 PM by Lindy Parker with | with no comments
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  • Universal HD: Where Network Shows Go To Die

    So many shows nobody watched the first time around, so little time. . .

    Universal HD, the NBC-owned high-definition channel, is like a big cable station in the sky for failed network shows that couldn’t make it in the wide world. In fact, of the 10 series currently airing on this graveyard of forgotten programming, nine of them were canceled after one or two seasons.

    The big man on campus, Friday Night Lights, has bragging rights as the only show currently filming new episodes (albeit episodes that won't air on the network until 2009). But the award for the shortest-lived show goes to the atrociously reviewed drama Sex, Love & Secrets, which aired only six episodes in its original run on UPN. (Maybe it was the creepy Animal Planet-style voiceover intros, or the tired seduction tactics of Denise Richards, that sealed the deal?)

     

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    Posted Jul 23 2008, 02:29 PM by Lindy Parker with | with no comments
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  • The Summer Olympics: You Can Run, But You Can't Hide

    Looking forward to NBC Universal's coverage of the Beijing Olympics in August? You'd better be... because escape will be impossible. The entertainment conglomerate is planning to broadcast 3,600 hours of Olympic programming, far more than has ever been shown before. That's more than 200 hours per day.

    And it won't just be on NBC stations, either, but also on USA Network, MSNBC, CNBC, Universal HD, the Spanish-language Telemundo, and even the recently purchased women's channel Oxygen (which will feature female-skewing programming such as tennis and gymnastics highlights). After all that, if there's still any time left in your day, you can also watch streaming events, replays and highlights on the Internet.

     

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    Lindy Parker has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, dance instructor and a purveyor of dreams, one beer at a time. She loves Charles Dickens and Gabriel Garcia Marquez and also, straight-to-video releases with Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's possible she reads more teen fiction than she should. She hails from Los Angeles, her hometown and soul mate, but she lives in Brooklyn, the fling she'll never forget.

    Olivia Purnell left Ohio for sunny Los Angeles; then found that she couldn’t ignore New York City’s call, and brought herself to Brooklyn where she has worked with GenArt, BlackBook, the School of American Ballet, and finished an M.A. in Creative Writing from N.Y.U. She loves one-liners with sting and hates the stench of the subway in the summer. That said, she can’t get enough of either.

    Jake Kalish is a freelance journalist and humorist whose work has appeared in Details, Maxim, Stuff, New York Press, Spin, Blender, Men's Fitness, Poets and Writers, and Playboy, among other publications. He is also the author of Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights.

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    Ben Kallen is an entertainment, health and humor writer who's been lectured to by Sidney Poitier, argued with by Lea Thompson and smiled at by Jennifer Connelly. He's the coauthor of The No S Diet and author of The Year in Weird, along with hundreds of magazine articles. He lives near the beach in Los Angeles, just like the gang from Three's Company.

    Nicole Ankowski has lived in Ohio, Oakland, and on the high plains of South Dakota, but is now proud to call Brooklyn home. She wrote for alternative weekly papers in the first two states, and tried to learn Lakota in the last. (The vowels can be tricky.) She just earned her MFA in Creative Writing and has been published in Beeswax literary journal. She is unable to resist good writing or bad TV.

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