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The hubbub over the Charleston, S.C., church shooting has, somewhat inexplicably, ended in a 30-year-old TV show about two backwoods brothers jumping a Dodge Charger over innumerable rivers being cancelled. That’s right, “The Dukes of Hazzard” is now being pulled off of TV stations because of the Confederate flag on the roof of the car. If you didn’t see this coming, don’t worry — neither did most sane people. Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy are certainly pretty sane, but they’ve got the kind of wit that drives liberals insane. The two of them predicted what was going to...

TV Land is getting SLAMMED for pulling the Dukes! It is amazing to see good people mobilize and give TV Land the criticism deserves. They will lose money over this.. and it's well deserved. When you go against your customers, like Mcdonalds did, prepare to lose millions and millions of dollars. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving network.

A week after Warner Bros. announced it would halt the production of all merchandise featuring the Confederate flag on General Lee, the iconic car from The Dukes of Hazzard, the show has inexplicably disappeared from TV Land’s lineup. WB announced the move as major retailers Walmart, Amazon, eBay, and Sears all introduced bans on the sale of Confederate flag merchandise in the wake of Dylann Roof’s Charleston, SC shooting rampage at a black church. “Warner Bros. Consumer Products has one licensee producing die-cast replicas and vehicle model kits featuring the General Lee with the confederate flag on its roof —...

The car was spotted at the 34th Precinct station house parked inside the lot authorized for police officers. The late model Dodge muscle car had orange paint and a Confederate flag on the roof, similar to the "General Lee" car in The Dukes of Hazzard TV show.

The General Lee – Bo and Luke Duke’s vehicle of choice from ‘The Dukes of Hazzard‘ – is a classic and instantly recognizable Hollywood car. But it’s about to get a little less recognizable as Warner Bros., the studio that owns the theatrical, DVD and licensing rights to ‘The Dukes of Hazzard,’ has decided to remove the confederate flag from all future versions of the car. The news has reportedly been floating around the hobby community over the past few days as ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ collectors became aware of a new regulation. A collector on HobbyTalk.com was told by a...

Some actors who used to be in "The Dukes of Hazzard" think it was a family TV show. John "Bo Duke" Schneider once called it "a great way to be able to help raise your kids." My Southern grandma would have told him he's out of his cotton-pickin' mind. Bo and his cousin Luke ran moonshine in their hot rod car for their Uncle Jesse so Jesse could pay the mortgage on his Georgia farm. They fought the law, because the corrupt sheriff and the local boss entered schemes with criminals who would shoot at the Dukes. And their barmaid...

When I was 5 years old, all of my friends watched the television show "the Dukes of Hazzard." I wanted to watch it, too, but we weren't allowed to do that in my house because of the Confederate flag that was painted on the car in the show. At 5, I learned that the Confederate flag represented white domination of Black people. I learned that the KKK, the Aryan Nation, the skinheads, the American Nazi Party and 500 other extremist groups use this as their emblem. I learned to see the Confederate flag as the symbol of hate that it...

I have to admit the upcoming Dukes of Hazzard movie has a strong supporting cast. Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville will play the good old boys, Bo and Luke Duke. Willie Nelson will play Uncle Jesse. Burt Reynolds is the surprising, yet promising, choice for Boss Hogg. And, finally, Jessica Simpson will step off the set of her made-for-TV marriage and into some short shorts as the Pride of Hazzard County, Daisy Duke. Granted, most movies based on old shows pack as much punch as Newfound Glory singing Celine Dion,but, so far, this one's looking pretty good. Everything rests...

For months now, under a veil of secrecy on the country backroads north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the General Lee, with its rooftop confederate flag, has been pedal to the metal, taking jumps and zooming past movie cameras. You've seen Smokey and the Bandit, you've seen The Blues Brothers, now wait until you see the cop-evading action they're cooking-up for The Dukes of Hazzard. The crew has one goal in mind: to make this a high-speed, rally-racing, drift-driving, dirt and dust tour de force. IGN FilmForce visited the set last week, and we're gearing up to deliver you guys the...

Talk about a tempest in a teacup (that's had a shot of Southern Comfort poured in it). I was clicking through the Internet Movie Database, when I came across this thread, which begins with an African-American moviegoer absolutely unloading on the upcoming remake of The Dukes of Hazzard. Like all recent Hollywood big screen remakes of '70s TV shows, the finished product will of course, be somewhere between mediocre and craptacular, and quickly forgotten. But as the readers of the IMDB illustrated, adapting the Dukes presents a special challenge to its filmmakers, the Wall Street Journal reports (subscription may...

I wasn't sure what to think when I heard that Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott would be starring in the DUKES OF HAZZARD movie. On one hand, it's much better than Ashton Kutcher and Paul Walker. On the other...it's Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott. But in all fairness to both those guys, I think they can both be pretty funny given the right project - ones they just haven't found yet (save from Johnny's work on "Jackass"). Lucky for us, the project is under the watchful eye of Jay Chandrasekar, the director behind Broken Lizard and lately doing...

Orange County is one of the most sophisticated, pricey, urbane locales in the United States, a magnet for professionals from across the country and for immigrants from every corner of the Earth. Yet it sometimes appears as if county residents are governed by the types of politics one might find in an impoverished backwater. Recent weeks have provided lots of fodder. Here are my top examples of buffoonery, chicanery, greed and stupidity from our elected "public servants" over recent weeks. The big winner is the Orange County Board of Supervisors, which has squandered uncountable taxpayers' dollars to placate a loud...