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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will appear on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday, days after President Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race. The daytime table talk program will host Jean-Pierre for her first interview since Biden announced on Sunday his withdrawal and decision to back Vice President Harris as a potential replacement for the Democratic Party’s nominee. In the days leading to his exiting the race, Biden and his top White House aides faced intensifying questions about the president’s mental health and acuity following a shaky debate performance against former President Trump late last month....

With Sean Hayes' gay sitcom on the way, executives try to explain why Ryan Murphy's comedy failed Even with Fox's "Glee" and FX's "American Horror Story" under his belt, Ryan Murphy wasn't able to score another hit with his NBC comedy, "The New Normal." Why didn't it find its audience? NBC's top executives seemed to grapple with the answer to that question themselves Saturday in a Television Critics Association press tour panel. "We really wanted to get behind Ryan Murphy," NBC entertainment president Jennifer Salke said. "Maybe, something about the tone of it. It's really one of those things where...

We love TV network pilot season because it's filled with such potential. So many shows in their infancy, casting announcements flying around, the anticipation of something new from our favorite showrunners... But while many of the announced pilots already have us praying for full-season pick-ups, there are plenty of others that we hate based on what little we know about them. Here are the potential shows that we hope don't make it to the fall lineup...

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In a story unusual even for a soap opera and believed to be a television first, ABC's "All My Children" this week will introduce a transgender character who is beginning to make the transition from a man into a woman. The character, a flamboyant rock star known as Zarf, kisses the lesbian character Bianca and much drama ensues. The storyline begins with Thursday's episode of the daytime drama. There have been a handful of post-surgical transgender characters in television shows, including a college professor in the 2001 prime-time CBS series "The Education of Max Bickford" and a model in the...

Risque Dutch Shows Disappearing From TV By TOBY STERLING, Associated Press Writer AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Smut is disappearing from Dutch television. It isn't likely that the Netherlands has become prudish overnight. After all, this is the country that gave the world the voyeuristic "Big Brother" program, a land where prostitution is legal. But lately, bare-skin broadcasting has fallen off to practically nothing. A year ago, at least three commercial channels showed "erotic" programming in the late evening. Now there's only one. Even the teen-oriented public broadcaster BNN has stopped running its sex education series, "Neuken Doe Je Zo," which, charitably...