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The 72nd Annual MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT will be broadcast LIVE from El Salvador on Saturday, November 18th on YouTube, Roku or Telemundo in the United States, starting at 8:00 PM ET. The pageant's owners, JKN Global Group, out of Thailand, just filed for bankruptcy last week. This year's pageant will go on as scheduled. I always watch this contest on Telemundo because Latin American countries take this pageant very seriously and do a great broadcasting the event. They even have a pre-show scheduled as well. Two trans women, Miss Portugal and Miss Netherlands, will be competing amongst the 84 candidates....

Nearly a third of the LGBT+ characters to have featured on US TV over the past year will not be returning in future, a new report has revealed. Over the period between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2023, a total of 596 LGBT+ characters were featured on scripted TV. Of these, 175 will not be returning in the following season, as a result of series being cancelled or coming to a pre-agreed end. The majority of these characters (140) are the result of series being cancelled. The statistics are taken from the annual report published by the US media...

A pretty good old BBC series about life on a frigate in the late 1970's The entire 1st season is available. I think they did 4 season but I cannot find the others anywhere. Hot Pursuit

Better Call Saul can claim a few more honors, is anyone surprised? It’s no doubt the prequel was among the best shows of the year. Critics and publications have been dishing out the awards for quite some time. Here are two more. Could the overwhelmingly awesome reception of the Breaking Bad spinoff ever have been predicted? The show has racked up Emmy, Golden Globe, and many other nominations. Recognition has been received for the show’s acting, writing, and production. Forbes has now recognized Better Call Saul as the best show of the year. It beat out tough contenders like Mad...

An actor best known from the 1960s sitcom "McHale's Navy," has died. Bob Hastings was 89. Allison Knowles says her grandfather died Monday in his Burbank, California, home after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. Hastings won fans on "McHale's Navy" as Lt. Carpenter, a bumbling yes-man. Other memorable roles were on "All in the Family" and "General Hospital."

This week, CNN's Piers Morgan announced that "Piers Morgan Live" would be coming to an ignominious end sometime in March. His replacement has not yet been chosen. But his television demise came not a moment too soon for millions of Americans who had tired of his sneering nastiness. The New York Times chose not to see it that way. Instead, the Times insisted, Morgan's problem sprang from his British accent and heritage: "Old hands in the television news business suggest that there are two things a presenter cannot have: an accent or a beard ... Mr. Morgan is clean shaven...

A shoplifter, a recovering drug addict and a young couple barely able to feed their kids are among the stars of Benefits Street - a smash hit reality show featuring welfare recipients that has stirred up a storm of controversy in Britain. The program zooms in on a rough Birmingham street where 9 out of 10 people are said to live off state payouts, chronicling over five episodes the lives of jobless neighbours as they struggle with their daily problems. The show has struck a strong chord in a nation fresh out of recession and still reeling from its most...

Young people are key for the Affordable Care Act to work, and as a result of a half-million-dollar grant by the California Endowment, TV shows regularly consumed by these young people will soon be weaving Obamacare into plotlines in order to get more of them enrolled in the health care program.If you’ve ever watched Modern Family or New Girl and thought, “Gee, if only I was learning about the benefits of a complex federal program during this, it would be so much better,” you’re in luck! The 18-month grant, to the Lear Center’s Hollywood Health & Society program, will be...

I watched The Bridge last night on Fox TV. Half of the show was in Spanish with English subtitles. Another sign of the times. Fox and Murdoch are gearing up to all the new incoming aliens once immigration reform is passed. They can probably give them a free TV as they cross the border.

Ok I'll start: I would like to see a re-make of the TV Series "Emergency".

Dale Robertson leaves legacy of classic Western TV shows Ken Miller, Associated Press / February 28, 2013 Dale Robertson started in the movies, including such roles as Jesse James in "Fighting Man of the Plains. Dale Robertson moved into television, starring in series such as "Tales of Wells Fargo" (1957-62), "Iron Horse" (1966) and "Death Valley Days" (1968-70). Robertson died Tuesday. By Ken Miller, Associated Press / February 28, 2013 Actor Dale Robertson in 1964. Robterson became a star of television and movie Westerns during the genre's heyday, died Feb. 26, 2013. Robertson's niece, Nancy Robertson, said her uncle died...

We live overseas and don't own a TV. We have heard there is a screenwriter's strike. Is that the reason we are not receiving some of our TV shows that we purchased from iTunes, or is it the seasonal shows that are taking the place of regular programming?

RED[-state] Americans feeling under served by the entertainment industry have less to whine about these days....NBC's hit show "Medium" is giving them a ringing endorsement from the Other Side. The show — which starts its second season tonight — is based on the cases of real-life medium Allison Dubois, who serves as a consultant to the series. In a twist from the usual snickering at conservative characters and notions, the first episode had a defense attorney balking over the Texas Rangers questioning his molester-murderer client. After the Rangers and their consultant (Dubois, played by Patricia Arquette) bulldoze past him, the...

American TV show CSI: Miami has been attacked by a top scientist for misleading jurors with its unrealistic portrayal of the capabilities of forensic experts and the boundaries of science. Lawyers fear the popular drama has precipitated the "CSI effect" by giving the public unrealistic expectations of what can be achieved in forensic laboratories - and that forensic testimonies are beyond reproach. West Virginia University expert Max Houck says, "Defense attorneys now worry about the CSI effect because they think the jurors view science as this juggernaut, this infallible, objective method that is always right, always accurate and that spells...

British television is to sink to new lows with a reality game show based upon the exploits of a group of porn stars living in a Big Brother-style house. Private Stars, which has been inspired by Channel 4's hugely successful Big Brother series, centres on the experiences of five female porn models who are locked in a house with five male members of the public. The programme, which will run on cable and satellite television for 10 episodes next month, promises to go further than other reality programmes by offering "the real thing" in terms of sexual behaviour. The contestants...

"On November 13th, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew one day he would return to her. Having nowhere else to go, Unger went to the home of his childhood friend Oscar Madison. Years earlier, Madison's wife had thrown him out, requesting that he never return. Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy???" OK, it isn't news, but its related to TV culture. Mrs. Unger tossed out Felix on Nov 13th!!! Mark the...

Mayberry's revenge?All right, pundits of Detroit, that will do. You may, in the course of the Stanley Cup championship -- you know, the hockey title your Red Wings were going to win in four straight games -- feel free to make sport of North Carolina accents, or our cuisine, or the fact that we're relatively new to hockey. But when you start messing with Sheriff Andy Taylor and Barney Fife...well, as Barney said once when he was really upset with Ernest T. Bass, "Andy, when I'm riled, look out!" We read, in various accounts of the championship series -- the...