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Ten Potential X-Factor Replacement Judges

The list of former judges on FOX's The X-Factor reads like the attendance list at a Passages Malibu: Addiction Cure Center for celebrities obsessed with proving their talent (Nicole Scherzinger, 2011 and Demi Lovato, 2012), relevancy (Cheryl Cole, 2011 and LA. Reid, 2011-12), sanity (Britney Spears, ... More >>

TV Sucks! 43 Reasons Why I Can't Watch Anymore!

43 reasons to hide the remote

Glee: The 3D Concert Movie

Skylar Grey: The Melodrama Of Glee, The Sadness Of Nu-Metal, The Blah Of OneRepublic

If you've tuned into a radio over the past year or so you've probably heard the handiwork of Skylar Grey, the singer-songwriter who's helped pen the bombastic, inescapable hip-pop ballads "Love The Way You Lie," "Coming Home," and "I Need A Doctor." In the early '00s she also did hook-girl duty on ... More >>

What Cheryl Cole's X Factor Dismissal Means For British Pop In America

​ Deep at the heart of Cheryl Cole's abrupt dismissal from the American edition of X Factor earlier this week is a twisted take on My Fair Lady. Here we have a pop star who takes leave from her U.K. homeland--where she's a household name thanks to her tenure in the hit-making girlband Girls Al ... More >>

American Idol Somehow Fits Three Singers Into Two Long Hours

Michael Becker/FOX​This week's endless two-hour American Idol was the annual show where the three remaining contestants all return to their hometowns to wave out of car windows at screaming children. It's an annual Idol ritual, and it really goes a lot way toward proving just how completely al ... More >>

Bronx Zoo Cobra Ends Reign of Terror (Supposedly)

According to Fox 5, the Bronx Zoo Cobra has been found. The news channel reports that Wildlife Conservation Society officials are expected to announce they have recovered the snake. Last we heard, the Zookeeper was smoking some salvia and was headed up town. Update: The cobra was found in the House ... More >>

NYC's Ten Worst Tenants

We hope you don't live next to these people

Obama's Super Bowl Party Sounds Like a Nightmare

​It sounds like President Barack Obama is going to have the worst Superbowl ever. His beloved Bears didn't make the cut for the big game so he said he's "remaining neutral." Watching a game and not rooting for either team? Who do you cheer for then, the Black Eyed Peas? His horrible situation ... More >>

"Freedom of Speech" Doesn't Factor Into The Juan Williams Firing

​As you know, Juan Williams was recently fired by NPR for saying (among other things) on Fox TV that he gets scared when he sees Muslims on a flight he's on. "But what about freedom of speech?" shout the right-wing naysayers--the type that usally don't believe in freedom of speech at all. Bu ... More >>

Juan Williams Banished to $2 Million Fox Gulag for Muslim Mishap

​Daniel Schorr has been gone since July, but he's missed more than ever right now. That's because if the late 93-year-old news sage had lasted just a few months longer we might have heard what he had to say tomorrow morning to Scott Simon on NPR's Weekend Edition about the firing of their now- ... More >>

Three Million New York Homes Cannot Watch Baseball Because Fox Blacked Out Cablevision

​Cablevision customers in the New York area lost their access to Fox 5 and My9 last night when the channel's parent company News Corp. "pulled the plug" over contract disputes, CNN is reporting. The corporate jockeying may sound boring, but has very real effects for anyone hoping to watch Game ... More >>

Amid Cablevision Confusion, News Corp. Pulls Fox From Hulu, Then Puts It Back

​We told you this morning about the dispute between Cablevision and Fox parent company News Corp., which resulted in three million homes in the New York area losing access to the television stations Fox 5 and My9. As Saturday progressed, the battle got uglier, with News Corp. blocking Cablevis ... More >>

Morning Links: Chinese Dissident Awarded Nobel Peace Prize; More Jobs Lost in September; Stinkbugs in Staten Island

​• The 2010 Nobel Peace prize has been awarded to Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident, political essayist, literary critic, and democracy advocate who is currently serving 11 years in jail on subversion charges. Unsurprisingly, the Chinese Foreign Ministry did not appreciate this news one bit, a ... More >>

KFC Double Down Sandwich Gets a Bun; Spike TV Gets On the Rocks

​KFC's mega hit, the Double Down Sandwich, will soon morph into The Doublicious, comprising an Original Recipe fillet, Monterey Jack cheese, bacon, and Colonel's Sauce -- just like the Double Down -- but with a sweet Hawaiian Bread roll to hold it all together. [Nation's Restaurant News] Dean ... More >>

Sarah Palin's Expected Facebook Response to Family Guy Guest-Stars Bristol Palin

Keeping to her program, Fix commentator Sarah Palin used Facebook again today to complain of a joke on the Fox cartoon Family Guy, in which son Chris dates a well-spoken but fussy young woman with Down Syndrome who reveals her mother to be "the former governor of Alaska." For variety, Palin enli ... More >>

Fox and Time Warner cut a deal

​After weeks of high-stakes brinksmanship and a last-minute extension, Time Warner Cable cut a deal Friday night to pay an unspecified per-viewer fee to transmit Fox programming from News Corporation-0wned stations broadcasting in New York, Los Angeles, and a number of other major cities. Fox ... More >>

Fox-Time Warner War Heads to Inevitable, Customer-Gouging Conclusion

​You may have seen ads in the papers and on TV -- one in the form of a ransom note -- warning you that Fox TV may go off the air, and that it's either Fox's fault or carrier Time Warner's, depending on who is paying for the advertising. Fox wants the cable company to pay a "retransmission co ... More >>

The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History Author John Ortved on Today's 20th Anniversary and How Male Simpsons Fans Can't Get Laid

Twenty years ago today, Rupert Murdoch's upstart network FOX aired the first-ever half-hour episode of The Simpsons, a holiday special in which a financially strained fatso dad named Homer ends up at the dogtrack, where instead of Christmas-present money, he and his son Bart walk away with their o ... More >>

The Pollan/Safran Foer Effect: Even 'Bones' Gets Food Political

Books like Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals and the Michael Pollan oeuvre aren't just turning vegetarian starlets into hardcore vegans. Their message of the evils of factory farming may also be reaching mainstream television audiences across the country via such innocuous shows as FOX's foren ... More >>

Ernie Anastos: "Keep Fucking That Chicken"

"Takes a tough man to make a tender forecast," says legendary Fox 5 News Anchorman to his weatherman, Nick Gregory. "Keep fucking that chicken." Co-anchor Dari Alexander's reaction is choice, as we're sure was her reaction off-camera when Anastos said as a film bumper showed her working out, "Hey, ... More >>

Michael Jackson Tribute in Harlem

Legman Robert Sietsema reports from Harlem: "The Jumbotron, encased in a blue plastic bubble, is set to Fox TV. The emcee apologizes -- 'It's the only signal we can get here.' The crowd groans and boos... 125th Street is lined with hastily-set-up tables selling photos and unauthorized t-shirts. C ... More >>

"Drunken Negro Face" Cookie Post-Mortem

  Nobody in the neighborhood seemed to notice, and the nannies continued to sweep into the bakery for cookies and milk with their young charges, just picked up from Greenwich Village's P.S. 41 next door. But Lafayette Bakery--which has rather grandly called itself a "French Baker ... More >>

The Future is Now

Mike Judge's much ballyhooed but rarely seen Idiocracy—coming soon to your idiot box!

Dream Massive Nightmares of Destruction

Whole Lotta Dads: Paternal Overkill on Fox's Sunday Night

Screen Gems

The year in TV: Another season, a smattering of reasons for tuning in amid all the mediocrity

Mauling Michael Moore

The attack on Fahrenheit 9/11: Fox lays back while ABC and NBC pile on

N.Y.'s Power Couple

Reverend Al Sharpton and Rupert Murdoch join forces to fight television technology

Civilized Disobedience

Martha Stewart fans show their support by buying shower curtains at Kmart

The Pleasure Channel

The Year in TV

Virgin Suicide

Skin Dives, Las Vegas Gambles, and Chef Jamie Oliver Gets Naked, Emotionally

Rich Kid, Poor Kid

The O.C. Fills a Vacancy at the Hotel California; Sucking Up the '70s

Sports

Frenchie Gets Fingered

NY Mirror

Hunks and Has-Beens

Reality TV—Pop Thrills at 'Human Amusement Parks'

Pontorno's Complaint

Ex-Murdoch Employee Reveals 'Secret Society'

Stupid Network Tricks

ABC Wants to Dump 'Nightline' for Letterman. Laughing?

All as It Had Been

Hollywood Revises History, Joins the Good Fight

Porn, Chicken, and Boy Toys

Does Fox Slant the News?

Investigative Reporters Versus Murdoch

Conservatives in Drag

Fox News Wears Veil of Neutrality

Sports

Let’s Get Real

The Right to Choose Ads

The Battle Over Abortion Doesn’t Hit the Airwaves

Schizophrenic

Women Are Easy

Why TV Ad Agencies Take Female Viewers For Granted

Ready, Willing, and ABL

The women's pro league looks to fill the B-ball void

Camera [in the Can]

Just in Time for Sweeps Month, TV News Discovers Rest Room Sex