TV Dramas

Internal Affairs: On the Job with French Child Protection Cops in Polisse

Desperate Housewives Is Kaput! Here's What Felicity Huffman Says About It

Wysteria Lane is off the map--in a bad way--as of this Sunday, when the Desperate Housewives divorce themselves from the reality of having a TV series. It's the finale. And Felicity Huffman (who has won awards for playing Lynette for eight years) spoke to Parade about the big kissoff: The final ... More >>

The Naked and Famous

Wysteria Lane is off the map--in a bad way--as of this Sunday, when the Desperate Housewives divorce themselves from the reality of having a TV series. It's the finale. And Felicity Huffman (who has won awards for playing Lynette for eight years) spoke to Parade about the big kissoff: The final ... More >>

Media And Entertainment Commissioner Katherine Oliver Talks New York As Set Piece

via @NYCMayorsOffice​Though much of the real-life drama in the city this past week was worth of a couple Law & Order episodes, the mayor's office brought our attention to on-screen travails. Not only was there the Thursday Gossip Girl hoopla (xoxo, Mayor Mike), but on Tuesday the film Extremel ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Hangs With 'Gossip Girl' Cast

Yep, that's right, folks. Mayor Mike Bloomberg's press conference today was about Gossip Girl. The Lady Gaga-kisser upped his celebrity status by standing beside members of the cast and creative team of the television show at Queen's Silvercup Studios. Also beside him were a host of Queens electe ... More >>

Kickstarter Employee Writes Elaborate Fanfic for Leighton Meester on Craigslist Missed Connections

Nicole He Blake Lively and Leighton Meester filming 'Gossip Girl' on the LES yesterday. ​Craigslist Missed Connections have been good lately! A few weeks ago we had the man who posted an epic missed connection for the girl who held his iPhone hostage, and now we have the poor young startup emp ... More >>

The Driver

Nicole He Blake Lively and Leighton Meester filming 'Gossip Girl' on the LES yesterday. ​Craigslist Missed Connections have been good lately! A few weeks ago we had the man who posted an epic missed connection for the girl who held his iPhone hostage, and now we have the poor young startup emp ... More >>

Iron & Wine

Nicole He Blake Lively and Leighton Meester filming 'Gossip Girl' on the LES yesterday. ​Craigslist Missed Connections have been good lately! A few weeks ago we had the man who posted an epic missed connection for the girl who held his iPhone hostage, and now we have the poor young startup emp ... More >>

The French Connection

Nicole He Blake Lively and Leighton Meester filming 'Gossip Girl' on the LES yesterday. ​Craigslist Missed Connections have been good lately! A few weeks ago we had the man who posted an epic missed connection for the girl who held his iPhone hostage, and now we have the poor young startup emp ... More >>

Dominique Strauss-Kahn Case Is Getting A Law & Order Episode

​The next season of Law & Order: SVU will feature an episode about an important European official visiting New York who is accused of rape. Remind you of anything? Franco Nero, an Italian actor and husband of Vanessa Redgrave, will play the ersatz Strauss-Kahn character.

Law & Order Does Spider-Man Musical Episode

​We usually ignore Law & Order: Criminal Intent because it's the creepy Vincent D'Onofrio Law & Order that got banished to USA Network, but their Sunday episode just sounds too good to resist. In one of the franchise's standard "ripped from the headlines" plots the detectives investigate a cas ... More >>

Six Great Musical Moments From The "Law & Order" Version Of New York City

Mike Logan and Lennie Briscoe: Not so into rap-metal. ​The news that Law & Order: Criminal Intent would be ripping all those headlines about the struggles of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark for an upcoming episode was notable for its lightning-quick turnaround time, and for its fictionalized tak ... More >>

BAD ASS 4 LIFE

From cop killer to cop actor

The Pretty Reckless

From cop killer to cop actor

The Five Worst P.R. Pitches Of All Time

You know, publicists' ideas of what would make a great story. I get 'em all day long. Pitches aimed at a catcher with a limp wrist who keeps fumbling the ball! I just don't give a shit! The absolute worst volleys I tend to get are:

The Civil Wars

You know, publicists' ideas of what would make a great story. I get 'em all day long. Pitches aimed at a catcher with a limp wrist who keeps fumbling the ball! I just don't give a shit! The absolute worst volleys I tend to get are:

Prince

You know, publicists' ideas of what would make a great story. I get 'em all day long. Pitches aimed at a catcher with a limp wrist who keeps fumbling the ball! I just don't give a shit! The absolute worst volleys I tend to get are:

Republicans Watch Sports, Democrats Watch Talk Shows, According to Political Ad Buys

​Republican political ads run mostly during sports programming and crime dramas, while Democrats prefer talk shows and sitcoms, according to a report in Sunday's New York Times. While the most popular and bipartisan show is Dancing With the Stars, Republican ad buyers dig on Saturday Night Col ... More >>

Blake Lively Can Really Act

​I never thought anyone from Gossip Girl would be considered one of our premiere thesps any more than I felt Justin Bieber should sing at the Met. But I can finally admit that in Ben Affleck's searing criminal drama The Town, Blake Lively happens to be amazing in her supporting role as a ragg ... More >>

ShowHope

​I never thought anyone from Gossip Girl would be considered one of our premiere thesps any more than I felt Justin Bieber should sing at the Met. But I can finally admit that in Ben Affleck's searing criminal drama The Town, Blake Lively happens to be amazing in her supporting role as a ragg ... More >>

Emmy Nominations Announced; HBO Maintains Primetime Stranglehold

We will never own one of these. ​Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>

Stars+Dead Child Star

We will never own one of these. ​Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>

Law & Order's Five Most Ridiculous Rapper Cameos

​Law & Order ends its 20-year run tonight. Throughout the show's long reign, phalanxes of honorable detectives have cleaned the New York streets of crime and debris while throwing out witty one-liners and re-enacting plotlines ripped from real-life headlines. Grabbing a cameo on the show has a ... More >>

Live: Previously on Lost Send-Off That Damn Island Show at the Bell House

"Sayid" (center) was pulled on stage for his eponymous ballad Previously on Lost Bell House Sunday, May 24 This is "the most important night of your life, the most anticipated night of human history" recap-rock band Previously on Lost announces to the sold-out crowd at Bell House. It's around 8pm ... More >>

BROKEN OUT

Pill-popping nurse teams with Alison Pill

The African

Pill-popping nurse teams with Alison Pill

The Brothers

Pill-popping nurse teams with Alison Pill

The French Connection

Pill-popping nurse teams with Alison Pill

La Bûche

Pill-popping nurse teams with Alison Pill

Stray Dog

Pill-popping nurse teams with Alison Pill

SCREEN TO STAGE

Mary, mother of Broadway

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

The creators of a show: These are their stories

News Roundup: Aerosmith Cancels Tour, Sujfan Nearly On Sale, Sonic Youth on Gossip Girl

​--The rapidly decaying corpse of Aerosmith called the whole thing off today, canceling the rest of the band's AeroForceOne summer tour. Frontman Steven Tyler danced his way right off the stage at a motorcycle rally in Sturgis, SD last week, shattering his shoulder and amusing the entire inter ... More >>

Cop Charged with Donut Freeloading

The Post reports that a Queens cop has been slapped with departmental charges for repeatedly helped himself to free donuts, sandwiches, and coffee at a Rockaway Dunkin' Donuts. The charges were made after an Internal Affairs investigation revealed that he went behind the counter on numerous occasion ... More >>

Emmy Nominees Include The Family Guy, Ernest Borgnine; Jon & Kate Snubbed

Emmy-nominated The Family Guy featuring Emmy-nominated Seth MacFarlane. For us the joy of the Emmy Nominations, announced this morning, is in the less-well-known categories. We see that there are only two shows, for instance, up for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction Program: Grandpa, Do You Know ... More >>

The Ultimate Grey Gardens Experience

Haven't had enough of the Beales, the mother-daughter duo who were the subject of Grey Gardens the documentary, the musical, the followup documentary, and the HBO movie? Well, have I got a weekend for you! It's one entirely devoted to Grey Gardens with no mention of anything unrelated to the glamor ... More >>

CUM LAUDE(LY)

Gossip Girl author grows up

Body Count

Gossip Girl author grows up

Weirder People's Houses

Grey Gardens proves that bad housekeeping can make good theater

'The Beales of Grey Gardens'

Grey Gardens proves that bad housekeeping can make good theater

The 51st Annual Obie Awards: Screwball Moments at the Skirball Center

Grey Gardens proves that bad housekeeping can make good theater

Ratty Cool

TV hospital drama life unfolds to new new wave

Born Again

When it comes to the abortion issue, TV shows are where they were 30 years ago.

This Is Your Mom on Drugs

A new series about a drug-dealing suburban homemaker kicks against conservative pricks and Christian bitches

Secret Machines

'I wished on a dandelion for my husband to die': Snail mail admissions tasty escargot online

Surgical Strikes

Two new innovative hospital dramas refashion the traditional doctor-viewer relationship

Gripping Doc Goes Behind the Scenes of Murder Defense

Two new innovative hospital dramas refashion the traditional doctor-viewer relationship

This Is Your Fall Season on Crack

ABC goes bonkers with hysterical retro housewives, crash dummies, and loopy lawyers

The Passion of The Hargitay

The Law & Order abstainer is a member of an elite squad. This is her story.