june-related stories
Posted Feb 25th 2009 11:02AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free

There are two significant things to take from the news that
Army Wives will return for a fourth season. One, the predominantly female viewership of Lifetime has embraced the series about the lives of Army personnel and their families on the Fort Marshall post in Charleston, South Carolina; and two, scripted dramas are on the rise all across the cable networks. It also means that this finely acted, well-written and well produced show is going to be around for the next couple of years at least.
Continue reading Lifetime drafts Army Wives for season four
Posted Apr 25th 2007 11:40AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show

Ah, Rosie... we hardly had a chance to say hello, and now you're saying goodbye.
Actually, given what we've heard over the last few months, this isn't a big surprise: According to the AP,
Rosie O'Donnell will leave The View in June. She was
unable to come to a contract with ABC, saying in a statement that "My needs for the future just didn't dovetail with what ABC was able to offer me."
Of course, Rosie has been the best and worst thing to happen to
The View since she started there last year. Her controversial presence raised the show's ratings. But producer and star Barbara Walters has had to support her host through many a verbal battle, including dust-ups with Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch, and Clay Aiken. There's been speculation that Rosie
is going to go back to hosting her own show, and the production company for her old talk show reportedly wants her back. But, for now, O'Donnell hasn't announced what her next move will be.
[thanks to MrsEldubya for the tip.]
Posted Jan 10th 2007 12:19PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: ABC, OpEd, Daytime, Celebrities, Talk Show

FOX News TV writer Roger Friedman
is reporting today that Rosie O'Donnell will probably leave
The View when her one-year contract is up. The reason? Backstage tension, of course.
Friedman cites the
it-just-won't-die flap with Donald Trump as one of the last straws in what has become a conflict with the show's matriarch, Barbara Walters. It seems like Walters is playing the two combatants against each other, according to Friedman, and Rosie is surprised that Barbara isn't being more supportive. Hence, once the "school year" is over in June, she'll take her ball and go home.
Continue reading Rosie will probably leave The View, says FOX writer
Posted Oct 31st 2006 4:35PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: CBS, TV Royalty, OpEd, Daytime, Game Show

When I was watching
The Price is Right the other day, I was marvelling at the energy Bob Barker was displaying on stage, despite the fact that a) the show was in its 35th season and b) Bob is well into his eighties (he'll turn 83 on December 12). But, at the same time, I was thinking that he couldn't keep this up much longer, for both of the reasons I stated above.
Well, I guess Bob was thinking the same thing, as he just announced that
he will retire at the end of
TPiR's current season, which tapes its last show in June. Coincidentally, it will also be the end of his 50th year on television (he hosted
Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1974). To him, those two anniversaries made it a good time to leave.
Continue reading Bob Barker to retire in June - BREAKING NEWS
Posted May 12th 2006 6:03PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Animation, Adult Swim, Tom Goes to the Mayor

A new season of
Tom Goes to the Mayor kicks off on June 4 at 12:30 a.m. on Adult Swim. The series, if you haven't seen it, focuses on Tom Peters, a tenacious newcomer to the town of Jefferton who pitches lame ideas to a mentally-unbalanced mayor who always thinks the ideas are brilliant. The show, which uses minimal animation and some live action, pokes fun at small town politics and the kind of low-rent ideas which sometimes spawn from it. It is by far one of my favorite Adult Swim shows, and I think its humor is far removed, and light years ahead, from anything else out there right now. Of course, some people think the show is pretty lousy, but that's how this crazy dirtball keeps a-spinnin'. Hells yeah.