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The Week in Gaming News

The Week in Gaming News

Our round-up of notable news from the world of gaming for the week of June 27, 2011....  read more

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Jon Stewart Raps His Opinion on the Common Controversy

Jon Stewart Raps His Opinion on the Common Controversy

FOX News been extremely verbal about their distaste for Common’s invite to the White House, and The Daily Show host Jon Stewart recently expressed his distaste for their unfounded claims with some verbal stylings of his own....  read more

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The 20 Best Non-Fiction TV Shows of 2010

The 20 Best Non-Fiction TV Shows of 2010

So much "Reality" programming represents the lowest common denominator of our culture, but the abundance of non-fiction programming has also produced some surprisingly great TV.  read more

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The 20 Best TV Shows of 2010

The 20 Best TV Shows of 2010

TV has never been worse with an over-reliance on reality shows that seem to be in a race to sink as low as possible. But it's also never been better with more and more networks investing in original well-scripted, cinematic series and sitcoms that don't depend on tired gags and canned laughter.  read more

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Jon Stewart to Grill George Lucas In Awesomest Interview Ever

Jon Stewart to Grill George Lucas In Awesomest Interview Ever

Convention nerds, rejoice!...  read more

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Colbert and Stewart Elect to Stay with Comedy Central Through 2012 Election

Colbert and Stewart Elect to Stay with Comedy Central Through 2012 Election

Curmudgeonly elders disappointed with the college youth’s lack of current events knowledge, rejoice! Unless, of course, the fact that many twenty-somethings cite The Daily Show as their primary news source makes your grumpy. Comedy Central has renewed both its faux-news shows through the 2012 election season, The Daily Show contract going into June 2013....  read more

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Faux News is Good News

Faux News is Good News

Over the last decade, the newspaper industry has buckled. Three of network TV’s longest-running and most trusted news anchors (Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather) have disappeared from the airwaves. And cable news has become consumed by talking heads paid to eternally bicker as if trapped in some earthbound Purgatory, a place where opinion and hearsay are subtly suggested to be fact, and where it’s policy to cut away from coverage of the day’s most important issues to follow a live car chase on the L.A. freeway....  read more

Found in: Culture, Features

John Oliver's TV Show to Feature Eugene Mirman, Paul F. Tompkins, Janeane Garofalo, Many More

John Oliver's TV Show to Feature Eugene Mirman, Paul F. Tompkins, Janeane Garofalo, Many More

Comedy Central certainly can recognize when it’s found talent. First, it spun off the popular Stephen Colbert into his own Colbert Report, propelled from his success on The Daily Show. Now, the cable network has offered another one of Jon Stewart’s correspondents the chance to go solo....  read more

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Readers' Picks: Best TV Shows of the Decade

Readers' Picks: Best TV Shows of the Decade

We spent a lot of time brainstorming, voting, arguing and refining our list of The 20 Best TV Shows of the Decade. But, of course, we got it wrong. Here’s what our readers chose as the 10 Best TV Shows of the Decade:...  read more

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The 20 Best TV Shows of the Decade (2000-2009)

The 20 Best TV Shows of the Decade (2000-2009)

This list of 20 phenomenal TV shows from 2000-2009 reinforces our belief that the young millennium has launched a new Golden Age of Television.  read more

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