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more about #television more comments → Jackie Yoshi: Finally someone who gets it! I think Jillian is a major bitch, and she's blaming the fat people for taking it too far. When you have psychotic raging ... more » unfuckwithable: What, no Watch, TiVo, Kill breakdown? more » lostarchitect: Oh, I don't know. "Doctor Frumpykins, Esquire" sounds like a pretty good name for an English bulldog, if you ask me. more » skt.smth: Please, please let the developmentally challenged kid's father be played by Chris Burke (Corky from "Life Goes On") so we can have an unexpected and c... more » BxgrlJeri: I do not know why dogs, who are innately wonderful, are saving Christmas, which is innately horrible. more » Banjo-Sea Kitten: Foster, I hate to get all Christmasy on your ass at this early date, but I'm going with "A Dog Named Christmas" and here's why. First of all, you you... more » Atilla the Bun: The golden retrievers in that picture are going to hella pissed that you are suggesting they are in fact labrador retrievers, their prime inter-specie... more » Adah: So what I'm taking away from this is that Foster hates Christmas and puppies. God, New York really does make people evil. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: The Dog Who Saved Kwanzaa more » VoxPopuli: People - can we all agree at least that Jillian Michaels looks like an itty-bitty dick centered between those giant balls? Yeah, thought I'd stop by a... more » raincoaster: Wow, smell all the earnestness in the comments section! How do I get back to Gawker from here? more » SidAndFinancy: It appears she's changed proctologists since her Today show days. more » OrneryBabe: No, not Pat Kiernan! I love In the Papers! more » gloria70: @TheBusinessGuy It's all about will? No - not for everyone. Obesity isn't caused by one thing and for some better nutrition and exercise are the key... more » heywhat: I always thought the Biggest Loser was heavily edited. I thought there is no way this show would take dangerously obese people who have been sitting o... more » -
#killyourtelevision
Christmas-Saving Dogs Fight Raging Battle Royale For Prime-Time Network Domination
Tomorrow night, a TV ratings battle for the ages. Two dogs, on two different networks, will attempt to save Christmas. In doing so, they will demonstrate the completely brainsucking, disturbingly palpable lack of originality in television programming. New lows, ahead. More » -
#fitness
Biggest Loser: Basically Killing Fat People for Your Amusement
Most obese Americans, meaning most Americans, have given up hope of ever losing that weight unless they can land a spot as a contestant on NBC's Biggest Loser. Unfortunately, Biggest Loser is made of 100% evil. More » -
#curses
NY1 Anchors 2/3 of the Way to Terrible Trend
NY1 news anchors: Cursed? Portly (former) political anchor Dominic Carter ruined his own career by beating his wife and trying to squirm out of it by name-dropping. Now, another anchor's dad is critically injured in a crack pipe fire. More » -
#dancingqueen
Katie Couric's Forbidden Dance of Gin
When CBS News anchor Katie Couric isn't asking Sarah Palin gotcha questions, she's doin' Da Butt, or the Lambada, or whatever white ladies do when the Black Eyed Peas are on the sound system. More unbelievable images after the jump. More » -
#crime
Dominic Carter Guilty, Still Screwed
Cursed NY1 political anchor Dominic Carter was found guilty of assaulting his wife on Friday, after a judge called his wife's last-minute "an unidentified man did it" reversal "preposterous." Carter spent the weekend being screwed by fate, and the media. More » -
#mediacrack
German Newspaper Feud Gets Penis-y
In your ferocious Friday media column: Newspaper wars in Germany are of another breed, another high school paper censored for dumb reasons, more on the BusinessWeek layoffs, and George Stephanopoulos' fluff chops questioned. More » -
#resignations
Oprah to Fans: I'm Quitting My Show Because My Bones Told Me To
Here's a clip from Oprah Winfrey's on-air announcement that she's putting the Oprah Winfrey Show out to pasture: "Why walk away, and make next season the last? Here is the real reason: [T]wenty-five years feels right in my bones." -
#television
Is Ricky Van Veen Spending Too Much Time with Ben Silverman?
Ricky Van Veen announced the production schedule for his brand-new TV studio, and it would appear the CollegeHumor founder believes the future of the small screen lies in the past, because he's unleashing a mess of game shows. More » -
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#thefuture
Everything Bad About the Web Was Once Said About Television
This 1945 pamphlet on the "Future of Television" is awesome. But who would have thought we'd be having the same tired discussion 65 years later? The table of contents is a template for every contemporary new media debate: More » -
#talkingheads
Does John King Hate Mexicans Enough to Fill Lou Dobbs' Shoes?
No, he does not. But CNN will replace the departing Lou Dobbs with mild-mannered touchscreen jockey John King, doubling-down on the admirable straight-news strategy that has catapulted it to the bottom of the cable news race. More » -
#crime
Balloon Boy's Parents to Plead Guilty to Hoaxing America's Cable News Personalities
Richard and Mayumi Heene, the parents of that cute vomiting boy who did not get lost in the air in a balloon, will plead guilty tomorrow to charges that they concocted the story in order to become famous, which happened. More » -
#layoffs
Al Gore's TV Network Firing 80 People Due to Wild Success
Current Media said it would shed 80 people, confirming earlier reports, and will make its unconventional format more boringly traditional. This might sound bad. But the San Francisco cable network assures us it is evidence of amazing success! More » -
#television
The Beginning of the End of the Jay Leno Experiment
In their quest to reshape television, NBC passed a critical milestone on the way to the primetime experiment's end this week — ratings fell below their own ridiculously low benchmarks to judge the show's success. Now the format's being reworked. More » -
#hype
How ABC News' Brian Ross Cooked His 'Hasan Contacted Al Qaeda' Scoop
ABC News' Brian Ross has a breathtaking record of recklessly inaccurate, overhyped stories that don't live up to the headline. His scoop yesterday about Nidal Malik Hasan's "attempt to reach out to al Qaeda" was one of them. More » -
#mediacrack
Computer Zombies Pity Television Zombies
In your typical Tuesday media column: Americans are zombie slaves to various screens, journalists will compromise for money like everyone else in the world, Indymedia tells the Justice Department to fuck off, and your comically mean reporter of the day. More » -
#madmen
Mad Men's Season Finale: Everyone Gets Eaten By A Dinosaur, And Don Is Pregnant.
The Most Successfully Boring Show In The History Of Television's season finale: tonight. NY Mag's has a nice viewers guide to watching it. The only real character suspense is how long before they go away. Spoiler: their lives suck. [Vulture] -
#feuds
Why Keith Olbermann Didn't Literally Kill Sean Hannity at This Baseball Game
Keith Olbermann and Sean Hannity snapped cutesy pictures of one another at a World Series game, even though Hannity's boss Rupert Murdoch just yesterday said there was a nasty "personal" feud going between the TV opinion hosts. He wishes. More » -
#oprah
Oprah Reportedly Ready to Walk Away from Her Show
If this pans out, it's a huge showbiz announcement. Nikki Finke has posted that Oprah Winfrey has decided to give up her CBS-syndicated show and move her eponymous daytime chat show to her own cable network. More » -
#pressreleaseoftheday
'Tune In to Find Out What Sex Is Like for Lauren and What 2 Vaginas Looks Like!'
PR is a discipline that demands the delicate touch of a surgeon and the sober judgment of a sober judge. You can't just wildly issue press releases like, "Hey, We Got a Lady With Two Vaginas Here!" Or can you? More » -
#mediacrack
Now Everybody Talk about Terrible Washington Post Stories
In your alluring Tuesday media column: An emerging catalogue of WaPo Styles fuckery, Russia has this whole "journalism" thing nailed, nothing about The Onion is funny except the actual words, and "Twenty ten" means you're gay. More »
