Top 10 Oprah Protégés

The New York Post has reported that Dr. Anne Dranitsaris, a Toronto psychotherapist, could be in line to become Oprah’s next media darling. If the tabloid is right, she’s just the latest in a long line of professionals whose …

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FX's Former Lawman Gets Justified

FX announced its midseason schedule today. On tap: Archer, Damages and Nip/Tuck (doesn’t it feel like Nip/Tuck is always returning?) in January; a new Louis C.K. comedy, Louie, in the spring; and in March, the much-anticipated (by me, anyway) Timothy Olyphant drama, once called Lawman, which will now be titled Justified.

Looking forward …

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TV Tonight: Scrubs Returns, Sort Of

 

Tonight at 9 p.m., something with the name Scrubs will air on ABC. Bill Lawrence, creator of the sitcom that debuted back in 2001 on NBC, gave the show a send-off of sorts last spring, before it was saved from certain death again. Lawrence says he considers the returned Scrubs—which focuses on a crop of med students—a “new …

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Not On TV Tonight: A Charlie Brown Christmas

 

A public-service reminder: A Charlie Brown Christmas, originally scheduled to air tonight, has been rescheduled for Dec. 15, because President Obama is addressing the nation on his Afghanistan policy. Did his secret-madrassa-brainwashing program him to systematically take out Christian holiday icons on assuming the Presidency? I …

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The Morning After: Music vs. Lyrics

It’s December rerun season, which meant that last night was time for me to rediscover the fact that NBC programs TV shows on Monday night. Having fallen out of touch with Heroes—which from a casual viewing seems to have evolved into some kind of quasi-Carnivale with T-Bag from Prison Break—it’s probably not fair for me to judge; …

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Today Lands a Tell-None Interview With the Salahis

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This morning the White House crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, took their fame-n-shame tour to the Today show, where they told Matt Lauer that they were in fact invited guests at last month’s state dinner and revealed that… um, that someday they would reveal something. But man, when …