14 TV Shows We Want Back
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The end of the formal television season has spurred yet more network culling this week. Samantha Who?, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Eleventh Hour, Cupid, Everybody Hates Chris, Reaper, and Privileged are among the shows not coming back. Every year, great shows get canceled too soon. We look back at a few of our favorites.
Everything You Need to Know About the Upfronts
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Advertisers walk out on Jay Leno, Fox execs confess financial difficulties (but renew the hardly watched Dollhouse for fear of angering its tiny cult following), and ABC places its bet on comedy: new, unheard-of comedy-and lots of it. Kim Masters reports from this week's television upfronts.
12 Best and Worst TV Musicals
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Fox is previewing its new, musically inspired fall show Glee after American Idol in hopes of hooking fans early. But this isn't the first show to be inspired by Broadway-here's a look at some other television shows that have tried (and occasionally failed) to capture the magic of the Great White Way.
Will Your Favorite Shows Be Canceled?
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
The economics of television have changed this year, Kim Masters reports. Now season finales of shows like Chuck, Dollhouse, and My Name Is Earl may actually be series finales.
TV's Next Great Leading Man
Kara Cutruzzula is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Castle's leading man Nathan Fillion on what he knows about the supersecret Star Trek film (and the Serenity sequel), why a Canadian can never be Captain America, and the highly-anticipated return of Dr. Horrible.
Will TV Slay Joss Whedon?
Joel Keller is the editor in chief of the AOL blog TV Squad. His writing about pop culture, food, and travel has appeared in the New York Times, New Jersey Monthly, Cinematical, and Radar Online. Even after writing about TV for five years, he still hasn't figured out how to write off a 50" plasma TV on his taxes.
Television's premier geek auteur, Buffy creator Joss Whedon, on why his new series, Dollhouse, isn't another Firefly, how Eliza Dushku found her inner Meryl Streep, and when Dr. Horrible will sing again.
This winter, scripted television returns with a vengeance. From wacky new dramedies like United States of Tara and Trust Me, to the edutainment revival of The Electric Company, to the reprise of mega-hits Lost and 24, there's nearly-but not quite-too much to watch. The Daily Beast previews the best-and warns of the worst. By Miriam Datskovsky.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Lynn Sherr is a former ABC News correspondent, author of Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words and Tall Blondes, a book about giraffes. She is also co-editor of Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life. Her most recent book, a memoir—Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News—is out in paperback.
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