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by State School Elitist

Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump are feuding. Apparently it is uncertain who is least overrated.

Free Friday Night Lights and 30 Rock on iTunes for the holidays. I am always skeptical that methods like this can improve ratings, but it worked for The Office, so why not? NBC knows they have a good product in FNL, mine as well promote it.

G4, the cable network that picked up Arrested Development for syndication, is having an eleven hour marathon of the series on Christmas day.

Now that Air America is all but Bankrupt, Janeane Garofalo has signed onto an untitled CBS drama.

What in the world is Bryan Singer doing too his career? From Usual Suspects too X-men to this? I never saw it, but was Superman Returns that bad?

TBS has extended My Boys to 22 episodes. I watched like ten minutes of this show last night. Without getting into specifics, we’ll just say it’s formulaic and leave it at that.

As much as I praise The Wire, here is a Baltimore school teacher whose opinion isn’t so laudatory.

Even though Cook Islands was a fantastic Survivor season, the finale recorded the lowest ratings in the history of the franchise.

This would be a fantastic course to take. Unfortunately, I did not go to UCLA.

I like Jimmy Kimmel, but given the mediocrity of his typical ratings performance he is following The Oscars for the second year in a row. How does he manage to fail upward? He’s like the Isiah Thomas of Late Night Television.

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