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Because he came out of a more iconic band in Nirvana, Dave Grohl's subsequent project, Foo Fighters, struggled to be considered in that realm. But after 14 years of turning out hits, earning Grammys and entertaining thousands on tour, he's ready to talk about it in a new edition of "VH1 ...
Drama
There's something warm and nostalgic about the Beatles music that suits the holidays. So the Paul McCartney special Thanksgiving Night was so welcome. The music is great, and his band is almost clinically exacting at reproducing the sound of songs the band itselv never played live. ...
Other
Paul Rudd
Because last year's door busters turned out to actually busting doors and killing a guy at Wal Mart, stores are spreading out the madness this year, by either opening early, offering Black Friday discounts way before Black Friday, putting all the discounts online or sidestepping the opening ...
Other
Jack Black
Any event organized by a department store to lead crowds to its doors shouldn't be chided for being overly commercial. Commercial is what it's all about.
But there was something about the 83rd Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade that made every second seem sponsor-driven. Every balloon ...
Reality
NBC Universal
As the holiday hype rises to jangle the nerves, music seems the perfect antidote to cloying seasonal TV movies and three different concerts are scheduled tonight, determined to snap you of your tryptophan stupor.
Chief among them is "Paul McCartney: 'Good Evening New York City'" (ABC, 10 ...
Reality
ABC
Venezuelan born Karen Hauer, 27, the Latin ballroom dancer from Fort Lee, N.J., and her partner Victor Smalley, 20, the contemporary dancer of Miami, were cut from "So You Think You Can Dance" Wednesday as judges unveiled the season's Top Ten on network TV's last remaining dance competition ...
Reality
Charles Dance
Victor Garber
So You Think You Can Dance
"The Colin McEnroe Show," which began as a 13-week experiment on WNPR in August, has been renewed for a second 13 weeks.
Tough to think that it was never a done-deal, but McEnroe apparently had to beat the streets to drum up his own sponsors, and will have to keep doing so every ...
Other
Adam Lambert said Wednesday he had "no clue, no clue at all" his randy performance at the American Music Awards would touch off a firestorm such that "Good Morning America" canceled a planned interview (and CBS' "Early Show" promptly took advantage).
"I did get carried away, but I don't see ...
Reality
Adam Lambert
One of the most unusual stories in jazz was the decades-long relationship of Thelonious Monk with that of millionaire heiress Pannonica Rothschild, who went on to inspire a number of his songs. Hannah Rothschild, great-niece of the influential woman known as Nica looks into the story in "The ...
Comedy
Fox released the dates for its midseason shows and in addition to starts for such anticipated returns as "American Idol" Jan. 12 and "24" Jan. 17, it also included some big gaps in the seasons for two other series.
The popular "Glee," for example, will show its last new episode Dec. 9 and not ...
Drama
American Idol
24
Glee
Fringe
Human Target
Former teen idol Donny Osmond was upset winner on "Dancing with the Stars" Tuesday, bypassing the singer Mya, who had consistantly higher judges scores through the season.
Osmond's success with partner Kym Johnson came late in the season. He only earned his first perfect 30 scores Monday ...
Reality
Dancing With The Stars
Kym Johnson
Rudy Pauls of Brooklyn, Conn., secured a place in "The Biggst Loser" final four Tuesday even as he set a record for total weight loss in the 11 weeks on the show -- 146 pounds, dropping from 442 to 296.
His latest loss of 12 pounds this week put him under 300 pounds for the first time, though ...
Other
Joanna Going
The "Glee" phenomenon spreads to other networks next month as a four-night event on NBC, "The Sing Off," will pit competing a cappella groups from across the country for a cash prize and recording contract.
Nick Lachey, who hosted a similar holiday showdown two years ago called "Clash of the ...
Comedy
Glee
Jason Lee
Donny Osmond has a career long fanbase, but the lowest judges scores recently. Mya's star as a recording artist has faded a little, but she's way ahead on judges' scoreboards. And Kelly Osbourne is just cute.
One of the three will take home the meaningless mirror ball trophy in tonight's ...
Reality
Charles Dance
The most successful show on TLC ended Monday with a whimper - that of Kate Gosselin saying she thought it shouldn't have ended this way.
"I never had a clear picture about how it would end," she said in one her many couch interviews on the last episode of "Jon and Kate Plus Eight." "But I ...
Reality
TLC
Kate Gosselin
Jon Gosselin
If you need to test out how well your eyes can produce tears, you can chop some onions. Or you can watch the new "Find My Family," a show that may have the most tears of any in network history. The subjects, looking for a daughter given up for adoption, are crying throughout. So is the ...
Reality
For the last night of performances on "Dancing with the Stars" Monday, Donny Osmond got his first perfect score for his freestyle, while leader Mya only got 27 of 30 for her freestyle, done to "Hairspray."
But Mya had previously scored her third perfect 30 for her opening paso doble and out ...
Reality
Charles Dance
Dancing With The Stars
It sounds like a Christmas special, along the lines of "The Year without Santa."
But the Month Without Regis, beginning Dec. 1, will be taken by the 78 year old talk show host so he can recover from some planned hip surgery. (The surgery will make him more hip, co-host Kelly Ripa ...
News/Talk
Kelly Ripa
January Jones
Late Show with David Letterman
A holiday special that suits my sensibility perfectly (if only because I am probably as curmudgeonly) is "Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black" (History, 8 p.m.), done in a "I Love the 80s" style such that a number of mostly comics riff on their takes on traditions and their own memories of ...
Drama
Charles Dance
Jack Black
In the big battle at Sunday's American Music Awards, between the live teen and dead 50-year- old, Taylor Swift just edged Michael Jackson as artist of the year. The 19-year-old queen of country, who swept the CMT Awards recently, stayed up till past 3 a.m. in England to give her live ...
