Michael Shain
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‘Arrested Development’ reactions are tweet and sour
Which do you want first — the bad news or the good news about “Arrested Development”? The TV comedy that died seven years ago, but came back to life over...
Street justice
CBS’ controversial new series — shot behind the scenes at the Brooklyn DA’s office — is supposed to be about the ugly, unforgiving streets of the city’s biggest borough. But...
Brooklyn TV show stars a killer
The controversial new summer series, “Brooklyn DA,” released its first video tease late yesterday — showing that the series will follow a murder case and the prosecution of a violent...
Heading uptown: ‘Idol’ winner ‘arrives’ in New York
Newly minted “American Idol” winner Candice Glover saw her first subway yesterday — and is not so sure she liked it. “I’d heard the subways were noisy and there were...
Idol winner goes underground
Candice Glover needs your help. The newly minted “American Idol” winner — who is making her first visit to New York today — wants to see her first Broadway show....
A new ‘Idol’
‘American Idol” gave fans one final look last night at the show that dominated a decade. It now seems certain that, after 12 seasons, the show will undergo a major...
Restaurant owners featured on 'Kitchen Nightmares' have online meltdown
Restaurant owners Amy and Samy Bouzaglo were so outrageous, Gordon Ramsay saved them for his final “Kitchen Nightmares” show of the year. They allegedly pocketed waiters’ tips, cursed out and...
Baba: Time to wetire
After 60 years in journalism, legendary broadcaster Barbara Walters is finally pulling the plug on her TV career. The 83-year-old Walters said revealed to viewers of her daytime show, “The...
From reality to real-life rat
He was a “Mama’s Boy” with a starring role in a reality-TV show this time last year. But these days, Anthony Zoccolillo is starring in a real-life Mafia drug case....
Last hurrah for ‘Elmo’ at the Emmys
Kevin Clash, the puppeteer who voiced Elmo but was driven out of his job by an underage-sex scandal, made a surprise appearance yesterday. Not in person — but on the...
Fans review Day 1 of online ‘AMC’ & ‘OLTL’
Just before dawn yesterday, a small piece of TV history was made — two old-line soap operas, “All My Children” and “One Life to Live,” came back to life. On...
Twitter users lash out at ESPN for Boston bombings coverage
ESPN’s hyper-active Twitter site was turned into a battleground yesterday when it was taken over by fans who objected to the sports channel devoting airtime to the Boston Marathon bombings....
Never go to lunch with Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain is very amused. He has just come back from having lunch with Anderson Cooper, a famously picky eater, at Yakitori Toto, the second-floor Japanese place on the West...
MSNBC deliberately riling up Rush with latest kids ad?
Left-leaning MSNBC has stirred up a hornets’ nest of controversy with a new promo that implies children don’t belong to their families — but to “whole communities” instead. Melissa Harris-Perry,...
Hey, you 30 Rock, Fallon!
Jimmy Fallon will deliver his “Tonight Show” monologues from a state-of-the-art studio, complete with a balcony, that will fit a larger audience than Jay Leno’s. Within weeks, construction crews at...
Comic reliever as Jay exits
Heeere’s Jimmy! TV’s worst-kept secret became official yesterday when NBC announced that longtime “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno is hanging up his microphone to make way for Jimmy Fallon. “Congratulations,...
Meet the food consultant behind 'Hannibal'
It takes a strong stomach to hire a “food consultant” for a TV show about cannibalism. But one of the most delicious parts of the upcoming TV version of “Hannibal”...
Reports say Barbara Walters will retire next year
Barbara Walters is calling it a day. The most famous TV interviewer of all time is retiring next year, according to reports — ending a career that began when having...
NBC ‘ban’ on tweet by Curry
The morning TV-show wars have grown so nasty and bitter that former “Today” host Ann Curry was prohibited from tweeting a best-wishes message to rival anchor Robin Roberts last fall...
Brooklyn DA gets his close up
Just in time to catch the case of a man who spent 23 years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit, CBS has begun filming a behind-the-scenes crime series...