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Hoda Kotb, left, and Kathie Lee Gifford are co-hosts of the fourth hour of the “Today” show — the “pink slime of news and information,” according to AP TV critic Frazier Moore. (AP/NBC Universal file)

How to find joy in watching TV you hate

All this time I've been hate-watching and I never even knew it. Turns out, "hate-watch" is a fancy term for watching shows you don't like but get perverse satisfaction from.
May 24, 2012 12:05 AM
Hugh Laurie stars as Dr. Gregory House in the two-hour “House” series finale event airing tonight on Fox. (Fox)

Laurie makes his last 'House' call

Here's where we stand as one of TV's premiere dramas of the past decade comes to an end tonight. Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) must return to jail for six months, while Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) will likely be dead from cancer in five months.
May 21, 2012 12:05 AM
New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, center, stands with "Saturday Night Live" cast member Andy Samberg, right, and singer Rihanna during a taping for promos for the upcoming "Saturday Night Live" show May 5. (AP | NBC/Dana Edelson)

As 'SNL' season ends, signs of change

How can "Saturday Night Live" possibly replace (fill in the blank)? How many times have we asked that question across nearly four decades?
May 18, 2012 12:05 AM
Radio talk-show host Howard Stern is the newest judge on NBC's "America's Got Talent." (AP | Evan Agostini)

Stern makes sweet debut on 'America's Got Talent'

The big news in the seventh -- seventh! -- season of NBC's "America's Got Talent" is the arrival of new judge Howard Stern, the self-proclaimed "king of all media," a claim that may or may not be taken as ironic.
May 17, 2012 12:05 AM
Marcia Cross, left, and Scott Bakula are shown with, from right, Eva Longoria, Felicity Huffman and Teri Hatcher in a scene from the series finale of "Desperate Housewives." (AP/ABC)

'Housewives' says farewell with grace and humor

There was nothing desperate about this finale. ABC's "Desperate Housewives" concluded its rocky, racy and macabre eight-season run with a tidy, affectionate send-off.
May 14, 2012 10:47 AM

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