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Sanjaya the Trojan wasn't the only looney on TV
Filed under: FOX, OpEd, American Idol, Music and Variety, Watercooler Talk, FX, VH1, Dirt, News and Gossip  Sanjaya has turned American Idol into a hair competition with himself. Many people have used the term mohawk but Sanjaya actually resembled more of a fighting Trojan. If anyone can find a comparable picture to prove this please send my way. Sanjaya cannot get all the attention for looney television moments, so we will move on to other TV's Top 5! moments.
Last night, Tori "I want to be Jessica Simpson" Spelling...
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Jack Black brings TV and the Web together
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Web, VH1  Julia told everyone about the new VH1 series The Department of Acceptable Media starring Jack Black back in November, and now there's a little more information available, such as when the heck the show will debut (March 23). Oh yeah, and it's not called The Department of Acceptable Media, anymore, it's simply called Acceptable TV.
The new series will feature several three-minute shorts in one episode, some created by regular folks like you and me, and some created by Jack Black and pals. Viewers will vote on which shows to dump and which ones to keep. If that sounds an...
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BET and VH1 join forces for Wifey
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Cable, Programming, VH1  VH1 and BET, both Viacom-owned channels, are splitting production costs and sharing airtime for a new series called Wifey, a drama set inside the hip-hop business. Queen Latifah is on board as a producer through her company Flavor Unit (which would also be a cool name for a restaurant, but I digress). Production on the series kicks off next month.
A pilot for the series has been ordered, and if it gets picked up for a full season the episodes will air simultaneously on both VH1 and BET, presumably to woo people interested in black culture and people interested...
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Zach Galifianakis dances with KFed - VIDEO
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Video, Celebrities, VH1  Did you know that comedian Zach Galifianakis and Kevin Federline have a history? Oh, it's not nearly as sordid as the Britney-Kevin history, but in some ways it's much more entertaining and a lot less pathetic.
On his website, Zach recently posted a link to this video on YouTube that shows Kevin Federline as one of the dancers on Zach's short-lived show, Late World with Zach. Why were there dancers on Zach's show? Well, it was all part of a sketch to announce the cancellation of Zach's...
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VH1 nabs Armed & Famous
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, VH1  CBS dumped Armed & Famous this week after airing four episodes, but now it's going where it belongs: VH1. The 'reality' series stars has-been and pseudo-celebrities like Jack Osbourne, Wee Man, La Toya Jackson, Erik Estrada and Trish Stratus. They all become cadets and go out on the road with real cops in Muncie, Indiana (which commenters tell me isn't that small of a town after all).
VH1 will air a marathon of Armed & Famous on Saturday, topped off with a new episode (#5) at 9 pm. VH1 says it doesn't actually have episodes 6 & 7 but it will...
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TV's Top 5!: Even Jack Bauer needs to know his Dad
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, FOX, 24, The Apprentice, VH1, Heroes  If you ever wanted to learn what happens when sibling rivalry goes very wrong, we had Jack Bauer teach us a thing or two in last night's episode of 24. Next time my teenage brother doesn't tell me where my Dad is, I'm gonna keep this clip* on my video Ipod to show him how lucky he is that he isn't a Bauer.
24 has introduced Jack Bauer's meaning of nuclear, not once but twice this season. First time in the big kaboom manner, and secondly in the...
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The Five: The reality shows you should be watching
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Cable, OpEd, The Five, The CW, Discovery, MTV, VH1  Reality shows are an easy target. At their worst, they combine narcissistic competitors in a state of arrested development with manipulative editing and piss poor production values. They are base, coarse, often times racist and tedious beyond belief. They bring out the worst in us - our collective desire to see other people humiliated.
Fortunately, all reality shows are not the same. I mean, would Tim Gunn be involved in anything that wasn't a class act?...
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Everybody Hates Chris marathon on VH1
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Everybody Hates Chris, Celebrities, The CW, VH1  Last night I had to play detective. Seriously, I was like Encyclopedia "Mother-F'n" Brown. I was all, like, solvin' shtuff.
I'll explain: I was poking through ye olde Tivo seeing if there was anything on worth recording, and I noticed it had some reruns of Everybody Hates Chris listed on VH1. That's odd, since the show airs on the CW. I hopped on my computer and went to VH1's site, but there was no mention of it at all. If you look at the schedule, it lists "VH1 Special"...
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Zach and K-Fed - VIDEO
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Late Night, Web, Celebrities, VH1  Some of you may remember a very short-lived show on VH1 called Late World with Zach, hosted by comedian Zach Galafianakis. The series ran in 2002 for eleven episodes. Zach would later appear in the television series Tru Calling and the Comedy Central reality series Comedians of Comedy. Late World was, as far as I know, VH1's first and only attempt at a late night talk show. You can find several clips of the show on YouTube, of course, but the one I posted below is especially wonderful because not only is...
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SpongeBong the banned
Filed under: Animation, Web, VH1  File this under: If I Haven't Seen It, It's New To Me.
A couple years ago, Camp Chaos created a cartoon for VH1's ILL-ustrated that never made it to air. One would assume "SpongeBong HempPants" was never shown due to its blatant advocacy of drug use, or maybe it wasn't shown because it's just not that good. The shorts can be found on YouTube, and perhaps smoking a few doobies can make them seem funnier than they really are, but it's ultimately one stretched-out joke that wasn't that funny to begin with. Wouldn't it be hilarious if SpongeBob and his pals not...
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