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With DVR viewership on the rise and ad viewing down (‘though not as much as originally feared), networks and advertisers are working to find new ways to sell products to viewers. Product placement has been around almost from the dawn of TV, but it’s usually so awkwardly executed that it detracts from the show and draws ire from viewers. Recent …

After eight seasons of solving other people’s mysteries, Adrian Monk finally gets closure on the greatest mystery of his career tonight when the truth about Trudy’s death is revealed in the Monk series finale. Part one of the finale saw Monk poisoned with three days to live unless the toxin can be identified and an antidote administered. Unfortunately, the man …

Start your holiday TV viewing off tonight with Frosty’s Winter Wonderland, then sit tight as ABC Family begins their Harry Potter weekend. An all-star cast lends its talents to this Christmas special shot in “animagic” (stop-motion animated puppetry). Everyone’s favorite snowman, Frosty, plans to marry, but not if the evil Jack Frost can help it. Can the children save Frosty …

Please join us in congratulating our first Nice Boy in December, Tim DeKay! Tim has become a favorite with Nice Girls since USA’s White Collar became such a hit. His character is paired so perfectly with Matt Bomer’s Neal Caffrey. Theater-goers are well acquainted with Tim’s work on the stage. On Broadway, he was seen in The Show-Off; off Broadway, …

This holiday season the Academy Award-winning team of Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Cast Away) reunite for The Polar Express, an inspiring adventure based on the beloved Caldecott Medal children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg. When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that …

Tonight’s 25 Days of Christmas belongs to Pixar. So gather the kiddies ’round the television and get ready for a fun-filled night of Walt Disney Pictures Presents “Pixar Short Films”. The program includes the following twenty film shorts: Presto Lifted Jack-Jack Attack BURN-E Unidentified Flying Mater Adventures of Andre and Wally B. Boundin For the Birds Geri’s Game Knick Knack …

In a bit of a surprising move, USA is switching their original programming from Thursday, Friday and Sunday nights to Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday come January. Although the schedule could change again before the shows premiere, for now USA Network shows that White Collar will return for the second half of its first season on Tuesday, January 19 at 10/9c, …

I started to post this news last night, but I just didn’t have the heart to, and a small part of me still hoped it wouldn’t be true. Then, I kept reading conflicting stories: “Three Rivers pulled immediately from Sunday night lineup”; “Three Rivers to air in later time slot”; “Three Rivers to finish out season”; and similar news items. …

ABC Family will begin its annual 25 Days of Christmas programming, tonight, with two versions of the Santa Claus story to delight and entertain your family. Beginning at 7 p.m., Mrs. Claus gets to tell her story in The Year Without A Santa Claus. Mrs. Claus narrates this memorable children’s classic about the time she almost donned her husband’s famous …

Virgil Minelli retired as CBI boss, leaving an opening that The Mentalist showrunners filled with the lovely and very talented Aunjanue Ellis. Most recently known by Nice Girls as the dangerously nasty Diane, the vampire that wanted to chew on Sookie Stackhouse in the first season of HBO’s mega-hit series, True Blood. Ellis joins the cast in a pivotal episode …