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Burbank-based KCET announces merger with satellite network Link TV
KCET is writing the next chapter in its story: a merger with satellite network Link TV. Formerly the Los Angeles area's PBS flagship, KCET will merge with Link to form KCETLink, "a powerful new independent public transmedia company that acquires,...
Tags: DirecTV Group Inc., Los Angeles Times, Scott Collins
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KCET comes to town
The Pointe has been a Burbank landmark for all the wrong reasons — a gleaming 14-story blue glass structure finished in 2009 that has been nearly empty since it opened. But that’s about to change, with comic book superhero factory D.C....
Tags: Scientology, Walt Disney, Superman (fictional character), Rental Service, Entertainment
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Burb's Eye View: It's getting easier to find the right genes
The steps leading down to the quiet storefront added to the intimidation. He remembers it not as a cellar, exactly, but it was a small, dense room underneath the street-level life pulsing away in the evening. Leo Myers, then just a teen, approached the...Tags: Slavery, Genes and Chromosomes, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Research
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'American Horror Story,' 'Big Bang Theory' top Critics' Choice bids
The critics have spoken: horror, geeks and HBO make for some good TV. The nominations for the third annual Critics' Choice Television Awards were announced Wednesday morning by the Broadcast Television Journalists Assn. -- and FX's "American Horror...Tags: Southland (tv program), Justified (tv program), The Simpsons (tv program), The Newsroom (tv program), Suburgatory (tv program)
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Kids' shows with local actors get Daytime Emmy nominations
TV WatchersThree children's shows with Lehigh Valley connections have received nominations for Daytime Emmy Awards. The awards will be presented live from 8 to 10 p.m. June 16 on HLN. The creative Daytime Emmy awards will be given out June 14...... -
CBS pulls 'Mike & Molly' season finale due to Oklahoma tornado
Monday's Oklahoma tornado has already affected prime time, with CBS pulling the season finale of the sitcom "Mike & Molly." Titled "Windy City," the episode uses a fictional tornado that threatens Chicago as a plot point. "[A]s a tornado descends on...
Tags: Tornadoes, Weather, Mike & Molly (tv program), CBS Corp., Haven (tv program)
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Carol Burnett to receive Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
Carol Burnett, the trailblazing comedienne whose variety show was a top draw on CBS for over a decade, was named the winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Tuesday. Burnett, 80, will receive the award in an Oct. 20 in a ceremony to be...
Tags: Entertainment Events, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Kennedy Center Honors, Mark Twain, Sarah Palin
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'CBS This Morning' anchor Charlie Rose gets new PBS weekend show
Because anchoring “CBS This Morning” five times a week in addition to hosting his own nightly talk show apparently isn’t enough for Charlie Rose, the ubiquitous TV personality will launch a new show this July on PBS, the network...Tags: Charlie Rose, CBS Corp., Downton Abbey (tv program), Television, Entertainment
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Memorial Day 2013 TV programming and marathons
Channel Guide MagazineMemorial Day 2013 in the United States is Monday, May 27. Leading up to and including that day, over Memorial Day 2013 weekend, there will TV programs remembering veterans; special programming of other sorts; and also several programming marathons of... -
Science Channel to tackle the cicada invasion
They've been waiting underground for 17 years, and now cicadas are emerging en masse to take over the eastern half of the United States. Right now, billions of the Brood II cicadas are emerging from the ground and are making big noise all up and down...
Tags: Memorial Day, Science Channel (tv network), Arrested Development (tv program) , CBS Corp.
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Review: 'Mel Brooks: Make a Noise' on PBS' 'American Masters'
Los Angeles Times Television Critic"Do I get paid for this?" says Mel Brooks at the end of Robert Trachtenberg's biographical documentary, "Mel Brooks: Make a Noise," premiering Monday as part of the PBS series "American Masters." "If this program was called 'Dutch Masters,' I'd have boxes...Tags: Entertainment Events, Music Theater, Theater, Movies, Anne Bancroft
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Tonight: Mel Brooks, Maroon 5, 'Dancing With the Stars'
Staff writerThe Monday offerings include season finales, series finales, Maroon 5 (on "The Voice") and Mel Brooks (on PBS). The highlights: If you love Brooks, you'll want to catch the "American Masters" profile at 9 p.m. on PBS. The main draw will be hearing...Tags: Entertainment Events, CBS Corp., David Letterman, Adam Levine, The Voice (tv program)
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