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Television Shows and Television Personalities
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She's Got the Look
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Set your Tivo's, the Third Season of "She's Got the Look" has begun, airing Wednesdays at 10PM/9C on TV Land. Whether you like reality modeling competitions or feel it's a shame that women over a certain age are too often treated as has beens, this is the show for you. All of the modeling contestants are over 35 years old. Many are well over 35, and all are beautiful. Watch full episodes of the show or see this season's schedule at www.tvland.com
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The Big C
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"The Big C" is a new Showtime original tv series starring Laura Linney. Linney plays a women whose recent cancer diagnosis has forced her to find hope and humor in life. Gabourey Sidibe, who plays a student of Linney's, is a recurring guest star.
The Big C premiere on August 16, 2010 had the largest audience for a Showtime original premiere in eight years.
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Mad Men
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"Mad Men" is an award-winning dramatic television series that premiered in 2007. Season 4 premieres on AMC July 25, 2010 at 10/9c. Mad Men is set in the 1960s, at a fictional advertising agency on Madison Avenue in New York City. The main character is Don Draper, the creative director and partner at Sterling Cooper Ad Agency. The series is primarily about Don Draper's personal and professional life. Mad Men has received critical acclaim for its historical authenticity and has won nine Emmys and five Golden Globes.
The creator of Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, says he sees Mad Men as a feminist show because of its painfully accurate portrayal of the treatment of women in the workplace in the early 1960s. Weiner said the highest praise he ever gets is when a woman approaches him to say she was a secretary during the '60s and that the show got the sexual harassment exactly right. They thank him for exposing how women were treated.
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Nurse Jackie
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Nurse Jackie is dark comedy that premiered on Showtime on June 8, 2009. Emmy-award winning actress,Edie Falco stars as Jackie Peyton, an Emergency Room nurse working in a fast-paced New York City hospital. Jackie is a brilliant nurse, and complex women, juggling her career and family life with a prescription drug addiction and an affair. This show is intelligent, funny, and has many strong, independant, female characters who defy gender stereotypes. Nurse Jackie is currently in its second season and was recently nominated for several Emmy awards, including best comedy. The first season of Nurse Jackie is available on dvd.
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Kate Plus Eight
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The days of Jon and Kate are over, but you can still keep up with Kate and the kids from time to time on TLC's new series of specials called Kate Plus 8. So far, at least three new episodes have aired. Set your Tivo to catch the reruns or check out the TLC website, if you've missed them. We're impressed by how Kate took an incredibly difficult situation (her very public divorce and custody battle, and the pain and humiliation of her husband's infidelity) and turned it into an opportunity to improve herself. Kate is now more popular, successful, and attractive then ever! Kate has shown an amazing amount of strength in publicly acknowledging her own role in the demise of her marriage, letting go of the hurt, and in moving forward.
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America's Most Wanted
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Sat 9\8c on Fox. America's Most Wanted is the longest-running program in the history of the Fox television and has helped take down over 1,050 dangerous fugitives and bring home more than 50 missing children over the past 22 years. AMW was created to assist law enforcement in the apprehension of fugitives wanted for various crimes, including murder, rape, child molestation. Walsh, was inspired to host the show after his son Adam was abducted and murdered. John Walsh is especially dedicated to fighting against the abuse and killing of children. Due to the expense of producing each episode, cancellation and threat of cancellation have been common themes thoughout the show's history. Fortunately, protests from the public, law enforcement, and government officials have kept AMW on the air, but continious support is necessary.
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The Bachelorette
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On ABC Sunday's 9/8c. The new season of "The Bachelorette" has begun. For those not familiar with the show, it's a competitive reality dating game show, where one lucky woman gets her choice of 25 attractive men. This season, Ali Fedotowsky, contestant of last season's, "The Bachelor," is the lucky girl. Watch these men try to win Ali over. If this season is anything like the last, they will even get catty towards one another.
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Betty White
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Best known as Rose in "The Golden Girls" Betty White is now 88 and has never been more popular. Recent appearances in "The Proposal" and a Super Bowl commercial renewed public interest in White, leading fans to start a Facebook campaign for White to host SNL. The campaign was a success. White will host SNL on May 8, 2010. She will also star in a new sitcom called "Hot in Cleveland" premiering on TV land in June.
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Roseanne Season 8
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Old, but still as relevant and as funny as ever. I found Seasons 8 and 9 of Roseanne at Target, two for the price of one. I hadn't watched Roseanne in years, and am impressed with what I've seen so far. It's a funny, light-hearted sitcom that addresses important issues, including prejudice, stereotypes, feminism, and gay marriage. The main female characters in Roseanne are far from traditional women. Roseanne is the primary breadwinner, her daughter Darlene is smart, mouthy, and rough around the edges, and Roseanne's sister Jackie worked as a police officer.
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Oprah Winfrey & the Oprah Show
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She will end her show in September 2011, after 25 years on the air. Fortunately this will not be the last we see of Oprah. The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) will debut in January, 2011, eight months before the talk show's final episode. "OWN will be a 24/7 cable network devoted to self-discovery, to connecting you to your best self and to the world."
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The Tyra Banks Show
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She is leaving her talk show to focus on bringing positive images of women to the big screen. Tyra says, "My next huge steps will allow me to reach more women and young girls to help us all feel as fierce as we truly are."
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The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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One of the most light-hearted, feel good talk shows on television. The Ellen DeGeneres Show includes monologue, comedy, dance, and conversation with celebrities and other guests. Ellen is intelligent, witty, and thoughtful. She has been a great addition to American Idol this season as well.
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The Rachel Maddow Show
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Get your evening news from Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel Maddow Show. Airs Monday-Friday at 9 p.m. Eastern, and is rebroadcast at 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. on MSNBC. Hear Maddow's take on the hottest news stories of the day and intelligent debate with journalists, analysts, politicians and newsmakers.
“The Rachel Maddow Show” was the most successful show ever to launch in MSNBC history and was named one of the top shows of the decade in 2009 by The Washington Post.
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Jessica Simpson's The Price of Beauty
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A new VH1 Series where Jessica Simpson, and her two best friends, Ken Paves and CaCee Cobb, travel the globe to explore how different cultures define beauty and the extraordinary lengths that women will go to in order to achieve it. Simpson was recently on Oprah talking about the toll that unachievable beauty standards take on women.
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