The Tour de France wraps up Sunday, the same day that "Entourage" begins its final season. We hope NBC resolves the issues around its online access and mobile apps by next year. --- More TV news and the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan for your weekend in the full post. more ›

We've got some great video clips of last night's shows you'll want to see. --- CBS is bringing 2000 eps of great shows like "Cheers" & "Star Trek" to Amazon streaming. --- Tomorrow AM will have probably the most epic stage of this year's Tour de France, don't miss it. more ›

The Tour de France starts tomorrow morning but viewing it without 8 million commercials on NBC Sports promises to be expensive and unsatisfactory. --- Christopher Titus' new special on Comedy Central, "Neverlution," premieres on Sunday and is your comedy option for the night. --- All this + the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan. more ›

Weekend Edition We're heading into a sloooww TV weekend and an even slower TV week with no new premieres or finales. What the week will be building up to is the premiere of "Mad Men" on the night of July 25th - the hype has already started, it seems, with the "news" that Mrs. Draper, January Jones, is now an item with "Saturday Night Live" ombudsman Jason Sudeikis. Sudeikis is a very nice guy, so if it's true, more power to him, but this "reveal" seems a little too convenient. more ›

A few weeks ago we asked about how you felt about Daniel Tosh's "Tosh.0" on Comedy Central and we got the idea that you liked him, and the fact is that viewers like him so much that he is now the most popular show host on Comedy Central, beating out Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. The network hasn't seen show ratings like "Tosh.0" since "Chappelle's Show" in 2004. more ›

This weekend brings about the conclusion of the World Cup and if you're into it, consider heading to the Paley Center for Saturday and Sunday's games where they will be showing the broadcast on the big screen and serving food and drinks, all for free, RSVP required. more ›

Primetime Emmy Nominations: Be sure to check out the full list that was announced this morning at 5:30am Pacific. There weren't a lot of surprises for us among the nominees but we were very pleased to see "Modern Family" garner plenty of nominations as well as Andre Braugher for his role in "Men of a Certain Age". As we predicted a few months ago, HBO's "You Don't Know Jack" was repeatedly honored as well as its stars Al Pacino and John Goodman. We're not sure how AMC's "Mad Men" could get multiple writing nominations but "Breaking Bad" didn't(?!) - furthermore, in this category, it really seems that the nomination for the final "Lost" episode seems to be egregious sentimentality. Next week we'll post our picks for the Emmys and then we'll call it at the end of August. more ›

Female staffers of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" have posted a rebuttal to a blog post at Jezebel.com that asserted that the show was a "boys club" lacking diversity. Women actually make up 40 percent of the staff and "generate a significant portion of the show's creative content". The Jezebel post reminded us of another poorly researched and badly written piece in Salon last January that ranted about "the strange, men-only world of late-night TV". While some will complain that somehow Tinseltown hasn't been able to put together a sustainable "big network" late night show with a female host, Fox's Wanda Sykes experiment being the latest failure in that discipline, they gloss over the success of Chelsea Handler's show on E! which is where we find ourself going at 11pm more often than not. more ›

On this lazy (observed) 4th of July, we're not too motivated to check out the pseudo-comedians of the "Last Comic Standing" so we'll be enjoying a classic (classic) and classic (modern) pair of movies: To Kill a Mockingbird with Gregory Peck, and the Coen Brothers' Barton Fink. more ›

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Bicycle rider Floyd Landis admitted to ESPN.com's Bonnie D. Ford over a telephone interview that he used performance enhancing drugs throughout his career which included winning the 2006 Tour de France before being stripped of the title after testing positive for synthetic testosterone. more ›

Weekend Edition When it comes to late night TV, Letterman is definitely pulling ahead in terms of sheer numbers, about 800k more viewers per night than Conan. But Conan is scoring much higher in the coveted 18-49 demographic, to which NBC is saying, "I meant to do that". We mentioned a few weeks ago that "Futurama" might be coming back, but now rumor has it that if it returns it will be without the original cast of voices, to which, we would say, what's the point then? more ›

This week in late night: Paul McCartney returns to the Ed Sullivan Theater 45 years later to be interviewed and perform on Letterman. Also, "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" and "The Colber(t) Repor(t)" return from break. more ›

Weekend Edition The big deal this weekend is the return of the juvenile and entertaining "Entourage" - "True Blood" returns after a holiday break as well as the positively-reviewed "Hung". HBO owns Sundays, no doubt about it. | If you're following the Tour, get your fill this weekend because Monday is a rest day. more ›

Over 31 million American households watched the Michael Jackson memorial. "Households" is the operative word as that is what Nielsen measures, TVs in the home, not office or bars/restaurants/etc. That's a huge number since other major events like Princess Diana's funeral (33 million viewers), President Reagan's funeral (35 million viewers), and President Obama's inauguration (38 million viewers) occurred when people were more likely to be at home. more ›

Thankfully some late night is back with new shows (see the listings) in an otherwise very dull week. Don't forget that the live broadcast of the Tour de France starts at 5:30am on Versus so set your Tivos - the live show is infinitely better than the obnoxiously repackaged evening edition. As of today's results it looks like we've got a real race on our hands already! | It was months ago that Disney signed on to support Hulu and now ABC's content will be available starting tonight. more ›

This Saturday at 6:30am the US broadcast of the 96th Tour de France begins on Versus. Will Lance Armstrong reign supreme again or will he race to support another up-and-coming team member? Will there be a drug scandal or other legal shenanigans? Whatever happens, we'll see athletes put themselves through the most grueling race in the most grueling sport on the planet. more ›

Jimmy Fallon will be introduced online as Conan O'Brien's replacement this fall according to the NYT. Fallon will not be doing an entire hour-long show, but rather, 10 minute mini-shows that might or might not feature guests and skits. NBC is attempting to get a jump start on the changes that will be made in late night TV next year on NBC with Jay Leno leaving and Conan O'Brien taking over the "Tonight Show". Fallon needs to start strong on "Late Night" as he will not be afforded the same adjustment period that O'Brien was granted a decade and a half ago - times have changed. more ›

The AMGEN Tour of California has returned and it started a couple days ago with a time trial in Palo Alto. The tour makes its way to Sacramento today and then starts heading south towards Los Angeles. The race concludes on Sunday, February 24th with Stage 7 which starts in Santa Clarita and finishes in Pasadena. more ›

About the above photo by Jonathan Alcorn: "Sept 15 2007 Los Angeles, CA - A firefighter was injured in a fire that broke out tonight in a single-story commercial building in East Los Angeles and produced a plume of smoke visible throughout the Los Angeles basin, a fire official said. The fire was reported at 6:17 p.m. at 2840 E. Olympic Blvd. and extinguished after an hour and 45 minutes." Don't forget to enter... more ›

Myself and the "handful" of other long-suffering cycling fans in the United States have been dealt another disappointment with the Tour de France this year. Doping has raised its ugly head again but at least charges aren't being levelled at an American team or American riders howecer recent developments could cause a complete implosion of the sport. A week ago a German rider for the T Mobile team, Paul Sinkewitz, tested positive for elevated... more ›