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TV Junkie: Academy Award Nominated Films Available on TV
As a follow up to our Academy Awards nominations post from yesterday, you can (or will be able to) watch the following nominated films on your TV set via Movies On Demand:
- The Social Network - available Feb. 2
- Inception - Now playing
- Toy Story 3 - Now playing
- The Kids Are All Right - Now playing
- Winter's Bone - Now playing
- How to Train Your Dragon - Now playing
- The Town - Now playing
- Unstoppable - Premieres Feb 15
- Salt - Now playing
- Iron Man 2 - Now playing
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Disgust With TV: All of a sudden we're seeing plenty of tweets and articles about disgust with shows like MTV's "Skins" & "Jersey Shore" and Steven Tyler's behavior on "American Idol" (quite literally slavering over underage girls). These are shows that have always been disgusting from their first episodes. In defense of the BBC's version of "Skins," the performances and tone of the original is nothing like the toxic mutation that airs on MTV. There's a reason why we don't write about shows that are exploitive and these shows are inherently and cynically exploitive. Can you add more to our list?
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The TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan: "NOVA," "Blue Bloods," Conan (Nick Thune, Motorhead), Kimmel (Amy Poehler, Martha Plimpton, Cold War Kids)
9:00pm NOVA PBS/KOCE - Making Stuff: Making Stuff Smaller Host David Pogue looks at high-powered nano-circuits and micro-robots.
9:00pm Sons of Guns Discovery - Series Premiere
10:00pm Clean House Style - Season Premiere
10:00pm Blue Bloods CBS - Danny investigates the shooting of an undercover counterterrorism agent who was involved with infiltrating a sleeper cell.
10:00pm Desert Car Kings Discovery - Series Premiere
10:00pm Nova scienceNOW PBS/KOCE - Can We Live Forever? Preventing the body from breaking down; building body parts and organs to replace those that are damaged.
10:00pm Dog the Bounty Hunter: 200th Retrospective A&E - Special Presentation
10:00pm Last Woman Standing Planet Green - Stick Fight The athletes work hard to master an extreme fighting system, Pekiti Tirsia Kaili.
10:00pm Face Off Syfy - Series Premiere
11:00pm Being Erica SoapNET - Season Premiere
11:00pm Conan TBS - Actor/comedian Nick Thune; Motorhead performs.
11:35pm The Tonight Show With Jay Leno NBC - Actress Annette Bening; comic Frank Caliendo; Amos Lee performs.
12:00am Lopez Tonight TBS - Actor Jason Statham; actress Busy Philipps.
12:05am Jimmy Kimmel Live ABC - Actress Amy Poehler; actress Martha Plimpton; Cold War Kids perform.
12:35am The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson CBS - Actress Betty White; actress Ellie Kemper.
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Donald Trump was a fading TV presence when the WGA strike put a dent in network schedules.
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Pickets are being held outside at movie and TV studios across the city
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For some critics, this feels less like a momentous departure and more like a footnote.
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Disneyland's famous "Fantasmic!" show came to a sudden end when its 45-foot animatronic dragon — Maleficent — burst into flames.
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Leads Ali Wong and Steven Yeun issue a joint statement along with show creator Lee Sung Jin.
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Every two years, Desert X presents site-specific outdoor installations throughout the Coachella Valley. Two Los Angeles artists have new work on display.