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NewsInside Blip Owner Teams Up With Roddenberry On New Site

PLUS: Roddenberry also teams up with Wikia for Trek Initiative

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Roddenberry Entertainment, the company originally founded by "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and now owned by his son Eugene Roddenberry, has partnered up with two different online outlets to bring Star Trek and the Roddenberry Philosophy to a new level. In its first deal, Roddenberry joined ...

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News'Veronica Mars' Kickstarter Basks In Success

UPDATED: Fundraising goal for feature film passes $5 million

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Friday marks the conclusion of the record-breaking "Veronica Mars" Kickstarter campaign, which in its first 10 hours met its month-long fundraising goal of $2 million. With more than 77,800 backers and counting, the campaign to launch a movie from a canceled television series has generated more t ...

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News'American Idol' Back, But Falls Lower In Top 10

NBC loses ground on Fox with poor premieres of new series

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"American Idol" returned as television's No. 4 show, continuing to slide from what was once the hottest (and top-rated) show on television. The first few weeks of the Fox leader opened to a 9.2 rating/14 share, according to Fast National overnight ratings from The Nielsen Co., down nearly 9 perce ...

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News'American Idol' Returns With Smaller Audience

PLUS: NBC struggling to find viewers for new mid-season replacements

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Fox returned with its high-rated reality competition series, and took advantage of the fact that both ABC and NBC didn't, to capture the No. 2 spot among the networks this week and earn its best weekly ratings since Sept. 16. "American Idol" is back, averaging a 9.7 rating/15 share, according to ...

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News'The Wire's' Elegant Drug Lord, Robert F. Chew, Dead At 52

Actor made his real living in music with his love for Baltimore, the arts

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Robert F. Chew, best known for his recurring role as a business-smart and street-smart drug lord in HBO's "The Wire," has died following a heart attack. He was 52. Chew, whose training was actually in music, played Proposition Joe in "The Wire," delivering what producers said was the program's "m ...

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NewsGay Scout Wants Nat Geo To Scarlet Letter Series

Reality competition show featuring Boy Scouts targeted by activist

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Will Oliver, who made news recently for giving back his Eagle Scout badge in protest of the Boy Scouts' anti-gay stance, is now crying foul over a new reality series proposed by Nat Geo. The cable channel is preparing to release "Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout," where everyday people will test ...

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NewsConrad Bain Of 'Diff'rent Strokes' Fame Dies

Amazing enough, actor was never recognized by the Emmys

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A Canadian actor who first won true mainstream fame starring alongside Bea Arthur in "Maude" and later cemented his place in entertainment history in "Diff'rent Stroke" has died. Conrad Bain, the lovable Philip Drummond who diversified his family by bringing in two foster boys into his home, died ...

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NewsAll Your Golden Globes 2013 Updates - Right Here

Follow our live news and scorecard in one place

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Updated 10:24 p.m. ET - Refresh the page for updates. -- FINAL It took three tries, but the Hollywood Foreign Press has finally honored Damian Lewis. Well, after the Emmys did. Lewis won a Golden Globe for his pivotal role in the Showtime series "Homeland," and shared his enthusiasm about winn ...

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NewsCan ABC Survive 'American Idol' Onslaught?

NBC has a lot to brag about so far this year with stellar numbers

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Even without "Dancing With the Stars," ABC has a pretty good hold on the No. 2 spot among the network for the week. But it won't be for long as "American Idol" is set to return. This has not really been ABC's year (or really any network's year, outside of NBC) for the most part. The network pulle ...

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NewsReason For Huge 'Big Bang Theory' Ratings? TBS

Showrunner credits reruns aired on cable channel for most recent success

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Last year, the CBS comedy "Big Bang Theory" slipped ahead of "Two and a Half Men" to become the most-watched comedy on network television. When the current season started, "Big Bang" was already pulling in big numbers, premiering with a 9.3 rating/16 share, according to Fast National overnight ra ...

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NewsBazing-Wha? Bee Species Named After Catchphrase

'Big Bang Theory' rings in the New Year with record ratings

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Here's how you know a show is a big hit in the science world. Dr. Sheldon Cooper's (Jim Parsons) "bazinga!" catchphrase from CBS' "The Big Bang Theory" is now the name of a new species of bee. Officially named Euglossa bazinga, this type of orchid bee was discovered in Brazil by biologist An ...

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NewsFox Sinks Below NBC, Desperately Needs Strong 'Idol'

PLUS: 'Blue Bloods' becomes television's most stable show

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Fox is in trouble. Serious trouble. While NBC is surging with the help of "The Voice" and new sci-fi show "Revolution," Fox is trying to find its foothold, and it's slipping quickly, especially now that it ended 2012 as television's No. 4 network behind CBS, ABC ... and NBC. Well behind them, eve ...

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NewsComedy Central Bringing 'Drunk History' Back

Also back: Two more seasons of 'Workaholics'

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Are you one of those people who search YouTube for the re-enactment of drunk historian stories from Funny or Die? Well, soon, there will be more episodes, thanks to Comedy Central. The cable channel announced that it had not only given a two-season renewal for "Workaholics," but it also was going ...

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News'American Horror Story's' Ryan Murphy Brings Play To HBO

'The Normal Heart' will star Mark Ruffalo, Julia Roberts

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Ryan Murphy's next project isn't exactly another season of "Glee" or what's coming next for his hit FX series "American Horror Story." Instead, Murphy is going to tackle something a bit more serious, and a little more real: The award-winning Larry Kramer play, "The Normal Heart." HBO has picke ...

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News'Up All Night' Loses Creator Ahead Of Revamp

NBC is trying a new approach for its low-rated comedy

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Instead of giving the people at "Up All Night" walking papers, NBC is instead trying to turn it into a more traditional sitcom. But it will have to do it without its creator. Emily Spivey, who created the show starring Will Arnett and Christina Applegate last year, has departed production, follow ...

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