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10 Reruns Networks Should Show Instead of Their Current, Low-Rated Series

By Jason Bailey on

Here’s one of those instances where you have to remember that The Onion and A.V. Club are separate entities, so when you see a headline like, “Things are so bad for NBC, The Office and 1600 Penn are being bumped in favor of Matlock reruns,” you realize that this is not a parody story, but a thing that actually happened. Yes, WKYC, the Cleveland affiliate for NBC (which finished the last sweeps period in fifth place, behind CBS, Fox, ABC, y Univision) preempted last Thursday’s reruns of The Office and Law and Order: SVU, and a new episode of 1600 Penn, to air a two-hour Matlock episode from 1992. And here’s the best part: in the first hour, WKYC got better ratings for a show old enough to be a drinking human than it did for brand-new programming from the struggling Peacock. The Cleveland station may be onto something: what if networks replaced new shows dwelling in the ratings cellar with reruns of classics that would appeal to the same (or a larger) audience? We’ve got some suggestions after the jump. … Read More

Celebrity

Teenage Photos of Distinguished Elderly Celebrities

By Jennifer Lewis on

We have a theory: The classier the elderly celebrity, the harder it is to imagine him or her as a teenager. For example, try to picture Maggie Smith as a high school student. Pretty hard, right? The thought of a young, wide-eyed Maggie Smith piqued our curiosity, so we went ahead and dug up teenage photos of our beloved Dame Maggie and ten of her distinguished celebrity friends. Unsurprisingly, they’re all stunning. Check ‘em out after the jump, and hit the comments to lend your thoughts. … Read More

Television

20 TV Mean Girls We Secretly Love

By Michelle Rafferty on

From the tough ladies on Game of Thrones and Revenge to the recent additions of sardonic “gal pal” Jessa Johansson (Girls) and James Van Der Beek’s equally self-absorbed BFF Chloe (B—- in Apartment 23), audiences are quite taken with TV’s latest mean girl class. The “B” (of Apt. 23) has even been called “one of the first truly 21st century chicks on TV.” While we don’t endorse girl-on-girl hate in real life, striking that perfect balance of evilness and likability is a difficult thing for a character to do, and we’d like to give a shout out to the women who have done this with aplomb over the years. Click through to see the mean girls we not-so-secretly love, and please share your favorites in the comments! … Read More

Pop Culture

Betty White Joins Twitter

By Alison Nastasi on

Golden Girl fave Betty White has been making the publicity rounds for her new NBC reality prankster show, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers. It’s basically like an elderly version of Punk’d. While that’s all well and good, we’re more excited to learn that the 90-year-old actress has joined Twitter — most… Read More

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A Collection of Presidential Letters to Pop-Culture Icons

By Jennifer Lewis on

Last week, the world was treated to the very first presidential letter to have ever been Instagram’d, courtesy of Zooey Deschanel. The New Girl darling tweeted, “I am SO EXCITED!” upon opening a special envelope from President Obama, who took to some White House stationery to send his warmest wishes on her 32nd birthday. Jealous? Yeah, we are too. Zooey’s not the first celebrity to receive a letter from an admiring president — check out some fan letters, get-well-soon cards, thank-you notes, and party invitations after the jump. … Read More

Television

The Best Moments from Betty White’s 90th Birthday Special

By Margaret Eby on

Last night, NBC honored Golden Girl Betty White with a 90-minute birthday-palooza before the debut of her Punk’d-but-with-old-people candid camera show, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers (just what the world has been waiting for!). The ever-charming White blew kisses to the celebrity presenters, like Amy Poehler and Mary Tyler Moore, who toasted and roasted her with various degrees of success (“I call her a pioneer,” said Poehler, “because 90 years ago she literally arrived to California on stage coach.”) While most cracked wise about her age, some questioned her stance on nude photography, and others just went straight for the make-out session. We’ve filtered through the whole birthday party, from Carl Reiner’s heartfelt birthday note to Jennifer Love Hewitt’s dewy-eyed fan letter, and here are the highlights of the night. … Read More

Fashion

The Fug Report: Highs and Lows from the Week in Fashion

By Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan on

Editor’s note: Welcome to The Fug Report! Each week our fashion blogger friends Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan, the sartorial geniuses behind Go Fug Yourself, will feature some of the most memorable looks of the week in this space. We hope you enjoy it!

This week on Go Fug Yourself, we ramped up for awards… Read More

Television

‘Monday Night Football’ Celebrates Christmas with Betty White

By Alison Nastasi on

America loves football and Betty White. The golden girl will be hosting an opening segment on the prime time broadcast show. Even if you have no desire to watch the Falcons-Saints game this coming Monday at 8:30 PM, you may want to tune in to see what kind of shenanigans the 89-year-old star will get… Read More

Web

What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds In Our Office

By Caroline Stanley on

Today at Flavorpill, we couldn’t believe how different/creepy Kristen Stewart looks when she actually smiles. We hoped that a new biography that says fashion icon Coco Chanel was a Nazi spy isn’t really true. We thoroughly enjoyed Splitsider’s roundup of TV comedy’s most tragic characters, which includes poor Ron… Read More

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What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links the Made the Rounds in Our Office

By Caroline Stanley on

Today at Flavorpill, we met several other countries’ answers to Captain America — including Canada’s Major Mapleleaf and Japan’s Silver Samurai. We liked this clever redesign of Mad Men’s opening titles by illustrator Paul Rogers. We laughed out loud over some of the zingers in Suri’s Burn Book. We… Read More