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Paley Festival: Mad about 'Mad Men'
January 13, 2008 should have been the night much of America was introduced to one of the best shows on TV. AMC's Mad Men won the Globe for best drama series and leading man Jon Hamm won best actor for his career-defining turn as secret-keeping 1960s Manhattan ad man Don Draper. Instead, there was a strike and a televised press conference and you may have forgotten about the whole thing.
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Paley Festival: The truth about Baby William and 'The X-Files' movie is out there
If you want to know more about the upcoming X-Files movie (releasing July 25), well, the Paley Festival panel only gives a little 411. But at least there's the trailer and series creator Chris Carter giving reassurance that the film remains true to the spirit of The X-files the show.
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Paley Festival: 'Dancing With the Stars' steps out
Since Dancing With the Stars is all about teaching celebrities a new skill, it's appropriate that the show's panel at the Paley Festival is a learning experience for the audience as well as the current competitors on the show.
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Paley Festival: 'Gossip Girl' and the Gay Jewish Monkey
Coming soon to The CW's guilty pleasure semi-hit Gossip Girl: The return of Bad Serena (Blake Lively), the introduction of uber-bitchy Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachtenberg), a building war between Blair (Leighton Meester) and Jenny (Taylor Momsen) and, if fans are truly lucky, one Gay Jewish Monkey.
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Paley Festival: 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' Reunion
Buffy the Vampire Slayer may never have been the most-watched show on The WB or UPN and it may never have won the biggest awards TV has to offer, but on Thursday (March 20) night, a William S. Paley Television Festival-generated reunion of the show's cast and producers made the Cinerama Dome at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood feel like the center of an odd sort of universe, or the Whedonverse, if you prefer.
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Paley Festival: 'Friday Night Lights' holds onto hope
"This NBC/DirectTV deal better go through," says TV Guide writer Michael Ausiello at Wednesday's PaleyFest panel for Friday Night Lights. The audience members, with their clear eyes and full hearts, can't lose their show. Can they? Unfortunately, there's still no word if the critically acclaimed series will return for a third season.
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Paley Festival: A 'Chuck'-wagonload of awesomeness
The Tuesday night (March 18) panel for Chuck at the Paley Television Festival can very well be titled "Chuck vs. the Banter." Although the camaraderie is a joy to behold for fans, sometimes the crosstalk, actors impersonating each other and resulting laughter makes it difficult to keep people straight.
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Paley Festival: An evening with Judd Apatow
Monday (March 17) night's William S. Paley Television Festival salute to Judd Apatow was one of the best Paleys I've been to in my five years of covering the event. Unfortunately, as Zap2it is a family friendly site (more, at least, than we're a family-hostile site), reporting on what transpired is nearly impossible.
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Paley Festival: Deadly sperm and 'Pushing Daisies'
As if things weren't already difficult enough for Ned (Lee Pace) and Chuck (Anna Friel) on Pushing Daisies, it was revealed on Saturday (March 15) night that reproduction is out of the question for the contact-starved couple.
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Paley: 'The Simpsons' second coming
As primetime's longest-running animated series on TV celebrating its 400th episode, The Simpsons had the honor of closing this year's Paley Festival on Thursday (March 15). It was a double honor since it was also the first show to ever...
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An 'Ugly Betty' lovefest at Paley
When Salma Hayek asks you to do something, you do it. That, in a nutshell, is how America Ferrera describes the way she won the title role in Ugly Betty, the Golden Globe-winning ABC series that was honored at the...
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Paley: 'Heroes' plays to the crowd
The folks at Heroes know how to please an audience, whether it's covering sizable chunks of story in each of the show's blocks of episodes this year or, as was the case Saturday, giving several hundred adoring fans at the...
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Paley: Blood will tell in upcoming season of 'Dexter'
The crowd that gathered for the Paley Festival panel on Wednesday, March 7 was fairly normal looking, kept to themselves, and you know, were quiet. You'd never think that this would be a gathering of bloodthirsty fans who came out...
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Paley's Inter-'Office' Love
You could definitely feel the love at Friday night's (March 2) tribute to NBC's sitcom The Office. In fact, it was natural, nay, even a foregone conclusion for the evening to culminate in a homoerotic kiss that delighted fans. As...
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Candid 'Idol' talk from the Paley Festival
American Idol is TV's most popular show, a fact you'd easily have guessed from the crowd at Thursday (March 1) night's Idol panel at the Museum of Television & Radio's 24th Annual William S. Paley Television Festival. The devotion wasn't...
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