Bill Rancic: The art of his deal
Bill Rancic, we hardly knew ye. Oh, wait, we actually knew ye pretty well. Once you won the first edition of The Apprentice," we could hardly turn on the tube...
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Returning shows undergo nips/tucks
Many of fall's returning television shows are undergoing extreme -- or sometimes just medium-size -- makeovers. Below, we go through the programs that are getting the most notable renovations this...
OH, BROTHER
Here we go again. The latest entrant in the presidential-brother sweepstakes of shame is the brother of prospective vice presidential candidate John Edwards, Wesley Blake Edwards, who recently pleaded guilty...
Giving is the finest frontier
Wouldn't it be cool to be a billionaire? You could build your own spaceship, buy a few sports teams and plunk down a giant museum in the middle of your...
99.9 FM undergoes identity change
Chicagoans now have a radio station that claims it will "play anything." On Tuesday, the WSBC Radio Group, owner of WRZA-99.9 FM, unveiled the station's new name, Nine FM, new...
Food lit
Q. I read that Pringles will soon be printing trivia questions on individual potato chips. Is this going to spread -- am I going to start seeing advertisements on hamburger...
THIS WEEK’S WINNERS & LOSERS
WINNERS Ancient writers. Homer (the Greek lit dude -- not the cartoon dad) did first draft of "Troy," now hotter than Jane Austen in H'wood. Virgil in talks with studios...
The end of ‘Friends’
THURSDAY NIGHT Thanks for coming to this site. Good night! 9:08 p.m. Nope, that's it, the finale's over. Which is weird -- by the clock here, "Friends" ended at 9:04...
Our favorite tv faces
Three cheers for the jerks and the wackos, the heroes and the questers. In a network television landscape that becomes more formulaic by the day (is it us, or are...
TV QUIZ
Apparently some reality TV pitches are just too tasteless -- "I've Got a Monkey on My Back," which proposed that relay-race contestants literally lug little primates cross-country, was too dumb...