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Watch A Trailer For Mindy Kaling's New Series

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  • May 14, 2012 8:13 PM
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Television
The Mindy Project may already be my favorite fall series, and I’ve only seen three minutes, but I totally trust Mindy Kaling as a writer and actor. Who else would ask for a  guy with the money of Michael Bloomberg, the personality of Jon Stewart and the face – amend that to penis – of Michael Fassbender? Well, all of us might want that, but who else would have the wit to say so?
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Watch Clips From J.J.Abrams and Other NBC Fall Shows. What Looks Best?

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  • May 13, 2012 9:48 PM
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J.J.Abrams and Giancarlo Esposito go post-Apocalyptic, Jesse Spencer post-House fights fires in Chicago, and Matthew Perry tries again as a widowed sportscaster, in NBC’s fall series This week all the networks parade their new-season stars on stage for advertisers in their noisy Upfront extravaganzas, but they no longer even pretend to keep the schedules secret until then. NBC, whose Upfront happens Monday morning, has posted clips from its fall shows. Here are glimpses of the best. 
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More: J. J. Abrams, Television, Television, NBC fall season 2012, Giancarlo Esposito, Matthew Perry, House, Jesse Spencer, Dick Wolf, Jimmy Fallon, Ryan Murphy, Justin Bartha, Andrew Rannells, Billy Burke, Tim Guinee, Glee, American Horror Story, Revolution, Chicago Fire, Go On, Guys With Kids, Jon Favreau, Animal Practice, Justin Kirk

Will Ferrell And Jason Sudeikis Give Us the Secret George W. and Biden

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  • May 13, 2012 12:49 PM
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It would take a lot more than a Will Ferrell impression to make me want George W. Bush to return for real, but Ferrell’s always hilarious fake-Bush was the highlight of last night’s SNL. In the cold open, President Obama (Fred Armisen, as usual) entered the bedroom of the Vice President, decorated in pure high-school-kid style. Jason Sudeikis was especially funny as a petulant Joe Biden, annoyed that he got no credit for pushing Obama’s gay marriage endorsement over the line. Obama left him with twenty bucks for pizza, wary about Biden’s imaginary friend George – then guess who steps out of the bedroom closet?
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More: Will Ferrell, Jason Sudeikis, SNL, Television, Television, George W. Bush, Joe Biden, SNL Video Clip, Fred Armisen, Barack Obama

Will Ferrell Visits Jimmy Fallon: Wears Tight Pants, Shows New Movie Trailer

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  • May 11, 2012 11:13 AM
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Will Ferrell’s comedy is both incomparably goofy and totally droll about it, and both sides of his humor kicked in during his guest spot on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. He was promoting his hosting spot on this week’s SNL, but also brought along the trailer for his new political comedy with Zach Galifianakis, The Campaign, coming in August.
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The Vampire Who Came To Dinner: Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Do Dark Shadows

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  • May 8, 2012 9:30 AM
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I’m a big fan of Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and vampires in general,  so Dark Shadows is a film with my name on it. But you don’t need that perfect storm of tastes to fall for this funny pop confection.  You don’t even have to be familiar with the 60’s afternoon soap opera the film is based on, but you do need to appreciate of the movie’s tongue-in cheek wit. Burton sets the story in the disco 70’s period of the television show, then tweaks the horror genre and bubblegum culture. Take one look at Depp as 200-year-old undead Barnabus Collins in the daylight – a visual homage to Michael Jackson complete with pasty-white skin, sunglasses, black fedora and giant umbrella – and you have a sense of  the movie’s light-hearted, spoofy tone.
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More: Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Barnabus Collins, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jonny Lee Miller, Eva Green, Michael Jackson

Sherlock Meets Bieber And Fifty Shades of Grey

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  • May 3, 2012 8:45 AM
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Downton Abbey is not the only buzz-worthy upscale/downscale gem from PBS’s Masterpiece this year. Season 2 of Sherlock, with Benedict Cumberbatch as the 21st century version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s ultra-rational hero, begins on Sunday with “A Scandal in Belgravia.” The episode is smartly written by Steven Moffat (Doctor Who) and directed by Paul McGuigan with enough flair to make a cinephile smile – nothing too surprising about that. But it turns out  that Cumberbatch himself inspires the kinds of squeals more often associated with Justin Bieber, as I saw first-hand at a preview screening and Q&A in New York on Wednesday.
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More: Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock, Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Steven Moffat, Masterpiece, Masterpiece Mystery, Arthur Conan Doyle, PBS, Doctor Who, Lara Pulver, Sue Vertue, Television, Television Review

Edgy Obama Opens For Kimmel at White House Correspondents Dinner (Video)

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  • April 28, 2012 11:41 PM
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We always knew it would be impossible to top last year’s hilarious and secretly dramatic White House Correspondents Dinner, when President Obama slammed Donald Trump – and secretly knew the attack on Osama Bin Laden was underway. But this year's version had its own even edgier tone.
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Jon Hamm, Paul McCartney Guest On Hilarious, Live 30 Rock (UPDATED WITH VIDEO)

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  • April 26, 2012 10:47 PM
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When recorded series go live, it’s usually hard to overcome the stuntiness of it all. (Alec Baldwin promised in a promo that the live 30 Rock would be “liver” than ever, so we all get to make up new words). But 30 Rock found a brilliant, hilarious meta-solution by making its live show about live TV.
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Obama With Fallon: The Prez Slow Jams The News

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  • April 25, 2012 2:06 AM
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President Obama had a clear political agenda in visiting Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, on the road at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: reaching out to young voters and more specifically lobbying against a Congressional threat to increase interest on student loans. But how cool is it that he slow-jammed the news, a Late Night feature that seems surreal enough when Brian Williams does it? 
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Tribeca Highlight: Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal In the Witty "Hysteria"

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  • April 24, 2012 12:34 PM
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Well, how DID Victorian ladies get along without vibrators? That’s probably not a question that has been hovering in your mind, but you’ll get the answer anyway in Hysteria, director Tanya  Wexler’s deft, witty, slyly feminist comedy of sexual manners, Victorian style.
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