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Justin Bieber Hosts SNL; Watch the Unaired Non-Bieber Sketch Instead

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  • February 10, 2013 10:53 AM
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Last night’s 'SNL' host was Justin .. . oh, how I wish I could say Timberlake, but No. It was Bieber, set loose among squealing audience members and a flood of predictable Bieber jokes. He wasn’t much as a comic, but he did go along wih a lot of Bieber-Playing-A-Dumb-Guy sketches. None of them mentioned the unfortunate Instagram he had posted the day before of himself with SNL's all-powerful Lorne Michaels, which Bieber spelled Lauren. (Some generous people on Twitter blamed Autocorrect; maybe.)
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More: Justin Bieber, Saturday Night Live, SNL, Television, Jason Sudeikis, Lorne Michaels, Bill Hader, Kenan Thompson, Fred Armisen, Chuck Hagel

The 'Girls' Episode That Leaves the 'Girls' Behind

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  • February 8, 2013 9:31 AM
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Every now and then on ‘Girls,’ Hannah leaves her girlfriends and her search for success and rent behind, and we see deeper aspects of her character – revelations for both Hannah and for us. Last season it was a road trip to her parents and the hometown she has outgrown.  This season it arrives with the next episode, called “One Man’s Trash,” as she steps into an upscale Brooklyn brownstone at the off-handed invitation of a neighbor, played by Patrick Wilson.
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More: Television, Lena Dunham, Girls, Patrick Wilson, Richard Shepard, HBO

Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Downton Sixbey’: Lady Hedith’s Answer

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  • February 7, 2013 9:07 AM
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Television
Last night in Part 2 of Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Downton Abbey’ parody, ‘Downton Sixbey,’  Lady Hedith – the incomparable and lovely Fred Armisen --  repsonded to a declaration of love and a marriage proposal from Downton’s heir, Lord Questlove. Their parents, including Fallon as the Earl of Downton Sixbey and Whoopi Goldberg as Lady Whoopi  had something to say about that.
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More: Television, Jimmy Fallon, Downton Abbey, Downton Sixbey, Fred Armisen, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Downton Abbey parody, Whoopi Goldberg, Questlove

Jimmy Fallon Returns to 'Downton Sixbey' (Video)

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  • February 6, 2013 11:04 AM
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Television
Jimmy Fallon calls it 'Downton Sixbey' (in honor of his studio, 6B). I think of it as'Keeping Up With The Granthams' (hoping for the spinoff,' Lady Hedith and the Dowager Take Miami'). But whatever you call it, the 'Late Night' satire is a howling spoof of 'Downton Abbey'. Picking up on this season’s Downton plot, here the Earl of Sixbey reveals how he has lost the family fortune (it was not investing in a railroad).
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More: Television, Jimmy Fallon, Downton Abbey, Downton Abbey parody, Downton Sixbey, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Fred Armisen, Questlove, Whoopi Goldberg, Brooke Shields

'Downton Abbey' Shocker: They Killed Who? And Why?

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  • January 27, 2013 10:18 PM
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If you have not yet watched the stunning latest episode of 'Downton Abbey,' don’t read on. If you have (or just want to find out who died) go to the next page for my review of the understandable but I think wrong-headed shocker. To paraphrase 'South Park':
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More: Downton Abbey, Dan Stevens, Television, who died on Downton Abbey, Allen Leech, Julian Fellowes, Lady Sybil, Jessica Brown Findlay

'Downton Abbey' Preview: This Week's Jaw-Dropping Episode

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  • January 27, 2013 9:30 AM
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If there is one episode of 'Downton Abbey' you won’t want to miss, it’s this week’s. I won’t give anything away, except to say that the video preview here doesn’t begin to prepare you for the high drama of the most tension-filled episode so far -- in fact, until the season finale. (DVR the Screen Actors Guild Awards; all those actors will still be there babbling about their SAG cards when you’re ready.)
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More: Television, Downton Abbey, Maggie Smith, Jim Carter, Downton Abbey Season 3, Downton Abbey preview, Masterpiece Classic

Matt Damon Takes Over 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' (Video)

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  • January 25, 2013 11:55 AM
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It’s always fun when movie stars and talk-show hosts laugh at themselves and their genres, and 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' did that for a terrific full hour last night when Matt Damon taped  Kimmel to a chair and highjacked the show as host. The ten-year running  joke has been that Kimmel bumped Damon as a guest every night, and Damon’s fake-revenge was full of surprise guests – including Nicole Kidman, Gary Oldman and Amy Adams, with Sheryl Crow replacing the show’s bandleader and Andy Garcia taking over for sidekick Guillermo. All this and not a word from Kimmel himself, sitting there with a gag in his mouth.  
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More: Matt Damon, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Television, Nicole Kidman, Gary Oldman, Emily Blunt, Amy Adams, Sheryl Crow, Andy Garcia

Kathryn Bigelow's Extended Interview with Stephen Colbert (Video)

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  • January 23, 2013 12:22 PM
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Kathryn Bigelow couldn’t be clearer about the issue of torture in Zero Dark Thirty: “Torture is reprehensible” she told Stephen Colbert, and went to say that the enhanced interrogation shown in her film was one element in the attempt to track down Osama bin Laden, not, as some critics of the film have claimed, the single indispensable element. Directors don’t always have the best takes on their own films, but Bigelow’s explanation is the one that makes the most sense to me.
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More: Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow, Television, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report

SNL's Preview of The Next 18 Hobbit Movies (Video)

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  • January 20, 2013 11:26 AM
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Some people (and I‘ll never be one of them) can’t get enough of Perter Jackson’s Hobbit movies. SNL offers a preview of how Jackson plans to take advantage of that – split the next Hobbit installments into 18 different films: in one, Frodo forgets something back at the shire and has to turn around, in another the whole crew (including Jennifer Lawrence as the Elf Queen) splits a complicated dinner bill. There's "Apple Maps: An Unexpected Detour," and the dwarves assembling an Ikea dresser. 
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More: Television, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Jennifer Lawrence, Saturday Night Live, Peter Jackson, Frodo, SNL

Pants On Fire: SNL Cold Open Takes on Lance Armstrong, Manil Te'o, Jodie Foster (Video)

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  • January 20, 2013 10:40 AM
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Jennifer Lawrence was a likable host on SNL, pretending to trash-talk  her Oscar contenders, but the writers didn’t give her their sharpest material. There was a commercial for Silver Linings Playbook during the show, but no sketch about it – what a lost opportunity (although Jason Sudeikis did wear Bradley Cooper’s trash bag workout clothes in a promo). Instead, the cold open gave us SNL at its topical best, with Piers Morgan welcoming a pants-on-fire lineup of guests.
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More: Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook, Television, Saturday Night Live, Jason Sudeikis, Bradley Cooper, Lance Armstrong, Manil Te'o, Piers Morgan, Jodie Foster, Taran Killam, SNL

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