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SAG Awards 2015: 'Downton Abbey' wins for ensemble in TV drama series
"Downton Abbey" won the Screen Actors Guild Award on Sunday for performance by an ensemble in a television drama series. The PBS period piece beat "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO), "Homeland" (Showtime), "House of Cards" (Netflix) and "Game of Thrones" (HBO). FULL COVERAGE: SAG Awards 2015 "Thank you so much to the viewers that have stuck with us," said actress Joanne Froggatt in accepting the award. "Thank you for keeping us on this journey." The popular drama about an aristocratic British family and its servants is in its fifth season and has broken ratings records for PBS. The ensemble cast includes Hugh...
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SAG Awards 2015: 'Downton Abbey' wins for ensemble in TV drama series
"Downton Abbey" won the Screen Actors Guild Award on Sunday for performance by an ensemble in a television drama series.
The PBS period piece beat "Boardwalk Empire" (HBO), "Homeland" (Showtime), "House of...
SAG Awards 2015: 'Orange Is the New Black' wins for comedy ensemble
"Orange Is the New Black" took the SAG Award for ensemble in a comedy series for the first time on Sunday.
Co-star Uzo Aduba, who won the female actor SAG Award minutes before for her performance as inmate Suzanne "Crazy Eyes"...
NBC's Savannah Guthrie has many more tomorrows on 'Today'
During the commercial breaks on NBC's "Today," Savannah Guthrie's eyes are often focused on an iPhone to check live video of her 5-month-old daughter, Vale, back at their Manhattan apartment.
"My husband is really into baby...
NFL's modern-day gladiators pay the price as the crowd roars
On a cloudless, gentle Sunday afternoon in America's newest football palace, fans gathered on a patio behind the San Francisco 49ers bench to compare jewelry and sip margaritas.
Ten yards away, helmets collided with a sickening thwack and a giant body...
Sundance 2015: Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling talk making it in Hollywood
Before their girl crushes had uttered a word, the cheers started coming.
“I love your pants, Mindy!”
“I love your skirt, Kristen!”
These were the crowd’s thought leaders -- Mindy Kaling, Lena Dunham, Kristen Wiig and Jenji Kohan -- four of...
Jonathan Gold drops anonymous restaurant critic mask
I have posed for pictures shrouded in gauze, wearing a dinosaur mask and shaded into a Hitchcockian silhouette. My face has been obscured by giant wineglasses, beer steins, menus, stacked dim sum steamers, Wheaties boxes, a Thomas the Tank Engine and a...
Saturday's TV Highlights and weekend talk: 'With This Ring' and more
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Viacom Chief Philippe Dauman paid $44 million in 2014
Media company Viacom's stock slipped last year -- but the company's chief executive, Philippe Dauman, saw his compensation soar 19% to $44 million.
Dauman, 60, received a $20-million bonus in fiscal 2014, even though the company's stock declined 9%...
Peggy Charren dies at 86; tireless advocate for quality children's TV
Critics of Peggy Charren, a tireless activist for quality children's television, accused her of hating TV.
But Charren, who founded the highly influential Action for Children's Television in 1968 to combat "wall-to-wall monster cartoons,"...
'Sons of Liberty' takes a few too many liberties on History
Seven years ago, the History Channel became just plain History, a single-word name being perceived, one supposes, as hipper, more youthful, like Common or Fergie.
If the network executives were as interested in accuracy as hipness, they would have...
TV This Week, Jan. 25-31: 'Bad Words,' Mel Brooks and more
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Showtime exec: Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao contracts not crafted yet
A deal apparently is in the eyes of the beholder.
By the standards of Manny Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum, a long-awaited super-fight between Pacquiao and unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. is but a signature away.
“We’re all done,” Arum told Fight Hub TV...
Cable service without the cable box? Yes, it's possible
James is wondering: Can he avoid Time Warner Cable's monthly fee to lease a set-top box by purchasing his own hardware?
In a word, no. There are no generic equivalents for the company's digital boxes.
But there's a pretty nifty work-around.
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Nick Hornby's 'Funny Girl' traces the road to stardom
Nick Hornby's last novel, "Juliet, Naked" (2009), felt like a culmination of a kind. Revolving around a reclusive rock star and the fans who will not let him rest, it was a callback to Hornby's early work — "Fever Pitch," a...
TV Picks: 'Parenthood,' 'Fortitude,' 'Parks and Recreation'
“Parenthood”: Jason Katims’ gently splendid family drama comes to an end with the Braverman clan all facing new stages of life, albeit on more solid ground than when the show began. The big question, of course, is whether patriarch Zeek (Craig T....
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Amazon to make 'Transparent' available free to stream -- but not for long
Forget free shipping, Amazon wants to make "Transparent" available for free.
For one day.
Still on its Golden Globes high from Jan. 11, Amazon wants more people to get acquainted with its half-hour dramedy about a middle-age transgender...
YouTubers interview President Obama about State of the Union
Two days after his State of the Union address, President Obama had to win over a new audience: YouTubers.
Hank Green, Bethany Mota and GloZell Green may not be household names by traditional standards, but the three YouTube personalities -- who have...
U.S. TV shows pulled from Chinese video portals
U.S. TV shows including “Agent Carter,” “Empire” and “Shameless” have suddenly been removed from Chinese video streaming sites this week, a sign that government regulators are pressing ahead with vows to exercise greater censorship of online video...
Cable, wireless groups voice support for GOP's net neutrality bill
The heads of leading cable TV and wireless industry trade groups on Wednesday expressed enthusiasm for Republican legislation setting new Internet traffic rules because it would avoid the legal battles they said were coming if the Federal Communications...
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