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Animated comedy Family Guy, now in its 12th season, isn’t exactly known for its emotional depths and drama. Indeed, with its wacky, irreverent jokes and ever-changing internal logic, it’s a programme that has barely changed since its 1999 debut. It even managed to survive its 2003 cancellation, returning two years later effectively the same as ever. Even more so than …

For those of you ready to dive back into the world of Westeros, there is at least some good news officially breaking today: You’re at least another step closer courtesy of filming for “Game of Thrones” season 4 finally concluding this week. This has been a long and extensive production as always, with it starting earlier this summer. Three countries …

The anticipation of a death is an unsettling experience — even if that death is of a character on television. We viewers went into last night’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy, titled “Flight,” much like the family member of a cancer patient goes into the hospital for the last time: with complete and utter dread, knowing the end is near. We …

A piece of Wild West history is due to go on sale on Monday when the revolver gunfighter James “Wild Bill” Hickok carried on the day he was shot down at a Deadwood saloon, is set to be auctioned off in San Francisco. Bonhams Auctioneers put the Smith & Wesson #2 revolver, estimated at a value of between $300,000 and …

Dare we say things are getting a little crazy on the set of The Crazy Ones? But if anyone can handle a little roughhousing, Buffy can! First a little tussle with Ashley Tisdale during her time there and now this?! Sarah Michelle Gellar shared a bruise ridden photo of her on set, but don’t worry, those injuries aren’t real! The …

That big-screen revamp of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” has been dealt a setback — it looks as though the movie’s first-time screenwriter bit off more than she could chew. Two sources close to the project say that the script submitted this past summer by writer Whit Anderson fell far short of expectations and, in the end, was rejected completely. That’s …

The Greek tragedy that was James Darmody’s life was one cruel joke, and he knew it. A miscommunication leads him to betray his only father figure, Nucky Thompson, in favor of his biological father, the Commodore (the man who took advantage of his mother at age thirteen). Couple his approval-seeking power play with the narrative haymaker that his kooky mother …

Everything you could possibly want to know about Dee, hidden behind a handy cut! Note: I’ve taken quite a few liberties with the information below, mainly because little is known about Dee’s background and so on, and so I’ve fleshed it out with a great deal of material from my imagination. I also use the tv show’s portrayal of Sagittaron, …

Jean Stapleton, the character actress whose portrayal of a slow-witted, big-hearted and submissive — up to a point — housewife on the groundbreaking series “All in the Family” made her, along with Mary Tyler Moore and Bea Arthur, not only one of the foremost women in television comedy in the 1970s but a symbol of emergent feminism in American popular …

Allen was known to dislike licking stamps, according to the Web site, zodiackiller.com, so the police compared the saliva DNA to a close associate who had once told investigators many of the details that had put them on Allen’s trail in the first place. That man was eliminated as well. Allen’s palm print did not match prints lifted from Zodiac-related …

Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin is all grown up and now, there are photos to prove it. In a new portfolio from The Dirty Side of Glamour author Tyler Shields, the actress, 17, is seen topless and in a bathtub. However, Breslin, who is set to star in next month’s film, August: Osage County alongside Julia Roberts and Meryl …