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New York Times looks at the spoilers of the decade

8 hours ago | AOL - TVSquad | See recent AOL - TVSquad news »

It should go without saying that we here at TV Squad are infinitely familiar with spoilers, so naturally this New York Times article caught my eye. Even if it did spoil the end of The Sopranos for me. Thanks, Grey Lady!

The paper's ArtsBeat blog has declared an official moratorium on spoiler complaints and given "amnesty" for their readers to talk about the best surprise endings in the last decade. What are your favorite TV endings that you now have the right to spoil the hell out of for people too lazy to get up and discover them for themselves?

And it should go without saying: don't complain about how any of the comments below have spoiled anything for you. The only way I could make the spoiler warning any bigger is by typing the word "Spoiler" in all caps and pasting over and over in this post.

 

Filed under: Other Drama Shows, »

- Danny Gallagher

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Mad Men Season 3 DVD Release Date Announced (+Blu-ray)

28 December 2009 7:31 PM, PST | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »

You'll be able to revisit the 1960s yet again when the third season of AMC's Mad Men is released on Home Video this spring. Get your own copy on DVD or Blu-ray when it's released on March 23, 2010. "Mad Men," one of "TV's best-ever dramas" (Boston Globe), is back on DVD and Blu-ray Disc with its third and most captivating season! From Matthew Weiner, the Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning executive producer and writer of "The Sopranos," "Mad Men" is the ground-breaking series about the glamorous and ego-driven "Golden Age" of advertising. Returning for its third season, the show bursts with one scandalous surprise after another. This award winning ensemble continues to captivate us as they contend with a world on the brink. Welcome to "Mad Men" - a shocking portrait of a time that was anything but innocent. Nothing is as sexy. »

- Buzzfocus Staff

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Deconstructing the Decade from 'The West Wing' and beyond: Zap2it Andrea's favorite episodes

27 December 2009 5:01 PM, PST | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »

Here comes round no. 3 of favorite episodes. My esteemed colleagues Rick and Hanh have picked their favorites and they each took considerable time preparing their list. I laughed at that -- until I sat down to do mine and it became a four-days-long project.

Here were my personal parameters for the list: 1. Each show could only have one episode on the list. 2. I would not repeat my colleagues' choices, which was particularly hard with "Buffy" and "Veronica Mars," as my top picks have been spoken for. 3. A two-parter counts as one slot on my list. My list, my rules. 4. There was a limit of 10.

Why a limit? Because my initial list had 22 entries and I realized I was basically just listing my favorite shows and then picking good episodes. I had to be more disciplined! The 12 I took off (for a variety of reasons) became "honorable mentions" of a sort. »

- editorial@zap2it.com

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Review of the decade | Culture

26 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Twitter, Daniel Barenboim, XBox, Wg Sebald, Nicholas Hytner's National, Big Brother and The Wire... just some of the cultural highs of the noughties. From the rise of Dizzee Rascal to the emergence – at the age of 89 – of the dazzling Cuban painter Carmen Herrera, our critics pick the defining people and trends of the past 10 years

Technology

Google

Larry Page and Sergey Brin began thinking about a new kind of internet search engine in early 1996 and their company was incorporated as Google Inc in 1998. But it was in 2000 that they started selling advertising against search results and this allowed them to move into their Mountain View headquarters in California (aka the Googleplex), begin acquiring other companies (including YouTube) and drastically expand their other ambitions throughout the noughties.

The verb "to google" entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2006 and Google dominates the search engine market despite ferocious competition from Yahoo! and Microsoft. »

- Caspar Llewellyn Smith, Robert McCrum, Kitty Empire, Fiona Maddocks, Philip French, Giles Richards, Susannah Clapp, Alice Fisher, Stephen Bayley, Andrew Anthony, Daniel Barenboim, Gaby Wood

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Sopranos Plan New Year's Eve Party For Police & Firefighters

25 December 2009 5:26 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

The Sopranos are planning a New Year's Eve reunion to say a special thank you to 30 wounded New York servicemen.

Actor Vincent Pastore has co-organised the get together, which will culminate with a party beneath the glittering ball drop at Times Square in New York, which signals the New Year in America.

He tells Blogtalkradio.com's Let's Do Lunch show, "On New Years Eve we're putting together an event with 30 wounded warriors - policemen and firemen - sitting under the ball in Times Square.

"I've got a police escort picking me up in the Bronx to take me down to New York City with a couple of my Sopranos friends. First we're going to Johnny's Pizza to have pizza with the wounded warriors and then we'll go down to see the ball drop." »

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Deconstructing the decade from 'The Shield' and beyond: Zap2it Rick's favorite episodes

23 December 2009 10:43 AM, PST | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »

You can scarcely swing a dead cat lately without hitting some kind of best-of-the-decade list (even though, technically, the first decade of the 21st century doesn't end till next year).

Well, here comes another one. Rather than try to construct another best-shows-of-the-'00s list, though -- something that's already been done here, there and everywhere -- I decided to focus on individual episodes from 2000-09. Are these the flat-out "best" episodes of television over the past 10 years? Probably not. But these are the ones that stick with me, that I can still remember not just for brilliant lines or beautifully constructed plots, but for how I actually felt while watching them. They are, simply, my favorites.

Here's my list, in no particular order. What's yours?

"Final Grades" ("The Wire")

HBO sent critics the entire run of season four of "The Wire" before it premiered in 2006. I had watched the first »

- editorial@zap2it.com

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Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Jerry Ferrara Break Up

22 December 2009 6:34 PM, PST | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »

Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Jerry Ferrara have broken up, New York Daily News has reported after being informed by a source close to "The Sopranos" actress. Break-up reports started to swirl after Sigler was spotted showing up solo for the screening of "It's Complicated" at the W Hotel in L.A. last Tuesday, December 15. "She came with a few girlfriends, and they drank wine all night. They looked like they were having a good time," a partygoer said, adding that Ferrara was nowhere to be seen.

Last Thursday, December 17, Sigler was seen hitting Susan Sarandon's NYC ping-pong bar Spin with friend Lance Bass. "Lance is a really good friend to Jamie," claimed the media's source. "He's been helping her out and giving her good advice. They were playing Ping-Pong and laughing, and it didn't seem like she was sad or anything was wrong. Lance was being really funny and entertaining her. »

- AceShowbiz.com

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Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Jerry Ferrara Split Up

22 December 2009 11:00 AM, PST | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

Jamie-Lynn Sigler and her boyfriend, Entourage actor Jerry Ferrara, have called it quits, People has learned. Sigler, 28, and Ferrara, 30, met on the Entourage set in 2008 when Sigler joined the HBO comedy as a guest star - playing the on-screen love interest of Ferrara's character, Turtle. They soon became a couple in real life, too. "They're busy with their careers, and she in particular has a couple of movies out in 2010, and others in the works for 2011, so it's just tough," a source who knows the couple tells People. "It's ironic, because in the recent season finale of Entourage, Jamie tells »

- Tim Nudd and David Caplan

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Franza Arrested Over 'Benefits Scam'

22 December 2009 4:11 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Actor Raymond Franza was arrested on Monday, after allegedly swindling almost $13,000 (£8,125) from the U.S. government.

The Sopranos star is accused of claiming $12,946 (£8,091) in disability payments over 14 months from the Social Security Administration following a car crash in 2008.

But he allegedly failed to tell officials he was collecting $4,000 (£2,500) a month in benefits from his car insurance company - which made him ineligible for state help, according to the New York Daily News.

Franza was freed on $5,000 (£3,125) bail - but faces up to seven years in prison if convicted. »

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Vinnie & Mario Trailer: Pusher Director Nicolas Refn Has Another New Movie?

18 December 2009 9:12 AM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Or does he? I honestly don't know if this is real. I have no idea what it is, though it appears to be a trailer for a darkly comedic gangster film from director Nicolas Winding Refn. We've heard nothing about this until now. But here's some footage with David Proval from The Sopranos, John Capodice (the actor who is basically a walking incarnation of Jersey), and a decidedly grindhouse-style trailer narration. What the hell is going on with Vinnie & Mario? I was a bit gobsmacked to have a look at Twitch and see this trailer right at the top of the page. So was Twitch's Todd Brown, it seems, and he's usually way more in the loop about stuff like this than mere mortals. Besides, between making Bronson and Valhalla Rising and doing press for both, Refn couldn't have made another movie. Could he? "I used to make people disappear, »

- Russ Fischer

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Nicolas Winding Refn is back with mob comedy Vinnie & Mario starring David Proval

17 December 2009 1:24 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

From the director of the Pusher trilogy, Bronson, and Valhalla Rising comes a mob comedy which looks to be in the vein of the cinema verite style that Pusher was done in. Starring David Proval who you might remember as Richie Aprile from The Sopranos, this is looking mighty, mighty fine.

Teaser after the break!

via Twitch

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16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominations

17 December 2009 7:11 AM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »

Nominees for the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG Awards) for both film and television categories were announced this morning. Michelle Monaghan and Chris O'Donnell announced the nominees at the Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood.

The 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be simulcast live nationally on TNT and TBS on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, 7 p.m. Ct, and 6 p.m. Mt from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. Recipients of the stunt ensemble honors will be announced from the SAG Awards red carpet during the TNT.TV and TBS.Com live pre-show webcasts.

If you want to predict the acting categories for the Oscars, look no further than the results of the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Voted by actors' peers, the SAG award has closely resembled the winners of the Oscars in the past few years.

For example, the SAG »

- Manny

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Last Minute Christmas Present Recommendations!

16 December 2009 8:16 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »

Ho Ho Ho! It’s that time of the year for giving and receiving and if your having trouble finding the perfect gift for your loved one then i will hopefully mention something that will help fill that stocking in time for 25th December.

I’m going to run down my top Blu-Ray films, Top DVD’s, Top TV Boxsets and Top anything else that I think are must haves this year.

We’ve added links to Zavvi.com who are currently offering free delivering on everything so make sure you check them out.

Blu-ray and DVD Films

I’ll start with Blu-Ray/DVD films. Blu-Rays have reduced in price incredibly in the run up to Christmas and if you shop around then you will find all sort of deals like 2-4-1’s or 2 for a nice low price, and it’s still not to late to get them in time for Christmas. »

- Gary Phillips

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Californication Season 3 Finale : Well Played Kapinos Onward to Season 4

14 December 2009 11:12 AM, PST | BuzzFocus.com | See recent BuzzFocus.com news »

“You’re gonna die poor, drunk… and alone.” The season 3 finale of Californication was its best episode ever. If you’ve been following Californication since day one, then each moment was even more rewarding than the next. Mia’s (Madeline Zima) return could have been a simple gimmick, but it wasn’t. The drama tied up three seasons of push and pull between Karen (Natascha McElhone) and Hank (David Duchovny), with the love of Becca (Madeleine Martin) dangling in the middle. While everyone gasps over the season finale of Dexter, watching this Trinity unfold was just as satisfying. We knew that Hank’s secret about Mia would be exposed at some point, but we never really had an episode that fully explored the mental impact of Hank’s sexual indiscretions. Taking a page from The Sopranos’ creator David Chase, Tom Kapinos created a semi-dream episode that revolved around Hank’s emotional abyss. »

- Iris Hogan

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2010 Sundance Film Festival: Extra Tidbits on the U.S Dramatic Competition Selections

12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

As we wait for tomorrow's selections in the non-competitive categories, I figured I'd further explore/familiarize myself with the sixteen titles (Blue Valentine, Douchebag, The Dry Land, Happythankyoumoreplease, Hesher, Holy Rollers, Howl, The Imperialists Are Still Alive!, Lovers of Hate, Night Catches Us, Obselidia, Skateland, Sympathy for Delicious, 3 Backyards, Welcome to the Rileys and Winter's Bone) selected for the U.S Dramatic Competition. - As we wait for tomorrow's selections in the non-competitive categories, I figured I'd further explore/familiarize myself with the sixteen titles (Blue Valentine, Douchebag, The Dry Land, Happythankyoumoreplease, Hesher, Holy Rollers, Howl, The Imperialists Are Still Alive!, Lovers of Hate, Night Catches Us, Obselidia, Skateland, Sympathy for Delicious, 3 Backyards, Welcome to the Rileys and Winter's Bone) selected for the U.S Dramatic Competition. Much like what IndieWIRE did here, I'll point to my own set of factoids.  Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine was originally »

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The people who ruined the decade

11 December 2009 5:02 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Part 7: From Dan Brown to Kanye West

Dan Brown From conspiracy guff to blockbuster industry

If conspiracy theorists didn't have enough fuel this decade what with 9/11 being an "inside job", the non-arrival of the millennium bug and the possibility of Jedward being a situationist prank, along came a man looking like a bad Whose Line Is It Anyway? panellist to convince millions of airport novel-reading simpletons that if only they pushed the right stone in the floor of the Louvre, the roof would open revealing irrefutable evidence that Jesus was a blood-sucking alien in cahoots with the Freemasons.

See Also Noel Edmonds, Sudoku

Rebecca Farnworth The ghost of literature to come

In 1948 loony lefty George Orwell imagined a Britain wherein novel-writing machines banged out indistinguishable works of soft porn for a nation of hopeless proles. Crazy bastard, right? Then again, in September 2007 Katie Price's Crystal, ghost-written by Rebecca »

- Pete Cashmore, Will Dean, Grace Dent, Priya Elan, Andrew Emery, Rob Fitzpatrick, Stuart Heritage, Malik Meer, Rebecca Nicholson, Alex Rayner, Steve Rose, Sam Richards, Richard Vine

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The people who ruined the decade

11 December 2009 5:02 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

Part 7: From Dan Brown to Kanye West

Dan Brown From conspiracy guff to blockbuster industry

If conspiracy theorists didn't have enough fuel this decade what with 9/11 being an "inside job", the non-arrival of the millennium bug and the possibility of Jedward being a situationist prank, along came a man looking like a bad Whose Line Is It Anyway? panellist to convince millions of airport novel-reading simpletons that if only they pushed the right stone in the floor of the Louvre, the roof would open revealing irrefutable evidence that Jesus was a blood-sucking alien in cahoots with the Freemasons.

See Also Noel Edmonds, Sudoku

Rebecca Farnworth The ghost of literature to come

In 1948 loony lefty George Orwell imagined a Britain wherein novel-writing machines banged out indistinguishable works of soft porn for a nation of hopeless proles. Crazy bastard, right? Then again, in September 2007 Katie Price's Crystal, ghost-written by Rebecca »

- Pete Cashmore, Will Dean, Grace Dent, Priya Elan, Andrew Emery, Rob Fitzpatrick, Stuart Heritage, Malik Meer, Rebecca Nicholson, Alex Rayner, Steve Rose, Sam Richards, Richard Vine

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Golden Globes: Which new shows will make the cut?

10 December 2009 9:01 PM, PST | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »

The Golden Globes tend to be pretty difficult to predict, but one thing that has been pretty reliable in recent years has been the willingness to recognize new TV series at the awards.

Which could make for a very crowded comedy field this year.

The mini-renaissance of TV comedy this year, on both broadcast and cable networks, could land several new shows in the best comedy series category when the nominations are announced Tuesday. In fact, it's not inconceivable to envision an all-new field in the category, made up of, say, "Glee," "Modern Family," "Cougar Town," "Nurse Jackie" and "United States of Tara."

Ok, so that's probably also not very likely. It's hard to see last year's winner, "30 Rock," getting overlooked, and probably at least one of the other 2008 nominees -- "Californication," "Entourage," "The Office" and "Weeds" -- will make the cut too ("The Big Bang Theory," which has become a top-15 hit this year, »

- editorial@zap2it.com

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Blu-Ray Review: First Season of HBO’s ‘The Sopranos’ Comes to HD

9 December 2009 6:43 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – The network that redefined TV on DVD has some catching up to do when it comes to Blu-Ray. When you buy a Blu-Ray player for that TV-loving viewer in your family, they can buy all five seasons of “Lost,” the complete series of “Battlestar Galactica,” and even the original “Star Trek” on Blu-Ray, but most HBO series are just catching up. With an excellent recent release for “Rome,” the studio/network now turns its gaze to the best program of the ’00s with the first season of “The Sopranos”.

Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0

What more is there to say about “The Sopranos”? It changed television more than any program in decades, setting a new standard for the kind of complex, character-driven storytelling that could be accomplished in the hour-long format. With uniformly remarkable performances from the entire cast and iconic characters, “The Sopranos” transcended just being another TV show to become a true cultural phenomenon. »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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The Perfectionist: Matthew Weiner Turns the World Mad

7 December 2009 12:05 PM, PST | TVGuide.com - Features | See recent TVGuide - Features news »

Long before he was an awards show darling at the helm of one of the most obsessively consumed shows on television, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner was a bitter hater. "I think expressing myself changed [that], and realizing that it was all my problem, and that if I wanted my life to be different, it was up to me," Weiner says. His expression has become a smoke-filled, whiskey-soaked drama about capitalism, consumption, and careerism at their highest and lowest. It's an incisive look at American history, a titillating tale of sex and power, and a heartbreaking story of a doomed marriage. We chatted with Weiner, one of the influential television industry players interviewed for TVGuide.com's Best of the Decade section, about the enormous success of his show, what tips he took from his stint on The Sopranos, and TV becoming more powerful than movies.

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- Adam Bryant

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