TV BUZZ – Despite bringing you Gossip Girl, the teen network is having ratings woes. The Wall Street Journal says the network may disappear by next year if it can’t figure out a way to lure viewers. Here’s one idea: Do better!

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1. Ratings Down 22 Percent, That’s Bad Gossip
2. Take Pity on the Poor, Lonely CW
3. Your TiVO Makes Baby Jesus Cry

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TV BUZZ – MTV’s spinoff to My Super Sweet Sixteen will send fan “favorites” to third world countries, where they’ll learn truly valuable lessons in how to be less terrible human beings. With The Paper receiving rave reviews across the board, it was only a matter of time before the network reset their focus on the crux of their most successful programming: spoiled brats.

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1. Check Out the Preview Here!
2. “The Premise of the Show is to “Punish” Some of the Spoiled Brats from My Super Sweet 16. How? By Giving Them Each Their Own Camera Crew, TV Show, and Mountains and Mountains of the Attention That They So Desperately Crave.”
3. Expect “Exiled” To Be “Earnest,” Devoid of Chihuahuas
4. Another Example Of “Good Things Happening in a Truly Awful World?”
5. Sweet! An Opportunity for Us to Judge These Kids Even More and Feel Better About Ourselves!
6. Must Be Patient. Must Be Patient…

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TV BUZZ – A new video from Flight of the Conchords. The HBO duo have an album coming out on SubPop and will be back with a new season of their self-titled show next year, and this is the first video off the record.

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TV BUZZ – The anchor curses out Brian Williams while bringing all the news that “Mattersons to Patterson. Springs.” His version of the young Bill O’Reilly seems to be part Geraldo, too.

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1. The Original

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TV BUZZ – What the BBC would look like if there was no news. Two different takes on what would happen if the news cycle just plain stopped.

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1. “Today there was no news. And here is the proof.”
2. News Covers the News Drought

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TV BUZZ – The movie trailer for the new X-Files movie. I want to believe it will be good, and yet? Apparently there will be no conspiracy theories in this latest chapter in the X-Files saga, but that could be just another conspiracy theory.

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TV BUZZ – MTV’s original reality TV show comes to the outer boroughs. New Yorkers wonder: Will it land in Williamsburg? Some people seem bothered, but then most of the hipsters in Williamsburg already star in a reality show in their heads, so things wouldn’t really change that much.

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1. Inevitable and Perhaps Overdue: The Real World Comes to Brooklyn
2. “This is REALLY disturbing to me.”
3. “I would be very surprised if they didn’t pick Williamsburg.”
4. This Hot Mess Will Air Next Year
5. “The Real World to Ruin Brooklyn this Summer”
6. Sorry, Dudes. It’s Gonna Suck
7. Ugh

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TV BUZZ – The third season of this web series about the sex lives of young urbanites living in Chicago has been picked up by IFC. There’s sex! And full-frontal nudity! It’s pretty much hipster porn, complete with awkward fumbling and poignant pillow talks. You’ll be aroused and cringing at the same time.

The Best Links:

1. Fleshbot Has a Hot Photo Gallery from the Web Series, Plus an Interview with Joe Swanberg
2. “…a bedroom-centric version of The Office – except with lots of full-frontal nudity and real-looking sex”
3. IFC.com Will Launch a New Web Series Every Month
4. A Great Web Series If You Love Nipple and Make Out Shots
5. Watch a Clip
6. Young American Bodies: Watch Seasons 1 and 2
7. King of Mumblecore Makes a Hard-Core Sex Soap
8. Mumblecore - Featured on BuzzFeed
9. Watch the Third Season of Young American Bodies on IFC.com

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TV BUZZ – A new CBS drama about suburban swingers set in the ’70s debuts June 5th. The network known for catering to old folks with shows like Murder She Wrote and Matlock just got a whole lot racier. Wife swapping, ’70s fashion and a soundtrack curated by Liz Phair, I’m in.

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1. “Take My Wife. Please. I’ll Take Yours. “
2. “Swingtown experiment is on for CBS “
3. “‘Swingtown’ Could Open Eyes to CBS “
4. Swingtown on CBS
5. Swingtown
6. Swingtown - The Trailer
7. First Look: Swingtown on CBS
8. Coming Attraction: Swingtown
9. If You Do It and You’re Still Unhappy, Then You Know That the Problem Is You
10. Swingtown, Foot Massage Image
11. Good Times and Polyester Clad Debauchery

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TV BUZZ – Lost amid the furor of last week’s photo scandal, Miley Cyrus is also in the middle of a heated dance off with the guys behind Step Up 2: The Streets. The three videos below tell the story better than we ever could, but the basic arc runs thus: John Chu, the director behind dance flick Step Up 2, challenged Miley Cyrus and her pal Mandy to a dance battle via his YouTube blog; Miley and Mandy responded with a video of their own; then Chu and dance maniac Adam Sevani made a response-to-the-response video, featuring cameos by Lindsay Lohan (?) and Adam Sandler (??). Now the three videos have 5.3 million views between them.

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1. Step 1: Adam and Chu Challenge Miley and Mandy
2. Step 2: M&M Cru Respond
3. Step 3: Somehow, Lindsay Lohan, Adam Sandler and Chris Brown Become Involved

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