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• Showtime is top nominee for 2009 Producers Guild Awards

  
  Showtime Fan — Authority: 128
  The Producers Guild of America announced its picks for top TV shows this week, and Showtime led all other networks with four nominations. Weeds and Californication made the short list for comedies , while Dexter got a nod in the drama category and This American Life received spot on the list for ...
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• Cable dramas lead Producers Guild Awards

  
  TV Tonight — Authority: 540
  The Showtime cable channel in the US is leading the nominees in the Producers Guild Awards. It has several nominations lead by True Blood, Californication, Weeds, Dexter, and This American Life. The Producers Guild of America represents over 4,000 producers. Here are their picks: Danny Thomas Producer of the ...
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• Trivial Links: How we spent our November blogging time…

  
  In Pursuit of the Trivial — Authority: 104
  Al l C at eg or ies Trivial Links Written by Nathan Mattise Look, just because I’ve neglected my 3-day-a-week posting schedule here at In Pursuit of the Trivial doesn’t mean I’m being lazy. I’ve simply been busy ( which in some contexts, is certainly a suitable pseudo-synonym for lazy ). ...
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• Pious Poultry Sighting

  
  The Adventures of Mighty Mom — Authority: 116
  Due a patch of fowl weather, this bird made it through Thanksgiving 2009 by the skin of its waddle. Score one for the power of prayer!
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• Confessions of a Spec Tater — Give the Gift of TV

  
  Inside Pulse Movies — Authority: 147
  With Christmas around the corner, gift buying, the real meaning of the season, is about to get into full swing. Let’s face it; no matter how many Charlie Brown holiday specials or Christmas Carol remakes are put out there with the express intent of warming the cockles of our hearts, Americans only care about one ...
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• Puppies and the gatekeepers of misery

  
  Pete Ashton's Weblog — Authority: 443
  Show number 233 of This American Life has an interesting segment about Dan FitzSimmonds who tries to set up his own cable network. (You can listen to it from the site – it starts 7 minutes in and lasts for 15 minutes.) It’s interesting because the show was first broadcast in 2003 and is talking about an era way ...
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• Healthcare. Groan.

  
  The Personal Finance Playbook — Authority: 461
  Healthcare can be a pain in the ass. This is the first post from one of the site’s new contributors .  Josh is a personal trainer and actor living in NYC.  In addition to being one of my best friends, he’s one of the most frugal and sensible people I know.  Since he writes well and I trust him to do a ...
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• OTM, 11/20: Overzealous, childish accusation!

  
  Radio Sweethearts — Authority: 117
  Bob isn’t off this week; he’s just hunkered in a bunker. Brooke sunk her feelings into a clunker of an opening to this week’s episode. Sort of like how I just did, back there. Anyway, I don’t know what’s up with Bob being away from his regular microphone – and I know that coupling a decent microphone ...
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• Top 10 Must-Listen Podcasts

  
  Top 10 Lists — Authority: 548
  Internet radio shows, or podcasts, are one of the fastest growing forms of new media. With modern technology, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can become an amateur radio host and start producing a program on any subject they please, and websites like i-tunes and podcast alley now host thousands of ...
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• Review: Magpie Project’s “The Happy Family Series”

  
  Chicago Theater Blog — Authority: 138
  A Weird and Gifted “Family” Pulls It Together The Magpies Project present: The Happy Family Series: Demonstrations Exploring “Harmonic Antagonisms ” inspired by P.T. Barnum ’s “ The Happy Family ” Curated by Shawn Reddy Emceed by H.B. Ward a.k.a. "The ...
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• Mike White Starts a Santa Claus Civil War

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 763
  Not pleased with the likes of our latest serving of A Christmas Carol ? Want a little more originality served with your ho-ho-hos? This might be the answer: Variety reports that Paramount Pictures has tapped Mike White to write the script for a new comedy called Santa Wars . Oh yes, its just like youd imagine. ...
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• Mike White Starts the ‘Santa Wars’

  
  Film School Rejects — Authority: 667
  Paramount Pictures has picked up a script from writer/director Mike White called Santa Wars , a comedy based on the true story of rival factions that developed within a union of professional Santa Clauses who become arch enemies during a Santa Claus civil war, according to Variety . Stop. Hold the presses for a ...
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• Mike White engages in Santa Wars

  
  ShowHype - Top Celebrity Gossip News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 173
  Paramount, Rudin team for holiday comedy Paramount Pictures has set Mike White to script "Santa Wars," a comedy based on the true story of rival factions that developed within a union of professional Santa Clauses who became arch enemies during a Santa Claus civil war. Scott Rudin will produce ... Dark Horizons - ...
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• Listen: This American Life Segment that Inspired Santa Wars, Movie to be Written by Mike White

  
  /Film — Authority: 787
  Paramount Pictures has hired School of Rock screenwriter Mike White to script Santa Wars , a comedy based on the true story which appeared on This American Life in December 2008. The story, written by Joshuah Bearman , told of two rival factions that developed within a union of professional Santa Clauses, ...
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• Bugging Jonathan Goldstein

  
  Radio Sweethearts — Authority: 117
  You probably already know this, but Jonathan Goldstein, of “This American Life” fame, has his own radio show, “ WireTap ,” that runs on the CBC Radio One in Canada, and, via Public Radio International, several American public radio stations. "Alberto Gonzales on line 2...." by Vaguely Artistic, Flickr. ...
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• Nzinga Meets Lula

  
  What am I Doing Here? — Authority: 107
  Looks like I quit training Capoeira a year too early- I found out today that my old group, Grupo Nzinga de Capoeira Angola , is going to be doing a demo tomorrow for the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva . Wow! Grupo Nzinga is not a large group, at least not here in Salvador, but they are very well ...
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• This American Life

  
  ShowHype - Top Entertainment News, Videos, and Blogs — Authority: 529
  371: Scenes From a Mall This American Life spends several days in a mall in suburban Tennessee, not only to find out what people are buying in this grim financial year, but to document daily life in the mall during the run-up to Christmas. Also, a rift in a national association of professional ... /Film found this ...
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• Currently watching Season 1.

  
  Peter W. Knox — Authority: 650
  Currently watching Season 1.
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• Is it a travesty or just a bad tragedy?

  
  Radio Sweethearts — Authority: 117
  Tonight, I ran out of space on the external hard drive that houses two important things: my iTunes library, and every episode of This American Life aired since they started podcasting. Truly, the latter is a vast storehouse of knowledge, wit, and storytelling matched only by the Library at Alexandria, lost to history. ...
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• This American Life – Bait and Switch

  
  VIA — Authority: 107
  http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1325Act 2. “Bait and Switch” for Jesus. Provacatively entitled “Raw Sex”Jesus says to go into all the world and preach the Gospel, and they’re going to hate you, just like they hated me. So, you have this kind of Biblical imperative to spread the word ...
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