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May 19
It wasn't a shock when NBC announced there would be no third act for "Smash," canceling it after only two seasons. Once original episodes moved to Saturday, it was clear the end was near. If you want to see what will now be the series finale, it will air at 9 p.m. Saturday on KSEE (Channel 24.1).
May 19
The fall TV season for the five networks is still months away, but the battle already has started to win back some of the viewers who have shifted to cable and online programming.
May 15
If you've been watching the "Live From Lincoln Center" series on KVPT (Channel 18.1), you've had the chance to see Fresno's Audra McDonald show off her hosting skills. She goes from host to performer for the episode of the concert series airing at 9 p.m. May 24.
May 13
After seven seasons as a judge on "So You Think You Can Dance," you would think the job would get easier for Mary Murphy. It's been just the opposite.
May 05
Miranda Rae Mayo always knew she wanted to act.
May 07
More life(time): Lifetime's "Drop Dead Diva," which follows a shallow wannabe model who suddenly dies in an accident only to find her soul resurfacing in the body of a brilliant, plus-sized recently deceased attorney, is back for a fifth season with 13 all-new episodes set to debut at 9 p.m. June 23 on Lifetime.
May 03
Hot stuff: Food Network's long-running competition series "Food Network Star" returns for a ninth season at 9 p.m. June 2.
April 30
PASADENA -- If nothing else, Kyle Bornheimer keeps swinging.
April 30
Check your schedule: NBC has announced premiere dates for its summer shows.
April 28
PASADENA -- The title of Showtime's "The Big C" has been changed slightly for the four one-hour final episodes that begin at 10 p.m. Monday. It's now being called "The Big C: hereafter."
April 26
Brooke Burns has starred in several sweet and funny cable channel movies. But now she gets to play bad -- very bad -- in Lifetime's "A Sister's Revenge."
April 26
First up: Fourteen-time Grammy Award winner Bruno Mars, whose single, "When I Was Your Man," has ascended to the No. 1 spot single on the Billboard's Hot 100, will celebrate by opening the "2013 Billboard Music Awards."
April 23
Mark your calendar: TNT has announced the season premieres for four of its summer dramas.
April 21
Vincent Kartheiser believes Pete Campbell has gotten a raw deal.
April 18
For the past nine years, Creed Bratton -- a former Fresno and Coarsegold resident -- has played a rather strange version of himself on the NBC comedy "The Office." Bratton's dealt with the series coming to an end (May 16) by focusing on the musical career that gave him his first fame and fortune.
April 11
Filmmaker Bared Maronian and actor Ken Davitian ("Borat," "The Artist") will be the special guests at the KVPT (Channel 18.1) studios for two screenings of Maronian's documentary "Orphans of the Genocide."
The film is dedicated to the more than 150,000 orphans of the Armenian Genocide. Read more →March 21
Grace Lee Whitney, the Coarsegold resident who is the oldest surviving member of the original "Star Trek" TV series cast, considers each day a blessed gift. That's because after a long period of alcohol, drugs and sex addictions, she's been clean and sober for 32 years.
March 21
Two Oscar nominees for this year's Best Picture hit stores this week.
March 21
For "This is 40," available on DVD today, actress Leslie Mann spent a lot of time with her family. The film was written and directed by her husband, Judd Apatow, and it features the couple's real daughters.
March 03
The seventh season of the locally produced “0 to 5 in 30 Minutes!” — starting at 7:30 p.m. tonight on KVPT (Channel 18.1) — will feature a slight change.
Over the first six seasons, each episode has looked at multiple topics. The difference this season is that four of the 24 episodes will be devoted to a single topic discussed by an on-camera panel of experts. Read more →January 06
Jon Brent wasn't surprised when his KSEE (Channel 24.1) contract wasn't renewed.
"I kind of knew that it was coming. When a station doesn't want to keep people like Rich Rodriguez, Jim Guy, Alexan Balekian and Jennifer Brice, then people like me are a dying breed at that station," Brent says. Read more →November 13
Welcome home, Jason.
With the "So You Think You Can Dance" 40-city tour winding down, most of the dancers have already played to their hometowns. Fresno's Jason Glover will finally get that chance Tuesday at the Save Mart Center. Expect, um, at least one or two screaming fans. Read more →October 28
Former KGPE (Channel 47.1) news anchor Kevin Walsh has covered thousands of stories working as a reporter in Honolulu, Fresno, Philadelphia and now Boston.
In a new book "The Marrow in Me" (Sports Challenge Network, $19.95), he writes about how a routine assignment in 1996 changed his life. Read more →October 12
Lillian Baronian only expected to see a doctor at Community Regional Medical Center’s emergency room after she fell and hurt her shoulder. She got that and more.
Baronian ended up facing TV cameras filming the nationally syndicated series “Healthcare Heroes.” The series, seen locally at 5 p.m. Sundays on KFSN (Channel 30.1), is filmed on location at Community in downtown Fresno, the Fresno Heart & Surgical Hospital and Clovis Community Medical Center. Read more →September 06
“Fringe: The Complete First Season” Grade B: If this Fox series continues to blend tales of the weird with intriguing characters it could become the “X-Files” replacement for which fans have been waiting.
The first season featured plenty of bizarre moments that seemed to be rather random. The season finale revealed the common link. Read more →