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'Arrested Development' Is Not Just One of the Funniest Television Shows Ever

It's also a metaphor for the OC-ification of America

Food Fighters, A New Competitive Cooking Series With Adam Richman, Greenlit By NBC

For those who don't have basic cable to watch the umpteenth season of Top Chef but are already tired of The Taste on ABC, or have been irked by Gordon Ramsay's abrasiveness on his FOX shows, now there is Food Fighters, which has just been greenlit by NBC. Yes, it's another food competition show. Hos ... More >>

'We Will Live to Fight Again'

Election Day dispatches from around the county

David Cross Lets It Slip More Arrested Development is Coming Than First Planned

Making a fourth season of Arrested Development, the side-splitting comedy more realer about Orange County than any reality show claiming to depict the real OC, is succeeding because of Netflix, according to Mr. Tobias Fünke himself, David Cross. That's not a reference to the tens of millions of vie ... More >>

Arrested Development Starts Filming New Episodes Today!

At last! Arrested Development fans have waited and waited (and waited) for the hilariously dysfunctional Bluth family to reenter their lives, and now, that day seems so much closer.  Deadline reports that the new installment of the Orange County-based TV series begins production today. All ... More >>

Exclusives: The Secret Circle, Person of Interest and Alcatraz at WonderCon

​Guess who's coming to WonderCon? Warner Bros. TV (WBTV) will be screening a never-before-seen episode of The Secret Circle (Thursdays at 9 p.m. on The CW) and an episode of Person of Interest (Thursdays 9 p.m. CBS) on the big screen on Friday, March 16. On Sunday, Alcatraz (Mondays 9 p.m. FOX, mo ... More >>

Young the Giant's 'Cough Syrup' on Glee

​If the MTV VMAs appearance, a Morrissey endorsement and a string of sold-out shows across the country weren't enough to prove that Irvine boys Young the Giant have made it, a spot on Fox's hit show Glee should do the trick. "Cough Syrup" will be featured in the opening scene of Glee's winter fina ... More >>

Best 'Simpsons' Moments: Castmembers Share Their Favorite Contributions to Celebrate the 500th Episode

Fox​Behold! The Simpsons' 500th episode is upon us! The show, titled "At Long Last Leave," entails the Simpson family being evicted from Springfield. When Marge and Homer try to sneak back into town, they're shunned by former neighbors and friends. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stars as himself ... More >>

Checking In On Luigi's D'Italia Post-Kitchen Nightmares

​It's been about four months since Edwin reviewed the Ramsay-revamped Luigi's D'Italia in Anaheim and three months since the show aired on FOX. Gustavo went for the taping of the show itself; I went the following week, to see what they'd done to a restaurant that inspired one of two reactions in t ... More >>

Notes, Quotes and Observations From Luigi D'Italia's Appearance on Kitchen Nightmares

A total gent...​SO . . . did you catch FOX's Kitchen Nightmares this past Friday, the one that highlighted Luigi's D'Italia? Did you catch the one second or so in which I appeared, near the absolute end of the show? How about when the brothers that run Luigi's read my rave review of them--off a Mi ... More >>

Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares Episode With Anaheim's Luigi's D'Italia Airs This Friday

​The day that all of Orange County has been waiting for...okay...too much: The day that a few interested parties who read food blogs and have gone to Luigi's in Anaheim have been looking forward to is upon us. This Friday, the Kitchen Nightmares episode featuring the tantrums of one Gordon Ramsay ... More >>

Three Reasons the Michael Jackson Trial App Feels So Wrong

​So yes, there is such as thing as a Michael Jackson Doctor Trial App, a mini "media center for the iPhone and iPad and Android devices." Released by Fox Television Stations, the app includes live video of the trial proceedings, recorded local news segments, photo galleries and biographies of thos ... More >>

FOX's Kitchen Nightmares Looking for OC Restaurants That Need Gordon Ramsay's Tough Love

FOX​If you know of an OC restaurant that needs a big kick in the pots, FOX wants to hear from you. In his reality show Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay spends a week at sinking restaurants, trying to whip them back into shape--and now he's looking for his next stops. We got an e-mail from a casti ... More >>

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Segerstom Concert Hall

Substitute Teachers Gone Wild on Glee and in OC

​What in tarnation is going on with substitute teachers these days?Tuesday night, we had Gwyneth Coldplay's sub on Glee shaking her groove thang, chastising chastity and generally sexing up the screen. Why, it was enough make Bristol Palin pop out another kid out of wedlock.Now comes a report of a ... More >>

Orange County Register Owner Freedom Communications' Papers, TV Stations for Sale

​Update, November 18, 5:20 p.m.: A media industry watcher suggests Freedom Communications may have a strategy behind what would seem to be a counter-intuitive move to sell the modern-day equivalent of buggy whips, daily newspapers."Might the strategy be to sell some of the properties, keep othe ... More >>

Arrested Development Movie Now Looks Likely, Cast Members Say on Respective Red Carpets

​A movie version of Fox's cult classic Arrested Development--the best TV series about Orange County ever made (and I'll cut any girl who claims otherwise!)--has been on and off again more often than an electric blender with a short in it.However, there has been encouraging news lately from an unli ... More >>

Lea Michele Nose Best

Wikimedia Commons​Fox's Glee star Lea Michele is happy to say that despite the advice, she has resisted getting a nose job.  To those who think she should have gotten the surgery, she has one thing to say:"Fuck those people."

Five Rock Stars Who Should Be 'American Idol' Judges

Now that both Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell are leaving American Idol, rumors abound over who's going to be the next arbiter of taste on the Fox show. J Lo's supposedly signed a deal. Allegedly, Steven Tyler's been asked to join the show. P Diddy's thrown his hat into the ring. Elton John, Jessic ... More >>

K-Pop Go the Wonder Girls

[Mental Notes] Also: The condiment artists at Burger Records, Pop Noir's quest for southern hospitality

Fox's "Glee" to Return With More Music Per Episode

​Glee, Fox's twisted high school musical series that seems inspired by Orange County High School of the Arts (and stars former OCHSA attendee Matthew Morrison), will have more music per episode when it returns April 13 from hiatus.

Incoming: Cake, Band of Horses, Coming to Fox Theater, Dead Weather at Glass House

Back in 1996, it seemed like a pretty good bit that, post-"The Distance," Cake would wind up as a one-hit wonder. Yet the Sacramento band became one of the most reliable commodities in modern rock, which resulted in a ton of slightly amusing novelty hits: "Never There." "Sheep Go To Heaven." "Short ... More >>

Oh boy! 'American Idol' Returns Tonight!

American Idol, a show a small number of you may have a passing familiarity with, returns tonight (8 p.m., Fox) with a sure-to-be-scintillating two hour eighth season premiere. Of course, the first few weeks are always just auditions, so if you're one of those people who only like to watch bad folks ... More >>

Mohr the Merrier

Jay Mohr

[DVDish] Wookiee Mistake

Seth MacFarlane sends up Star Wars in Blue Harvest

Dat Phan Begins

Dat Phan and Friends

Blue-Doo

Blue Man Group

DVDish

Touch of Evel

The Future Is Now

Web Exclusive! Idiocracy, coming soon to your idiot box!

Uhmerican Idiot

Mike Judges hillbilly apocalypse

Diary of a Mad County

May 17 - May 23

Diary of a Mad County

May 3 - May 9

Arresting Arrested Development non-developments

Mitch Hurwitz, the pride of Estancia High who created the fab but now sadly departed Arrested Development, which had been the best show set in Orange County until that reality knock-off Coto de Desperate Housewives came out, tells Entertainment Weekly that wrestling and an animated Saturday morning ... More >>

This Week in Long Goodbyes

Arrested Development

Ring in the Season

The last show of 05

Arrested Development Cant Get Arrested

New DVD lets you see what all the non-fuss is about.

All the Things That Make Us Laugh and Cry

Lucky theres a Family Guy

Diary of a Mad County

Diary of A Mad County

Diary of a Mad County

The Real The O.C.

Foxs Arrested Development captures Newport

Best of OC!

Episode 7

Suburban Funk

Fox re-enters the soap business with The O.C., the best show ever about Orange County

From OC to Shining Sea

90210 now outfoxed by Newports 92660

Diary of a Mad County

Cocaine Decision

Captain Fantastic

Lou Sheldon mistakes Internet for reality, panics, declares world ending!

Cash Cow!

Make money or unplug your computer

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