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5/4/13
At age 27, Brian Stelter is something of a media journalism prodigy. Back when he was 20, he built a blog on the TV news business, TVNewser.com, that earned a shout- out from NBC News anchor Brian Williams, along with feature stories in USA Today and the New York Times — where he landed a job as a media reporter fr …
It's the most-anticipated TV series salvage in recent history, with the added possibility of reshaping how we all watch television.
Yep, that really was Ben Affleck hanging out Wednesday in Ybor City. The actor-director was here scouting locations for his next movie, Live by Night, a crime drama based on Dennis Lehane's book and largely set in Ybor, confirmed somebody close to Affleck who ought to know. (A name? Please, it's Hollywood.) He …
On TV this weekend
FRIDAY
SERIES PREMIERE Invasion, 7 p.m., Animal Planet Hunters go searching for invasive species, so of course the first episode is set in Florida. Suspects include the Burmese python, the Nile monitor lizard and those snails that ruin everything. They should add tarantulas to that …
SERIES PREMIERE Showville, 9 p.m., AMC Producers go to a small town to put together a talent show for the locals, using local performers. Why, because those yokels don't have the movin'-pitcher boxes, Hollywood?!?
SEASON FINALE The Middle, 8 p.m., ABC Frankie can't get Axl to say what he wants to do for his graduation party? It's almost like he doesn't want her to know!
Ginger Gadsden, morning and noon anchor at St. Petersburg CBS affiliate WTSP-Ch. 10, will be leaving the station when her contract expires June 30.
The new primetime PBS show featuring Charlie Rose likely will not affect the air time of Tampa public affairs show Florida This Week, even though the network has asked stations nationwide to broadcast Rose's program at 8:30 p.m. Fridays — the local program's current timeslot.
The Bachelor, 8 p.m., ABC In case you forgot there are people desperate enough for fame and companionship that they would speed-date for keeps, here's a blooper special. As if the show wasn't enough of a mistake.
Monday
SEASON finale Dancing With the Stars, 9 p.m, ABC: Who will walk away with the coveted mirror ball trophy? That one really good young female celebrity? Or that OTHER really good young female celebrity? This season seems especially rigged with ridiculously talented "amateur" dancers. It's …
On the surface, Behind the Candelabra is the perfect HBO movie.
