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10.29.2009 3:22 pm

Couldn’t make today’s TV chat? Here’s what you missed

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Here’s the transcript from my Oct. 29 live discussion about TV. Next week’s chat is already scheduled, so if you’re reading this and think of questions and comments, click here to post them now.

Gail: Hi, guys. Running a tad late…
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08.12.2009 3:06 pm

Out with the tall: ‘Top Model’ unveils short(er) cast

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Top Model" contender Sundai

"Top Model" contender Sundai

“America’s Next Top Model” has announced its Cycle 13 cast, all 5 feet 7 inches or shorter. The shortest? Sundai, 18, a student from Bakersfield, Calif., who is 5 feet 3. Four of the 13 models top…

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06.17.2009 5:48 pm

CW sets fall premiere dates; ‘Gossip Girl’ makes a move

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Gossip Girl” and “One Tree Hill” will trade places on the CW’s Monday night schedule in the fall. In St. Louis, where KPLR delays CW programming an hour, that means “One Tree Hill” at 8 p.m. and “Gossip Girl” at an…

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03.05.2009 9:31 am

‘America’s Next Top Model’ casting call Saturday

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Allison, 'Top Model 12'

Allison,

The new season of “America’s Next Top Model” (the 12th!) just started, but casting is already underway for Season 13, where the twist will be that all the contestants must be short. Well, shorter — the height requirement is…

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02.25.2009 8:44 am

CW gives six series early pickups for fall

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Early CW renewals were rumored all day Tuesday, but I finally have the official word from the CW. Included in the pickups: “Smallville,” which had been on the bubble only because of the need to seal a new contract with…

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10.29.2008 5:53 pm

Obama vs. ‘Pushing Daisies’

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Democratic presidential candidate has bought a half-hour on CBS, NBC and Fox at 7 tonight — but not ABC, which will air “Pushing Daisies.” ABC didn’t have a 30-minute slot available for the ad, and reports are that by…

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08.12.2008 3:50 pm

‘Top Model’: Alaska, yes; St. Louis, no

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Another cast for “America’s Next Top Model” is announced, and still nobody from St. Louis makes the cut. Lucky, La.? Sure. Ukraine? Da. St. Louis? Nope again. Here’s the release from the CW.

August 12, 2008 (Burbank, California) – The CW’s…

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07.11.2008 4:34 pm

Casting call for ‘America’s Next Top Model’

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Here’s a release about next Saturday’s (July 19) casting call HERE for “America’s Next Top Model.”

CW 11 (KPLR) ST. LOUIS TO HOST THE ONLY ST. LOUIS CONTESTANT SEARCH FOR AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL CYCLE 12

Hundreds of aspiring models expected to…

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05.14.2008 8:20 pm

‘America’s Next Top Model’: Size 10 triumphs!

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whitney_opt.jpgUnbelievably, the plus-size girl won “America’s Next Top Model.” Even more unbelievably, winner Whitney is “plus size” at size 10! As Tyra Banks told “Miss J.” earlier in the episode, “She’s not big. Only in modeling is she big. On the…

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04.08.2008 12:07 pm

Shielding kids from inappropriate TV

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I got two emails today taking different positions on the pesky issue of TV content. One was from the Parents Television Council, saying it had filed an indecency complaint with the FCC over a nude photo shoot on “America’s Next…

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