Monday, November 19, 2007

TV Potpourri

MARTHA STEWART's mother, MARTHA KOSTYRA, passed away Friday at the age of 93. Kostyra, who was known as "Big Martha," often appeared on TV with her daughter. Stewart informed fans of her mother's death on her blog Saturday, and posted video clips of them together on TV in tribute...

OPRAH WINFREY handed out gifts ranging from refrigerators to camcorders to wrapping paper to her audience during a taping of her show in Macon, Georgia Saturday, as part of the show's theme, "Oprah's Favorite Things." It airs tomorrow. The taping is the first in a series of shows highlighting towns across the country...

NBC will air the Internet series Quarterlife, from the creators of Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life, early next year. The 36 eight-minute episodes of the Web series, which premiered on MySpace.com November 11th, will be edited together to air on NBC as an hour-long episode, according to The Hollywood Reporter. It will also stream on NBC.com...

AL GORE will receive a special honor tonight in New York at the International Emmy Awards ceremony. ROBERT DENIRO will present the former vice president -- who's already won an Oscar, an Emmy and the Nobel Peace Prize -- with the International Emmy Founders Award for his work as the co-chairman and co-founder of the interactive cable and satellite TV network Current TV...

ABC has picked up a full season of the newbie series Dirty Sexy Money. It's the first show on any network to get a pickup since the writers strike began on November 5th, according to The Hollywood Reporter...

The New York Post reports that presidential candidate BARACK OBAMA's wife, MICHELLE OBAMA, will guest co-host ABC's The View on December 5th...

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