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Each year, the Museum of Radio and Television holds the annual Paley Festival celebrating the best that television has to offer. Over twelve nights from March 1 to 15, 2007, MTR will unite stars, creators, and their fans for behind-the-scenes looks at the most talked-about shows on TV. During these events, the audience watches episodes or highlights of the featured work and participates in a Q&A with the show’s cast and creative team.

The year, the Paley Festival has once again managed to secure a phenomenal line-up, featuring some of theTVaddict.com’s personal favourites, including: DEXTER, BROTHERS & SISTERS, UGLY BETTY, THE SIMPSONS, NIP/TUCK, HEROES, PRISON BREAK, THE OFFICE, JERICHO, THE CLOSER and yes, even AMERICAN IDOL (click here for the entire schedule).

Yet each year, with only a few hundred seats available for each night — and the entire festival selling out within hours — fans are more often then not left upset and disappointed when they’re not able to obtain tickets. While the obvious solution is to secure a larger venue for the festival, the Museum seems hesitant to do so. Most likely not wanting to dilute the intimate nature of each event. Thus, it’s up to theTVaddict.com to put forth another solution.

Why not make the events available for download on iTunes the following day! Not only will the Museum earn large amounts of money (something every museum needs, nay loves), more importantly — millions of fans across North America will have the opportunity to see the magic that is a night at the Paley Festival. Having attended last year’s FAMILY GUY event, theTVaddict can say first hand that it was worth every penny I spent on eBay for the tickets!

Please post a comment in support of this idea. If enough people voice their opinion you never know what will happen. Come March 3 we could all be downloading THE OFFICE Paley Festival event and enjoying what very few lucky fans will have had the opportunity to see.

Between work, family, friends and oh yeah TV — we know how busy your life is. So on this Valentine’s Day (forgot, didn’t you!) theTVaddict.com is here to make your life a little bit easier. Before you leave work, forget stopping by Hallmark in that snow storm. Download theTVaddict.com’s first official Valentine’s Day Card. All you need is a piece of paper, a bit of tape, a printer and a pair of scissors and you’ve got yourself the gift that will make your McSteamy Steam! Click here to download the PDF and no worries, you can thank theTVaddict tomorrow! Happy Valentine’s Day to everyone.

For some further fun with Virtual Valentine’s, check out USA TODAY’S POPCANDY

Fans of ABC Family’s “Wildfire” have been caught up in the latest round of “who should Kris choose – Matt or Junior?”, voting online, sharing their opinions on online forums. But there’s another triangle all together that’s been keeping me interested this season – that between Kris, Matt, and Matt’s current girlfriend, Gillian.

In recent weeks, the feelings between Matt and Kris were re-ignited, again; it seems like, for the moment at least, Matt and Gillian are going to try to make it work.

Amrie (of My Take On TV fame) recently got the opportunity to ask Gillian’s portrayer, Charlotte Salt, a few questions about what we can expect in the coming weeks and what the future holds for both Charlotte and the character she plays.

Amrie: How far ahead in shooting are you? Have you wrapped for the season yet?
Gillian: We wrapped for the season just in time for Christmas, which was perfect timing for me as I was then able to spend a whole month with my family back in the UK…I need to be cold at Christmas!

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It looks like two of TV’s most-missed sitcom stars – Kelsey Grammar (FRASIER) and Patricia Heaton (EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND) will be back on the small screen this fall in the comedy ACTION NEWS. The show features the duo as an anchor team being reunited at a local TV station. FOX obviously has fate in the show, which was written by Christopher Lloyd (WINGS) and Steven Livitan (JUST SHOOT ME), as evidenced by their giving the as-yet-unproduced pilot a 13-episode commitment. Of course, the show was almost guaranteed to be picked up by someone: Written on spec, Variety reports that ABC, CBS and FOX were engaged in a bidding war for the property.

In other casting news, SIX FEET UNDER alum Peter Krause will star in ABC’s steamy new drama, DIRTY SEXY MONEY. Krause will play an attorney who winds up representing an “ethically flexible” family. (This bit of casting news would seem to indicate that THE LOST ROOM – which the actor starred in for the Sci Fi network – probably won’t, as predicted, be making the jump from mini to full-fledged series.

By Alexander B. Huls, Mondo Magazine

Why you should be watching Supernatural, and thoughts on why you might not be.

If you’re reading this and wondering: “What the heck is Supernatural?”, then you”ve come to the right place and also broken my heart.

Supernatural revolves around two brothers, Dean and Sam Winchester, who are nomadic demon hunters that ride from town to town in order to investigate and vanquish supernatural evil. And who doesn’t love nomadic demon hunters? In each episode the brothers grapple with a monster-of-the-week (much like early The X-Files), often inspired by urban legends and folk tales. Not content to settle for a tired formula, Supernatural introduces a greater dramatic mythology dealing with a Winchester-hating über-demon with a very nefarious plan for both the brothers and the world. And who doesn’t love nefarious plans?

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Last season, Showtime’s MASTERS OF HORROR took viewers on an exciting, thrilling ride which left fans of the genre begging for more. But this season’s crop of sub-par episodes have proven that sometimes, we should be careful what we ask for. With the recently concluded second season, not a single one of this season’s offerings have come even close to matching the giddy joy fright fans got from freshman offerings like the haunting “Cigarette Burns” or the political satire “Homecoming.” Instead, sophomore episodes seemed to focus on either gore-for-gore’s sake (“Pelts”) or one-note plots (“Sounds Like” and “The Damned Thing”). Bright spots — such as the creepy “Family” (starring CHEERS vet George Wendt as a lonely taxidermist — were few and far between. With horror movies being all the rage on the big screen, it was inevitable that networks would try and cash in on the trend. But Showtime may soon learn what the makers of such theatrical bombs as Pulse and Black Christmas did: If you want to scare up an audience, you have to have more than a catchy title. Hopefully, when season 3 of MASTERS rolls around, they’ll go back to the drawing board.