Discover Yahoo! With Your Friends

Explore news, videos and much more based on what your friends are reading and watching. Publish your own activity and retain full control.

To get started, first

YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY

    The Set
    • The bizarre and outlandish events documented by reality TV have inspired all sorts of artistic works, from fan fiction to t-shirt designs to speculative films. But only a work of transcendent poetry like the Channel 4 special "My Monkey Baby" — which aired in the U.S. on TLC more than two years ago, but which still resonates with those of us who watched it — could inspire a song like "Jessy Marie." When Tracie Potochnik (who, full disclosure, has been a good friend of mine for years) entered a songwriting contest with a unique challenge: to craft a song around the theme "That's no gosh darn monkey," naturally her thoughts went straight to Jessy Marie, the titular Monkey Baby, whose "parents" took umbrage when anyone dared to suggest that their "daughter" was a monkey. And though it sounds like a funny premise (and...okay, it is), the song came out quite haunting — as Tracie puts it, "as if Gillian Welch had written an opera inspired by 'My Monkey Baby.'" Listen and enjoy.

      Read More »
    • Nailed it. (Hulu)Granted, the "SNL" Sketch Predictor is based on a combination of informed guesswork and pure imagination. But I will still get way too excited when I happen to be right about anything in the show. Below, a celebration of me and the things I accurately predicted — plus a couple of things I should have known to expect.

      What I Got Right!

      1. and 2. That host Jason Segel would talk about his upcoming movie, "The Muppets," in the monologue, and that Muppets would appear in the sketch, as themselves.

      Read More »
    • I suppose Kohl's has "won" the race, or bidding war, or whatever, to be the discount department store that gets to use Rebecca Black's famous-for-being-terrible song "Friday" in their Black Friday ad. So, way to go, Kohl's. You can pretend to make fun of the song all you want and joke about how it sticks in people's heads, but you still probably paid big bucks for it. I hope you're cool with being THAT discount department store. Even Sears is probably all like "You stay classy, Kohl's":

    • This is really happening! [Fox]Late Friday, Netflix announced that they (along with 20th Century Fox and Imagine Entertainment) would be bringing back new episodes of the dearly departed Fox sitcom "Arrested Development," to stream exclusively on their service in early 2013.

      "Arrested Development," which hilariously chronicled the breakdown of the formerly wealthy Bluth family, was, of course, canceled five years ago, but has retained (and gained) a loyal and vocal fan base who, along with the media, managed to add credence to the rumor of an upcoming movie on a weekly basis, even though that movie has still never entered production. (It does seem a bit more likely now, especially since the latest word on it, from creator Mitch Hurwitz at an "Arrested" reunion at the New Yorker festival a few months ago, was "10 episodes and a movie.")

      Read More »
    • All that's missing is wine. (ABC)"Cougar Town" fans are going to have to start getting a lot more sympathetic to "Community" partisans, because suddenly both shows are being mistreated by their respective networks in exactly the same way. When ABC left the third season of "Cougar Town" off its 2011 fall schedule, the line was that the show would return for a full season at midseason — in other words, early in the new year. However, the network released its midseason schedule earlier today, and "Cougar Town" wasn't on it — nor was "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23," which was to have been paired with "Cougar Town" on the schedule. (Other shows will have their runs disrupted too, including my beloved "Pan Am," which will be replaced — perhaps only temporarily — by the soapy "Good Christian Belles.")

      Read More »
    • Who will be the Situation and Snooki of the holler? [MTV]After the success of "Jersey Shore," MTV has identified yet another youth culture to exploit celebrate: that of a rural West Virginian town, where "recent college graduates" from different economic situations (some are from "up in the hills" and some are from "in the holler," apparently) will participate in "'Jackass"-like stunts. TV Guide reports that after being wowed by a presentation, the network has ordered 12 episodes of the show, which is called "Buck Wild." If you're wondering whether MTV knows exactly what we're all thinking when we hear they're doing a show about the youth culture of rural Appalachia, this is what MTV programming head David Janollari told TV Guide for their exclusive announcement of "Buck Wild":

      "[The show] is so wholeheartedly not making fun of these kids... they have a great sense of humor, and you're drawn to them and this world."

      We'll have to wait for the spring thaw for the show to even begin shooting, so don't expect to be drawn into the "Buck Wild"

      Read More »

    Pagination

    (821 Stories)

    ABOUT THE SET

    The Set is a blog about TV by two friends who've each been watching and writing about television for years. The Set is a celebration of the small screen in all its glories and failures — because when it comes to TV, there are no guilty pleasures.

    Meet THE SET Team

    Subscribe

    [X]

    How to subscribe

    Roll over each section to subscribe using Add to My Yahoo! or RSS Feed feeds.

    Yahoo! News offers dozens of RSS feeds you can read in My Yahoo! or using third-party RSS news reader software. Click here to find out more about RSS and how you can use it with Yahoo! News.