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Can Top Chef TV Dinners Live Up to Billing?
If you want to understand the disconnect between watching cooking shows and wanting to cook, get this: Schwan’s Home Service is offering Top Chef–branded frozen meals. The idea that hard-core fans who study contestants’ knife skills every week would choose to order from a giant company that’s been delivering frozen food to rural America for 57 years doesn’t surprise Harry Balzer, who tracks food trends for the market-research firm NPD Group.
Lifetime pulls balloon boy’s ‘Wife Swap’ episode from schedule
It’s just one thing after another for Richard and Mayumi Heene. They’ve caused such an uproar after last week’s alleged balloon boy hoax that Lifetime won’t air a re-run of their “Wife Swap” episode
Chinese ship hijacked in Indian Ocean
A Chinese ship with 146 people aboard was hijacked Monday in the Indian Ocean, the European Union Naval Force said.
Jon Gosselin ordered to give back $180,000
Consider Jon Gosselin the kid who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. The reality-show dad, 32, has been ordered by a Pennsylvania judge to return $180,000 to a joint bank account he shares with estranged wife Kate Gosselin, 34, a source close to Kate confirms
Animation confronts Gaza breast cancer taboo
The harsh reality of life and death in Gaza is a common theme for Palestinian filmmakers. But it was the 2004 death of a young Palestinian woman — not at the hands of a militant attack or an Israeli incursion — that struck a note with two filmmakers.
Weighing the Risks of Mass Vaccinations
Like most 14-year-old girls, Natalie Morton probably didn’t spend too much time worrying about cervical cancer. But along with all of her female classmates at the Blue Coat Church of England school in Coventry, she received a vaccine on Sept
Spencer Pratt ‘barely having sex’ with Heidi Montag
There are many things most people would rather not dwell upon when considering the facts behind the marriage between Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, perhaps the most reviled pairing in reality TV. Thank God sex isn’t really a fact in their marriage, according to Pratt
France passes tough anti-piracy measure
French lawmakers passed a tough new measure to crack down on illegal downloading. The legislation would impose fines of up to 300,000 euros — the equivalent of about $440,000 — as well as possible prison terms for the illegal download of films or music
Stars arrive, ready for Emmys
Television stars strolled on a red-hot red carpet Sunday afternoon, arriving for the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards, a show producers hope will get a warm reception from TV viewers. It was 83 degrees and sunny outside the Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, where the Emmy show is being held