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The Boob Tube: Hot Weekend TV For September 6-7th 2008

Annika HarrisSeptember 6, 2008 //

Weekends can’t be all about going out and socializing, especially if your city is about to get hit with residual weather from Hurricane Hannah. The weekend should also be a time to relax and catch up on TV, so The Frisky is adding a new weekly feature that will tell you what cool programs and marathons will air from Saturday morning to Sunday night. This weekend we’re all about The Rachel Zoe Project: Preview Special, Pieces of Me: Britney’s Greatest VMA Moments, the VMAs themselves, the premiere of True Blood, and the next episode of Mad Men. [TV Guide] Keep reading »

It’s Britney, Bitch: Spears To Make A Comeback At The 2008 VMAs?!

Amelia McDonell-ParryAugust 12, 2008 //

Britney Spears filmed two promotional spots for the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, alongside host Russell Brand (from Forgetting Sarah Marshall). Though she’s nominated for an award (Best Female Video for “Piece Of Me”), the pop star, who is recovering from, uh, a rough year, won’t be making a “comeback” performing at this year’s award show on September 7th. Last year, Britney made a serious fool out of herself, sleepwalking through an atrocious performance of “Gimme More”, an event which signaled months’ worth of head-shaving, umbrella-wielding, psychotic breakdown-ing mayhem. But she seems so much better now, like the Britney we know and love! Last year it seemed like MTV set the star up to fail, hoping she would falter for ratings’ sake, but we think she should come back this year and knock some socks off. One more promo, after the jump… [MTV] Keep reading »