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Back in May, The Sopranos creator David Chase hinted on the vaunted HBO mob-opera’s website that the show’s upcoming sixth season — scheduled to debut March 2006 with 12 episodes — might not be its last. “It’s possible,” said Chase about extending the series while speaking at a breakfast for …

Saturday Morning with Sid and Marty Kroft is a nostalgic disc that contains pilot episodes from their most memorable television productions. It beings with a very cute menu sequence of a small girl climbing out of bed and making herself a bowl of cereal before continuing to turn on the …

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Beginning tomorrow, July 14, Sheryl Crow is appearing in Dell television commercials nationwide featuring her anthemic upcoming single “Good is Good” (extended clip here). The first-ever Dell celebrity spokesperson, Crow will headline television commercials highlighting how consumers can tap into the power of technologies such as Dell’s Media Center PCs …

Michael Jackson’s brother Jermaine, with nothing much else to do, spoke with Larry King about his brother’s condition, frame of mind, future, the trial, the possibility of a Jackson family musical reunion, and lots of other things last night. “Michael’s recovering,” Jackson said. “But it’s a time for rejoice for …

Next up for Paris Hilton: a handoff from Carl’s Jr. to its corporate sibling Hardee’s, as her infamous, lubricious swimsuit-Bentley-running hose-burger orgy TV commercial goes east to launch the new Spicy BBQ Thickburger, topped with Tabasco-spiked BBQ sauce and Texas Toothpicks (insert joke using “spicy” “thick” and “hot” here). The …

Music Plus TV co-founder Marc Cubas is tired of Britney Spears. “I’m tired of listening to the same stuff,” he complains. He believes he has the cure. On June 15th, Cubas and co-founder Dennis Tzeng officially launch Music Plus TV, a Los Angeles-based 24-hour live streaming web television station that …

Variety reports that wanderin’ Dave Chappelle popped in unannounced Wednesday night at two Hollywood comedy clubs, the Hollywood Improv at 10 p.m. and the Comedy Store at midnight, and laid some of his patented patter on the stunned crowds. Chappelle told both clubs that he had just flown into town …

Wayward comedian Dave Chapelle — who cold bugged out to South Africa amid rumors of psychological breakdown, excessive partying, and plain old fear of success — has turned up back home in rural, artsy Yellow Springs, Ohio. For a guy who put the third season of his hit Comedy Central …

On the stand in the Michael Jackson trial yesterday, Jay Leno — the penultimate defense witness, preceding actor Chris Tucker — contradicted previous defense assertions that Jackson’s accuser and his family had asked him for money when the boy was suffering from cancer and receiving chemotherapy treatment in 2000. “I …