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So many golden ages, so much brilliance from which to choose. In culling from the "60 Greatest" lists we've compiled during our 60th-anniversary year, we shook things up, blending drama, comedy and other genres to salute the shows with the biggest cultural impact and most enduring influence.

The world is a terrible mess. Lives ruined, forces aligned against each other, and the threat of death constantly hanging over everyone's heads. So time to relax and watch a new episode of The Walking Dead! Just kidding, you guys... If you were looking to get away from round the clock news of *suppresses gag reflex* President Trump, you probably should have focused elsewhere than on this week's shockingly timely episode of TWD, where a sadistic, misogynistic, enigmatic, violent maniac has beaten the good guys into submission and is now demanding they give up their s---, threatening them with violence...

Melvin Durslag, a sports columnist who covered the Los Angeles scene for decades beginning in 1939, died Sunday at a convalescent home in Santa Monica after a brief illness, according to friend and former colleague Larry Stewart. He was 95. Durslag was said to string “together words like Nolan Ryan strings together strikeouts,” in the words of former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda.

Samuel L. Jackson appeared on Late Night with Seth Meyers Tuesday night to address a recent insulting Donald Trump tweet.

A list of - in the author's opinion - the 50 greatest TV characters of all time. Just something to take your mind off of all the bad news of the day.

President Barack Obama is asking House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to round up their respective chambers of Congress for a joint session on September 7 where the president will lay out his much-awaited jobs plan. It’s unconfirmed whether or not Boehner and Reid will agree to the joint session, but it’s customary when the president requests one. The major criticism Obama faces holding a joint session “jobs speech” on Sept. 7 is that there is a Republican presidential debate scheduled on the same day.

TV Guide bought the famous Jump the Shark website, and pretty much got rid of it. (You can still see most of it archived at www.archive.org) So someone came along and created a brand new website to fill that void, they call it "Bone the Fish" What Happened to JTS? Jump the Shark? You can do the same here as you did on Jump The Shark. You can comment, submit topics for discussion, and vote.

SEC Filing: Buyer Got $9.5 Million Loan From Macrovision to Do DealHow much is TV Guide magazine worth in a morphing media business and molten credit markets? Try $1.That's how much the private equity fund OpenGate Capital has agreed to pay Macrovision for the unprofitable magazine and all its liabilities. The cover price, by way of comparison, is $2.99.Take this magazine -- pleaseTo sweeten the deal even further, Macrovision is loaning OpenGate up to $9.5 million to help get going -- at a very friendly 3% interest."I'd borrow from Macrovision any time," one investment banker said of the terms.The terms...

I just searched the TV Guide online listings to see if a movie I recently viewed and thought quite inspirational, Facing The Giants, would be showing again in the near future. "Facing The Giants" was nowhere to be found in the search results. Astonishingly, in the list of approximately 500 films that the search yielded, the first two films (neither of which, note, contain either "Facing" or "Giants" in their titles) are: "Sex And The City: The Movie," and "The Golden Compass" - two films that are the polar opposite in message and tone of "Facing The Giants"!!! I did...

Today's Poll Is it wrong of ABC to present a fictionalized version of events in The Path to 9/11? Yes. They should have stuck to the facts, rather than show political bias or mislead the public. No. They have a right to shape the story to make it compelling. I'm reserving judgment until I see it.

The Blog of Daniel: Goodbye, Farewell, Amen by Jack Kenny, series creator, The Book of Daniel As this is probably my last bully pulpit for the show, I want to take this opportunity to thank all the thousands of people on boards, blogs and websites across the Internet who've shown such wonderful, loving support for The Book of Daniel. Love. Support. Tolerance. Acceptance. Forgiveness. Those are the Christian values that I was brought up with, and the values that I tried to bring into the world of Daniel. It's late now. I've just spent tonight with Susanna Thompson (Judith), Ivan...

NEW YORK - TV Guide is slashing the circulation it guarantees advertisers by about two-thirds and relaunching itself as a large format magazine with far fewer TV listings and more emphasis on lifestyle and entertainment, the magazine announced Tuesday. The radical changes to TV Guide come as it struggles to remain relevant in an age where many TV viewers get their listings from on-screen guides provided by their cable companies or online. TV Guide also said it would cut jobs as part of the revamp, but it declined say how many. The new TV Guide, which will launch with the...

TV Guide and TV Land have teamed up to present the 100 Most Memorable TV Moments.

http://www.tvguide.com/tv/coverstory/

Beginning in April TV Guide is going to a Sunday-Saturday week instead of the traditional Saturday-Friday. The April 3 issue will contain eight days of listings, with the new format beginning April 11. Supposedly this will make for more up-to-date lsitings. TV Guide will be in the stores on Thursday before the Sunday listings week begins. Subscribers should receive theirs on the same day as they've been getting it; at least I understand there will be no interruption there.

Buzz. It’s the magic word in Hollywood. And if you’re CBS and trying to attract a zillion viewers for your new TV-movie, The Reagans, it’s music to your ears. By now, you know that to Gipper fans, The Reagans bears more resemblance to The Osbournes than to the married life of the 40th president. And to CBS, the astonishing media blitz around the four-hour special was only a happy accident. But in hindsight it’s obvious that the TV-movie about Ron and Nancy had everything it takes to fan the flames of the ongoing culture wars. Hollywood! A conservative icon! Liberal...

As printed in TV Guide:CHEERS to fine journalism on (or near) the front lines. Of special note: news vet Peter Arnett on MSNBC, ABC's bright young up-and-comer Richard Engel and CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, who maintained his composure as he watched a frontline surgical unit operate on a critically injured Iraqi POW. As posted on line today:CHEERS to fine journalism on (or near) the front lines. Of special note: ABC's bright young up-and-comer Richard Engel and CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, who maintained his composure as he watched a frontline surgical unit operate on a critically injured Iraqi POW.

Oops. TV Guide: “Arnett is the Comeback Kid in Iraq”     Talk about bad timing. The headline over a story in the new TV Guide arriving in homes this week: “At 68, Arnett is the Comeback Kid in Iraq.” NBC severed its relationship with Arnett on Monday after he went on enemy TV to praise the enemy's resistance and boast how his “reporting” was aiding the efforts of domestic dissenters to undermine U.S. policy.     For a full rundown of what Arnett said on Iraqi TV and his record of spreading enemy propaganda, see Monday's CyberAlert Extra:http://www2.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2003/cyb20030331_extra.asp     For how Arnett charged that...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Walter H. Annenberg, who parlayed America's love affair with television into a fortune by launching the national TV Guide magazine and later served as ambassador to Britain, died Tuesday. He was 94. Annenberg, who also created Seventeen magazine, gave billions of dollars to charity and endowed two leading journalism schools, died at his home in suburban Wynnewood of complications from pneumonia, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His wife, Leonore, was with him when he died. Annenberg was a friend to U.S. presidents from Dwight Eisenhower onward,...