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Family Guy Pleads for an Emmy With Racy Spoof of HBO's Girls Provocative 'For Your Consideration' ad

Fox's Family Guy has a new "For Your Consideration" ad for this year's Emmy Awards, because Seth MacFarlane's unfunny Rat Pack schtick hasn't ruined enough award shows yet. The latest…

June 14, 2013, 9:25 AM EDT

Soaking-Wet Padma Lakshmi Leads Parade of Bravolebrities Into Network's Summer Promo Marooned on a desert island

No one feels sorry for Jeff Lewis, and most everybody wants to see Padma Lakshmi in a soaking-wet cocktail dress. These and other truisms come through in Bravo's just-launched summer…

June 7, 2013, 1:09 PM EDT

Comedy Troupe Prepares to Improvise Three-Minute Ad on Live TV What could go wrong?

Forgetting that a lot of improv comedy stinks, ad agency 18 Feet & Rising is partnering with British improv troupe Mischief Theatre to produce a live ad that will air…

June 6, 2013, 3:56 PM EDT

Ads for PBS Station Invent Ludicrous, Fake Reality Shows You'd Still Probably Watch But there is an alternative

Excited about the reality show Knitting Wars? If sew, too bad—it's fake. It's one of five bogus lowbrow programs dreamed up by CHI & Partners in New York for a…

May 30, 2013, 1:57 PM EDT

Lego Builds Awesome Life-Size Star Wars X-Wing Fighter, Its Largest Model Ever Iconic jet appears in Times Square

Lego has unveiled a life-size Star Wars X-Wing fighter jet made entirely of Legos in Times Square. It promotes an upcoming Cartoon Network show called The Yoda Chronicles. You can…

May 23, 2013, 1:30 PM EDT

Reminder: Do Not Show a Man Having Sex With a Pig on Your Billboard It never ends well

Of all the images to take from British TV series Black Mirror, the one that made a billboard for Australian TV network Studio was of a man doing the underpants…

May 2, 2013, 8:10 AM EDT

Weather Channel Aims Twitter-Powered Tornado Winds at Its Helpless Interns Blow them away with your tweets

Intern abuse is always good fun. The Weather Channel is celebrating the beginning of Tornado Week today by putting its interns in a room and blowing powerful winds at them,…

April 29, 2013, 3:38 PM EDT

Illustrator Inserts Husband Into Opening Credits of Classic Shows in Adorably Nerdy Video Birthday Card Mad Men, New Girl, Lost, etc.

Manhattan-born illustrator/graphic artist Leigh Lahav spliced the opening credits of several famous TV shows—Mad Men, Arrested Development, Lost, etc.—together into a really neat video birthday card for her husband, Oren.…

April 23, 2013, 11:17 AM EDT

CC Sabathia Is Dwarfed by Scott Van Pelt in ESPN's New SportsCenter Ad It's all about the stripes

CC Sabathia is a large man, but he's not technically wearing a fat suit. That latter fact—and not just his slimming New York Yankee pinstripes—gives Sabathia the advantage over the…

April 17, 2013, 12:02 PM EDT

DirecTV Throws Your Best Friend a Bone With DogTV Channel Come on, though, really?

People who unironically think of their dogs as children are probably a) not well and b) overjoyed about DirecTV's announcement that it will be carrying DogTV, a $6 per month…

April 10, 2013, 9:37 AM EDT

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