TNT Makes ‘Public Morals’ Entire Season Available for Labor Day Weekend Binging

Norman Weiss September 4, 2015, 8:33 pm

TNT makes Public Morals’ entire season available for Labor Day Weekend binging

All 10 episodes of the Ed Burns drama, which premiered last week, will be available for streaming through Monday.

TBS cancels King of the Nerds

That’s according to Curtis Armstrong, who tweeted of his reality show: “Deeply sorry to announce that @KingofNerdsTBS will not be returning for a 4th season. Hard to find words now.”

Hillary Clinton: I’ve been binging on House of Cards

While GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina has called the Netflix series her “favorite show,” Democratic candidate Clinton tells MSNBC today: “Right now, we were so late in watching House of Cards. We’re nearly done with the season.”

Why does Kermit and Miss Piggy’s social media-fueled breakup feel so cynical?

As Ian Crouch puts it, “If the Muppets’ social-media forays feel crass and dispiriting, some of that probably has less to do with them, or even with the P.R. lever-pullers at ABC, than it does with us and with the way we have reacted to the so-called news about their love lives. By pretending, and lamenting, that the characters we believe to be Kermit and Miss Piggy have ‘broken up,’ in anything approaching a meaningful sense of that phrase, we are acting as credulous retweeters of ABC’s branded content.” PLUS: Is Kermit dating an Asian pig?

John Oliver’s Miss America scholarship takedown prompted a 9-month investigation

The pageant today shared the initial results of the ongoing investigation. The independent probe is a response to Oliver finding that Miss America didn’t offer $45 million in annual scholarships, as it had claimed.

Did Jimmy Kimmel grow a “kinda hot” beard in anticipation of his new late-night competition?

The Jimmy Kimmel Live star usually keeps his vacation beard for one week before shaving it off, but Kimmel has maintained his facial hair for the past three weeks since returning from summer break. According to Gawker and various Twitter users, the beard makes Kimmel look “slightly haggard and kinda hot. Without the beard he looks like… Jimmy Kimmel.”

At Stephen Colbert’s final test show, there’s no escaping The Colbert Report — or Letterman

The set, as it turns out, is very “Colbertian” with reminders of Colbert’s Comedy Central show. In addition, the guests for last night’s test show couldn’t help but mention Colbert’s predecessor. PLUS: Colbert’s Late Show feels “extremely male,” Colbert’s fake podcast ads are brilliant, and Colbert will be interviewed by fellow Daily Show alum Mo Rocca on CBS Sunday Morning.

Report: Weather Channel canceled Al Roker’s early morning show following an e-mail spat with his boss

The Today weatherman is said to be “steaming mad” over the cancelation of Wake Up with Al.

Jared Fogle once made fun of To Catch a Predator in a VH1 interview

The former Subway spokesman appeared on VH1’s I Love the Millennium in 2008, saying of To Catch a Predator: “These guys continue to fall for it every single time. There must be, like, a hundred million episodes of this show, and these guys still come out.”

“This might be the worst show I’ve ever seen,” says Brian Moylan, adding that Amazon’s hands-off approach may have hurt the Ron Perlman series. Moylan adds: “It’s trying so incredibly hard to be edgy and dramatic that it fails miserably at it. It’s baroque in its darkness, but not in a really interesting or original way, sort of like a teen with an unlimited credit limit at Hot Topic.” PLUS: Hand of God is a suitcase overpacked with clichés, it is badly overcooked, it’s as if ideas and subplots are being thrown in to fill out the running time, even good actors can’t save this series, and it’s oddly compelling.