Even though it's almost entirely filmed out in Los Angeles, How I Met Your Mother does a pretty great job of portraying the city and its inhabitants—with episodes introducing us to the cockamouse and zeroing in on when someone's a real New Yorker. So, it only makes sense that the character Ted Mosby, who plays an architect-turned-professor, has a Rate My Professor page. There are actually a few (over at NYU he's got a 4.3), but on the show he teaches at Columbia, where students have given him a 4.4 for "overall quality." more ›

The Observer points out a new program coming to Showtime -- turns out the network has a New York-based series in the works called Studio. "The show is less about the history of Studio 54 than it is about New York in the late '70s, what people were going through, the political and social issues. Studio 54 is the backdrop for exploring that." While a Steve Rubell character is planned for the cast, "the rest of the characters fictional or composites," and the plot won't be based on actual events...so don't expect to see Bianca Jagger ride in on a horse. more ›