Sometimes, TV sitcoms can predict the future...and the deaths of Libyan strongmen. The Daily News reports, "Twenty four years ago, a short-lived sitcom starring Matthew Perry predicted the death of Moammar Khadafy -- right down to the year and manner in which he was killed." more ›

After last year's mess of an awards show and this year's joke of nominations (where is love for Lauren Graham, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences?), we were going to swear off this year's Emmys. But then we realized Conan O'Brien was hosting, so we must watch and liveblog. And there's the hope of a good Steve Carrell bit, not to mention awkward reaction shots of Candy and Tori Spelling during the Aaron Spelling tribute. more ›

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Some fun Guest stuff for all you bastard people: A Fame Audit from Fametracker, an interview with Movie City News and Caryn James' feature on the retrospective in today's Times. It seems that Guest has always wanted to just do only three "mockumentaries" and that he doesn't really like TV except The Office. And Gothamist once shared an elevator with Guest when he was promoting Almost Heroes (Matthew Perry and Chris Farley as 18th century explorers - not being shown in the tribute). Guest asked us what we thought of his seersucker suit, and Gothamist couldn't help ourselves when the words "It's kinda Matlocky" came out. But we didn't mean Matlocky in a bad way! more ›

Gothamist is more interested in what happens on some other shows, so we're tracking the dates of some other finales to note, thanks to Zap2it's Season Finales roundup...we're more interested in Scrubs, The O.C., Angel, and Law & Order (which didn't make their list). more ›