CBS and NBC Boldly Go On Line With Classic TV CBS has started streaming some of its back catalog of programs on its website, or to me more accurate the back catalog of programs the companies that now comprise CBS. The biggest highlight is that all three seasons of Star Trek in original form are available. Also offered are two seasons of The Twilight Zone, and the first seasons of Hawaii Five-O, MacGyver, and Melrose......

The NY Times' Styles section describes the lonely existence of new residents of the Plaza Hotel condos. Why lonely? Well, if you can afford the pricey digs ($6,400 per square foot!; an owner interviewed paid $5.8 million for a two bedroom), your neighbors are also rich people who probably have other residences and don't live there very often. In other words, does the Times seriously expect us to feel sorry for these people? Maybe......

The Peter Braunstein trial finished the week with the defense reading parts of the journalist's diary, written while he was on the run after attacking a co-worker. The Daily News excerpted many parts yesterday, including:"There are no 'innocent people,' God tells me repeatedly. 'There are no victims.' Either we're all victims, or none of us are. And none of us are. "I'll be in Heaven along with Joan of Arc, BioHazard's mom and Aaron Spelling......

Back in April Gawker reported that the 126 Rivington kids (the ones the NY Times wrote about earlier in the year) would indeed be filming a show. A Melrose Place of the Lower East Side, complete with real life "star" and neighbor Piper Perabo. Well last night, just outside of The Magician on Rivington Street, there were a ton of camera crews, prop tables, and whatever else it takes to create yet another reality tv......

Aaron Spelling, one of TV's most influential producers, passed on yesterday. Holding the world record for most prolific television producer, he was 83. Though he was hardly a critic's darling, Spelling managed to produce some phenomenally popular and lucrative television series including, but by no means limited to, "Dynasty," "The Love Boat," "Fantasy Island," "Charlie's Angels," "Melrose Place," "Beverly Hills, 90210" and "7th Heaven." At one point it was joked that ABC might as......

There are about a hundred police specialties but Gothamist loves the idea that there's a special group of police officers just dedicated to polygraph tests. Because then we'd get Law & Order: Polygraph Edition, with all the action in an interrogation room. The NY Post calls a group of police officers "The Truth Squad," and six of the officers are in the Major Case Squad (what L&O: Criminal Intent is about). We're not sure if......

- Love Saves The Day, saved. - The Times wants to welcome you to "Melrose Place, Lower East Side." - A Queens comestologist who moonlit as a diet doctor has been arrested after she "allegedly injected her patients with silicone and other chemicals that she falsely claimed would help them lose weight." - Some bloggers read books in 2005. - The touching story of a 90-year-old lobster in a supermarket and the man who......

The suits at NBC are realizing that when they deal with The Donald, they are dealing with this all-consuming organism (not unlike Kang, just with a combover): The Donald is looking at a scripted series set at Trump Tower. We can hear the pitch now: "It'll be like Melrose Place, but just in a shiny apartment building in midtown Manhattan. Think Peyton Place meets The Apprentice, just with actors acting crazy." Anyway, this is a......

The new fall TV season has started, and it's almost as if Gothamist didn't notice. We can't say for sure if it's that we're used to the hundreds of cable channels that are catered to our whims, our love for DVDs, or spending too much time blogging, but the new fall season just seems like a formality. Seinfeld came on in the midseason, as did Twin Peaks; Melrose Place was the first big summer premiere......

Morrissey is playing a few sold-out shows this week at the Apollo Theatre. I snagged a couple of tickets on eBay for about $20 above the box office price and had them sent to my dad’s office because I don’t have a doorman to receive packages.  One of my dad's associates signed for it, but when I went to pick up the tickets today, they had somehow disappeared.  We looked high and low, but they......

It's just like Dynasty all over again! Gothamist has to hand it to Fox and The WB for bringing some of the nutty soap antics we are ashamed to love back to prime time. The WB's One Tree Hill featured a catfight amongst some of the generically attractive starlets. And, last night, on The O.C., Julie and Hailey fell into the Cohen's pool while fighting. Damn. Gothamist hasn't seen this kind of high drama since......

In an effort to thwart the still-in-development gay cable channel, Bravo continues to make stridest to be the gayest network on TV. No, not by airing America's Top Model or Sex and the City or Melrose Place in syndication - by signing Ross Matthews, Tonight Show intern, to his own show, "The Ross Show!," silly! Gothamist loves how Ross says "THE ROSS SHOW! is going to be the most fun ever. Are you ready? I......