Convicted Serial Killer Appeared on 'The Dating Game'
This just in from our "Department of Stories That Will Keep You Up at Night By Reminding You that the World Can Be an Awful, Horrible, Rotten Place." We probably need to rework the title. Rodney Alcala, a serial killer convicted for the deaths of fo
Jay Leno's 'Tonight Show' Promo Gets a Music Makeover
NBC has been recycling their 'Jay Leno Show' promos to prep for Leno's return to 'The Tonight Show' slot. Could there be a clearer metaphor? Anyway, the new promos have been using a cover version of the Beatles' "Get Back" to not-so-subtly greet the
Noah Cyrus Likes the Thug Life
Noah Cyrus, ten-year-old sister of Miley Cyrus, has been on this site twice, both times for being creepy and disturbing (once for dressing like a child prostitute and once for appearing in a YouTube video singing and dancing to Akon’s “Smack That
The Twelve Days of Festivus: One great TV moment
On the first day of Festivus, TV gave to me... one great TV moment. Unlike last year, which had a ton of major TV moments to choose from, this year had a whole roster of moments that seemed major at the time but ended up being minor in retrospect. Ob
BBC sci-fi classics show up for free on on YouTube
The BBC's official YouTube channel is offering free Christmas gifts to sci-fi fans in the form of a classic hero and a field full of deadly plants. The move gives American viewers a great (legal) chance to catch up on quality productions that didn't
Brooklyn’s Finest Trailer #1: Three of the Eight Million Stories from the Naked City
Antoine Fuqua reunites with his Training Day star Ethan Hawke for another cop tale, this time set in Brooklyn, NY. (Did the title give it away?) Hawke is joined by Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and Wesley Snipes in this three-part story that premiered at
Missing Boy Raps With Brothers in Homemade Clip
Last seen near his family's "flying saucer," the Colorado kid and his siblings perform in a YouTube [...]
Zach Braff goes on YouTube to say he's not dead at all
The latest celebrity death rumor that turned out to be false was the one about Scrubs star Zach Braff. He didn't kill himself by taking pills. To prove it, Braff has made the video below. He calls the guy who started the fake rumor (he even created a
Remember "Blinded by the Light"? Not the song, the sketch
For some reason, Showtime's original series have been attempting to reference every major song on the Billboard '70s and '80s rock chart in their episode titles. Last night's Dexter titled "Blinded by the Light" kept sticking in my head and then I re
Toy Story 3 Full Trailer
[Update:The real trailer is now online at MySpace. You can check out the embed below, or head there for an HD version.] I'm sure this isn't meant to be on YouTube quite yet, but the full Toy Story 3 trailer is up now...we'll see how long this versio
Miley Cyrus Raps About Quitting Twitter
"I want my private life private," she says in a new YouTube clipGet more Us! Follow us on Twitter, F[...]
Toy Story 3 Full Trailer
[Update: Let's try doing this trailer embed one more time...] I'm sure this isn't meant to be on YouTube quite yet, but the full Toy Story 3 trailer is up now...we'll see how long this version lasts. But while it does, the trailer looks and sounds g
Flight of the Conchords revisit original radio show
Back in the day, before Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie became America's favorite Kiwi musician-comedians, they did a six-episode radio series for BBC Radio 2. The audio has been floating around YouTube for a while, pleasin
The Ally Bank commercials are driving me batty
In the commercials-that-are-driving-me-batty department this week, Ally Bank is taking top honors. There's just something so wrong (I know, that's the point of the commercials) about giving a kid something and then taking it away from them. It would
Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson: 1950-1988
Some tragic news has been discovered in the winding and weaving tunnels of the YouTube archives: Jeremy Clarkson died in 1988. A British TV program (or is that programme?) about TV called TV Offal (pronounced "awful") broke the sad news that the Top
