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“With sadness in my heart, I’ve decided not to return to #IDOL. I’ll miss nurturing all the new talent, but most of all …being a part of a show that I helped from day1become an international phenomenon … What I want to say most, is how much I appreciate the undying support and enormous love that you have showered upon …

Miami news anchor Charles Perez has filed a sexual orientation discrimination complaint against his ABC employers, claiming he was demoted for acting “too gay.” A personal email forwarded to Perez’ bosses by his former boyfriend may have started it all. Perez, 46, claims station bosses demoted him to weekend anchor/reporter “because of their discomfort over the increasingly high profile of …

Smarting from GLAAD’s “F” rating over their lack of LGBT characters, a SyFy Channel vice president has revealed that several characters in two new series will be gay. “On Stargate Universe, one of the main female characters, we discover, is a lesbian and has a wife at home. It’s a pretty important facet of who that character is,” he says. …

NBC has issued a response to GLAAD’s failing grade for their lack of gay characters.

GLAAD has issued its third annual survey of the top 15 television networks and found that HBO leads the pack in the portrayals of LGBT characters. In GLAAD’s third annual Network Responsibility Index, which evaluated the five major networks and 10 cable outlets, HBO — the home to True Blood, Entourage and No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency — scored the …

Fox News! Geraldo! Transgender voodoo! Harry Potter!

Walter Cronkite, “the most trusted man” in the history of television news, has died in New York City at the age of 92. Walter Cronkite, who personified television journalism for more than a generation as anchor and managing editor of the “CBS Evening News,” has died. CBS vice president Linda Mason says Cronkite died at 7:42 p.m. Friday with his …

ABC is launching a new show called Dating In The Dark, in which “six strangers meet in a light-sealed room.” And feel each other up to see if they want to “kiss.” Tagline: “When the lights come on, will the truth come out?” Oh, hmm. Where have we seen THIS concept before? Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

Seriously, how fantastic is Nurse Jackie? I’m loving Edie Falco’s pill-popping, adulterous title character, the ice princess English doctor, the Tourette’s guy with lesbian moms, and especially the hot hot gay male nurse Mo-Mo played by Haaz Sleiman. The camp factor is through the roof. Real nurses aren’t too crazy about the way Jackie is portrayed, what with her stealing …

Al Sharpton thinks the media is focusing too much on Michael Jackson’s legal woes, rather than his musical accomplishments. He also wants a “national day of mourning” (to be declared by whom?) and for the USPS to immediately issue a commemorative Michael Jackson stamp, something that is not usually done until five years after the death of a celebrity (with …

Mollie Sugden, the actress beloved by gays for her portrayal as the daft Mrs. Slocombe in the Britcom Are You Being Served? has died at age 86. Sugden found early TV success with comedy series Hugh and I in 1962 and in Coronation Street as the gossiping Nellie Harvey. But it was The Liver Birds in the late 1960s and …

I love the anchors’ faces.

Spangle Magazine editor Brian Patrick Thornton recalls the day ten years ago when he and his boyfriend pranked The Today Show and Al Roker to create what some consider the first kiss between two actual gay men on national television. [T]hat morning, the first three Al Roker weather segments passed us over. We thought they must have figured us out …

Television icon Farrah Fawcett died this morning at age 62 after a three year battle with anal cancer. Fawcett first stepped into the spotlight playing Jill Munroe in the TV series “Charlie’s Angels” in the 1970s. The series became a smash hit and Fawcett quickly became an iconic pin-up model for millions of men. She pioneered a feathered hairstyle dubbed …

America’s Got Talent judge David Hasselhoff was “honored and humbled” when a male contestant sang a love song about him. Cute bit. (Via – Towleroad)

Ed McMahon, the most famous sidekick in the history of television, has died at the age of 86. Ed McMahon, the loyal Tonight Show sidekick who bolstered boss Johnny Carson with guffaws and a resounding “H-e-e-e-e-e-ere’s Johnny” for 30 years, died early today at 86. Mr. McMahon died shortly after midnight at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center surrounded by his …

You knew when Sookie agreed to take Jessica back to her parents’ house that it would turn into some seriously fucked up shit, right? Great scene though and I can’t remember the last time I screamed out loud in frustration when a TV episode came to an abrupt close. As for Lafayette….holy crap and what now? Episode 2 bonus: Jason …

The president did ten minutes of stand-up at Friday’s Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner.

Towleroad points us to this after-the-series clip from the cast of Real Housewives Of New Jersey in which Danielle mentions having taken offense at a “that’s so gay” comment from earlier in the show’s run. Openly gay host Andy Cohen steps in to support Danielle. Click on the “that’s so gay” label in the bottom of this post to see …

PBS will allow its affiliate stations that currently carry a religious show to continue to do so, but has banned all new religious programming. The vote by PBS’s board was a compromise from a proposed ban on all religious programming. Such a ban would have forced a few stations around the country to give up their PBS affiliation if they …