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After a lengthy, divisive election, two lingering wars and an economy that's a couple of tumbles away from visions of people selling apples, maybe this is a good time to laugh. And hard. In television, bad times bring on sitcoms. Good times bring on gritty,...

Romantic problems haunt Chuck (NBC, tonight, 8 ET/PT) when he runs into his ex-girlfriend (Jordana Brewster) and discovers she ...

All aboard! The History Channel's Extreme Trains express is ready to leave the station.

How I Met Your Mother 8:30 p.m., Channel 4 After loving Alyson Hannigan (above) as Willow for years on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," I initially found her acting on this sitcom kind of forced. She seemed so out of breath trying to deliver her lines quickly. But I've come to love her as part of this ensemble, breathiness and all. ...

With ratings for the television series down 20 percent from those of a year ago, NBC took action last week, firing two co-executive producers.

Washington is a ruin in Fallout 3 from Bethesda Softworks, one of the most ambitious single-player role-playing games in recent years.

TV News: Sergio Sanchez wins best director -- French thriller "La Traque" (The Hunt), about the pursuit of former Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie, topped the 6th ZoomIgualada European TV Movies Festival, which wrapped Sunday.

TV News: Series unlikely to bow this season -- Fox has pushed back the premiere date of "Family Guy" spinoff "The Cleveland Show" to the fall of next year. Skein based on the Cleveland Brown character from "family Guy" had been announced at Fox's upfront as late spring premiere for this season.

TV News: 'Countdown' host signs four-year deal -- MSNBC's popular yakker Keith Olbermann has re-upped with the cabler in a four-year deal.

TV News: 'Iron Man,' 'Dark Knight' battle it out -- How heroic. "Iron Man" will battle "The Dark Knight" and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" for favorite movie at the 35th annual People's Choice Awards.