Respite Housewives ; Women Taking a Break From Morning Television
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By MATEA GOLD, LOS ANGELES TIMES  When her children were young, Jenny Lauck flipped on "Today" or "Good Morning America" as she brewed her morning coffee and tended her babies.  But several years ago, the 34-year-old mother of three stopped watching the morning shows.
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Strong female characters have been replaced with bored ladies who lunch and bustier-busting sidekicks in this season's sitcoms and dramas.
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The ladies at "The View" are getting pretty desperate. During the week of Feb. 7, the five stars of "Desperate Housewives" will co-host ABC's "The View" while the show broadcasts from Los Angeles. Teri Hatcher, Eva Longoria, Nicollette Sheridan, Felicity Huffman and Marcia Cross will each join the daytime talk show for a day.
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It is not merely the season for giving but also of distraction and avoidance. It is, in other words, the time to hide out with the best of long-form narrative television.
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Women of a certain age find a home, and plenty of hot guys, on TV.
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Newlywed pop star Britney Spears told her fans on Monday that she is taking a few months off &quot;to enjoy life,&quot; including her honeymoon and reruns of her favorite TV shows.
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NEW YORK  - The ladies of Wisteria Lane   helped give ABC the nightly victory Sunday, though "Desperate   Housewives" was down significantly from its monster Season 2   premiere last fall.
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By Tux Turkel, Portland Press Herald, Maine  Dec. 10--Watching television in the winter is a process for Sarah Hines  and her roommate. They close unoccupied rooms in their Portland apartment,  tuck under blankets and sit by an electric space heater.
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Study says CBS&#39; &#39;CSI-NY&#39; and NBC&#39;s &#39;Medical Investigation&#39; most eagerly awaited in new fall lineups. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Politicians looking for a quick boost this campaign season might want to look at
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News Item: The major television networks have cut back their live coverage of the Republican and Democratic national conventions to just one prime-time hour a night.
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Your weekly dose of television gupshup.
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No more writers on picket lines. No more network TV bosses scrambling for replacement shows. But enough about them. What about us? Two simple questions prey on every viewer's mind: When will my favorite scripted programs be back with new episodes? And, WILL my favorite shows be back?
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Cristie Kerr can finally relax. She isn't 0-for-the-majors anymore. Meanwhile, Lorena Ochoa can only look to her next chance to snap her string of major futility.
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By Amy Amatangel  Some of network television's biggest hits took a long winter's nap this season and disappeared from the schedule -- for a while.  There was a time when being placed on "hiatus" meant that a TV show was awaiting inevitable cancellation.
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Desperate Housewives&#039; sophomore slump was real, if more   like a sophomore slip.
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NEW YORK  - After spending 36 hours in labor with her first child ten years ago, former talk show host Ricki Lake knows a little about childbirth.
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CQPolitics.com senior reporter Greg Giroux is off this week on a much-deserved break, during which he hoped Ã¢ÂÂto completely ignore politics and elections, at least for a few days.Ã¢ÂÂ