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  • A SuperFan In Memoriam for 2016’s Cancelled TV Shows

    We are gathered here today to pay our final respects to our fallen friends. They have been there for us in good times and in bad. And the cruel hand of fate has decided they will be there no more. So, let’s say fare thee well, cancelled TV shows, with this SuperFan TV: In Memoriam…

  • Fox Cancels ‘The Grinder,’ ‘Grandfathered,’ ‘Bordertown’ After First Seasons

    Fox has cancelled “Grandfathered,” “The Grinder” and animated comedy “Bordertown,” Variety has learned. “The Grinder” starred Rob Lowe, “Grandfathered” starred John Stamos, and “Bordertown” hailed from “Family Guy” exec producers Seth MacFarlane and Mark Hentemann. All three comedies launched this past TV season, with “Grinder” and “Grandfathered” paired together on Tuesdays as a back-to-back night of new... <a href="https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/grandfathered-cancelled-the-grinder-bordertown-season-1-1201769727/" title="Read Fox Cancels ‘The Grinder,’ ‘Grandfathered,’ ‘Bordertown’ After First Seasons">Read more »</a><img src="http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/Entertainment/Variety/pc17#038;c26035310#038;c310000#038;cv2.0#038;cj1" class="editorial"/>

  • 'The Grinder,' 'Grandfathered,' 'New Girl' Season Finales: Which One Is the Best?

    As 'New Girl,' 'Grandfathered,' and 'The Grinder' race toward their season finales, Yahoo's Ken Tucker takes a look at which shows turn in the best season closers.

  • How 'The Grinder' Found Its Fine Comedy Groove

    The Grinder is a unique item right now. It’s got a high-concept that takes a bit of explaining—actor who plays a lawyer on TV (Rob Lowe) goes home to help his brother (Fred Savage) at his small law firm, insinuating himself into both the firm and brother’s home life. The Grinder had the funniest pilot episode I watched leading into this past fall’s TV season.

  • John Stamos Gets Emotional Receiving TV Land Icon Award

    On Sunday, TV Land honored John Stamos and Norman Lear at the Icon Awards. Candace Cameron-Bure and Jimmy Kimmel, among others, had some nice things to say.

  • A Really 'New Girl': Megan Fox

    On Tuesday night, New Girl introduces Megan Fox as a potential roommate for the three guys while Zooey Deschanel’s Jess is sequestered on jury duty (aka, takes time off for a real-life six-month maternity leave). Fox enters the show for a five-episode run as Reagen, a pharmaceutical sales rep who’s seen it all when it comes to dealing with men treating her like a sex object. The role both suits Fox and gives her the opportunity to demonstrate skills as a comic actor that have been frequently ignored.

  • 'New Girl,' 'Grandfathered,' 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine,' 'The Grinder': Fox's Tuesday Line-Up Is Almost Strong

    New Girl returns on Tuesday night, leading off a re-ordering of Fox sitcoms, with Grandfathered, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and The Grinder following, each with new episodes. In addition to giving freshman shows Grandfathered and Grinder comfortable berths between two seasoned shows, there’s a certain thematic coherence at work here. Each of these comedies is built around an optimistic character who is surrounded by friends and those who would thwart her or his optimism, and who meets a challenge to that worldview every week.

  • Fall TV Scoreboard: Our Guide to All the Hits and Flops

    Ratings are down across the board for the broadcast networks (thanks a lot, Netflix), we’ve seen very few runaway hits, and we’re still waiting for our first official cancellation. Although that last one might just be a case of Hollywood doublespeak… but we’ll get to that in a minute.

  • TV Babies Power Ranking: Which Tot Reigns Supreme?

    <p>Babies are the worst. Not real ones — they’re totally cute and lovable. We’re talking about TV babies, because it’s been scientifically proven that <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.yahoo.com/tv/tv-shows-were-ruined-babies-001248742.html">TV babies ruin shows</a>.<br /></p><p>But there’s something of a baby boom on television right now, and the havoc that these tiny tots wreak correlates directly to how much power they wield over their show. Do they drive storylines? Do they cause other characters to change? Are they perhaps even — gasp! — the reason the show exists? </p><p>We’ll see just how much a baby can move mountains and set the seas churning on this week’s<i> <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.yahoo.com/tv/tagged/grandfathered">Grandfathered</a></i>, when little Edie has her second birthday party. She hasn’t lifted a finger, and Richie Sambora is going to be there!</p><p>So, we devised a formula — including story sway, cuteness, and fan support — to calculate just how powerful 14 current TV babies are. (For fairness, we excluded babies who are actively talking.) </p><p>Who will emerge triumphant from this brutal Baby Battle Royale?<br /></p>

  • '80s Invasion: All of the Commercials Starring Rob Lowe, John Stamos, and Fred Savage Ranked

    Of course, when it comes to Rob Lowe, John Stamos, and Fred Savage, we already know they’re experienced at making a play for our… hard-earned cash. 11. Fred Savage for Pac-Man multi-vitamins/Fruit Roll-Ups/Fruity Marshmallow Krispies/McDonald’s The Grinder star managed to do so many commercials throughout his childhood, we felt a deep need to combine them into one big tie, and embed the Pac-Man vitamins (which, apparently, were so much better for you than Flintstone’s vitamins, mom!) because it was Savage’s first. 10. Rob Lowe for Visit California Savage’s Grinder co-star was just one of many celebs who joined in promoting tourism in 2009 in his home state during Arnold Schwarzenegger’s governorship. 9. Fred Savage for Honda Let’s be honest: Modern Fred just isn’t as adorable as little Fred.

  • ‘Grandfathered’ Review: John Stamos’s New Full House

    You don’t have to find the premise of Grandfathered — John Stamos as a grandfather! — funny to enjoy this new sitcom, but it certainly helps. The show, which debuts Tuesday night on Fox, is built around our familiarity with Stamos as a kind of farm-team George Clooney, a charming TV star with an image as a smooth operator. Grandfathered finds Stamos unbuttoning one too many buttons on his white silk shirt to portray Jimmy Martino, a successful restauranteur and pro bachelor.

  • Christina Milian On ‘Grandfathered’ And Not Wanting To Be ‘Just A Reality Star’

    “Some people were worried about me doing reality type stuff because they were like ‘then you can’t come back over to the other side.'"

  • Now, Later, or Never: Rating the Week in Premieres, From 'Quantico' to 'Dr. Ken'

    For some of the new shows, you’ve been excited since casting announcements first came down (ahem, The Grinder). For others, you just saw a poster on the side of a bus and actually said, “Huh?” loudly enough that others heard you (and were probably thinking it to). Well, the time is neigh.

  • Can the Government Retroactively Take Tax Breaks Away?

    Getty Images Tax planning is hard enough when you think you know the rules. But if you can't count on today's rules still applying tomorrow, trying to plan for the future becomes impossible. That's the conundrum that many college

  • T-Mobile to replace grandfathered plans with new rates

    Many loyal T-Mobile customers will have to kiss their grandfathered plans goodbye. That's because the carrier is sunsetting legacy plans and moving subscribers to new ones, Big Magenta has confirmed to Engadget. While the company has yet to get back to us with the finer details of the switch, a spokesperson told us that affected folks will be provided with "similar or better features at a comparable price." An unconfirmed report that surfaced last week notes that clients will get special rates not available to newer patrons, with prices beginning at $20 -- the cheapest individual Simple Choice Plan costs $50 a month. A HowardForums user also posted a letter reportedly from T-Mo (posted after the break) that lends credence to that claim, as it moves an existing user to a $45/month scheme with unlimited voice, text and 4G data. The transition's slated to begin in November, but if you'd rather switch carriers, you'd better take advantage of this shakeup ASAP -- the company's giving you the option to do so without penalty fees until February 21st, 2014. [Image credit: Alex Schwenke, Flickr]

  • Verizon CFO says grandfathered unlimited plans on the way out

    Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo shattered many a hopes and dreams today speaking at the J.P. Morgan Technology, Media and Telecom conference. During his address, Shammo indicated that customers who have been grandfathered in to the unlimited data plan may soon find themselves pushed into tiered territory, with the debut of the carrier's shared data plans. "Everyone will be on data share," Shammo said, clarifying that, "a lot of our 3G base is on unlimited... [and] when they migrate off 3G they will have to go to data share." Obviously, with many customers clinging desperately to their truly unlimited usage in the shift to LTE, such a move would ruffle more than a few feathers. It's not clear if this will affect customers who have already made the leap to LTE devices or if it will be limited to customers migrating from 3G phones after a particular cut off date. We've reached out to Verizon for comment, but so far Big Red is keeping mum. We'll just have to take Shammo at his word for now. We hope you like data caps. To hear the comments in full hit up the source link. Update: We just finished listening through the entire webcast (we're still waiting for the transcript) and found the quote that is going to make most customers shake their fists in anger: "LTE is our anchor point for data share. So, as you come through an upgrade cycle and you upgrade in the future, you will have to go on to the data share plan. And moving away from, if you will, the unlimited world and moving everyone into a tiered structure data share plan." Doesn't get much clearer than that, but we're still hoping Verizon will come back and say Shammo was speaking out of turn... fingers crossed.

  • EverQuest II grandfathers in established characters

    EverQuest II players got a pleasant surprise today, as Executive Producer Dave Georgeson announced that any and all characters created prior to Age of Discovery's launch would be grandfathered into the game. This means that any characters that were locked due to a player going from, say, subscription to free-to-play are now available. The company is also refunding any Station Cash points spent to unlock these characters following the expansion's release. From the full announcement on the EQII forums: But, we don't really want to force those decisions on returning players. It's not a fun experience to come back to something that seemed exciting (F2P) and then get hit with a bill as soon as you arrive, just for the privilege of using your current characters. So here's what we're going to do. *Every* character that was created before 12/06/2011 at 12:01 a.m. will be grandfathered in without race or class restriction. This means that regardless of your membership level, you will be able to play any character created before 12/6 without paying for race- or class-pack unlocks. For any player that previously subscribed to EQII Live servers, or as a Gold or Platinum member on EQ2X, we will also refund all the class/race pack purchases made after 12/06/2011 at 12:01 am and before the time of this posting (12/08/2011, 4:30pm) so that no one loses any SC due to this change.

  • Sprint to launch Direct Connect October 2nd, confirms mobile hotspot capping

    The way Sprint's been going lately, we're wondering if there's going to be anything left to announce at its October 7th strategy update. Another screenshot has surfaced, detailing the Now Network's intentions to launch its CDMA-based (read: no more iDEN) Direct Connect service on October 2nd, with "increased coverage" coming early next year. We've been expecting to see it at some point this winter, which means the Nextel alternative is getting pushed out ahead of schedule. With this, we should be hearing news in the near future concerning compatible handsets like the Motorola Admiral or Kyocera DuraMax / DuraCore duo. Unfortunately, October 2nd will be filled with both happy news and bad, as it looks like the leaked memo detailing Sprint's plan to cap the mobile hotspot add-on was right on target. The carrier made its intentions official this morning, confirming that it indeed will be putting a 5GB-per-month leash on the tethering done from your phone, complete with overage charges of $.05 per additional MB used. Grandfathered add-ons aren't an option here, so every tetherer already shelling out $30 for the privilege will find themselves restricted as well. But look at the bright side: tablets need not apply to the data cap, and on-phone data plans and dedicated mobile broadband packages will remain unaffected... for now, at least.

  • Sprint reportedly capping its mobile hotspot plans October 2nd

    If Sprint's myriad policy changes are part of the company's strategy update, perhaps we're not looking forward to October 7th's event after all. The latest bout in a series of gut-punching cost-cutting moves is the elimination of "unlimited" in the Now Network's $30 mobile hotspot add-on; according to a leaked employee memo uncovered by SprintFeed, October 2nd is the dreadful date in which all users who have the add-on (sorry Sprintsters, there's no grandfathering) will be given a limit of 5GB, and any overage will be charged five cents per MB. It appears that only phones will be affected, leaving tableteurs safe for now. So if you're currently using the hotspot feature, enjoy the last few solid days of sweet downloading while you can. Update: To clarify, this change will only be affecting users who have the mobile hotspot add-on; as the screenshot confirms, on-phone data use (as well as dedicated mobile broadband packages) will remain unlimited.

  • T-Mobile customers would be able to keep rate plans on AT&T after contract expires

    The post-merger AT&T&T world is a mysterious one. Nobody knows what it looks like or what the rules will be, and it's quite likely we won't know all of the answers until the acquisition has been completed -- if it makes it that far. However, at least another piece has been added to the puzzle for now; according to an internal employee FAQ sent in to TmoNews, any customer in love with their current rate plan will be allowed to grandfather it into AT&T's system and keep it after their contract expires. Curiously enough, it doesn't say anything about what will happen if you'd like to upgrade your phone, which could be a completely different story. At least this little chunk of news serves to soothe nervous souls concerned about being forced to a higher-priced plan, which may keep a lot of people from suddenly jumping ship.

  • T-Mobile to begin charging overage on its 200MB plans on August 14th?

    Say it isn't so! T-Mobile, flooded by larger-than-expected demand on data, may be just a matter of days away from making a polarizing change to its 200MB internet plans. As the feature currently stands, going over your limit results in a throttling of broadband speeds, forcing your browser to surf and download at a ridiculously slow pace. The rumored adjustment to the plan, however, would take away the option completely and replace it with usage charges. Each additional MB used, according to the leaked docs, will tack an extra dime onto your monthly bill. Fortunately, the overage is capped at $30 -- preventing several potential panic attacks at the mailbox -- and only affects the lower plan; additionally, anyone currently on the 200MB plan will be grandfathered, thus retaining their unlimited (albeit throttled) internet. Those on the 2GB plan can breathe easily for now, but there's no telling when the policy will spread like wildfire throughout the remainder of T-Mobile's data offerings. The change, slated to take place on August 14th, has yet to be officially confirmed by Bellevue. Meanwhile, we continue to watch as our options for limitless internet slowly fade away into the darkness.

  • Verizon speaks up, confirms usage-based data plans are coming July 7th

    The leaks about Verizon's usage-based plans have become so abundant that it's been nearly impossible to shake off with any amount of skepticism, but one key ingredient's been missing from the saga: official word from the carrier itself regarding the exact date and specific pricing. A mere two days before DataGate's rumored debut, Verizon's finally cleared its throat to make a statement confirming the inevitable. The unlimited smartphone data plan will predictably make a sad and sudden departure from the company's brochures -- lingering only for those grandfathered into it -- and a tiered structure will enter in its place. There were no surprises on pricing: for smartphone data, plans start at $30 for 2GB, $50 for 5GB, and $80 for 10GB. New customers can add mobile hotspot service for an extra $20, and Big Red will throw in a couple additional gigabytes as well. Customers currently using the unlimited LTE mobile hotspot will be given the option to retain that service for another $30. We've yet to receive confirmation from our spokesperson, but will keep you updated as soon as we get word. Knowing is half the battle, though, so take action -- interested parties only have two days left.

  • Verizon's 'DataGate' plans leaked in excruciating detail

    With each and every passing day, the rumors surrounding Verizon's new "usage plans" are getting tougher to ignore. It's only been two days since we initially heard Big Red was ready to ride its unlimited data plans into the sunset in favor of switching to a newer, more usage-friendly model, and the leaks continue to flood in. This go-round, very official-looking docs that offer up a whole slew of details are in the open air. Many of the details echo what we've heard before: the data plans are the same price, starting at $30 for 2GB and working up to increments of 5GB for $50 and 10GB for $80; mobile hotspot access is an additional $20 and you'll get hooked up with an extra pair of gigs; finally, going over these allotments will cost you $10 per GB. As rumored yesterday, all customers grandfathered into the unlimited monthly data will be allowed to keep it, even when upgrading to new phones. Business discounts, currently applied to the limitless plans, would now only apply to primary lines that are willing to fork out $50 or more; however, the wording did not indicate whether or not those grandfathered in would still receive those same benefits. More leaked docs can be found after the break, so grab some lunch and find your favorite chair -- you'll need 'em.

  • Verizon tiered data plans coming July 7, starting at $30? (update)

    We were hoping it wouldn't happen, but it appears that Verizon CFO Fran Shammo's summer foreboding of his company's dreaded tiered data plans could be right on the money. Droid-Life is reporting the magic date will be July 7 and has provided supposed pricing details: data plans without tethering would start at $30 for 2GB, while 5GB and 10GB will cost $50 and $80 respectively. Tethering will cost an extra $20 and adds another 2GB to the pool. There's said to be no notable separation between 3G and 4G -- you'd be billed exactly the same whether you're packing a Droid X2 or a Droid Charge. These new plans wouldn't affect anyone currently under contract, though it's still unknown if customers can hang onto them when it's time to renew. While this remains filed in the "grain of salt" cabinet for now, it may be a good time to at least start checking out your next phone. Update: We just received an internal memo sent around today to select Verizon Wireless employees, and the verbiage is impossible to deny. These things are coming, and soon. Read it in full after the break. [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]