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December 2011 Premieres, Specials & Events

I know there hasn’t been much happening on this site in a long while and for that I’m sorry. It’s been a struggle figuring out how to better balance my new responsibilities in the day job with the extracurricular activities I want to do, like this site and some other exciting things to come in 2012.

But people who know me know that I love me a good list, and I love me some television, so why not take what I do anyway for myself and share it all with you. Many of you may remember these monthly columns from TV Squad and subsequently AOL TV. Well, they’ve proven pretty popular and I’ve seen them copied countless places on the ‘net, so why not on my own site. I did put in the man-hours to create it after all :).

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Stand Up to Cancer 2010 [special presentation]

Michael C. Hall & Christina Applegate, 'Stand Up to Cancer 2010'Identifier: Benefit Special
Air Date: Fri., Sep. 10, 2010 (8 PM ET)
Network: ABC/CBS/FOX/NBC

After a two-year absence the SU2C came back to television with a prime-time special. This time, they got all four major networks to simulcast the one-hour program, again filling it with celebrities and musical acts to add entertainment value to the benefit aspect of it. The event was certainly star-studded; I lost track of all the celebrities, and was hosted by the three major news anchors: Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Diane Sawyer. Brian Williams even did a little bit of “walking and talking,” though he was clearly uncomfortable with it. Light moments like that, and the music kept the hour from getting too somber, but it was also uplifting in many ways.

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