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Just don’t piss off the family…
Yesterday Bravo announced that it has acquired Television Without Pity, the on-line web home to complainers and television trolls (two powerful web contingencies that frankly, need a place to vent). The real question is whether this acquisition will ultimately dilute the commentary. Days earlier the Real Housewives of Orange County thread  on the TWoP message boards was taken down. Housewives airs on Bravo. Ah, conflict of interest — gotta love it.

For more information on this subject than anyone could possibly want, head over to The Watcher where Maureen Ryan has such gems as a transcribed Bravo conference call. The internet, again, saves the day.

I want my Court TV…
Well tough. You aren’t going to get it. Starting next year Court-TV will be rebranded with a new name, new logo, new look and new programming. It’s parent company, Turner Broadcasting, plans to turn the existing network into an ACTION! channel, the same way it has turned TBS into the COMEDY! channel and TNT into the DRAMA! channel.

The new programming will still feature court room shenanigans during the daytime with the addition of a Star Jones deflated talk show and a trimmed Nancy Grace. During primetime the network will focus on unscripted series about con artists, female bounty hunters and other such broadcast crown jewels.

The current CourtTV website will stay intact after the changeover. The network has yet to be renamed.

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