SF News Keith Olbermann Coming To Current TV In the second most important San Francisco/television news story today, former MSNBC personality Keith Olbermann announced that "he will host a new nightly hour-long primetime news and commentary show on Current TV,
SF News Ignore the Gunfire, New TV Show Filming in Russian Hill Today A scene from the pilot of Alcatraz - being filmed on Filbert Street, between Hyde and Leavenworth today - will result in some street closures today and pseudo-gunfire. Filming will start from noon
Arts & Entertainment Clouds in My KOFY Dance Party Queue the glittery, huddled masses: KOFY Dance Party wants you! This season's theme: the 80's. Become a public access television star and put on your best 80's garb (be you a Bowie-type or
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Veteran queer rockers Pansy Division play their first show in SF since 2009, with special guests The Minks, an all-female Kinks cover band, and Bad Backs, a new band formed by a
misc SFist Watches: <em>Fairly Legal</em> A new show starring San Francisco aired last night on USA - did you guys catch it? It's called Facing Kate Fairly Legal and it's about a lady-lawyer who gave up being an
SF News SF Giants Star In Showtime Reality Show Exciting news, folks. Showtime announced today that the world's greatest baseball team, the San Francisco Giants, will get their own reality show. According to Buzzsugar, the unscripted series will "follow the San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment <em>Murphy Brown</em> Tribute With Candice Bergen Highlight's SF Sketchfest 2011 SF Sketchfest, arguably the city's most anticipated and entertaining annual festival, promises to top last year's stellar selection of bladder squeezers. Most notably, Candice Bergen and Diane English will make a special appearance
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yigit Pura, S.F. Local, Wins <em>Top Chef: Just Desserts</em> An astounding spin-off of the popular Top Chef -- because pastry chefs are a wacky bunch, to say the least -- last night's season finale of Top Chef: Just Desserts was extra sweet
SF News Prop 8 Oral Arguments Will Be Televised The upcoming appeals court hearing on California’s same-sex marriage ban will be televised. "The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal announced Wednesday that it had granted C-Span permission to carry the
Arts & Entertainment YBCA Celebrates 'Sesame Street' This October Sesame Street recently turned 40, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is having a month-long celebration of the iconic show, featuring different programs each weekend at More Muppet™ Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy.
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: <em>Glee</em> Season Premiere at AT&T Park's Mijita Are you a fan of FOX's teen musical comedy Glee. (We're not, but you should be. Among other things, it has Jane Lynch in it. And bombastic musical numbers, if that's your bag.
Arts & Entertainment Catch SF Opera on KQED Thursday Evenings This Month Four San Francisco Opera performances, which were recorded in high definition at the War Memorial Opera House, will air on KQED tonight and every Thursday through September 23, along with additional airings each
SF News Man Acquitted In Hit & Run of <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em> Fan Tamara Barak Aparton, our favorite civil servant scribe, cut another shiny gem for us today. See, after a three-day trial, 33-year-old Jose Sanchez, accused of hitting a Mission District pedestrian with his minivan
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: What is Google TV? Well, if it's anything like Buzz, it's sure to be a smashing success. Oh, come now, we kid. You know we love you, Google. Deeply. No, really, deeply. Which is why we're excited
SF News <em>The Amazing Race</em> Season 16 Runs Final Leg in SF The sixteenth season of The Amazing Race wrapped up last night, with the final three teams (including Brent and Caite, Caite being the Miss Teen South Carolina 2007 of "the Iraq...and such
SF News ABC Filming Pilot in SF, But What About Bravo? SF Examiner has details that ABC is filming the a new police pilot in SF. It's called True Blue. It will star Scott Foley, Marc Blucas and Theo Huxtable. And we can't imagine
SF News SF Views Talks About Proposed Muni Cuts Please join us today as our cohost SFAppeal editor Eve Batey and your SFist editor talk to Matt Baume, (author of the this gem on Muni employees' salaries, creator of the helpful Muni
SF News San Francisco's Silver Fox, Mark Ibanez, Jumps To Anchor Chair Mark Ibanez, KTVU's resident sports talking head, will be making a temporary move on Monday to the the anchor's desk. Rich Lieberman reports that the sports anchor will be filling in as anchor
SF News Reality TV Character Accused Of SF Murder Turns out VH1's 2007 I Love New York 2 was more beneficial to society than originally thought. One of the contestants, Jamal Trulove, allegedly shot a man in Visitacion Valley shortly after taping
SF News Apple Looking to Make TV Deal Apple is looking for bites on a new television subscription service. According to the Wall Street Journal, CBS and Disney are considering participation. The service would offer television access to channel's programming over
SF News <em>Trauma</em> On Chopping Block? Hollywood gossip columnist and sometime crazy person Nikke Finke has marked Trauma as next in line for cancellation, following on the axing of NBC's Southland, and citing the $3 million-per-episode price tag. As
misc Scenes from a <em>Trauma</em> Shoot: SOMA Today, a Huey Helicopter parked right on Norfolk at Folsom next to Wish. The fine folks at Trauma have been filming in the area all week. Here's a shot of the Hollywood magic
Arts & Entertainment Live-blogging the Premiere Episode of <em>Trauma</em> Tonight marks the first episode of NBC's Trauma, filmed right here in San Francisco, an hour-long drama about paramedics and explosions. Oh, and Jennifer Siebel Newsom will, we think, be in this episode.
misc Get Your 15 (or 2) Minutes of Fame on <i>Trauma</i> Everyone's soon-to-be favorite, Bay-Area-based NBC drama featuring a helicopter-trauma-unit is looking for extras! [Ed. Note: Your SFist Editors will be LIVE-BLOGGING the Trauma premiere this coming Monday evening, because yes, we are that
SF News <i>Trauma</i>, the San Francisco <i>ER</i>, Already Being Panned By Critics San Francisco -- being like that pretty girl who sits by herself in the lunchroom and doesn't get a ton of attention outside her AP classes -- gets excited when she's given a
