Which shows are better, the UK originals or US versions? The US has a bad rep for shamelessly copying UK television shows, but are any of the rip-offs actually better? Let’s put some of these shows to the test.

Judge Judy beat out Oprah to become the number one television show in America last year? Apparently, whether you win or lose on her court show, you will walk away with thousands in cash. If you’re from outside the fiming area, they’ll even fly you in and put you up in a hotel! If you can handle the nationally-televised embarrassment, it sure seems like a decent enough way to make some quick cash!

The infographic Iconic Dogs in the Media features interesting and unknown facts of the most iconic dogs throughout television/movie history.

Expansys have uncovered that Facebook is now a bigger national past-time in the UK than watching TV! Expansys ran a national study which found that we spend an average of two and a half hours using the social networking site every day, compared to just two hours watching television programmes.

You probably first learned about opportunity cost sitting in your high school economics class, while your teacher made an analogy that involved gum and ice cream. The concept is simple: when you make a choice to do something, you give up an opportunity to do something else valuable.

As kids, our time in front of the TV is limited to increments as decided by our parents. As adults, we’ve taken a few liberties on those previously-determined TV allowances, and technology hasn’t made it any easier to stay away. Now that television is accessible on almost every device we own, it’s virtually impossible to avoid TV-generated brain rot.

Conan O’Brien has been banned from television (literally) since January, but his new TBS late night show (appropriately titled “Conan”) premieres on Monday, November 8th, which means it’s time to re-open old wounds and remember exactly what happened between Conan and NBC. If TBS thought it was getting great ratings with its Everybody Loves Raymond re-runs, wait ’til they get a load of Team Coco. Welcome back to late night television, Conan!

For almost 20 years, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Late Show with David Letterman have been battling one another for late night ratings. You may already know that Jay and Dave don’t really like each other, but a quick look into the history of the Leno/Letterman rivalry illustrates exactly why these two titans of late night despise one another. It also provides a little insight into Jay’s habitual penchant for being a huge asshole to his fellow [...]

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