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NBC is planning to unveil some Parks & Recreation merchandise, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That includes a set of trading cards, motivational posters featuring Leslie Knope and a bunch of Ron Swanson merchandise. I guess NBC’s research said that I’m the only one who uses the moniker “dream man Ben Wyatt.’

Who needs astronaut Mike Dexter when there’s Ben Wyatt?

HBO’s rapture pilot The Leftovers just added one more to its cast. Deadline reports that Liv Tyler has joined the cast as a woman getting wedding jitters as the big day nears, which gets her noticed by the local mysterious cult.

I’m sure some of you are interested in the pictures of the new Big Brother house in The Hollywood Reporter. It looks good, but it’s not a major rebuild. Since the last season I enjoyed continues to be season six’s “Summer...

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Fairfax has come out on top at The Walkley Awards, Australia’s top awards show for journalists.

The company claimed 11 awards, dominating the print category with wins for Good Weekend for Magazine Feature Writing, the Australian Financial Review for Newspaper Feature Writing and the Smh and The Age for Print News Report.

The ABC, which won the most Walkeys last year, won nine awards, cleaning up in the radio category. News Limited won seven.

Steve Pennells, chief writer for Seven West Media’s The West Australian newspaper, won the most prestigious award, however – the Gold Walkley – and two other awards; Best Scoop for a story on the legal stoush over the estate of mining magnate Lang Hancock, and Social Equity Journalism for a feature on the drowning victims of an asylum seeker tragedy.

The Walkleys winners list in full:

Gold Walkley

Steve Pennells, The West Australian...

At The Daily Beast, my colleague Maria Elena Fernandez and I examine how PBS got cool: the massive success of Downton Abbey has brought PBS an increase in donations, funding for Masterpiece, a boost in ratings for other programs, and an unlikely place in the zeitgeist. (Plus, RuPaul on Downton's appeal.) You can read my latest feature, entitled "Downton Abbey: How PBS Got Cool," in which Fernandez and I talk to Rebecca Eaton, RuPaul, PBS SoCal, Wnet, and PBS executives, and The Soup producer Matthew Carney, among others. Patton Oswalt obsessively live tweets it from his weekly viewing parties. Katy Perry is using it to distract herself from her marital woes. Roger Ebert has stepped outside the movie realm to praise it in his blog. Saturday Night Live spoofed it. Mob Wives star Big Ang Raiola recited favorite quips for Us Weekly. The Onion equated watching one episode with reading a book.

Have a question about gay male entertainment? Ask the Monkey! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)

Q: Have you been watching The Soup? Besides the always-adorable Joel McHale, there is a really hot guy that shows up every once and a while, mostly to either get shot by Joel or shoot himself. All I know is that he has a great body and needs to take his shirt off more. Who is he? And no, I'm not talking about the guy in the man-kini. -- Daniel, Vacaville, California

Production assistant Matt Carney greases up on The Soup

A: His name is Matt Carney and he really is a production assistant on the show, just like they say. “I started as an intern in ’07,” he tells the Monkey, “and eventually collected enough dirt on enough people that they had no choice but to hire me as a Production Assistant.