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Television Without Pity (TWOP), one of the premier television websites on the web (And Canadian – BTW) has been bought by Bravo. Yes – they of Project Runway and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

For those of you who have never heard of the fabulous TWOP, they are a website that provides snarky, but thorough summaries of some of the best (and worst) TV shows. They do Doctor Who and Battlestar for those of you insist on genre content. They also create and sell limited run T-Shirts based on said TV shows. (The aquisition by Bravo may explain why they are having a massive sell off of said t-shirts. No more vague, almost copyright infringement stuff allowed now that you are owned by the man. I sense a Revolution SF opportunity.)

TWOP partnered with Yahoo! a while back, and two of their writers got to critique the Oscars, but I suspect that went nowhere fast as they got lost in the Yahoo! Entertainment bog.

Tara Ariano and Sarah D. Bunting, co-founders and co-editors of TWOP, also released a book this past year. I own it and have read it and loved it. Full of snark.

What will this mean for TWOP? Well they are saying "nothing will change", but I am leary. Yes, Bravo also owns BrilliantButCancelled.com, but it is still a network. Will they allow the recappers to go after Michael Kors or Tom Colicchio the way they have been doing in the past? Will stars with fragile egos (I am talking to you Trump!) stand by and let a website owned by a network owned by NBC say mean things about them? Time will tell, but I, for one, am worried.

The Internet has lost one more piece of its independence.