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Audiences Decide Bionic Woman a Bionic Bore

As we noted yesterday, the high ratings for the premiere episode of the new NBC series Bio...

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Bionic Gloombot

If you were going to make a show about a "bionic woman," it would be all about ...

television
ABC’s “Carpoolers”

The new ABC sitcom Carpoolers which debuted last night, tells the stories of four men in p...

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ABC’s Senseless “Cavemen”

The new ABC comedy Cavemen premiered last night. As you probably know, it's based on the a...

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ABC’s “Big Shots” Misses Big

ABC's new series Big Shots (Thursdays at 10 pm EDT), which premiered last night, is clearl...

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A Charming “Reaper”

Filmmaker Kevin Smith (Clerks, Dogma) is a common type of modern American: vulgar but reli...

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Dirty Sexy Morality Tale

 I don't suppose that many regular readers of this august publication missed my revie...

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CBS’ “Cane”—Just Depicting Ethnic Strife, or Fomenting It?

The new CBS TV series Cane is something of a return to the 1980s primetime soap opera sty...

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Disney Suppressing “Path to 9/11” DVD for Political Reasons?

The Hollywood actress known in print as Anna Nimouse notes today on National Review Online...

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Boys Will Be Girls—on TV, in Movies, and in a Stylish Condo or Messy Apartment Near You

The tendency of the nation's schools to suppress boys' natural ways of seeing and doing th...

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Unusual Moral Concerns in a Sitcom

 Back to You is an idea devised in TV programmer's Heaven: get the star of Frasier an...

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Fox’s Kitchen Nightmares Reviewed

The new Fox TV reality program Kitchen Nightmares is, like the Fox summer reality series H...

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Some Cheese with Your Whine: K-Ville Premiere

The new Fox police drama K-Ville premiered last night at 9 EDT. It's a fairly standard cop...

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59th Primetime Emmy Awards

The results announced at last night's Primetime Emmy Awards for what passes as television ...

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Emmy Awards—I Don’t Care, But I Don’t Mind If You Do

I never watch award shows these days—haven't done so for about a half-dozen years&md...

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Stossel on Health Care

John Stossel, co-anchor of the ABC-TV news magazine 20/20, has been producing superb work ...

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FCC Authority over Indecency Challenged—but Govt. Agency Is Right for Once

When it comes to regulation of communications, usually the FCC and the Congress have it al...

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Spike TV’s “The Kill Point”

Season 1 of the Spike TV series The Kill Point concludes tonight with a two-hour episode. ...

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Another Try at Genre-Bending

The mixing of genres can be interesting when it works, but when it doesn't, it's usually a...

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“High School Musical 2” Grabs Record Audience

If you need any demonstration of the amazing cultural power of tweeners (young people exit...

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TNT’s “The Company” Depicts Security Dilemmas

Tomorrow night brings the conclusion of The Company, a three-part, six-hour miniseries on ...

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More Changes Reported for Fox “House” TV Series

The popular Fox TV series House, M.D. implied major changes at the end of the last season ...

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“Desperate Housewives” Goes “Gay”

The popular ABC TV series Desperate Housewives will add two homosexual characters to its r...

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Three Summer Series Renewed

USA Network has renewed its superb espionage comedy-drama Burn Notice, according to a repo...

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ABC Is “Gayest” TV Network—Study

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has declared that the U.S. televis...

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Spike TV’s Show “Murder” and the Need to Police the Police

Another interesting summer TV program on cable is the elegantly named series Murder, which...

science-fiction
ABC to Present “Masters of Science Fiction”

I'm not a big fan of science fiction, but this sounds interesting (from AP):[Masters of Sc...

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More Thoughts on “Saving Grace”

"Bubba," a regular reader of this site, has sent us his thoughts on the new TNT ...

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TV Tackles the Sensate Culture

Summer has become the main season for cable TV networks to premiere new series and special...

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Emmy Award Nominees Announced, World Yawns Mightily

 The nominees for TV's Primetime Emmy Awards were announced today, and details are av...

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House, M.D. Set for Changes

The producers of the highly rated and critically acclaimed Fox medical-mystery drama House...

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Monk Stumbles Out of Gate

As I mentioned in my post last week on the season premieres of USA Network mainstays Monk ...

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“Burn Notice” Refreshes Spy Genre

  With "how to" shows being so popular on television, it was only a ma...