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Bruckheimer’s ‘The Whole Truth’ Confronts a Somber Reality: Ratings

If you're interested in watching The Whole Truth, the new ABC legal drama (Wednesdays, 10 ...

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‘Exorcist’ Blu-Ray Released

"What I was really trying to do was not to make a horror film but make a film that mostly...

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TV Writer-Producer Stephen J. Cannell, RIP

The late Stephen J. Cannell was a fixture on U.S. television for more than four decades. ...

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CBS’s ‘Blue Bloods’ Dramatizes Dilemmas of Police Power

The first thing the viewer will notice about the new CBS series Blue Bloods (Fridays, 10 E...

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“This Is for Ladies Only!”

ESPN is starting up a new programming brand for females: espnW. It will begin as a blog an...

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CBS’s ‘$#*! My Dad Says’ Nicely Transcends Gimmick Origin

Sure, the new CBS sitcom $#*! My Dad Says is based on a very thin gimmick: a snarky but fu...

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Response to National Drift Requires Understanding of Fundamental Principles

There are some false dichotomies in Thomas Friedman's New York Times column denigrating wh...

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Tony Curtis Defined the Limits of the Hustler Persona

The late Tony Curtis, who died yesterday at the age of 85, was once one of the most popula...

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NBC’s ‘Undercovers’ Is Appealingly True to Formula

As the fourth-rated broadcast TV network, NBC has made plenty of mistakes during the past ...

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Nothing ‘Retro’ About ‘Hawaii Five-0’ Reboot

Although CBS'-TVs new cop show Hawaii Five-0 is a reboot of a highly popular 1970s CBS ser...

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Criminal Protagonists Criticized

The contemporary glut of stories in which a criminal is the protagonist is far from an una...

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‘Better With You’ Concept Outdoes Execution

As ABC attempts to solidify its popular block of Wednesday sitcoms, the new show Better wi...

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FOX’s ‘Lone Star’ Fails to Inspire Confidence

The FOX Network has had success in recent years with dramatic programs that feature a bit ...

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Ten Things I Learned from Watching ‘Mission: Impossible’ Reruns

By Robert Champ When I was a kid back in the 1960s, I used to love watching Mission: Imp...

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Radio Host’s On-Air Joke Creates Furor

The lack of sense of humor award for the week goes to numerous listeners to Matt Patrick's...

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NBC’s ‘The Event’ Sets Record: Jumps the Shark in First Episode

NBC's The Event has probably been one of the most widely anticipated new series of the cur...

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Affleck’s ‘Town’ Does Well in Opening Weekend

As Hollywood has known since the 1960s, heist films, also known as caper movies, are gener...

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TNT’s ‘Rizzoli and Isles’ Struggles to Overcome Genre Cliches

TNT's latest new series, the crime drama Rizzoli and Isles, finished its season a few days...

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TNT’s ‘The Closer’ Jumps Back on Political Hobbyhorse

As I noted a few weeks ago, the TNT crime drama series The Closer has long been largely no...

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Seinfield Displeased with Gaga’s Poor Manners—and Mets’ Response

"You give people the finger and you get upgraded? Is that the world we're living in now?" ...

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‘Resident Evil: Afterlife’ Leads Weak U.S. Movie Box Office

As expected, the action-fantasy Resident Evil: Afterlife was the top finisher in the weeke...

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Will the Real Sherlock Holmes Please Punch Somebody?

Would G. K. Chesterton have liked Robert Downey Jr.'s depiction of the great detective in ...

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FOX’s ‘Good Guys’ Is a Good Time, Good Show

The FOX TV comedy-drama series The Good Guys continues in reruns tonight at 9 EDT. It's we...

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GOP Tops Dems in Primary Voter Turnout

Suggesting a true cultural shift, Republicans voting in this year's primary elections outn...

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Galaxy Tab to Challenge iPad

Samsung is introducing the Galaxy Tab Android tablet computer as a competitor to the iPad....

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USA’s ‘Covert Affairs’ a Fresh Entry in Espionage Genre

USA Network has established itself as the master of smartly entertaining TV drama, not jus...

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Full Week of ‘Hawaii Five-O’ on Spike TV

Time to fire up the DVRs: Spike TV is running a week-long marathon of the 1970s cop show H...

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Ebert Under Fire

"I do think it is fair to say that Roger Ebert destroyed film criticism," says New York Pr...

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Time Magazine: Only Liberals Respect Privacy

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that representatives of governme...

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Jenner Bikini Shoot Raises Some Eyebrows

Fourteen-year-old celebrity manqué Kendall Jenner has posed in a skimpy bikini for a racy...

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Public’s Trust in Newspapers, TV News Nears All-Time Low

The U.S. public's confidence in the old media—specifically, newspapers and TV news—is ...

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Judges Crack Down on Flip-Flops, Short-Shorts in Court

Judges across the United States are requiring trial participants to dress appropriately an...

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Survey: TV Time-Shifting Habits Confirmed

TV time-shifting is becoming the norm. (more…)