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Oprah and Rachael: Eat Thou This Deep-Dish Pizza, for It Is My Body

And verily, Oprah came unto Rachael. And Oprah spake, "Blessed are you, for you are Rachael, and upon this rock I will build my television empire. And neither the gates of the netherworld nor that has-been Martha Stewart shall prevail upon it." Sorry for going all biblical on you, but there was a whiff of [...]

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The Network News After Katie: Three-Way Tie for Last

The New York Times takes a look today at the evening-news race two weeks after Katie Couric started and finds that she’s made the ratings race more competitive: Last week, CBS and NBC were neck-and-neck, with CBS winning by only 70,000 viewers. After a long period of NBC dominance, it is for now anyone’s game. [...]

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Smith: Short Story Long

Tonight, CBS premieres Smith, its entry in the one-name-title, high-class-thieves sweepstakes (Hu$tle, Thief, Heist). I’ll keep my review short, as compensation, since CBS, mercilessly, did not do the same with the pilot. Big Big Movie Star Ray Liotta occupies the grim title role as, you guessed it, a family man with a double life, heading [...]