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Winning Viewers Over, By Blowing Them Up

It’s not every TV show that starts off by asking a significant chunk of the audience to imagine, at 8 o’clock in the evening, that they’ve been instantly killed. But that’s what happens in the first episode of Jericho, debuting on CBS tonight, and it’s just warming up. Shortly after a prodigal son (Skeet Ulrich) [...]

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A Well-Made Abduction Mystery, Ten Years Too Late

I want to apologize to the makers of Kidnapped (NBC, Wednesdays, 10 p.m.) for not liking their show better. There’s a catchy enough premise: one kidnapping–the teen son of a superwealthy Manhattan family–investigated over the course of a season. There’s an interesting dual-track dynamic: an FBI agent (Delroy Lindo) leads the FBI investigation into the [...]