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Support Your Local TV Critic. Or Should You?

With the nation’s newspaper TV critics meeting in L.A. to cover the summer TV press tour, Variety just ran a story about how, thanks to the bleeding newspaper biz, several of them will not be meeting there anymore — nor will anyone else from their papers. As newspapers cut budgets left and right, one of [...]

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Angels in Middle America

Hunter, right, with Laura San Giacomo. TNT Holly Hunter’s Saving Grace debuts on TNT tonight, and I’ll be writing more later in the week, for the print magazine, on the new breed of female antiheroes represented by this show and Glenn Close’s Damages, on FX starting tomorrow. Well, that is, I already wrote on this–you [...]

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HBO Sunday Roundup

John from Cincinnati. You’ll notice there is no spoiler warning on this post. There’s a reason for that. The chief significant development–John announcing (again) that “Sean will soon be gone”–was in last week’s preview. Other than that, while there were a few nice moments in Palaka’s motel-tub treatment session and Dickstein’s going all Close Encounters [...]