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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight

First it was Hugh Laurie, then it was Damien Lewis–now Brits are even impersonating American newscasters! BBC America launches BBC World News America tonight, at 7 p.m. E.T. Watch your back, Jim Lehrer!

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Tell Me You Love Me Watch: "Some Frustrating Language"

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read this post until you have tested how easily a paper towel dispenser rips off a wall. HBO / Doug Hyun If you’re still watching TMYLM–statistically you’re not but I’ll keep posting, like the Omega Man talking to himself–you’ll notice that there’s less and less sex in every episode of My [...]

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TV Smackdown! The Best Show About School

Friday Night Lights goes back to school this Friday. NBC Photo: Bill Records Aaron Barnhart and I do not call each other up and plan what to write about any given day, what to wear (he’s better dressed than I am) or anything else. But the same morning that I used my Aliens in America [...]

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Aliens in America: Not (Islama)bad at All

Kalyan, left, and Dan Byrd. Marcel Williams/ The CW Tonight, The CW debuts Aliens in America, which I gave a brief plug in the current issue of Time. A lot of advance raves have compared the show with The Wonder Years. I didn’t, perhaps because, apparently unlike every other TV critic in America, I was [...]

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The Morning After: Weekend Roundup

Randy Tepper / Showtime Only one network debut this weekend (Moonlight), but consider this your all-purpose thread for it and the various returning-show debuts. Did Dexter live up to expectations? Did Moonlight live down to them?