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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight–Cartman and Cartwoman

Comedy Central isn’t going to let any flipping network premiere weeks scare them off: new seasons of South Park and The Sarah Silverman Program kick off tonight. I don’t need to tell you about South Park. Either you’ll watch it or you’re beyond hope. Sarah Silverman–Sarah is a divider. People love her or hate her, [...]

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Would You Pay $419,000 for 30 Seconds With McDreamy?

SCOTT GARFIELD / ABC Some enterprising game manufacturer needs to come up with a version of Monopoly, but for network TV. You’d buy up shows, try to monopolize contiguous “programming blocks,” and bankrupt your opponents by charging, not for rent, but for commercials. In the Fall 2007 version of Network Monopoly, Grey’s Anatomy (an estimated [...]

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ABC Caves on Cavemen

ABC/MITCH HADDAD Reader, a confession: I laughed at the first line of Cavemen. “There’s this tiny waitress and she’s carrying around a rack of ribs so big that they can tip over a car made of stone? I just don’t see what’s so funny about it.” Call me unevolved, but it makes me laugh. The [...]

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Reaper Watch: Reap-Off or Reaping Good Time?

Sergei Bachlakov / The CW If last night’s episode of Reaper had been the first one I’d ever seen, I’d have been delighted with it. The problem with it was that it was more or less the same, with a few elegant variations, as the very first episode we ever did see, last week. There [...]

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On Daisies, and the Pushing Thereof

ABC/SCOTT GARFIELD The Second Coming Pushing Daisies debuts tonight on ABC. You may have heard of it. I reviewed it in our fall arts preview, so you’ll have to excuse me for not doing so a second time here. I am very curious to see how this show does in the ratings. It’ll be a [...]

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The Morning After: Cane You Feel It?

Ron P. Jaffe/CBS You know the drill. Second week impressions of Reaper or Cane? Did ABC’s single-camera comedies elicit a single laugh? (I’ll try to post a review of Cavemen later.) Have you ditched any of your old Tuesday-night appointments to make room for new ones? At least one inquiring mind wants to know.