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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight

LEE MENDELSON PRODUCTIONS,INC. Why are there not more Thanksgiving holiday specials? (I’m not talking parades or football, but specials aired before the holiday.) It’s no Christmas, maybe, but it’s no slouch: a four-day weekend holiday of Americana and overeating. Is it a market-driven thing? No one gives Thanksgiving presents, so the advertisers aren’t there for [...]

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Strike Watch Meets Lost Watch!

We haven’t talked about the Lost Missing Pieces webisodes, have we? Probably because there’s not so much to talk about. In the first installment, Jack gets a watch, and another heapin’ helpin’ of daddy issues. The second is more appealing, simply because we get to meet Neil Frogurt and discover that he something of a [...]

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Heroes Watch: "Holy–!"

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, watch last night’s Heroes. And FINISH YOUR CEREAL. In this very special episode, a major character dies… for an entire commercial break! Oh, right. That’s what a good episode of Heroes looks like. There’s been a lot of hashing over this season about Heroes’ plot problems–storylines that moved [...]

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The Morning After: Visit Your Mother

Monty Brinton/CBS ‘Tis the time to convene about last night’s TV, and since the clock is running down on its remaining pre-strike episodes, this is a good time to look at How I Met Your Mother. Despite–or perhaps because of–the fact that this season has backed off the meeting-your-mother premise, it’s been on a tear [...]