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JPTV: What I'm So Totally Watching Tonight

Mark Walberg, the Wink Martindale of reality TV, has his moment hosting Fox’s Moment. / FOX Fox has not sent out advance screeners of The Moment of Truth. This has not stopped critics from panning it in advance on the basis of its premise: contestants are hooked up to a lie detector and asked 21 [...]

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Strike Poll: Out of Sight, Out of Mind?

I traded e-mails about this with Tim Goodman a while back, and he beat me to blogging on the subject, but I’m not too proud to be late… So the strike is going to end. Maybe sooner, maybe later, but it will end. Your shows will return. But will you still care? Peter Krause? Who [...]

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Strike Watch: Beautiful Music

I almost don’t want to jinx it by writing about it, but there are a couple signs this morning that there really could be progress toward ending the strike. First, the Writers’ Guild announced that it would not picket the Grammy Awards, a goodwill gesture that the already ratings-troubled awards show sorely needed. At the [...]

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The Morning After: One in a Million

So did anyone partake of the rich slab of Bravo cheese that was The Millionaire Matchmaker? You can admit it! I won’t tell anyone! Stanger, second from right, makes the magic happen. / Bravo Photo: Ron Batzdorff One thing that was wrong with this show from the get-go was the title: Is she a millionaire? [...]