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Remember Rescue Me? FX must be a little worried that by the time Denis Leary’s fireman ensemble returns next year, you’ll have plain forgotten it. To that end, the channel debuts the first of a summer series of roughly five-minute Rescue Me minisodes tonight …
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All parents of American tween-aged children, unless they are totally uncool and unfair and hate their kids, have seen to it that they have access to Disney Channel On Demand. (The fact that your cable company doesn’t offer it is no excuse! You could have moved! I never get anything I want!)
The …
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I don’t have time to full-on review it, as I really need to start doing some things that are not this blog, but a quick reminder that Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days returns tonight to FX. (Nutshell premise: every week, a subject spends a month living the life of someone else whose lifestyle is very different, or whose beliefs are totally …
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There’s been plenty of debate in the political media lately about whether or not this election is likely to be—or already is—a rerun of 1988. (I.e., culture warring, flag burning, Willie Horton ads, etc.) If you want to relive the actual election of ’88 for comparison purposes, you might want to watch PBS’s American Experience: The …
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On The CW, the debut of Farmer Wants a Wife, in which Matt, a 29-year-old Missouri country boy with a promising future as an underwear model, tries to find a match from among ten city women. On Fox News, Hillary Clinton makes her first appearance on The O’Reilly Factor.
Expect contrived drama, reinforcement of …
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A quick reminder that tonight is The Riches‘ season finale. Or maybe a better term than “finale” is “the last episode they were able to finish, thanks to the strike.” Like AMC’s Breaking Bad, The Riches had its season order arbitrarily cut, to seven episodes. (This is the one episode of season 2 I haven’t seen in advance, so I can’t say …
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This week, PBS is airing what—if it had run it one hour a week like most networks do—would be called a reality or documentary series, Carrier, about life on the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. Instead, airing two hours a night for five nights most places (check local listings), you could call it a …
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The last (abbreviated) week of HBO’s In Treatment begins tonight. As much as I’ve knocked HBO around for its programming screwiness lately, this series (much like Tell Me You Love Me) was a prime example of why I’m glad the network …
