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News-About-the-News News: CNN Hires Brian Stelter As Reliable Sources Host
The media reporter will leave the New York Times, which will free him to cover that newspaper’s controversies. Will he be as free to critique CNN?
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Whip Like a Man! Five Reasons MasterChef Junior Is the Season’s Best Reality Show
Unlike so many other pint-sized spinoffs of reality competition, this cooking show improved on the original recipe.
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CBS’s Benghazi Apology: Sorry Is the Hardest, or At Least Slowest, Word
In an unfortunately familiar pattern, 60 Minutes walks back a report after first digging in and pushing back at critics.
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New Girl, Brooklyn 9-9, and Breaking the “One Black Friend” Pattern
It’s still a rarity to see a major-network sitcom in which “a black friend” is not “the black friend.”
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History’s Roots Remake: Probably Unnecessary, Possibly Worth It Anyway
A new version of the 1977 classic might not be as good. But if it gets people talking, it could still do good.
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eightysomething: Why The Goldbergs Loves the ’80s a Little Too Much
There’s a difference between making a sitcom that has pop-culture references and a making a sitcom that’s about pop-culture references.
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Plateau Stage: Masters of Sex Figures Itself Out
Halfway into its first season, Showtime’s drama matures into a character story, a period piece about social change, and a sexual detective story.
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Please Do Not Make a How I Met Your Mother Spinoff
Cloning the show–reportedly, in the form of “How I Met Your Father”–would be exactly the opposite of what made HIMYM special: doing something new.
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TV Review: The Returned
This French supernatural series, premiering Halloween on Sundance, is a zombie tale that has brains rather than eats them.
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RIP, Marcia Wallace; She Made Us Say “Ha!”
A veteran of Merv Griffin and Bob Newhart, Wallace’s last role showed how much character an actress could convey in a single breath.
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The Good Wife Watch: This Means War
A civil war breaks out in the office, and “Hitting the Fan” proves, if there was any doubt, why The Good Wife is currently the best thing on TV outside cable
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Dead Tree Alert: How TV Does, and Doesn’t, Deal With Death
A remarkable documentary series boldly goes where most TV does not, but where someday all of us will.
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America’s Best New Family Sitcom: Trophy Wife Takes the Prize
Like many sitcoms, ABC’s multi-parent comedy is about stereotypes. But it’s also about discovering the real people behind them.