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If somebody had asked me to pick one ABC romantic dramedy of the ’90s to remake, I would have chosen Relativity. But nobody did ask me, Jason Katims is busy with Friday Night Lights, and instead ABC gave Rob Thomas (Party Down, Veronica Mars) a second crack at his offbeat series Cupid (tonight, 10 p.m. E.T.), about a man who is …
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When (and if) you first heard about Party Down, the new comedy on Starz, your reaction was probably the same as mine: do I have Starz? Now would be a good time to find out, because this show—from Rob Thomas and Paul Rudd and with a cast including Adam Scott, Jane Lynch and Martin Starr—is worth your time and pay-cable dollar. …
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I’m sticking with Dollhouse. I do not blame you if you are not. I’m sticking with it because, despite an unfortunately-cast lead and a possibly-impossible premise, Joss Whedon’s playing with some interesting ideas and I want to see what he might do with them, on the basis of his past work. You may not be sticking with it because you …
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Yesterday I used the Bobby-Jindal-is-Kenneth-the-page meme to go on a tangent about actors playing outside their ethnicity, in particular on shows like Saturday Night Live. “It’s not generally white European Americans who get substituted for,” I wrote, “though there had to have been good black George W. Bushes out there.”
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The midseason is getting under way in earnest, with more primetime debuts tonight:
* On ABC, Scrubs returns for a possibly-last season on a new network. I’ll admit that I haven’t followed the show closely for a couple of years, so I’ll take other critics at their word when they say that the new episodes represent a return to the …
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…such as it is. While a number of shows are returning tonight, there’s only one new show, par for the course in this strike-deprived fall: CBS’s sitcom Worst Week. Based on a British comedy, it’s the type of show that’s virtually unreviewable on the basis of one pilot episode. In a nutshell, it’s about Sam (Kyle …
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If True Blood isn’t doing it for you, you have one other HBO drama option while you (or at least I) anxiously await the return of Big Love next year. Capadocia, a Mexican-produced drama set in a women’s prison, debuts tonight on HBO Latino, with English captions for the no-habla-ing among us.
The title is the name of a new …
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Sorry I haven’t had a chance to put together the vaguely-promised Shield Watch: besides having other things to deal with, it takes me a while to get my bearings on a new season—especially when it’s been over a year since the last one. I am intrigued by the gang war paralleling the cold war between Vic and Shane, but …
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Lots of TV on television tonight beyond the on-again Republican National Convention. First, and least threatening to President Bush’s demographic, is The CW’s remake of 90210, which the network did not send to critics in advance, presumably for fear we would be blinded by its sheer …
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If you’re like me, no housing crash can suppress your obsession with the real-estate market and the TV shows that chronicle it. If you’re not like me—and you’re not—well, it’s August, so you may want to watch the return of Bravo’s real-esate reality saga, Million-Dollar Listing.
I hear the price was just slashed to a $799,000 …
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Tonight, Project Runway fans welcome back the fashion reality show despite the underwhelming publicity efforts of Bravo, which no one can prove had anything to do with the fact that next season, the series will belong to Lifetime. …
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On deadline today, so I haven’t had time to write up A&E’s The Cleaner, with Benjamin Bratt. But trust me, the less I write about this baby the happier everyone will be. An overwrought drama about a man who helps addicts get straight as part of a deal with God, it’s part Intervention, part Saving Grace, part every basic-cable summer …
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According to The Media and Society, you are Very Concerned about the Suddenly Pressing Topic of Teen Pregnancy. Perhaps you are concerned because of this. Or this. Or this. Or this. Or even this. Whatever the cause, it would take a very dull TV executive not to connect all these dots and see that …
