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Review: Luck

HBO goes to the races
You get the feeling that Milch and Mann just want to show off what they know about horse racing. When one of Marcus's crew keeps screaming out during the big Pick Six race, "What's going on!?," he speaking for the audience.
By JON GARELICK | January 24, 2012

Interview: A new world for the Coma junkies

Awkward talks
Based on gustatory adventurer Joe Ricchio's cult foodie blog Portland Food Coma, Food Coma TV (foodcomatv.tumblr.com) has had a revelatory first season.
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | January 05, 2012

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Review: Being Elmo

A moving portrait of an unheralded artist
Just in time for the release of The Muppet Movie on November 25 comes Constance Marks's look at the man behind the pilly-fabric Sesame Street character.
By PETER KEOUGH | November 15, 2011

GoLocal takes a stab at TV

The Tubes
In a media marketplace that is too often timid, golocalprov stands out.
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | October 26, 2011

Prohibition drinking game!

Play along with the upcoming Ken Burns documentary
Leave it to Ken Burns and PBS to crash our romantic Boardwalk Empire fantasies with a scholarly five-and-a-half-hour, sepia-tinted tome about the rip-roaring Twenties.
By CHRIS FARAONE | September 28, 2011

Review: District

District is hard to classify, but hard to go wrong
With the fall television season beginning, it is worth remembering the best TV show of the last decade: NBC's Las Vegas . Man, that show was good.
By BRIAN DUFF | September 28, 2011

Is Boardwalk Empire about to enter its golden age?

Easy livin'
Dispel any remaining doubts. The new season (which begins this Sunday at 9 pm on HBO) unfolds with a new leisurely, cinematic grandeur.
By JON GARELICK | September 21, 2011

Fall TV Preview

Big Fat Whale
What to expect from the tube come autumn.
By BRIAN MCFADDEN | August 31, 2011

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My misbegotten creative career

Still waiting for Slugot; fan feedback; Gatorgate
Vo Dilanduhs know R.J. Heim, the veteran Channel 10 meteorologist and news reporter, as a charismatic and engaging fellow but, primarily, as a local weatherman.
By RUDY CHEEKS | August 03, 2011

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America's Funniest Roller Coaster Tragedies

Hoopleville
Coming soon to prime time ...
By DAVID KISH | July 27, 2011

Down the Tubes

Because you can only spend so much time reading Dan Brown novels on the beach
Midsummer television has a terrific offering of new and returning shows about aliens, firefighters, crystal meth, and more to turn that beautiful brain of yours to Play-Doh and keep you thoroughly entertained.
By DAVID EISENBERG | July 20, 2011

Murdoch & Son

A Scandal of Vatican Proportions
In little more than two weeks, Murdoch's News International (NI) division, the maker and breaker of British prime ministers, has been humbled, and — by extension — its US-based parent, News Corporation, humiliated.
By PETER KADZIS | July 20, 2011

Review: Wilfred

Good dog
It's hard to say what's more surprising about Wilfred , FX's new comedy — adapted from an Australian series — about a depressed ex-lawyer (Elijah Wood) and his friend Wilfred, who he thinks is a man in a dog suit but who is, in actuality, a dog. Is it that the show exists at all, or that it's actually pretty good?
By RYAN STEWART | June 28, 2011

A cheery reboot for True Blood

Bloody good
As supernatural soap operas-cum-social allegories go, True Blood is as good as it gets.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | June 24, 2011

Review: HBO's Game of Thrones

It's a long story
In spite of the obstacles to making Martin's story succeed as a TV show, someone at HBO must be a fan, because Game of Thrones — named after the first book in his series — makes its live-action television debut this Sunday, April 17.
By MADDY MYERS | April 14, 2011

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Reality show pitches

Big Fat Whale
Reality TV needs to shake things up.
By BRIAN MCFADDEN | April 05, 2011

Jane Eyre redux

Cary Fukunaga and Mia Wasikowska hold forth
Jane Austen has been a movie and television icon for some time now, and yet the Jane that both big and small screens just can't get enough of is the "poor, obscure, plain, little" heroine of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | March 18, 2011

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Charlie Sheen's 24/7 reality show

Good times, Charlie!
In about a month, Sheen has completed the Monkees' career trajectory, from twitchy industry puppet to radiant drug zealot to self-indulgent bore. Two weeks ago, after tolerating years of open rebellion, creator/producer Chuck Lorre fired Sheen from Two and a Half Men.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 09, 2011

The new TV season

Power to the people; enviropalooza; on the money; farewell to Dickie
Gil Scott-Heron was wrong: The revolution(s) will be televised.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | February 23, 2011

Photos: Anonymous at 'Freedom of Information' Rally

Anonymous on the Boston Commons | February 19, 2011
Members of the protest group Anonymous hold a rally for 'Freedom of Information' at the Boston Commons on February 19, 2011.
By CHRISSY BULAKITES | February 28, 2011

Richard Lewis gets serious

Straight talk
Neurotic humor is Richard Lewis's style, as the series Anything But Love and Curb Your Enthusiasm, his many late-night-TV appearances, film roles, and cable specials, and his book, The Other Great Depression, all attest.
By RICHARD ANTONE | February 18, 2011

Elementary, my dear Watson

What is ... um ...; Satana, dead! Dead!; same-sex redux; talkin' 'bout a revolution
Phillipe and Jorge are decades-long fans of the TV game show Jeopardy! Thus, when we heard that there was to be a man-vs.-machine lock-up on the show between a supercomputer named “Watson” and two of the show’s most outstanding past champions, we flexed our mental John Henry muscles and got ready to hammer this upstart junk pile.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | February 18, 2011

I did Sookie Stackhouse

A book snob reveals her whirlwind affair with America's favorite telepathic waitress
What is it about reading and falling in love that invites cliché. When I met Sookie Stackhouse, the heroine of Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire series, I didn't think much of her. She was right under my nose, but I was blind. But when I fell, oh, did I fall. I daresay Sookie had her way with me. She transformed a self-conscious reader of big, important novels into a dribbling paranormal romance hound. I'm still kind of bitter about it.
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | February 15, 2011

The Shield's Shawn Ryan looks at more cops in The Chicago Code

Oh, the darkness!
The Shield's Shawn Ryan looks at more cops in The Chicago Code
By RYAN STEWART | February 18, 2011

Poop and circumstance

Vo Dilun diplomacy; the Dunkin' Donuts state; networking; royal rapping
Knickers in a horrible twist in Educationland over the announcement of a three-tiered diploma system to be introduced in Rhode Island public schools.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | January 26, 2011