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Oct
02

TV Review: Hank and The Middle

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Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton, who co-starred in Fox’s Back to You for its solitary season, are each back in their own separate sitcoms, both of which feature a major “but…” factor.

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ON SCREEN
Sep
30

TV Review: Trauma

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Well, now we know where all the money is going that NBC is saving by airing The Jay Leno Show every night at 10pm—towards the massive special effects in Trauma. Too bad the show itself is little more than a framework for helicopter crashes and exploding cars.

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ON SCREEN
Sep
28

My Antonio: The Desperate Divorcee

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My Antonio opens with the same dinner that ended the last episode last week, when Antonio dragged Jessica into the bushes to say goodbye. Now he explains to the girls that since he is a “working actor,” their challenge the next morning will be to perform soap opera scenes with him in pairs. This is actually the first challenge that doesn’t feel arbitrary—hula dancing anyone?

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ON SCREEN
Sep
26

The Beautiful Life: TBL Dies an Ugly Death

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The CW has shown no mercy for The Beautiful Life: TBL's low ratings, canceling the Ashton Kutcher-produced series about the lives of models after only two episodes. The drama-afflicted show (starring Mischa Barton, who garnered headlines over the summer for her sudden hospitalization) just couldn't beat out fellow time slot holders and critical faves Glee, Modern Family, and Cougar Town (not to mention SVU) for viewers. Goodbye, beautiful people! Hopefully some of its talented cast will find work on other CW shows, a la last season's casualty Privileged, whose star Joanna Garcia is now appearing on Gossip Girl as Nate Archibald's new love interest.

Now that the death toll has started, what do you think will be/deserves to be the next to go?

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ON SCREEN
Sep
25

The Morning After: Modern Family

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New faux-documentary sitcom Modern Family has apparently scooped up all of the talented actors from this decade’s failed TV shows and given them better material. There’s Julie Bowen, who went from Ed to Jake in Progress, as micro-organizer mother of three Claire; Ty Burrell, recovering from Back to You, as her husband, a self-professed “cool dad”; Jesse Tyler Ferguson from The Class as her gay brother who recently adopted a Vietnamese baby with his partner (Eric Stonestreet, pictured left, with Ferguson); Sofia Vergara, the women who slaughtered the English language with her indecipherable accent on Hot Properties, is still slaughtering the English language but with better results as Claire’s step-mother; and Ed O’Neill has recovered nicely from Dragnet and John From Cincinnati with his role as the family’s patriarch, a gruff man with a trophy wife and no idea of how to be a father. Even Lipstick Jungle’s Sarah Hyland made the cut, as Claire’s whiny teenage daughter Hayley.

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ON SCREEN
Sep
25

The Morning After: FlashForward

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Clearly positioned as ABC’s replacement for the soon-to-end Lost, FlashForward turns out to be a surprisingly creepy-crawly mystery story about a worldwide phenomenon in which everyone blacks out for 137 seconds and has visions of their lives six months in the future.

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ON SCREEN
Sep
24

The Morning After: Mercy

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Good news for everyone who doesn’t subscribe to Showtime—unless you’re a diehard Edie Falco fan, there’s no reason to shell out for Nurse Jackie when NBC is offering Mercy every Wednesday night.

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Sep
24

The Morning After: Cougar Town

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To say that I never stopped laughing during the premiere of Cougar Town would be only a slight exaggeration—Courtney Cox’s new sitcom is fucking funny. And I use the word “fucking” advisedly, since there hasn’t been a female-centric half hour show this obsessed with sex and jokes since Sex and the City hung up its Birkin.

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Sep
24

The Morning After: Eastwick

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If ABC’s Cougar Town makes a case for older women banging younger guys, then its Eastwick makes a valid argument for older horny devils. Adapting The Witches of Eastwick, with its memorable performances from stars Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Cher and, especially, Jack Nicholson, was a risky enterprise. But Eastwick turns out to be a surprisingly fun and sexy entry in the new fall season: Desperate Housewives without the heavy-handed satire and mom angst.

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ON SCREEN
Sep
23

The Morning After: The Good Wife

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Once you get past your assumption that The Good Wife is going to be an adult drama along the lines of the much-missed Once and Again and will instead be an elaborately set up courtroom drama, the hour long turns out to be one of the best shows to premiere yet this season.

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