Oh, boy! One of the coolest Christmas episodes ever! Married With Children announced its subversive presence on nascent network Fox back in 1987 by offing old St. Nick, or at least a muscatel-chugging mall approximation of same who plummeted from a helicopter into the Bundy backyard...

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YULE TUBE: CHRISTMAS TV LISTINGS ! HUNDREDS OF 'EM ! By Diane Werts

They're heeeeere . . .Up and ready for reading are my continually updated listings for TV airings of all kinds of Christmas shows...

2008

Nov

WATCH THIS: 'ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT' MARATHON By Diane Werts

So now we hear there'll be an Arrested Development feature film. Which only makes us want to revisit the fun of Fox' dysfunctional family-com more than ever...

2008

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YULE TUBE: IT'S ALMOST HERE! By Diane Werts

TV Worth Watching's epic list of Christmas show airings, that is. Our detailed yule cavalcade should be ready for posting later this week...

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YULE TUBE: CHRISTMAS COMEDY FROM COLBERT AND THAT CABLE GUY By Diane Werts

Well, here are two different approaches to comedy, all right...Both new specials try to revive the variety tradition in their own ways: redneck raucousness and sarcastic smarm...

2008

Nov

FLICK PICKS: RAY BRADBURY MEETS LON CHANEY ON TCM By Diane Werts

Two of our faves come together Thursday night... it's Lon Chaney via Ray Bradbury on Turner Classic Movies' monthly guest programmer night, where the Fahrenheit 451 author picks flicks and discusses with host Robert Osborne what they mean to him...

2008

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YULE TUBE: IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE... By Diane Werts

C'mon, it's only six weeks away! So no more complaints about Christmas coming too early. TV is officially declaring the season "on" this weekend, offering a fresh holiday episode and a new yule standup special...

2008

Nov

GET THIS: INSIDE SCOOP ON THE RATINGS By Diane Werts

Curious what the ratings are for your favorite show? Wondering if it's waiting for the ax to fall? All network-related answers reside at The Programming Insider, a great weekday e-letter from Mediaweek's Mr. Television columnist, Marc Berman...

2008

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WATCH ONLINE: 'STUDS' PLACE' By Diane Werts

Studs Terkel wasn't just a prolific author, grassroots historian and radio personality. The Chicago institution, who died Oct. 31 at age 96, also did some groundbreaking TV work in the medium's infancy...

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FLICK PICKS: ALL-STAR VETERAN'S DAY By Diane Werts

There's the battlefront. Then there's the homefront. Where they intersect -- in movies, at least -- is in star-studded R&R...

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Diane Werts

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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