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2010
Mar
31
 
 
The University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication just revealed the winners of its Peabody Awards for the best electronic media efforts in 2009 -- and, as usual, the Peabody panel has demonstrated a jaw-dropping combination of taste, breadth and depth. Glee made the cut...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
25
 
 
There's something about Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, the new ABC reality series launching Friday night at 8 ET, that comes as a total surprise. For a program about the dangers and proliferation of disgusting processed foods, it's shockingly easy to swallow. In fact, this has the makings of one tasty reality show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
22
 
 
On Showtime tonight, two engrossing TV characters return who are struggling to keep themselves together: Edie Falco as the pill-popping "Nurse Jackie", and Toni Collette as the woman with several distinct personalities in "The United States of Tara". Both shows are wonderful -- and if both Collette and Falco aren't competing this fall for Best Actress Emmys, something's awfully wrong somewhere...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
19
 
 
The opening, pre-credits sequence of Sunday's third-season premiere of AMC's "Breaking Bad" is a wordless marvel. It begins with a shot of a beautiful landscape, then pans down to reveal one man crawling. Then another, then many more, like human ants following some invisible, humbling trail. Where? Why?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
18
 
 
Discovery Channel's previous major co-production with the BBC, 2006's Planet Earth, was a fabulous nature miniseries, presenting astounding visuals and intelligent, illuminating narration in every installment. The networks' newest collaboration, a 10-part series called Life, is just as satisfying... but only in the visual sense...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
13
 
 
Executive producers Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman did a great job dramatizing the European battles of WWII in 2001's "Band of Brothers". Now, nine years later, they've reteamed for another HBO miniseries, to do the same thing for "The Pacific" -- and it's just as good. Maybe even better...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
11
 
 
How cool is this? (Answer: Very.) Fan and critic pressure, for once, has carried the day: NBC has announced that, due to popular demand, Betty White WILL host Saturday Night Live...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
10
 
 
It happened Wednesday morning on the "CBS Early Show". Co-anchor Harry Smith, promoting prevention and treatment of colorectal cancer, underwent what CBS billed as "First TV Anchor to Undergo Live TV Colonoscopy." Mabel, pass the doughnuts...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
9
 
 
Today on NPR's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross", I interview Vince Gilligan, the creator of AMC's fabulous, and delightfully unpredictable, drama series "Breaking Bad". It reminds me, all over again, why I love being associated with Fresh Air...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Mar
8
 
 
The number of Best Picture nominees was doubled, from five to 10. The running time expanded, too, with ABC's telecast running more than 30 minutes over schedule. So with Monday's Oscar telecast, if less is more, is more less? More or less...