Sure looks seductive, doesn't it? "Magic City," Starz' sleek big-money look back at circa-'60 Miami Beach, gets a sneak peek this Friday. That's at 11 p.m. ET, after the season finale of "Spartacus: Vengeance," into whose 10 p.m. time slot "Magic City" slides the following week. - DW

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AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

Well, we don’t have Erika Van Pelt around any more – the blonde who went brunette for Billy Joel week, but was ousted despite her one-woman extreme makeover. So now it’s another live two-hour performance show – and then, tomorrow, another show where Jimmy Iovine assesses the performances bluntly, while the “real” judges play verbal versions of "duck and cover."

2012

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GYPSY By David Bianculli

You gotta get a gimmick, and in this 1962 movie version of the famous stage musical, Natalie Wood plays the child performer who grows up to be infamous burlesque stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, after a lifetime of being pushed into and around show biz by her overbearing mother, Rose (Rosalind Russell). Think of it, if you like, as Toddlers and Tiaras: The Musical.

2012

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ROCK CENTER WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS By David Bianculli

One of tonight’s reports looks at the currently ubiquitous practice of negative political advertising – who generates it, who pays for it, and who approves it. The segment’s title is a good one: “Let There Be Mud.”

2012

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SOUTH PARK By David Bianculli

How can you mine any excitement, much less comedy, out of a grade-school filmstrip? In tonight’s new South Park, you do it by speeding up the process of evolution, so that there’s a mutant-type new life form running around South Park. And actually, there’s more than one…

2012

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WHITECHAPEL By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Last season, this modern-day British detective series made headlines by revisiting them – and examining a serial killer who borrowed heavily from the historical crimes and legacy of Jack the Ripper. To open this second season, Whitechapel unearths another old case with apparent ties to a current crime spree. This time, the case is the Ratcliff Highway murders of 1812, where killings took place behind closed doors – an unusual event at the time, when most murders were

2012

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NEWSIES By David Bianculli

This movie musical, based on a work stoppage by New York City newsboys in 1899, is 20 years old now – but has just been turned into the newest Broadway musical by the folks at Disney. So it’s worth a peek for that reason alone – but also because the film features the breakout role of its young star, Christian Bale.

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CAPE FEAR By David Bianculli

Robert Mitchum is the prime-time star saluted by TCM tonight, in a double feature that shows his range, and, more than anything else, his charismatic screen presence. In this 1962 movie, he’s an ex-convict who targets the lawyer responsible for his conviction – and as menacing as Robert De Niro was in Martin Scorsese’s intense 1991 remake of this film, Mitchum is even scarier in the original. Even Gregory Peck, who cuts a fairly commanding screen presence himself, looks underst

2012

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FRONTINE: "MURDOCH'S SCANDAL" By David Bianculli

Lowell Bergman, one of the finest and most tenured reporters in the Frontline stable, takes on a much larger media icon in this new documentary about the behind-the-scenes efforts to uncover the News Corporation phone hacking scandal. Think of it as a British Watergate, but one whose ripples spread cross the Atlantic quickly and easily: What did Rupert Murdoch know, and when did he know it?

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JUSTIFIED By David Bianculli

Last week, Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) botched his day in court, leaving Dickie Bennett free to roam – and Boyd determined to find and kill him. And that’s not the only killer on the loose this week, as two of Quarles’ associates from Detroit head to town – and cause Raylan, before long, to draw his weapon.

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