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2011
Sep
17
 
 
The following is a rant. Because it is for a civilized website, I will do my best to keep it polite. But this is one idiocy, plucked from television's large army of dimwitted efforts, that makes me especially irritated. It has to do with cooking shows -- and the high cost of certain elite ingredients...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
15
 
 
The new fall season is looming, but some of my favorite shows of the summer have just ended, either until next year, or forever. And all of them -- including True Blood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Damages, even Entourage -- concluded their seasons very, very nicely...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
14
 
 
Even with ABC's abysmal Charlie's Angels remake and other insipid new shows, CW's H8R, premiering Wednesday night at 8 ET, is an early lock as the worst new show of the 2011 fall TV season. Its premise is to identify someone who has posted snarky, nasty things about a particular celebrity, then dispatch that celebrity to ambush the "hater" and, by charming them and revealing their true selves...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
14
 
 
Most pseudo-celebrities just can't get enough of themselves. Marching straight to the head of that class is Dallas-born Jake Pavelka, the pilot turned "fame whore" in the words of fellow fame whore Vienna Girardi...Now comes The CW's new H8R (short for "Hater"), where Wednesday's opening episode finds -- pause, one-two -- the ubiquitous Pavelka and fellow "reality" show creation Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi confronting commoners who think they're garbage...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
12
 
 
The first new television series of the 2011 fall TV season are unveiled this week -- and just in time, the team at TV WORTH WATCHING is weighing in... big time. Expect valuable guidance when we steer you towards the best new offerings -- and some fast jabs and potent punch lines when we don't...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
11
 
 
Boardwalk Empire has 7 Emmys already, a week before this year's Primetime Emmy Awards are handed out on Fox Sept. 18. How so? Saturday night's Creative Arts Emmys ceremony -- the annual precursor honoring behind-the-camera work in "crafts" categories like casting, costuming and sound...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
10
 
 
Television offers significant 10th-anniversary 9/11 coverage in both the morning and evening hours on Sunday. Morning events, live, are keyed to the moments 10 years ago when terrorists, and tragedy, struck in three locations across the country. There are evening events, too -- some live, others taped and filmed. And for those who seek fictional, entertaining alternatives to 9/11, TV hasn't forgotten about you, either. The best of both worlds Sunday? Here's where to look...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
9
 
 
Another new fall season is nigh. But is excitement running high? There's rhyme and reason leading into this basic deduction. If you're hooked up to cable or a satellite dish, then the possibilities are sky high. If not, the new offerings by the five broadcast networks again are mostly nothing to run home about...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
8
 
 
Friday night on HBO, Mel Brooks sits down with Dick Cavett to tell jokes, swap stories and regale a theater audience of nearly 2,000 appreciative fans with tales of his life and friends in show business. He did the same earlier this week with TVWW...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2011
Sep
8
 
 
Early on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, life stirred in the television department at the New York Daily News, pretty much as it had every workday since Dave Bianculli and I had become colleagues more than eight years earlier. As we soon learned, every workday after that would be different from those that had come before...