This is getting ridiculous, this "Spoiler Alert" hypersensitivity. Now that VCRs and DVRs and DVDs have given everyone the opportunity to watch what they want to watch when they want to watch it, now some of them want to be protected from their enjoyment being spoiled before they DO watch it. Within limits, that makes sense But guess what, folks? There ARE limits...

2010

Sep

IN THE 'TENTH INNING' OF PBS'S 'BASEBALL,' KEN BURNS PITCHES SOME FRESH HISTORY By Mark Bianculli

Let me begin this article the way I imagine Ken Burns would want me to -- with some context. In 1993, William Jefferson Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States. In the Middle East, PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a peace agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. In Walpole, NH, and in New York City, filmmaker Ken Burns was putting the finishing touches on his definitive 18-hour documentary about America's pastime, Baseball. And in Philadelphia...

2010

Sep

HE'S KENNY BLEEPING POWERS! By Eric Gould

Eastbound & Down returns this Sunday (10:30 p.m. ET on HBO) with Danny McBride taking another turn as the obnoxious, washed-up major league pitcher who looks like he's getting another chance at pro ball in the Mexican league...

2010

Sep

SHOWTIME'S 'DEXTER' CONTINUES TO SLAY ME By David Bianculli

Sunday night is ridiculously rich for quality TV fans. AMC gives us Mad Men each week, with Breaking Bad waiting in the wings. HBO just ended True Blood, and started Boardwalk Empire. And Showtime, beginning this weekend, returns with another season of its brilliant Dexter. With options like this, who needs broadcast TV?...

2010

Sep

NBC FINALLY GETTING NEW LEADER By Diane Werts

What the zuck? Hard to believe, but Jeff Zucker is finally heading out at NBC. Out after the Leno-Conan-Leno Tonight Show debacle. The Leno prime time debacle. The NBC-ratings-in-the-toilet debacle(s). And none of that did it...

2010

Sep

WANNA SEE WILLIAM SHATNER'S ZUCCHINI? By Ed Bark

It really is a pain in the ass to correctly type the title of $#*! My Dad Says, which just as easily could be &%@! My Dad Says or even *&!$ My Dad Says. CBS also notes that some DVR search functions are "perplexed" by the title...

2010

Sep

ARE STEVEN TYLER AND JENNIFER LOPEZ RIGHT FOR 'AMERICAN IDOL'? By Ed Martin

The summer's worst-kept secrets were confirmed Wednesday: Long-time Aerosmith front-man and legendary party guy Steven Tyler and entertainment goddess Jennifer Lopez will replace Simon Cowell, Kara DioGuardi and Ellen DeGeneres next season at the American Idol judges' table...

2010

Sep

WHY ARE TV'S COURT JESTERS MAKING THE MOST SENSE? AND THE MOST NEWS? By David Bianculli

On Comedy Central, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are mounting a Washington, D.C. rally that may end up being one of the biggest political stories of the season. Meanwhile, on HBO, Bill Maher is making news by resurrecting old Politically Incorrect clips featuring current Tea Party heroine Christine O'Donnell. What's going on here? Why are our politically interested comics making more sense, and news, than anyone else around right now?

2010

Sep

SPOT ON: WORST COMMERCIALS VOTE By Diane Werts

Now here's a public-voted award I can get behind. Who can resist categories like Most Annoying Animated Spokesthing?

2010

Sep

'GALLOPING GOURMET,' REDIRECTED, HANDLES LIFE WITH CARE By Tom Brinkmoeller

Pace, as in the miles-per-hour context, always seems to have had a large role in the life of Graham Kerr. When he was in his 30s, in the late 1960s, he won over a very large number of viewers and pretty much invented a TV cooking form when he was known as "The Galloping Gourmet" and hosted a daily syndicated show of the same name...

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