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2010
Sep
16
 
 
Companies put so much time and money into their efforts to establish household names that it always amazes me when they turn around and destroy one. Not that it happens very often. But it's going to happen this Friday, when the final episode of the venerable CBS soap opera As the World Turns will be telecast...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
16
 
 
Next week is the busiest, most premiere-crammed fall TV launch in many, many years. ABC, CBS, NBC and ABC all are rolling out a majority of their top guns, beginning Monday, in hopes of generating both buzz and viewership. But on broadcast TV, the most excitement, by far, comes from the returning shows. That's not to say that there's nothing from the broadcast networks this year that's both brand new and great...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
16
 
 
Disgusting, offensive filth! That's what Turner Classic Movies spotlights on Friday night. Movies so vile, they were condemned! In the 1950s, that is...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
15
 
 
In what amounts to the first nearly unanimous vote of the 2010 fall season, nine critics here at TV WORTH WATCHING have delivered the same verdict regarding Outlaw, Jimmy Smits' new legal drama on NBC. Pending appeal, the verdict is: Don't bother. But there is ONE dissenting opinion...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
15
 
 
Outlaw's premise remains preposterous, but now at least merits an asterisk. That's because its second episode is so markedly better than Wednesday night's premiere preview (10 p.m. ET), which follows the high wattage season finale of NBC's America's Got Talent...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
14
 
 
If ever there was a good year to stop being a full-time TV critic, this is it...I've watched just about all the pilots for the new fall shows and loved exactly one -- Fox' show about a Texas con artist, Lone Star. When I told this to a former big city critic who also has become a blogger, he responded that he didn't even like Lone Star all that much...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
13
 
 
"The Fountainhead", the 1949 film adaptation of Ayn Rand's 1943 novel about modern architecture on trial, is televised tonight at 9 ET by TCM. At one time, it was every architecture student's introduction to the profession -- and moral compass, and crack-cocaine equivalent...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
13
 
 
Next week will mark the busiest fall TV season opening week in years, with ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox all rolling out an aggressive schedule of season premieres and new shows. But this week, as the countdown to the 2010-11 TV season gets nearer to launch, there's STILL a lot going on...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
13
 
 
Does it seem like commercial breaks are getting longer? Like the show itself may never "be right back after this message"? You're not imagining things...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Sep
13
 
 
No, not fresh finales. Last May's finales. But that's okay. Watching them again will refresh your memory for the new seasons starting next week. Prime among them: House and Glee...