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2012
Sep
18
 
 
Joy and Crosby are married now, but that doesn’t mean it’s a marriage of pure Joy. Tonight, the couple decides to adopt some new rules to make their marriage work more smoothly. Good luck with that.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
18
 
 
In last week’s season premiere, Jimmy Smits created such a terrific character — as an outcall pimp with class — that you instantly wanted to see more of him. Tonight, you will, as Gemma (Katey Sagal) not only seeks him out again, but asks a favor that gets him involved with the Sons.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
18
 
 
A spate of new judges for Fox's American Idol — and NBC's The Voice — raises questions of high ratings import for these top dog talent competitions and others...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
Once again, our annual TVWW Fall TV preview feature is up and running — but for 2012, we’re adding something new to the package: You…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
There's no curling up with a documentary about the Civil War and its death toll. But this riveting retelling of events will make you watch and give you new understanding for the struggle and the progress that grew out of that suffering...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: As we pick up the story, Brennan (Emily Deschanel has been on the run for three months, hiding from everyone including Booth (David Boreanaz) — and she’s blonde. But before the season-opening hour is up, all that will change.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
The blind auditions continue. NBC has stretched them out to almost absurd lengths this year — but why not? They’re the best part of the show — as well as the secret weapon in maintaining supremacy over Fox’s The X Factor.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
Part 1 of 6. Encore launches its miniseries revival with one of the best: NBC’s 1980 masterpiece starring Richard Chamberlain, based on the novel by James Clavell. Toshiro Mifune and Yoko Shimada co-star, in this fascinating, refreshingly intelligent story of a 17th-century British sea captain whose ship is beached off the Japanese coast — and who finds himself at the mercy of an utterly alien society and its seemingly unfathomable rulers. Watch the first 20 minutes, and I guara
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: The biggest name behind the scenes here, J.J. Abrams, generates the biggest hopes for this series, but its pilot is much less than a Lost-like slam dunk. For one thing, Tracy Spiridakos’ teen heroine is an arrow-wielding toughie straight from The Hunger Games. For another, even in a show with such a high concept at its core — the power goes off, and never comes back on — the notes of incredulity are deafening. When she goes to find her uncle in the bl
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
17
 
 
One of my son Mark’s favorite spider-web movies — and, I have to admit, one of mine, too. And it’s amazing, after I introduce my film history students to the choreographed insanity of Busby Berkeley, how many of them mention the drug-trip bowling-alley sequence in Lebowski as a modern nod to something they didn’t know existed. Dude!