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2012
Sep
13
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Rachel (Lea Michele) is trying to cut it at NYADA as this new season opens, but she’s having a tough time of it. This new program expects a high level of dance as well as musical ability, and Rachel’s new dance teacher is a tough firebrand. And she’s played by Kate Hudson — a reason to watch, right there, as the Almost Famous star shows off her own snazzy dance moves.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
13
 
 
The zombie-vampire-literature mashup trend is big right now, and tonight’s new episode of Face Off takes it to a new level: challenging its contestants to imagine zombiefied creatures from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!,” indeed…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
13
 
 
Part 2 of 3. Louie (Louis C.K.) gets shipped out to the West Coast, to be a guest of Jay Leno’s on The Tonight Show. And tonight, Leno himself makes an appearance — as a guest on Louie, playing himself. Just another meta episode from the year’s most inspired, original comedy.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
12
 
 
HBO and private driver app Uber are teaming up to give New Yorkers a taste of Boardwalk Empire-style luxury...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
12
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Part 3 of 3. If you can fight fire with fire, why not fight auditions with auditions, and judges with judges? In an effort to try and blunt tonight’s season premiere of Fox’s The X Factor, NBC has added a third installment to this week’s multi-night season premiere of its own celebrity-judged musical competition series, The Voice. (And for Simon Cowell's thoughts on The Voice's blunt efforts, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.)
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
12
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Part 1 of 2. For its second season, X Factor grand pooh-bah Simon Cowell has retained fellow host L.A. Reid, but otherwise cleared the decks to make room for two new female judges: young singer and tween TV star Demi Lovato and former pop-princess icon, Britney Spears. As kids, both Spears and Voice judge Christina Aguilera once co-starred on The New Mickey Mouse Club. Now their career paths cross again — this time as prime-time TV rivals.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
12
 
 
SERIES FINALE: It all ends tonight: The legal case pitting Patty (Glenn Close) against Ellen (Rose Byrne), the intricately interwoven story threads, and this ambitious, wonderful series itself, which began on FX in 2007 and ends tonight, five years later. Trust this excellent show to leave to final stones unturned, and to live up to the exhaustive, sinister threat of its VLA theme song: “When I get through with you / There won’t be anything left.”
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
12
 
 
Tonight’s entry in the epic Wagnerian opera focuses on the Wotan clan — specifically, on Wotan’s daughter, the original warrior princess: Brunnhilde, played by series co-host Deborah Voight. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
12
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: James Brown, Cris Collinsworth and Phil Simms are back for another new season of this long-running series, kicking off again (so to speak) after the NFL teams completed their first official week of the 2012 pro football season.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
12
 
 
On this day in 1954, CBS introduced the series, Lassie...