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2012
Sep
9
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: For the season opener, Seth Green and company got the green light (or the Green Lantern) from DC Comics to do a special episode based on the company’s iconic comic-book characters, in stop-action lunatic fun. Voices include Paul Reubens as the Riddler, Megan Fox as Lois Lane and Seth Green himself as Aquaman.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
9
 
 
On this day in 1975, ABC introduced the situation comedy Welcome Back Kotter...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
9
 
 
The X Factor and The Voice both return this week, with NBC scheduling a three-night Voice event that, on Wednesday, airs opposite X Factor's season premiere...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
9
 
 
As Larry David pointed out on Thursday's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, maybe we're not better off than we were four years ago, but hey, things are less bad than they could have been.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
8
 
 
This particular “spider-web” movie — my term for a movie that ensnares you whenever you see it on TV — really ought to be called a “fishnet film.”  No matter: Here it is again, and here I am again. Steven Spielberg’s 1975 waterlogged masterpiece has just been released in a stunningly clear new Bu-Ray version. We’re gonna need a bigger TV set…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
8
 
 
This day in 1966 marked the debut of Star Trek — later known as Star Trek: The Original Series to differentiate the show from its many TV and film spinoffs — on NBC...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
8
 
 
Yesterday afternoon, Victoria Azorenko fought off first-set jitters, and an initially overpowering Maria Sharapova, to emerge victoriously in a tough three-set semifinal, putting her against Serena Williams in tonight’s prime-time women’s final. Williams, of course, was here last year — but she lost, in a surprising upset, and ought to hit the court tonight with her racket blazing. (Tune in earlier, at 12 p.m. ET, to see coverage of men's semifinals.)
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
8
 
 
On the same night a rival network is showing Steven Spielberg’s Jaws from 1975, TNT is presenting his Oscar-winning WWII epic filmed 13 years later. What range. What talent. And, with Ryan, what a cast: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Paul Giamiatti, Ted Danson and Tom Sizemore star.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
8
 
 
Tonight’s episode is titled Dinosaurs on a Spaceship. I don’t know any more about it, but I don’t need to. It sounds perfect. And this comes from a guy who never fell under the pre-hype high-concept spell of Snakes on a Plane.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
8
 
 
This TLC documentary was originally televised last year, on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It tells of what happened on the 88th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade center, and the efforts of people outside — and especially inside — the building to save as many lives as possible. Three days before another 9/11 anniversary, it’s a grim but good reminder.