SEASON FINALE: Last season, this series ended with a cliffhanger so dramatic, especially for a comedy, that it took me by surprise. Tonight’s season ender has its surprises, too – and its twists, including the jealous announcement by Carol (Kathleen Rose Perkins), the mistress of John Pankow’s TV executive Merc, that Merc’s blind wife is having an affair – with Matt LeBlanc, the star of one of Merc’s shows. We viewers have known that all along, but watch what

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1996: THE WB INTRODUCES THE FAMILY DRAMA '7TH HEAVEN' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1996, fledgling network The WB expanded its limited programming schedule with the debut of the family drama 7th Heaven...

2012

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1994: ABC DEBUTS 'MY SO-CALLED LIFE' By Christy Slewinski

This day in 1994 marked the debut of the critically-acclaimed drama, My So-Called Life...

2012

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INDIANAPOLIS COLTS VS. WASHINGTON REDSKINS By David Bianculli

It’s only a pre-season game, but this one will feature the two top players in the most recent NFL draft – both of them quarterbacks, and taking the field today as pro rookies trying to learn, and strut, their stuff. The Indianapolis Colts, who got the first pick in April’s 2012 draft, selected Andrew Luck from Stanford, and the Washington Redskins, picking next, chose Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III from Baylor. Today, for the first time, they take the field in the sam

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A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3-D CHRISTMAS By David Bianculli

Not to get all Shakespearean on you, but 2-D or not 2-D, that is the question. When this latest film in the Harold & Kumar franchise was released last year, it was in 3-D, with several gags making intentional fun of the visual, exploitable gimmick. In any number of dimensions, however, these films are more entertaining than you might expect – kind of like Bing Crosby and Bob Hope road movies for a new generation. John Cho and former House regular Kal Penn star, and yes, there’s a

2012

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THE DESTINATIONS OF DOCTOR WHO By David Bianculli

BBC America couldn’t milk Doctor Who any more vigorously if it were a swollen-uddered cow. For the second week in a row, there’s a new Doctor Who special – last time on his female companions, this time on his various time-travel locales. But next week, finally, the new season of Doctor Who begins. I wish I had a Tardis to take me there now, so I wouldn’t have to wait a week, and sit through yet another promotional highlights-and-interviews compilation.

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MIDNIGHT IN PARIS By David Bianculli

I said this was one of my “spider-web” movies, and I meant it. And made in 2011, it may be the most recent one. Every time I watch, I look to enjoy something different. This time, I think, it’ll be Kathy Bates and Cory Stoll, as Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. What fantastically perfect performances, in small but invaluable supporting roles.

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LARRY WILMORE'S RACE, RELIGION & SEX By David Bianculli

The “senior black correspondent” for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart gets his own Showtime standup showcase – and does it in Salt Lake City, Utah, where the setting alone, deep in Mormon country, is funny fodder for a comedian of the non-white persuasion. “Funny,” Wilmore says, referring to the local residents, “they don’t like it when I ring their doorbells.”

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REMEMBERING NEIL ARMSTRONG, THE BIGGEST TV STAR OF 1969 By Bill Brioux

I saw Armstrong take his odd little hop/leap off the last step of the lunar module ladder…the image on the 19-inch screen was black and white and fuzzy and still we all thought it was a miracle...

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MOYERS & COMPANY By David Bianculli

On this weekend’s program, Bill Moyers presides over a report on “Nuns, Faith and Politics” – just in time to serve as a prelude to next weeks Republican National Convention. Moyers & Company airs from Friday to Sunday on local public TV stations; to find it in your local area, click the Moyers website’s schedule page.

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