We'd say the latest postings from our TVWW columnists have hit a home run -- except that one of these new must-reads is about football. Of course, it's also about transgression and redemption, as reflected in Michael Vick's record-setting on-field performance at the same time a new book about his dogs demands our attention. Another great column recalls the Who Shot JR? mania of 30 years ago this week...

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WHEN COMEDY GETS LAUGHS FOR THE WRONG REASONS By Alan Pergament

It was hard not to laugh this week when NBC announced its midseason schedule would continue its Thursday night of comedy past 10 p.m. ET, by pushing back Tina Fey's Emmy-winning 30 Rock and the freshman series "Outsourced". After all, one of the jokes in the previous weekend's PBS special honoring Fey with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor concerned how low the ratings for 30 Rock have been...

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'IDOL' MOVES TO WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY By Ed Bark

American Idol's weekly results shows will get a Thursday night berth for the first time as part of a Fox midseason lineup that also includes five new series, all but one of them scripted. Idol, which will deploy new judges Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler plus some format changes, has been airing on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. But Season 10 inaugurates a Wednesday-Thursday shift...

2010

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UPDATE: STILL NO FERGUSON "DOCTOR WHO" MUSICAL NUMBER POSTED ON THE NET -- BUT AT LEAST THERE'S THIS... By David Bianculli

Several days after the last-second scrubbing of Craig Ferguson's much-rehearsed, much-anticipated musical opening to his Doctor Who special edition of CBS's "The Late Late Show", it still hasn't shown up on the Internet....TV WORTH WATCHING would be HAPPY to post the original number, by the way, if there's any way we could obtain it...

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LATE-NIGHT SURPRISES: SPRINGSTEEN SINGS, FERGUSON DOESN'T By David Bianculli

Tuesday night on late-night television, Craig Ferguson didn't sing, as he had promised to, on CBS -- but over on NBC, as Jimmy Fallon's guest, Bruce Springsteen did. Both the singing and the non-singing, as it turned out, involved a surprise...

2010

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'DANCING' WITH THE DUDS By Diane Werts

How about that, "Dancing With the Stars" fans? Brandy's gone, and Bristol stays. You might want to say goodbye to your No. 1-rated program now, too. It's going down the tubes. She can't dance. Yes, she can do the steps, and extend "her line," and do all other technical stuff required. But the girl has zero musicality on the floor...

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FLICK PICKS: THE BEST OF HOLLYWOOD By Diane Werts

After this week's Episode 3 of Turner Classic Movies' superb docuseries "Moguls & Movie Stars" (Monday at 8 p.m.) takes us through Hollywood's glorious 1920s, TCM delivers four renowned silent features. The gorgeous 1927 Oscar winner "Sunrise" (Nov. 15 at 9 p.m. ET) is followed by John Ford's sprawling western "The Iron Horse"...

2010

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WHEN IS A TV REVIEW OF A MOVIE WORSE THAN THE MOVIE COULD POSSIBLY BE? WHEN IT'S ON ABC "WORLD NEWS NOW" By David Bianculli

One of the bad things about being a television critic is having to work odd hours -- so little time, so much TV. Another of the bad things, an occupational hazard, is stumbling upon late-night horrors few people are awake to endure. I dealt with one this morning, on a super-late, or super-early, film review on ABC's World News Now...

2010

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STUDENT BLOG #6: THE APPEAL OF ZOMBIES, PRE-"WALKING DEAD" By David Bianculli

AMC has cancelled "Rubicon", its intellectual thriller about global conspiracies, but ordered a second season of "The Walking Dead", its other freshman series, which continues Sunday night at 10 ET. Why are spies executed, but zombies allowed to, uh, live? Our Rowan University student correspondent, Rich Greenhalgh, looks at "zombie appeal"...

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SEEING TV DIFFERENTLY, THROUGH THE EYES OF COLLEGE STUDENTS By David Bianculli

Most of the time, when I teach TV History and Appreciation to my students at New Jersey's Rowan University, one goal is to get them to imagine watching old television when it was new. But every once in a while, comparisons to TV old and new have me looking at today's television through THEIR eyes. It's a very different experience -- and recently, NBC's 30 Rockgave me that chance...

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