Hoping to cash in on Sunday's Super Bowl audience and momentum, NBC is employing one trick after another. One trick is presenting a special one-hour edition of "The Office" after the Super Bowl post-game show, and the other is promoting and presenting a special 3-D episode of "Chuck" on Monday...

2009

Jan

KATIE COURIC AS READY-FOR-PRIME-TIME PLAYER By David Bianculli

Wednesday's prime-time edition of "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" was the first volley in a three-part prime-time salvo aimed at heightening her profile in the next 10 days. Next Wednesday, she hosts a special prime-time interview special keyed to the Grammys. Then, a week from Sunday on "60 Minutes"...

2009

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TV WORTH BUYING: 'GET SMART' DEAL By Diane Werts

Great price on Amazon's deal of the day -- Don Adams' 1960s spy spoof Get Smart, an enduring comic treat from writers Mel Brooks (pre-feature films) and Buck Henry (pre-Saturday Night Live), with mod icon Barbara Feldon playing savvy Agent 99 to Adams' silly Agent 86...

2009

Jan

COSTELLO'S QUADRUPLE 'SPECTACLE' By Diane Werts

If you haven't seen Elvis Costello's smart Sundance Channel interview/ performance series Spectacle, here's a great chance to catch up...

2009

Jan

"CBS EVENING NEWS" MAKES IT A LATER EVENING -- WHY NOT? By David Bianculli

Tonight at 8 ET, in what's called a one-night experiment, "The CBS Evening News" with Katie Couric is presenting a special prime-time edition. What's wrong with that? Not much... but there is something...

2009

Jan

TNT'S "TRUST ME" IS NO MODERN "MAD MEN" -- OR UPDATED "THIRTYSOMETHING," EITHER By David Bianculli

TNT's newest series, "Trust Me," premieres tonight at 10 ET. It's set in the world of advertising, and thus, in theory, aspires to be a modern "Mad Men" or an updated "thirtysomething." In practice, though, it's more like another "Knight Rider"...

2009

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ONE TV QUESTION POSED, ONE TV PRESS TOUR SECRET REVEALED By David Bianculli

Today I have a question to ask, as well as one to answer. The one to ask concerns Fox's House -- and the one I've been dared to answer involves something that happened to me on press tour some, sigh, 30 years ago. And I've decided, in this instance, it's high time to come clean...

2009

Jan

TALK TALK: INSIDE THE COMEDY STUDIO By Diane Werts

Conan O'Brien is the latest James Lipton interviewee/victim on Inside the Actors Studio on Bravo...But not before Lipton grills/sucks up to a whole bunch of other funny folks in a Monday daytime marathon...

2009

Jan

TAPE THIS: 'PROFIT' IN ITS ENTIRETY FRIDAY By Diane Werts

Sorry for the late heads-up, but I just noticed Chiller is airing Adrian Pasdar's entire kinky Profit series Friday...

2009

Jan

THINK AGAIN: TUNE BACK IN TO 'ER' By Diane Werts

ER doesn't often intersect with Monty Python, but a strange connection came to me watching last Thursday's fresh NBC episode. Like the guy being dragged off by the plague corpse collectors in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, this hospital drama is "not dead yet"...

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