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01/08/2009

On TV: Hoping for change? Then don’t watch ‘24’
The zeitgeist is a fickle mistress.

U.S. TV networks plan their coverage of historic inauguration
With less than two weeks to go until a historic presidential inauguration, the nation’s television networks are finalizing ambitious coverage plans, but the camera platforms will be more crowded than usual.

After a bleak 2008, TV viewers can hope for a balmy new beginning
The nation’s TV critics gather this week in Los Angeles to see what goodies await them at the start of a new year, after a brutal 2008 when many of their newspaper colleagues lost their jobs, their winter meeting was canceled, and their pens dripped with venom because so many shows were so bad.

Documentary focuses on Lithuanian resistance to Soviet control
Adolf Hitler’s mad plan to exterminate the Jews of Europe during the darkest days of World War II is by now well known to most Americans thanks to books, feature films and documentaries.

01/06/2009

Near-death ‘Scrubs’ gets a miracle cure
Scrubs, the surrealist hospital sitcom that spent seven seasons as a stepchild of NBC’s schedule, has come close to cancellation more times than its creator, Bill Lawrence, cares to remember. So it’s a surprise, even for Lawrence, that the show is getting to write its own ending.

01/05/2009

Cheryl Tiegs believes beauty is only skin deep
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — “Pretty is as pretty does” is an old adage one rarely hears these days. But supermodel Cheryl Tiegs still believes it. And she lives it.

01/03/2009

Midseason TV: Winter is the new fall
Are you ready for a prime-time do-over? Network programmers certainly hope so.

01/02/2009

New Year’s resolutions could give us better TV in ’09
’Tis the season to promise ourselves that we’ll do better.

01/01/2009

BET, TV One plan big inauguration coverage
BET and TV One, the television networks aimed primarily at a black audience, haven’t paid much attention to presidential inaugurations before. This time will be different.

Politicians more at ease on late-night TV
It proved to be more than a joke when David Letterman said in late September that “the road to the White House runs through me.”

12/31/2008

The best, and worst, of TV in 2008
HOLLYWOOD — It was a strange and shape-shifting year for television — the screen went flat, in more ways than one.

New reality show: ‘Homeland Security USA’
LOS ANGELES — Ratings champion American Idol will face serious competition when it returns next month: the Department of Homeland Security.

12/28/2008

Update 2008: Silvas still awestruck by Extreme Makeover home
“We’ll be making Christmas cookies this year, and that’s a first, because there just wasn’t room to do that in our old house,” Doreen Silva, of Warwick, said.

12/25/2008

SNL alum Molly Shannon loves being half of Kath & Kim
Years ago, Molly Shannon got her hands on a few episodes of the Australian comedy Kath & Kim, complete with a hearty guarantee.

Tina Benko keeps ‘Brotherhood’ role real
If you’ve watched Showtime’s Brotherhood, set in the closely aligned political and criminal worlds of Providence, you’ve seen Tina Benko’s tense face. And you won’t soon forget it. As the girlfriend of Michael Caffee, the thug played by Jason Isaacs, she has brought the kind of raw local realism that Amy Ryan brought to the movie Gone Baby Gone — even though Benko is Pittsburgh-born and New York-based. Her Brotherhood character, Kath Parry, is currently flirting with Michael’s cousin, which is the equivalent of flirting with disaster.

Documentary shows R.I. teens helping kids in Jamaica
Perfectly timed for seasonal inspiration on this Christmas Day, Channel 10 will present the documentary Teens on a Mission at 5 p.m. today.

12/21/2008

Andy Smith: I thought I’d said ‘goodbye’ to my 2001 appearance on the game show ‘The Weakest Link!’
Fame seven years late is still fame. Right?

12/18/2008

Hugh Jackman, ‘sexy’ song and dance man, to host Academy Awards ceremony
LOS ANGELES — He sings, dances, acts on stage and screen, and he’s the “Sexiest Man Alive.” Hugh Jackman does everything but standup comedy — and that’s why the first-time Oscars host fulfills the academy’s promise to shake up the show in a way that’s as tough to predict as the winners.

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