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New Kid in Town
CBS' Kid Nation emerges as one of the most interesting shows of the fall TV season.
Tags: TV, Kid Nation
Quarterlife Crisisnew
A portrait of contemporary twentysomethings (and an orgy of self-reference), quarterlife is a failed network pilot that found new life on the internet as not just a web-ivision show, but also a real-life social-networking website (quarterlife.com).
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
11-28-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Roped In by 'The Roping Show'new
Watching the show on RFD-TV is a little like catching a Japanese game show or a four-hour Mexican variety show -- it's funny because we really don't understand it.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
11-20-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
The Muslim Amos 'n' Andy?new
CBC's Little Mosque on the Prairie and The CW's Aliens in America represent a giant step forward in media imagery: These are not your 24-type Muslims.
Metro Times |
Jim McFarlin |
11-20-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Back to the 'Futurama'
Four years after Fox left it for dead, Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's Futurama has a new life.
Tags: TV
Tila Tequila Terrifies Menew
Tila Tequila's ass-ets and what's really scary about this former Pants Off Dance Off phenom turned MTV love object.
Boston Phoenix |
Sharon Steel |
11-15-2007 |
TV
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The Dull and the Kinkynew
With Tell Me You Love Me and Californication, HBO and Showtime offer two takes on erotica with one thing in common: neither is very sexy.
Chicago Reader |
Lee Sandlin |
11-12-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Lowering the Stakesnew
As networks try to recreate cult-followed fantasy and sci-fi shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the new shows are derivative and, worse, dreadful to mediocre.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
11-09-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
'30 Rock' Fills the Gap Left By 'Arrested Development'new
Tina Fey's 30 Rock has gladly filled the huge, gaping void that too-brilliant-to-last show left behind.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Craig D. Lindsey |
11-05-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
A Man's Castle is His Cavenew
DIY Network's Man Caves encourages men not only to have their own tricked-out rooms, but to acquire them in the manliest way possible -- by building with their own two hands.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Alli Katz |
11-05-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Keeping God Out of the Classroom
NOVA explores the court case that decided "intelligent design" has no place in public schools in Judgment Day.
Tags: TV
The Worst of the Fall Seasonnew
Early fall is an exciting, disappointing time to be a TV fan. The best new shows won't show their true luster for weeks, but the worst are already totally obvious in their horribleness.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
10-31-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
BBC America's 'Torchwood' Keeps Sci-Fi Sexynew
In case you haven't heard, Bionic Woman bites -- meanwhile, out in the unfashionable backwaters of cable, another new fantasy series is showing NBC how it should've been done.
New York Press |
Tray Butler |
10-25-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Remember When Bobby Brown Mattered?new
Brown is so desperate for TV exposure he'll giddily air his nasty laundry (Being Bobby Brown), or compete to make it as a country singer, as he's doing on CMT's upcoming series, Gone Country.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
10-24-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
