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The Week: Television |
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EDITED BY JOHN LEONARD |
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Sideline Blowhards
BY JOHN LEONARD
In all the hot air that swirls around TV
sports, only one show does more
than simply trot out jocks and jerks. |
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 Feature
Repeat After Me
BY ADAM STERNBERGH
Catchphrases are the new punch lines. |
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Watch This Instead
BY JOHN LEONARD
For those of you overmedicated on reruns of Jimmy Stewart, Charlie Brown, and yet another version of
A Christmas Carol, here’s some alternate holiday viewing. |
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The Cultural Elite: TV
Six Feet Under croaked, Doogie Howser was reborn (he’s the new Chandler!), and Jon Stewart kept doing what he does best, except now with an 11:30 sidekick. But this year the biggest news in TV was less about what people were watching than where they were watching it—namely, everywhere, including right beside you on the subway. |
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Intelligencer
Dearly Departed Chappelle
Comedy Central plans wake for show.
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Bodies in Motion
Can you flirt over a corpse? Bones is a sexed-up CSI, a romantic comedy buried in a cop procedural.
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There Goes the Neighborhood
Sleeper Cell proves an unspoken truth about terrorists: They’re just not that fun to hang out with.
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 Postpone the Funeral
Everyone's been declaring the sitcom dead—just in time for a season where the best new shows are comedies. |
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 Arch Rivals
David Spade and Stephen Colbert are the Goofus and Gallant of Comedy Central. So why is Goofus’s show better? |
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 The Case for Cold Case
CBS’s haunting hit is TV’s best cop show, with a grandeur and grace that approach the operatic. |
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 Turn On. Tune In. Take Over.
Viewers, light your torches! The television
revolution is at the gates. |
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 Shrewd Awakening
Kim Cattrall spins her HBO mojo into a message of sexual empowerment. Hey, there
are worse ways to get typecast. |
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 Conan on the Couch
Does comedy’s crown prince need a whole new shtick? |
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