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    Lena Dunham’s Big Week: DGA Win, New Show and Entertainment Weekly Cover Story

    Things for Lena Dunham are showing absolutely no signs of slowing down—within the past week, she’s won a DGA, is developing a new show for HBO, is Entertainment Weekly’s cover girl and had a truly terrific episode of Girls air.  

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    Julia Ormond's First US TV Starring Role in Witches of East End for Lifetime

    Julia Ormond has had a varied and interesting career from roles in Legends of the Fall to David Lynch’s Inland Empire. Ormond has also had roles in many TV movies and miniseries and guest stints on shows like Nurse Jackie and Mad Men.

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    Lena Dunham Pushes Forward with Personal Shopping Memoir as Possible HBO Series

    EW and Interview cover girl Lena Dunham is pinching herself after back-to-back "Girls" wins at the Golden Globes, Directors Guild and even the Art Directors Guild. Her DGA speech included the classic line: "Steven Spielberg, I'm coming for you. Ben Affleck, I already came for you."

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    Thoughts On 'Betty & Coretta' After Its Premiere This Weekend?

    Objections from the families of both women aside, I watched about 30 minutes of it, and, I'm sorry folks, I just couldn't continue. There's a Lifetime movie aesthetic that just isn't for me, but clearly it works for some. I don't have the ratings/viewership numbers yet, but ...

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    Watch: A Sneak Preview of the Mid-Season Premiere of 'The Walking Dead'

    "The Walking Dead" is due to return with the back half of its third season on February 10th -- eight episodes that will also be the last hurrah for showrunner Glen Mazzara, who's set to move on from the high-rated, high-turnover zombie drama.

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    Agnieszka Holland's Moving New HBO Miniseries 'Burning Bush' Depicts a World Aflame

    Before HBO Europe came along and turned "Burning Bush" into its highest profile production, the idea for the miniseries, which received its international premiere at the 42nd Rotterdam Film Festival, was turned down by Czech television. Written by neophyte screenwriter Štěpán...

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    Advance Screening Of PBS Doc About Whitney Young - 'The Powerbroker' - In Chicago

    He's quite forgotten today, though there seems to be a lot of high schools across the country named in his honor. But I'm willing to bet that if you asked every student in all those schools and about 90% of the teachers, they would have no idea who Whitney Young was.

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    Alex Gibney on 'Mea Maxima Culpa,' Catholicism and Why Institutions Can't Be Trusted to Regulate Themselves

    The central visual in Alex Gibney's documentary "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence In The House of God" is one both powerful and distressing -- that of its subjects delivering their impassioned testimonials to the camera in eloquent sign language. They fought to bring to light the sexual abuse inflicted on ...

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    Black Talents In Front Of & Behind The Camera On 'House Of Cards' You May Want To Know...

    It's not a "black show" but it's a very good one, and I recommend you watch it - those with Netflix accounts (if you don't have a Netflix account, you'd have to sign up for one - it's only $8 a month - and check out the strong work that is House Of Cards, the on an...

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