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TV Ratings: Winners ("NCIS," "Once Upon a Time") and Losers (The World Series, "Happy Endings")
The 2012-13 television season just finished up its fifth week, and for the first time this season NBC did not lead in the 18-49 demographic, and CBS didn't lead in viewers. Instead, Fox did -- but it was likely a World Series-influenced fluke, and one that could have been more impressive. ...
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The Beauty of Limitations: Indie Filmmakers Talk Learning to Work Within the TV System
Speaking at a panel moderated by Filmmaker Magazine's Scott Macaulay at the New York Television Festival's Development Day this past weekend, Jack Lechner, the executive producer of indies like "Blue Valentine" and "Smile 'Til It Hurts: The Up with People Story&q...
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Citizen B: The Legacy of Silvio Berlusconi's TV Empire
"People have willingly lobotomized themselves with the aid of TV, we are living in a landscape of enormous fictions of which television is the supplier. Reality is now a kind of huge advertising campaign selling television's image of what life is about. A politician's lies are the ...
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5 Best Things to Watch on TV This Week: Ole Miss, Monty Python and The First Openly Gay Bishop
Sure, Sunday is incredibly overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Homeland," "The Walking Dead," "Boardwalk Empire," "The Good Wife," "Treme" and "Dexter," but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy...
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How Much Controversy Does the Weinsteins' 'SEAL Team Six' Actually Merit?
The Weinstein Company's "SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden" premieres on the National Geographic Channel on Sunday, November 4th, marking the first foray into an original scripted film for a network previously associated with nature programming. It's also a new brush with ...
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5 Best Things to Watch on TV This Week: Murderous Alcoholics, Werner Herzog and a 'Munsters' Reboot
Sure, Sunday is incredibly overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Homeland," "The Walking Dead," "Boardwalk Empire," "The Good Wife," "Treme" and "Dexter," but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy...
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Remembering 'A Man Called Hawk' - The Coolest Brother On TV
Tonight I got into a conversation with some friends about old TV shows from the past that we really liked and I bought up A Man Called Hawk. You remember him don't you? A brother so cool that he could literally drive a car at night with tinted windows with shades on. Now THAT'S one...
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5 Best Things to Watch on TV This Week: Meryl Streep's Daughter and a 'Weekend' Star in Period Costuming
Sure, Sunday is incredibly overcrowded with high-end TV, including "Homeland," "The Walking Dead," "Boardwalk Empire," "The Good Wife," "Treme" and "Dexter," but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy...
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Second Screen: The Future of TV, or The Latest Sign of Our Shrinking Attention Spans?
Maybe it should be expected that TV is embracing socializing instead of discouraging distraction. So while some may view the current developments in second screen TV apps with surprise, the truth is that they're really a logical continuation in the direction the medium has always pointed toward.
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...With a Modern-Day Twist! Nine Classics TV is Dragging into the Present
Lately, there seems to be no easier shortcut to a TV series than taking a classic novel, character or tale and giving it a contemporary twist -- plus bonus points if the source material is in the public domain.
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