**SPOILER ALERT!** DO NOT READ IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED ON THE MAD MEN SEASON 6 PREMIERE! If you read that interview with Matt Weiner in the New York Times, you already know that he basically flipped a coin when it came to the premiere, as he was required to do...
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Beginning at 3am last night, Netflix went live with the entire first season of their biggest original series to date, the slow-burning political thriller House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright and Kate Mara. In a wild departure from the history of television as we’ve known it since it began, all 13 episodes of...
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WUCF plans to air a sneak preview of the first 60 minutes of the Season 3 premiere in the park, which is seriously an almost too apropos way to indulge in the return of the award-winning series.
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David Chang, the much-written-about New York chef who spearheaded the insane popularity of ramen, pork belly and crack pie in America, has a 16-episode series on PBS called “The Mind of a Chef,” in which he tools around with Anthony Bourdain through Japan, Norway and Spain, eating noodles and octopus and kimchi and rotten...
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Maybe it is time for a Wanda Sykes renaissance?
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And we – uh, we mean you – will finally have a chance to exploit your unhealthy relationship with pop culture and Broadway shows.
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Stanhope’s audacious outbursts cut with a sense of purpose, even if that purpose is to prove that life is mostly comprised of little, ridiculous suicides.
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And now, Jim Kirk won’t be the only star captain who has recently appeared on the big screen.
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Breakthrough Theatre adds its own spin to the beloved sitcom with the full-staged production The Real Live Brady Bunch.
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I hadn’t planned on writing anything about the finale of House that aired Monday night to mixed reviews. For one thing, I didn’t watch it until later that night because I was watching hockey. Also true is that, despite an apparently changing wind that has stirred everyone but me, I don’t really like TV....
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Tags: Bob Newhart, David Chase, David Shore, Ed O'Neil, Fox, Goodfellas, House, Hugh Laurie, James Gandolphini, Jerry Seinfeld, Katy Segal, Larry David, M*A*S*H, Married with Children, The Sopranos, The West Wing, The Wonder Years, TV
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