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Posted February 13, 2013in On The Tube

Watch if you dare

‘Cult’ wants to kidnap and brainwash you “Cult” (Tuesday, 8 p.m., CW) offers one of the 2012-13 season’s most intriguing concepts. It’s a TV series about a TV series named “Cult.” The show-within-the-show portrays a creepy cult run by a psycho who kidnaps and brainwashes his followers. “Cult” has inspired

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Posted February 06, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts

TV’s search for truth

‘Touch’ finds the meaning of life in the number 318 If you love TV, you have to love its grand follies. These are the shows that throw caution to the wind to make really important statements about humanity. “Touch” is one of those shows. Kiefer Sutherland plays the father of

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Posted January 30, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts

Soviets in the suburbs

‘The Americans’ seeks to undermine our way of life We’ve seen many dramas about married couples living a lie in the suburbs, with tensions cracking the cheery façade. The lie in “The Americans,” however, is bigger than most. Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri Russell) are KGB agents passing as

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Posted January 23, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts

Fashionista in training

‘The Carrie Diaries; is a delightfully bad prequel to ‘Sex and the City’ “The Carrie Diaries” (Monday, 7 p.m., CW) is a prequel to “Sex and the City,” featuring a 16-year-old Carrie Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb) in place of Sarah Jessica Parker’s adult version. In 1984, Carrie obsesses on “finding her

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Posted January 16, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts

When English professors kill

‘The Following’ features the world’s most unlikely evildoer I’ve always argued that a Kevin Bacon performance is never without merit, no matter the production. But I’ve finally lost the argument with the premiere of “The Following” (Monday, 8 p.m., Fox), a horror series from Kevin Williamson of “Scream” fame. It’s

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Posted January 09, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts

Lena Dunham strikes again

The comedy phenom is on a roll with the second season of ‘Girls’ Part of me would love to be 26-year-old Lena Dunham: widely hailed as a comic genius when her series “Girls” premiered on HBO last year. Another part of me wouldn’t want to be Dunham at all: forced

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Posted January 02, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts

God bless America

Shirley MacLaine gives the Brits a run for their money in ‘Downton Abbey’ “Downton Abbey,” Masterpiece Classic’s period soap opera, returns amid post-World War I turmoil (Sunday, 8 p.m., PBS). Money troubles and personal crises abound in the grand country estate, requiring a stiff upper lip from both the aristocrats

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Posted December 26, 2012in On The Tube, Recent Posts

Wear and tear

Joan Rivers rips into 2012’s celebrity style in ‘Fashion Police’ Joan Rivers weighs in with a year-end fashion roundup on “Fashion Police” (Friday, 9 p.m., E!). Along with Giuliana Rancic, Kelly Osbourne and George Kotsiopoulos, Rivers will call out the best and worst of celebrity frocks, naming the “Fash-Hole” who’s

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Posted December 19, 2012in On The Tube, Recent Posts

Part-human, part-chimp

‘Project Nim’ tells a true tale of science gone wrong “Project Nim” (Thursday, 8 p.m., HBO) tells the story of a chimpanzee who was raised like a child in a misbegotten 1970s science experiment, then cruelly sent back into captivity. James Marsh’s absorbing documentary interviews the academics from Columbia University

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Posted December 12, 2012in On The Tube, Recent Posts

It’s getting better all the time

The Beatles’ ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ has improved with age  The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” is widely regarded as a failure, but “Magical Mystery Tour Revisited” (Friday, 8:30 p.m., PBS) gives it an overdue reconsideration. The documentary interviews Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Martin Scorsese, Terry Gilliam and those involved with the

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