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Review: Luck

You get the feeling that Milch and Mann just want to show off what they know about horse racing. When one of Marcus's crew keeps screaming out during the big Pick Six race, "What's going on!?," he speaking for the audience.
HBO goes to the races
By JON GARELICK | January 27, 2012

Interview: A new world for the Coma junkies

Based on gustatory adventurer Joe Ricchio's cult foodie blog Portland Food Coma, Food Coma TV (foodcomatv.tumblr.com) has had a revelatory first season.
Awkward talks
By NICHOLAS SCHROEDER | January 06, 2012

Unsexiest Men '11: These Reality "stars" are Really Unsexy. For Real.

If we were to make a venn diagram of reality TV, er, personalities, they'd all fall into one of three categories: Insanely Hot and Vapid,...
By Alexandra Cavallo | December 15, 2011

Review: Being Elmo

Just in time for the release of The Muppet Movie on November 25 comes Constance Marks's look at the man behind the pilly-fabric Sesame Street character.
A moving portrait of an unheralded artist
By PETER KEOUGH | November 18, 2011

GoLocal takes a stab at TV

In a media marketplace that is too often timid, golocalprov stands out.
The Tubes
By DAVID SCHARFENBERG | October 28, 2011

Prohibition drinking game!

Leave it to Ken Burns and PBS to crash our romantic Boardwalk Empire fantasies with a scholarly five-and-a-half-hour, sepia-tinted tome about the rip-roaring Twenties.
Play along with the upcoming Ken Burns documentary
By CHRIS FARAONE | September 30, 2011

Review: District

With the fall television season beginning, it is worth remembering the best TV show of the last decade: NBC's Las Vegas . Man, that show was good.
District is hard to classify, but hard to go wrong
By BRIAN DUFF | September 30, 2011

Is Boardwalk Empire about to enter its golden age?

Dispel any remaining doubts. The new season (which begins this Sunday at 9 pm on HBO) unfolds with a new leisurely, cinematic grandeur.
Easy livin'
By JON GARELICK | September 23, 2011

Fall TV Preview

What to expect from the tube come autumn.
Big Fat Whale
By BRIAN MCFADDEN | September 02, 2011

Best of El Planeta 2011

Choosing a side in the ongoing Boca Grande vs. Anna's Taqueria vs. Chipotle vs. Qdoba burrito war is a great step toward figuring out your...
By Katie Lannan | August 12, 2011

My misbegotten creative career

Vo Dilanduhs know R.J. Heim, the veteran Channel 10 meteorologist and news reporter, as a charismatic and engaging fellow but, primarily, as a local weatherman.
Still waiting for Slugot; fan feedback; Gatorgate
By RUDY CHEEKS | August 05, 2011

The 7 most insane clauses in MTV's Real World contract

The Village Voice has helpfully obtained and annotated a copy of the contract that MTV's Real World contestants must sign -- it starts with signing...
By Carly Carioli | August 02, 2011

America's Funniest Roller Coaster Tragedies

Coming soon to prime time ...
Hoopleville
By DAVID KISH | July 29, 2011

Down the Tubes

Midsummer television has a terrific offering of new and returning shows about aliens, firefighters, crystal meth, and more to turn that beautiful brain of yours to Play-Doh and keep you thoroughly entertained.
Because you can only spend so much time reading Dan Brown novels on the beach
By DAVID EISENBERG | July 22, 2011

Murdoch & Son

In little more than two weeks, Murdoch's News International (NI) division, the maker and breaker of British prime ministers, has been humbled, and — by extension — its US-based parent, News Corporation, humiliated.
A Scandal of Vatican Proportions
By PETER KADZIS | July 22, 2011

Review: Wilfred

It's hard to say what's more surprising about Wilfred , FX's new comedy — adapted from an Australian series — about a depressed ex-lawyer (Elijah Wood) and his friend Wilfred, who he thinks is a man in a dog suit but who is, in actuality, a dog. Is it
Good dog
By RYAN STEWART | July 01, 2011

A cheery reboot for True Blood

As supernatural soap operas-cum-social allegories go, True Blood is as good as it gets.
Bloody good
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | June 24, 2011

HBO's Game of Thrones(1)

In spite of the obstacles to making Martin's story succeed as a TV show, someone at HBO must be a fan, because Game of Thrones — named after the first book in his series — makes its live-action television debut this Sunday, April 17.
It's a long story
By MADDY MYERS | April 15, 2011

Talkin' Trash TV: The Real Housewives of NYC Season 4 Premiere

New Yorkers are dealing with a lot right now. It's only a matter of time until the hugliest combover in the annals of hirstute history...
By Hallie Boston | April 08, 2011

Reality show pitches

Reality TV needs to shake things up.
Big Fat Whale
By BRIAN MCFADDEN | April 08, 2011

Jane Eyre redux

Jane Austen has been a movie and television icon for some time now, and yet the Jane that both big and small screens just can't get enough of is the "poor, obscure, plain, little" heroine of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel.
Cary Fukunaga and Mia Wasikowska hold forth
By JEFFREY GANTZ | March 18, 2011

Talkin' Trash TV: The Newest Reality Star(ving for attention)

First of all, I would like to extend my sincerest apologies to the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Adrienne Maloof. I mean, you're still...
By Hallie Boston | March 15, 2011

Charlie Sheen's 24/7 reality show

Good times, Charlie!
Good times, Charlie!
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | March 05, 2011

The new TV season

Gil Scott-Heron was wrong: The revolution(s) will be televised.
Power to the people; enviropalooza; on the money; farewell to Dickie
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | February 25, 2011

Photos: Anonymous at 'Freedom of Information' Rally

Members of the protest group Anonymous hold a rally for 'Freedom of Information' at the Boston Commons on February 19, 2011.
Anonymous on the Boston Commons | February 19, 2011
By CHRISSY BULAKITES | February 25, 2011

Straight talk(1)

Neurotic humor is Richard Lewis's style, as the series Anything But Love and Curb Your Enthusiasm, his many late-night-TV appearances, film roles, and cable specials, and his book, The Other Great Depression, all attest.
Richard Lewis gets serious
By RICHARD ANTONE | February 18, 2011

Elementary, my dear Watson

But while the two humans challenging the metal mental giant on TV fared reasonably well, we were forced to admit that mere mortals such as P&J could not take on Watson at its full Linux server-backed power.
What is ... um ...; Satana, dead! Dead!; same-sex redux; talkin' 'bout a revolution
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | February 18, 2011

I did Sookie Stackhouse

What is it about reading and falling in love that invites cliché. When I met Sookie Stackhouse, the heroine of Charlaine Harris's Southern Vampire series, I didn't think much of her. She was right under my nose, but I was blind. But when I fell, oh, did
A book snob reveals her whirlwind affair with America's favorite telepathic waitress
By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | February 11, 2011

The Shield's Shawn Ryan looks at more cops in The Chicago Code

The Shield's Shawn Ryan looks at more cops in The Chicago Code
Oh, the darkness!
By RYAN STEWART | February 11, 2011

Poop and circumstance

Knickers in a horrible twist in Educationland over the announcement of a three-tiered diploma system to be introduced in Rhode Island public schools.
Vo Dilun diplomacy; the Dunkin' Donuts state; networking; royal rapping
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | January 28, 2011

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