Last year a number of critics complained that there are actually now so many good shows on television (mostly on cable) that they could no longer keep up with them all.And yet they keep on coming. Over the next few weeks in Hollywood’s small screen version of Christmas dozens of new and return
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The Way It Is: Behind the scenes of 24-hour cable news
Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’
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CNN Will Always Be With Us: The return of Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Newsroom’
Can ‘The Newsroom’ help us to process the death of Travyon Martin?
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A Fantasy Ends: Obama’s presidency in Hollywood
Last month saw the debut of “White House Down,” the second “bad guys somehow manage to successfully invade the White House” film of recent months (along with March’s “Olympus Has Fallen”). Racking in poor reviews and limited box office, “White House Do
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Bastards and Broken Things: Salvation and surprise in HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’
Salvation and surprise in HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’
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Trying to Get ‘Girls’: Breaking down Lena Dunham’s award-winning HBO show
In the pilot episode of “Girls,” the much-discussed HBO series now in its second season, Hannah, the show’s main character, gets high, gets angsty and gets worried looks from her parents when she describes the importance of her partly-completed memoir. Groggy, she announces: &ldquo
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Home Alone: Binge-viewing Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’
Odds are, if you have checked out the entertainment section of a newspaper recently, you have heard something about House of Cards, Netflix’s first major original series. Perhaps you have heard the fact that in February Netflix released all 13 episodes of the program’s first season at on
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Shaky, Not Stirring: Daniel Craig explores Bond’s damaged soul in ‘Skyfall’
Daniel Craig explores Bond’s damaged soul in ‘Skyfall’
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A Music Video Which Has Nothing to Do with 9/11, And Yet…
This music video is floating through the byways of Facebook these days It has absolutely nothing to do with 9 11 nothing but something of the spirit of it captures my own hopes for our world 10 years later nbsp And if you need yet another 9 11 piece to read I wrote this for Eureka Stree
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What’s Going to Happen?
Monday night on the Daily Show Jon Stewart described the collapse in the stock market investment in favor of U S Treasury bonds as akin to a guy torching your house and then asking if he can store his cash in your basement nbsp There rsquo s also something of Heisenberg rsquo s Uncertainty Princ