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Pop-culture sensation returns for fourth season with serial killer settling into parenthood. [...]
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Posted: September 26, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Modern Family is the best new network sitcom of the season ? as befits a show co-created by sitcom veterans (notably Frasier) Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd. [...]
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Posted: September 23, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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It's time at last to welcome back Erica Strange, who picks up where she left off on her time-spanning voyage of self-discovery with the second-season debut of Being Erica, tonight at 9 on CBC. [...]
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Posted: September 22, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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The great irony of the annual Emmy telecast has been that a ceremony celebrating excellence in television could be so increasingly, audience-erodingly dull. [...]
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Posted: September 21, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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If you manage to get past the end of this paragraph, then this probably isn't about you. [...]
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Posted: September 18, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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`What the hell were you thinking?" [...]
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Posted: September 15, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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"What the hell were you thinking?" Hey, it worked once. Jay Leno has to be the luckiest guy on TV. [...]
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Posted: September 15, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Jay Leno the host has been a brilliant spokesman on behalf of Jay Leno, the show, which finally debuts tonight after months of speculation, on NBC and Citytv at 10. [...]
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Posted: September 14, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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They're ba-aack ... It's all about the laughs Sunday nights with the returns ? and even a few debuts ? of your favourite cartoons and cable comedies, starting tonight at 10 with the fifth season of Weeds, an event that show host Showcase has commemorated with placing pot-like potted plants [...]
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Posted: September 13, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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You couldn't make this stuff up ? and you wouldn't have to. [...]
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Posted: September 11, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Ever lose a couple of minutes? You know, one day you're just sitting there, minding your own business, and then suddenly your brain goes somewhere else ... [...]
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Posted: September 10, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants ... which is a very cheesy way of saying that the new Wednesday night lineup is more or less dominated by musical variety and situation comedy. [...]
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Posted: September 09, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Shane Acker should feel very flattered indeed. [...]
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Posted: September 09, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Tuesday nights will seem particularly familiar this season ? and that includes the new shows, almost all of which are related to, spun off from, remade or otherwise based on or beholden to something else. [...]
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Posted: September 08, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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When James Purefoy is good, he is very, very good ? as he was in the charitably short-lived NBC summer series The Philanthropist. [...]
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Posted: September 08, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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So it's come to this: the immediate future of American prime-time television rests squarely on Jay Leno's perpetually shrugged shoulders. [...]
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Posted: September 07, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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So many movies, which ones to see? We give you the advance reviews of more than 80 films, from the passionate to the perplexing. [...]
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Posted: September 06, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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`I drink Scotch. I pinch women's bottoms. I'm randy as hell. I'm homophobic and nasty and I never met a bribe I didn't like." [...]
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Posted: September 02, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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It was inevitable, really, that Degrassi would finally "go Hollywood" ? as the title of tonight's premiere TV movie (CTV at 8), Paradise City: Degrassi goes Hollywood would clearly seem to indicate. [...]
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Posted: August 30, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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So, Canada, you think you can dance through another season of So You Think You Can Dance ? [...]
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Posted: August 25, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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To paraphrase the opening line of the movie Love Story , "What can you say about a 29-year-old actor who died?" [...]
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Posted: August 22, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Men world ... we just live in it. Which is saying something, since that world has not existed for almost 50 years. [...]
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Posted: August 18, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks. [...]
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Posted: August 17, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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It almost seemed, for the first few days of the just-ended TV critics tour, that we had been overrun by Mad Men... Mad Men signing autographs, Mad Men on the red carpet, Mad Men hoisting highballs at AMC's opening-night cocktail party, and again a few nights later, after the Television [...]
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Posted: August 16, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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If you've ever wondered how Paul Gross is simultaneously
able to star in, direct, produce, edit and score his film and
television projects, I have at last uncovered the answer. [...]
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Posted: August 10, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Following a fairly dismal and disappointing day of mediocre
NBC pilots, the Fox sessions here at the TV critics tour were a breath
of fresh air, a light at the end of the tunnel, a song, a dance, some
seltzer down your pants ... [...]
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Posted: August 09, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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The Fox press day yesterday at the TV critics tour could not have been more opportunely timed, falling smack in between Paula Abdul's bombshell tweet that she would not be returning to American Idol, and last night's gala season finale of its up-and-coming cousin, So You Think You Can Dance. [...]
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Posted: August 07, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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The Fox press day today at the TV critics tour could not have been more opportunely timed, falling smack in between Paula Abdul's bombshell "Tweet" that she would not be returning to American Idol , and last night's gala season finale of its up-and-coming cousin, So You Think You Can [...]
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Posted: August 06, 2009, 7:09pm EDT
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Melrose Place is smart enough to embrace its own inherent soapy superficiality, and sex up and stylize the hell out of it. [...]
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Posted: August 06, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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They promised us a "surprise." And we got one. Just not the good kind. There was a large hole in the CBS afternoon presentation schedule here
at the TV critics fall preview ? not as big as the hole in the upcoming
NBC schedule, which remains a closely guarded secret even days [...]
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Posted: August 05, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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The 25th annual Television Critics Awards were handed out here Saturday night, with Battlestar Galactica winning Program of the Year, Mad Men Outstanding Drama, The Big Bang Theory Outstanding Comedy and True Blood Outstanding New Program. [...]
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Posted: August 03, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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A selfless, martyred priest. Inadvertent vampirism. Sexual obsession. [...]
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Posted: August 02, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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So what's so funny about a dead terrorist? Probably more
than a live one, but still....In fact, a dead terrorist can be very
funny in the right hands. Or rather, on the right hand. [...]
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Posted: August 01, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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The Star has learned exclusively that the entire voice cast of Futurama has just signed a new contract with Fox after weeks of intense salary negotiations. [...]
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Posted: July 31, 2009, 11:31pm EDT
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The Star has learned exclusively that the voice cast of Futurama has just signed a new contract with Fox after weeks of intense salary negotiations. [...]
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Posted: July 31, 2009, 10:19pm EDT
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The Star has learned exclusively that the voice cast of Futurama has just signed a new contract with Fox after weeks of intense salary negotiations. [...]
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Posted: July 31, 2009, 6:28pm EDT
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Los Angeles, Calif.?The Star has learned exclusively that the voice cast of Futurama has just signed a new contract with Fox after weeks of intense salary negotiations. [...]
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Posted: July 31, 2009, 3:26pm EDT
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Of all the shows we?ve previewed thus far here at the TV critics? fall preview - and with the possible exception of the more mainstream, musical Glee - Bored to Death is far and away the best new series of the season. [...]
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Posted: July 31, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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It's back to business as usual ? "business" and "usual" in this case being somewhat relative. [...]
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Posted: July 29, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Iron Man and Comic-Con go hand-in-gauntlet, the success of the first film so inextricably tied to its ecstatic reception here almost a year before its release. [...]
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Posted: July 27, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Even a trailer for film by Cameron gets hype, as burgeoning convention pulls a loud crowd. [...]
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Posted: July 26, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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No wonder he's a Comic-Con hero: he regenerated Doctor Who, created Torchwood, and now ... is leaving time travel behind. [...]
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Posted: July 25, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Meghan Campbell has worked the front cash at the Silver Snail, Toronto's premier comic-book store on Queen St. W., for about four years. [...]
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Posted: July 24, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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When people hear the phrase "comic book convention," they tend to think of milling crowds of over-stimulated fanboys in superhero T-shirts ? if not entire costumes ? laden with bags of promotional goodies, action figures, video games, DVDs, toys, posters and, yes, the latest comics. [...]
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Posted: July 23, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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The 2009 Emmy Award nominations will be announced at 8:30 tomorrow morning and will immediately thereafter be dutifully posted on the Star 's website. [...]
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Posted: July 15, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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If an actor can be judged by their choice of roles ? keeping in mind that choice isn't always an option ? then Michelle Forbes was bound to be a fascinating, formidable and fearless woman. [...]
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Posted: July 13, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Vince and his pals are back for a sixth season of shallow and sexist behaviour in Entourage. [...]
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Posted: July 12, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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At 6-foot-5, Cleese is hard to forget as a member of the Monty Python comedy troupe or as the misanthropic miserly hotelier in Fawlty Towers. [...]
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Posted: July 12, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Okay, I know "List Week" is officially over, but if you'll forgive me, I'd like to take one last supplementary kick at the can. [...]
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Posted: July 05, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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A holiday Wednesday ? now that's just cruel. Inconvenient mid-week closings of banks and booze stores. No long-weekend jaunts to the cottage. On top of which, it looks like rain, which is bound to put a damper on family barbecues and fireworks. With no one around to help clean up [...]
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Posted: June 30, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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The mass media mourning of the late Michael Jackson has officially shifted into overkill ? you can't turn on the TV now without seeing that sad, fractured face. And this is just the beginning. [...]
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Posted: June 29, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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The TV movie Virtuality , airing tonight at 8 on Fox and Citytv, is "virtually" a back-door pilot ? a play not only on its title and premise, but also the fact that, though clearly intended as the launch of a series, it is likely to begin and end with [...]
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Posted: June 26, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Some of you who caught last night's debut of The Philanthropist on NBC and Global may have had a hard time buying the notion of a dashing playboy billionaire ( Rome 's James Purefoy) jetting around the globe in a selfless quest to rescue and bring relief to the oppressed, [...]
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Posted: June 25, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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After three decades as a nightly fixture at the far end of Johnny Carson's couch, Ed McMahon was all too quickly relegated to obscurity, and from there crushing debt and increasingly ill health and, finally, yesterday morning, at age 86, death from various undisclosed causes, among them, reportedly, bone cancer. [...]
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Posted: June 24, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Television is going all medieval on your butt. [...]
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Posted: June 20, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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This will sound, I suspect, a bit ridiculous coming from someone who watches TV for a living (a pretty ridiculous notion in and of itself). [...]
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Posted: June 18, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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There's a lot of talk about late-night talk, but it has nothing to do with celebrity guests. [...]
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Posted: June 17, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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I never thought I'd be saying this, but I suddenly find myself getting all misty and nostalgic over my old 12-inch black-and-white TV set, with its actual manual channel-changing dial, its single, tinny little mono speaker and now, most of all, its strategically twisted coat-hanger antenna. [...]
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Posted: June 15, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Howard Stern once proclaimed himself "King of all Media," which he indeed was, for a while anyway ? say, mid-1996 through early 1998. [...]
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Posted: June 12, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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There is a point early on in tonight's premiere episode of Nurse Jackie (10 p.m., TMN), a new starring vehicle for ex- Soprano Edie Falco, where you realize this is not going to be just another one of those earnestly angsty soap-opera hospital dramas. And that Falco's snarky, stressed-out Jackie [...]
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Posted: June 08, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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SNL alumna Maya Rudolph has a bun in the oven in both reel and real life. [...]
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Posted: June 07, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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There are several pages between "rabbi" and "reptile" in any dictionary or encyclopedia (note to members of the Google generation – these are books). [...]
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Posted: June 06, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Television icon David Carradine was found dead yesterday, an apparent suicide, discovered by a maid in a hotel-room wardrobe with a curtain cord wrapped tightly around his naked body and neck. [...]
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Posted: June 05, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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In the seven years since the remarkable Lisa Marcos gave up modelling for acting, she has travelled the typical career path of almost every new Canadian actor, starting with anonymous walk-on roles in locally shot series, generically credited as "Bar Maid" and "Waitress" ( Street Time ), "Concerned Nurse" (Tarzan), [...]
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Posted: June 04, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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The opening salvos were fired Monday night in the battle for 11:35, with two former Late Night hosts vying to dominate the most competitive and prestigious time slot in the history of televised talk. [...]
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Posted: June 03, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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"And now . . . heeeeeeere's Conan." It didn't quite go like that, but it might have been more appropriate. [...]
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Posted: June 02, 2009, 2:51am EDT
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It started with Steve Allen in 1954, a cheap and cheerful late-night lark delivered rough and off-the-cuff. Jack Paar took it over three years later, adding a level of sophistication ? and volatility. [...]
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Posted: May 31, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Tonight's Tonight – Jay Leno's last – will be nothing like the bittersweet, tear-choked, Bette Midler-warbling farewell the last Johnny Carson show was in 1992. [...]
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Posted: May 29, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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I've got Georgia on my mind ... Which is precisely why we've had to wait so long for today's belated DVD release of Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's precedent-setting 1980s sitcom, Designing Women . [...]
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Posted: May 26, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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And on the line from Los Angeles ... go ahead, caller ... [...]
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Posted: May 22, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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When we last left the future freedom fighter, John Connor ... [...]
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Posted: May 20, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Regardless of how well the film has turned out ? and frankly, the best that can be said is that it blows up real good ? the release alone is cause for celebration, coming only 24 hours after the official cancellation of the franchise's TV spinoff. [...]
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Posted: May 20, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Regardless of how well the film has turned out ? and frankly, the best that can be said is that it blows up real good ? the release alone is cause for celebration, coming only 24 hours after the official cancellation of the franchise's TV spinoff. [...]
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Posted: May 20, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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One of my favourite things about this job is that I get to see new TV pilots early, often months before their actual debut, which gives me bragging rights over all my little TV-fixated friends. (And, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of despair.) [...]
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Posted: May 19, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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The network dog-and-pony shows known as "upfronts" ? annual advertiser/affiliate pitches that map out the playing field for the coming season ? began early this year with a gun-jumping NBC and end later this week with The CW (as it happens, the two bottom-feeders of the U.S. ratings reservoir). [...]
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Posted: May 18, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Jean Marc Généreux is at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre today, auditioning hopefuls for the upcoming second season of the country's top ratings hit, So You Think You Can Dance Canada . [...]
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Posted: May 18, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Jean Marc Généreux is at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre today, auditioning hopefuls for the upcoming second season of the country's top ratings hit, So You Think You Can Dance Canada . [...]
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Posted: May 18, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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`Let's twist again, like we did last summer ..." [...]
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Posted: May 15, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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End-of-season (or series) plot twists are certainly nothing new, but this year we do seem to have an awful lot of them. [...]
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Posted: May 15, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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English-language Canada got its first look at the most popular TV format in all of Latin America yesterday, the "telenovela." [...]
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Posted: May 12, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Meek and mild-mannered, maybe. But even Clark Kent had a secret life. [...]
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Posted: May 11, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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With the international success of The Office, Extras , his burgeoning American film career and his recent, sold-out, HBO-aired stand-up comedy tour, Ricky Gervais has become something of a household face. [...]
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Posted: May 09, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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If Sacred Heart Hospital actually existed, the unlikely continued survival of Scrubs could be considered a minor medical miracle. [...]
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Posted: May 06, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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There are already major updates on both of yesterday's column items (hey, somebody has to stay on top of these things). [...]
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Posted: May 05, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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There are already major updates on both of yesterday's column items (hey, somebody has to stay on top of these things). [...]
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Posted: May 05, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Given Canada's prolific history of cutting-edge kid cartoons, it was only a matter of time before we set our sights on the current hot TV trend of adult animation. [...]
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Posted: May 04, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Given Canada's prolific history of cutting-edge kid cartoons, it was only a matter of time before we set our sights on the current hot TV trend of adult animation. [...]
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Posted: May 04, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Space ... the final career? The new, rebooted Star Trek movie opens this week, with a sexy young crew assuming the roles of the long-running sci-fi franchise's most iconic characters. [...]
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Posted: May 03, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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See, the thing about suspension of disbelief, at least when it comes to serial drama: if you do it right, the sky (for that matter, outer space) is your limit. Done wrong, the whole thing comes crashing to earth. [...]
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Posted: April 27, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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The King is about to abdicate his throne ... okay then, his lawn chair. [...]
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Posted: April 24, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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It's the gift that keeps on giving. The YouTube hits for Jian Ghomeshi's interview-gone-horribly-wrong with Billy Bob Thornton are now approaching the two million mark. [...]
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Posted: April 23, 2009, 4:30am EDT
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Ironically, for an actor so indelibly identified by her distinctive voice, Julie Kavner remains adamantly unwilling to talk. [...]
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The firefighter dramedy returns with Michael J. Fox joining the cast as a foul-mouthed paralyzed jerk. [...]
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Fetched: April 19, 2009, 4:35am EDT
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Jerry Seinfeld ended the last of four Toronto shows last night at Massey Hall just as he began them, with a standing ovation. [...]
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Fetched: April 19, 2009, 4:35am EDT
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They have a surprising amount in common: Both are still identified and adored as charismatic comic characters they created almost 30 years ago. Both have, over the years, successfully made the transition from actor to director/producer. [...]
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Fetched: April 19, 2009, 4:35am EDT
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It is, if nothing else, a really quite astonishing feat of actor archaeology. [...]
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Fetched: April 18, 2009, 5:36am EDT
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Fair warning: there will be spoilers. Assuming you accept the notion that anything could actually "spoil" Corner Gas. [...]
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Fetched: April 14, 2009, 3:35am EDT
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Parting is such sweet sorrow ... at least it can be. Sometimes it's just sorrow. Sometimes indifference, or merely closure, or even empathetic relief. It depends on the timing. [...]
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Fetched: April 13, 2009, 2:37pm EDT
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Parting is such sweet sorrow ... at least it can be. Sometimes it's just sorrow. Sometimes indifference, or merely closure, or even empathetic relief. It depends on the timing. [...]
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Fetched: April 13, 2009, 4:35am EDT
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Brent and gang share their most cherished memories with Star readers as the sun sets on the west one last time. [...]
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