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TV picks: 'Community,' 'Schumer,' 'Maron,' Sagal
Los Angeles Times Television Critic"Community" (NBC, Thursday). The low-rated and much-beloved comedy about a study group at a community college that is not about a study group at a community college so much as it is a comedy about a comedy about a study group at a community college that...Tags: Bobcat Goldthwait, Mark Duplass, Easy Rider (movie), Entertainment, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Critic's Picks: 'Bletchley Circle,' 'Revolution,' 'New Girl'/'Mindy Project'
Each week Times TV Critic Mary McNamara offers her viewing picks for the coming week: "Bletchley Circle": Socially provocative and gorgeously acted, this three-part British miniseries, which ends this week, rather astonishingly manages to leverage the...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Revolution (tv program), Murder, The New Girl (tv program), The Mindy Project (tv program)
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Cablevision to give kids network Sprout a boost
Sprout is spreading its roots. The kids network aimed at children ages 2 to 5 has landed a distribution deal with Cablevision Systems Corp., a large pay-TV operator in the New York City area. Getting access to Cablevision subscribers is key for Sprout...Tags: Nickelodeon (tv network), Satellite and Cable Service, Brooklyn (New York City), Netflix Inc., Queens (New York City)
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Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Judd Apatow kick off #Comedyfest
Los Angeles Times Television CriticMel Brooks and Carl Reiner, joined in comedy history as the 2,000-year-old man and his interviewer, and joined at the hip in life, made a tandem, two-headed appearance Monday afternoon at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills. With Judd Apatow as...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Entertainment, Comedy Central (tv network), The Good Wife (tv program), Noise (movie)
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COLUMN - Obama versus Congress on Guantanamo
Reuters(Nicholas Wapshott is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Nicholas Wapshott May 3 (Reuters) - Barely a week after Margaret Thatcher's funeral in London, her ghost is stalking the corridors of power. At his press conference on...Tags: Prisons, Strikes, CBS Corp., Trials, Terrorism
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div.article div.byline p.date {display:none;} Nathan Rabin Nathan Rabin is the head writer for The A.V. Club. His books include “The Big Rewind” and “My Year of Flops.” He also collaborated on “Weird Al: The Book.”...Tags: Tony Awards, Prada, Cartoons, Chicago Tribune, Newspaper and Magazine
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Guide to May 2013 TV premieres, finales, movies and specials
RedEyeThe May TV schedule is filled with finales, but don't think you won't have anything to watch. The Bluths are back! Yes, on May 26 Netflix with offer up all 15 episodes of the new "Arrested Development" with all the sitcom's original cast intact. Can't...Tags: Encore (tv network), Parks and Recreation (tv program), Comedy Central (tv network), Scandal (tv program), CSI (tv program)
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Failed Justice Argues Against Death Penalty
From Tom Paine's "Common Sense" to Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail," American history is replete with examples of printed words accelerating social justice. Still, from Mathew Brady's 1862...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Prosecution, Punishment, Central Park
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Michael Mosley puts his health to many tests
The patient in his 50s was mildly overweight, had high cholesterol and was headed down the road to diabetes. Common problems, and his doctor made the usual recommendation: medications. But the patient, Michael Mosley — a British author, journalist,...
Tags: Science and Technology, Michael Mosley, Overweight, Medical Procedures and Tests, Medical Research
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Groundbreaking improv comic Jonathan Winters dies
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jonathan Winters, the cherub-faced comedian whose breakneck improvisations and misfit characters inspired the likes of Robin Williams and Jim Carrey, has died. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito,...
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The Amazon pilots (Part 2): Children's shows
Los Angeles Times Television CriticAmazon's TV "pilots" (see my previous post and this relevant website) come in two flavors: grown up comedies, most of which betray basic-cable (and even premium-cable) values in terms of content and language, and children's shows, which, conversely, are...Tags: Arts, Science and Technology, Entertainment, June Foray, Arts and Culture
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Quick Takes: Own William Faulkner's Nobel
New Yorkers got a preview Wednesday of an auction rarity: a Nobel Prize for literature. The 1950 medal belonged to William Faulkner, one of America's best-known and respected novelists. It comes with a hand-edited draft of Faulkner's acceptance speech;...Tags: Carson Daly, Entertainment Events, Downton Abbey (tv program), Auction Service, Entertainment
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