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The TV Watch: The Fine Art of Quitting While She’s Ahead
It’s a measure of Oprah Winfrey’s outsize stature that the news that she would shut down “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in September 2011 buckled the media world.
Music Review | Melinda Doolittle: A Survivor of ‘Idol’ With Heart
The former “American Idol” contestant Melinda Doolittle performed on Thursday evening at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
Arts, Briefly: Bill Moyers to Leave Weekly Television
The PBS mainstay Bill Moyers said he was retiring from weekly television and would end his Friday night public affairs show, “Bill Moyers Journal,” on April 30, 2010.
Arts, Briefly: A ‘Flash’ in the Pan?
Once one of the brightest hopes of the new fall schedule, the ABC series “FlashForward” declined to some of its lowest ratings of the year on Thursday night.
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Serving Up Rockers, Out of Their Shells
A new cooking show on the Independent Film Channel combines invites musicians into the kitchen.
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Familiar Faces Chasing Perps and Plots
Steven Seagal and Jesse Ventura each have a taste of reality, to varying degrees, on two new programs coming to cable.
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Jesse Csincsak
Film: Opening Wide His (Repaired) Heart
After heart surgery, the comedian Robin Williams has become more introspective and more grateful for what he has.
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Robin Williams
A Daytime Network Franchise Bets on Her Future With Cable
The media mogul Oprah Winfrey will end her daytime talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” in 2011 as she prepares to start a cable channel of her own.
Google to Caption YouTube Videos
The move is the first major step toward making millions of videos accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people.
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Arts, Briefly: Crime Pays for CBS
CBS finished first in the ratings on Wednesday with a crime-filled lineup.
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Nickelodeon’s Stepchild, Eager for More Love
As the musical children’s show “Yo Gabba Gabba!” continues to take significant steps into mainstream popular culture, its producers crave more support from its network.
Arts, Briefly: Sarah Palin Generates High Ratings for ‘Oprah’
Sarah Palin delivered the highest audience in two years to “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on Monday.
Arts, Briefly: Even With Locklear, ‘Melrose’ Lacks Bloom
The return of Heather Locklear to “Melrose Place” did little to improve that CW drama’s ratings.
Television Review | 'Terror in Mumbai': Using Tapes and a Timeline to Trace the Mumbai Massacre
“Terror in Mumbai,” a new HBO documentary having its premiere on Thursday, uses interviews, videos and intercepted calls to untangle the attacks in that Indian city last November.
Arts, Briefly: New ‘Oprah’ Spinoff for Interior Designer
Oprah Winfrey’s production company is proposing a daytime talk show starring Nate Berkus, an interior designer and a regular on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
Arts, Briefly: ‘This Is It’ on MTV
MTV Networks has acquired exclusive television rights to the Michael Jackson concert film “This Is It” for six years beginning in 2011, the company said on Tuesday.
Ken Ober, Host of ‘Remote Control’ on TV, Dies at 52
Mr. Ober was a brassy comedian best known as the host of the 1980s-era MTV game show “Remote Control.”
Edward Woodward, Star of Spy Series, Dies at 79
Mr. Woodward was a British actor with a long résumé in television and theater who was best known in the United States as the star of “The Equalizer.”
Arts, Briefly: Football Rules TV
NBC’s coverage of the New England Patriots-Indianapolis Colts game delivered the highest ratings for a “Sunday Night Football” broadcast since September.
Arts, Briefly: Larry Charles Returning to Network Television
After devoting most of his energy in recent years to feature films and cable, the writer, director and producer Larry Charles is returning to network television.
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Arts, Briefly: Writer of ‘Secret Diary’ Comes Forward
A British scientist, Brooke Magnanti, told The Sunday Times of London that she was Belle de Jour, the escort whose sexual experiences inspired “Secret Diary of a Call Girl.”
Television Review | 'Frontline: A Death in Tehran': That Face of Protest in Iran, Fading Fast
“A Death in Tehran,” Tuesday’s “Frontline” on PBS, explores the murder of the Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan.
The TV Watch: Palin Onstage, Still Moving Off Message
Sarah Palin’s appearance Monday on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” looked less like a celebratory comeback than a redo of the presidential campaign.
A Market Segment ‘Glee’ Can Call Its Own: Theater Folk
“Glee,” Fox’s hourlong musical comedy series, has become a cult favorite among the theater community in New York.
John J. O’Connor, a Times TV Critic in Years of Industry Upheaval, Dies at 76
Mr. O’Connor was as a television critic for The New York Times for more than 25 years.
Arts, Briefly: Lou Dobbs to Visit ‘O’Reilly’
Lou Dobbs is scheduled to appear as a guest on Monday night’s edition of “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News, Variety reported.
Video Game Review | New Super Mario Bros. Wii: Mario and Luigi, Back to the Wii: The More Players, the Deadlier
New Super Mario Bros. Wii is nothing close to a casual party game. It will drive many children into a tantrum or a sulk.
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A Sapphic Victory, but Pyrrhic
The appearance of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi on Oprah Winfrey’s show underscored how tough it is to figure out where Americans stand on same-sex marriage.
Phenomenon: The Price of Free
What will happen to TV if we all stream shows from the Web.
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A Shtick With a Thousand Lives
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner look back on their 2,000 Year Old Man routine, which is being reissued on disc.
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It Turns Out You Can Say That On Television, Over and Over
Research has shown that vulgarities are being used more often, and in earlier hours, on prime-time broadcast television,.
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Television Review | 'Lopez Tonight': Late-Night Revolution? In Taste, Perhaps
The first week of “Lopez Tonight” was business as usual: a comedian on an ugly set telling jokes and making fawning chit-chat with celebrities.
Television: Filming a Friendship, Founded on Film
“No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos,” to be shown Tuesday on “Independent Lens” on PBS, is an account of the long friendship between two influential filmmakers.
David Lloyd, 75, Dies; Wrote ‘Chuckles’ Episode
Mr. Lloyd wrote scores of scripts for some of the most popular television sitcoms of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90’s.
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Television Review | 'The Prisoner': Rethinking of a Number Between 1 and 10
There was no single archvillain in “The Prisoner,” which was one of the many distinctions of that legendary late-60s spy series.
Arts, Briefly: Journalist Gets Book Deal
Euna Lee, a journalist who was arrested by North Korea and jailed for nearly five months, will write a book detailing her experiences.
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Arts, Briefly: Country Awards on Top
The Country Music Association Awards earned its most viewers in four years on Wednesday and lifted ABC to No. 1 in the night’s ratings.
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Television Review | 'Masterpiece Contemporary: Collision': Unsnarling a Knotty Ball of Secrets, British Style
“Collision,” a “Masterpiece Contemporary” mini-series beginning on Sunday on PBS, raises an old question: why are the British so much better at this sort of thing than we are?
Magazine Preview: The Octomom and Her Babies Prepare for Prime Time
The true-life tale of the true-life tale of the making of the Nadya Suleman story.
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Music Review: New Levels of Inclusion at Country Music Awards
Taylor Swift, 19, became the youngest Entertainer of the Year, and Darius Rucker was the first African-American to win New Artist of the Year.
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Cedric The Entertainer
Among Late-Night Writers, Few Women in the Room
Very few women make it inside the writing rooms for late-night television hosts, despite the fact that women make up a larger proportion of their audience than men.
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Arts, Briefly: ‘Sesame Street’ Responds to Dispute
An executive for Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization that produces “Sesame Street,” said a segment on the show that upset political conservatives was “equal-opportunity parody.”
Arts, Briefly: ‘V’ Audience Plunges
The audience for ABC’s “V” on Tuesday fell substantially from its premiere a week ago, attracting 10.6 million viewers compared with 14.4 million for its debut.
Video Game Review | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2: Choices in Infiltrating a Terrorist Cell
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, developed by Infinity Ward and released by Activision this week, thrusts the player into the harrowing experience of modern terrorism.
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Television Review | 'Ultimate Factories': New Cars for the Subway, Old Ones for the Deep
Thursday’s episode of the National Geographic Channel’s “Ultimate Factories” pays a visit to the plants that produce New York City subway cars.
Carl Ballantine, Slapstick Magician, Dies at 92
Mr. Ballantine was an inveterate quipmeister whose stand-up comedy persona predated and influenced the antic characters of Steve Martin and others.
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Opposites on Ice Find a New Rhythm Together
Recipe for Canadian TV success: Take former N.H.L. players and pair them with Canadian figure skating champions; add ice dancing routines and judges; then let viewers vote.
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Arts, Briefly: Twitter Book and Now TV Show
Justin Halpern, the author of a rather tartly named Twitter account, has landed a book deal and a deal with CBS for a comedy based on the premise.
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Arts, Briefly: Viewers Love ‘Dancing’
A two-hour installment of “Dancing With the Stars” attracted 17.6 million viewers on Monday, helping ABC rank No. 1 on the night as the most-watched network.
