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A Dog Named Christmas
TV Reviews: "A Dog Named Christmas" joins that pack of mutt movies from "Old Yeller" to "Marley and Me," riding the appeal of a yellow Labrador to an audience's heart.
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Ben 10: Alien Swarm
TV Reviews: Cartoon Network has churned out a second live-action movie infused with a slick comicbook feel.
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Ben 10
Chef Academy
TV Reviews: Sporting a tousled mop of hair and Pepe LePew accent, Frenchmen Jean-Christophe Novelli is billed as having been voted the "world's sexiest chef."
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Merry Madagascar
TV Reviews: Marking DreamWorks' second NBC holiday spec of the season, "Merry Madagascar" is merry, all right -- in a had-too-much punch, loud drunk at the Christmas party way.
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Ann Rule's Everything She Ever Wanted
TV Reviews: Without giving too much away, let's just say her special soup packs an inordinately strong kick.
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Collision
TV Reviews: The latest "Masterpiece Contemporary" production, "Collision" is an interesting idea but ultimately not compelling enough to draw the audience into its individual stories.
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The Prisoner
TV Reviews: Features striking images and arresting moments but can't overcome a persistent lack of coherence.
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The Prisoner
Lopez Tonight
TV Reviews: Lopez will have to grow beyond his stand-up comfort zone to bless this with the gift of longevity.
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The Wanda Sykes Show
TV Reviews: Without some fine-tuning, show provides a slim platform even for those who share her politics.
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Wanda Sykes
Ann Rule's Too Late to Say Goodbye
TV Reviews: Lifetime Movie Network is following its elder sibling into the true-crime.
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Fanboy and Chum Chum
TV Reviews: Title turns out to be significantly more inviting than the actual show.
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Place of Execution
TV Reviews: ITV import has a rather interesting take on the fascination with salacious crimes.
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ITV
Place of Execution
The League
TV Reviews: A crude but consistently funny half-hour that's a bull's-eye with the channel's male-skewing audience.
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The 1930s (American Experience)
TV Reviews: Series offer several eerie parallels between the Great Depression and recent economic issues.
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Friday Night Lights
TV Reviews: A new group of student-athletes have arrived in this football crazy Texas town.
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Friday Night Lights
Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space
TV Reviews: Hardly destined to make anyone forget Linus and the Great Pumpkin.
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The Jeff Dunham Show
TV Reviews: The talented ventriloquist returns to TV in a weekly program.
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White Collar
TV Reviews: With "White Collar," USA looks dressed for success.
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White Collar
Lock 'n Load
TV Reviews: "Lock 'n Load" is a reality show lacking a point of view that fires one big blank.
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On the Case With Paula Zahn
TV Reviews: Turns out Dostoevsky was really on to something with "Crime and Punishment."
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Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)
TV Reviews: Docu traces the group from pre-TV origins through its movies and eventual disbandment.
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Occupation
TV Reviews: Pulls few punches in conveying the lingering misfortune and corruption associated with the Iraq adventure.
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Sorority Wars
TV Reviews: For those willing to succumb to the movie's odd little world, it's not without its charms.
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Discovering Ardi
TV Reviews: "Ardi" squarely falls in the better-angels/"Planet Earth" category.
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Planet Earth
30 Rock
TV Reviews: This inside-TV comedy might very well be the "Murphy Brown" of its day.
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Nip/Tuck
TV Reviews: The series return for its sixth-season arc of 10 episodes in reasonably solid fashion.
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Nip/Tuck
Sherri
TV Reviews: A sitcom "loosely based" on comic/"The View" co-host Sherri Shepherd's life before she was successful.
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Secret Girlfriend
TV Reviews: Adapted from the Web, "Secret Girlfriend" is in essence comedy as single-player videogame.
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Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV Reviews: A silly reality show in which actors reminisce about so-called paranormal experiences.
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Stargate Universe
TV Reviews: With a younger cast and a new approach to a familiar story, Syfy hopes to corral new fans without alienating the existing base.
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Three Rivers
TV Reviews: Among a waiting room of new medical dramas, this operation has the best chance of avoiding rejection.
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The Middle
TV Reviews: Patricia Heaton is back in harried mom territory as the star of this low-key family comedy.
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Hank
TV Reviews: "Green Acres" updated with a corporate-tycoon-gets-humbling-comeuppance twist.
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The Cleveland Show
TV Reviews: "Family Guy" spin-off ought to fit right in with Fox's animation block.
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea
TV Reviews: While stately and classy, the topic lacks the gravitas of Burns' finer works.
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America's Best Dance Crew
Trauma
TV Reviews: The hunt for a successor to "ER" will have to continue despite NBC's best efforts with "Trauma."
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Mercy
TV Reviews: The series has modest potential, an appealing cast and not a syringe's worth of originality.
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Dexter
TV Reviews: Balancing work, family and one's personal passions can be a daunting, especially if your passion is serial killing.
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Dexter
The 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: From Your Couch
TV Reviews: Neil Patrick Harris might be the human bailout package for fatigued awards shows.
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Neil Patrick Harris
The Primetime Emmy Awards
The 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards: From the Nokia Theater
TV Reviews: The show onstage was almost an afterthought compared to the pre-show hoopla.
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The Dr. Oz Show
TV Reviews: If healthcare reform doesn't work out, at least there's daytime TV.
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Brick City
TV Reviews: This sobering look at urban strife at times plays like an infomercial for the pol.
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FlashForward
TV Reviews: It's an intriguing, mind-bending concept that's mostly well executed.
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Cougar Town
TV Reviews: There's an inherent cynicism that makes "Cougar Town" a particularly unpleasant place to visit.
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Cougar Town
Modern Family
TV Reviews: Comedy deftly serves up laughs on multiple levels -- from understated one-liners to grand sight gags.
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Modern Family
Eastwick
TV Reviews: ABC's episodic adaptation of John Updike's novel-turned-movie does conjure up some interesting possibilities.
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The Forgotten
TV Reviews: Christian Slater leads a team of volunteers who seemingly have nothing but time on their hands.
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Christian Slater
The Forgotten
Bored to Death
TV Reviews: Jonathan Ames' literary voice infuses HBO's new comedy "Bored to Death," and that's mostly a bad thing.
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