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TV Review: HBO's 'The Newsroom'
It’s certainly a Newsroom divided with Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO drama, starring Jeff Daniels as a cable news anchor who experiences a public meltdown. The Newsroom premieres Sundays at 10 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “If you miss The West Wing every day, you will wrap your arms around this new series like a dog you see o ...... Read More
Comments (0)Book Review: Littlefield's 'Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV'
Former NBC entertainment president Warren Littlefield isn’t just airing some old Friends’ dirty laundry in his new memoir, Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV. The book, coming out May 1 from Doubleday Publishing, recounts — through anecdotes from cast members and executives of NBC’s hit shows such as Seinfeld, Cheers and ER — one of the most ...... Read More
Comments (2)TV Review: Starz's 'Magic City'
Starz officially premieres its 1950’s drama Magic City on Friday, April 6 at 10 p.m. The following are reviews are TV critics around the web, compiled by B&C. “Magic City is centered on a Jewish hotelier with ties to the mob, so it inevitably looks like The Sopranos set around the time of Mad Men. Actually, it is most of all a loving travelogue of the lost childhood of its creato ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: ABC's 'Missing'
ABC premieres its new drama Missing, starring Ashley Judd, on Thursday at 8 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “It’s meat and potatoes action and suspense - not inventive or inspiring, but executed well enough to work…The episodic stuff isn’t always elegant, but it sets up the fights and the crying and the screaming, ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: ABC's 'GCB'
ABC premieres its new comedy-drama GCB – what has been called a new Desperate Houswives — on Sunday night at 10 p.m. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “For people looking for the next Housewives, GCB could be the perfect replacement. And no doubt the controversy will drive the curious to check it out. Either way, GCB probably will s ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: NBC's 'Awake'
NBC premiered its dual-reality drama, Awake on Thursday, March 1 at 10 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the web, compiled by B&C. “While the premise sounds confusing, and sometimes is when it comes to the details of the dueling crimes-of-the-week, the producers and writers do a good job of keeping the worlds distinct and vivid, including some neat visual flouris ...... Read More
Comments (1)TV Review: ABC's 'The River'
ABC premieres its new mockumentary-style thriller The River on Tuesday in a two-hour event beginning at 9 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “The River in its early hours doesn’t ask to be taken more seriously than as the long-form B-movie it is. Made with ingenuity and verve, it substitutes the half-glimpsed and suggestive for the ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: NBC's 'Smash'
NBC premieres its musical drama, Smash on Feb. 6 at 10 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the web, compiled by B&C. “The big cast is appealing, especially Christian Borle and Debra Messing as the big-time songwriting team and Angelica Huston as a producer in a bad divorce. And the show looks great, except for a ludicrously airbrushed Times Square that could have b ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: Netflix's 'Lilyhammer'
Netflix made all eight episodes of its new comedy-drama, Lilyhammer, starring The Sopranos’ Steven van Zandt, available Monday. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “So how is Lilyhammer? Odd mostly. It tries to combine elements of American mob stories and Scandinavian mysteries, seasoned with frequent overt references to The Sopranos, but th ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: Fox's 'Napoleon Dynamite'
Fox debuts its newest animated series, Napoleon Dynamite — based on the 2004 movie — on Jan. 15 at 8:30 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from around the web, compiled by B&C. “The animation is cool and it’s probably fun for fans to have the original cast doing all the voices. Would be nice if it was funny, too.” — Curt Wagner, Chicago Tribune “ ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: Fox's 'The Finder'
Fox premieres procedural drama The Finder, a spinoff from Hart Hanson’s Bones, on Thursday night at 9 p.m. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “The second half of the pilot improves over the first. So there’s progress. We’re hoping that, like Bones which also had a shaky start, The Finder will, umm, find itself after it gets a ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: CBS' '¡Rob!'
CBS debuts its new comedy, ¡Rob!, created by and starring Rob Schneider, on Jan. 12 at 8:30 p.m. The following are reviews from TV critics around the web, compiled by B&C. “It’s hard to know what ¡Rob! is going for as a comedy, unless there’s some kind of prize for slothful execution with a blatantly obvious take on interracial marriage tossed in for spice.ȁ ...... Read More
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