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'The Wire' finale is a cop-out for a once-great show
Sun Television CriticDavid Simon wrote a brilliant finale for The Wire. Unfortunately, it was in 2004 at the end of Season 3 - not the 90-minute final episode of the Baltimore-based drama that will air tonight on HBO.Four years ago, series creator Simon wrote a season-...Tags: New York City Police Department, The Wire (tv program), HBO (tv network), Satellite and Cable Service, NBC (tv network)
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'Whoopi' not afraid of edgy, ethnic humor
Sun Television CriticThe very first image viewers of the new NBC sitcom Whoopi will see tonight is that of Mavis Rae (Whoopi Goldberg) lighting a cigarette and taking a drag as she stands behind the front desk of the small Manhattan Hotel she owns. A guest standing nearby...Tags: Minority Groups, NBC (tv network), George Bush, Whoopi Goldberg, African Americans
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You didn't get it from us, but ... the fall TV season looks great
AP Television WriterA TV critic surveying the fall program landscape sometimes feels like an inspector looking for weapons of mass destruction. You never want to find bad shows, of course. Yet something seems amiss when you don't. That is my dilemma, after previewing all 37...Tags: CBS Corp., NBC (tv network), ABC (tv network), JAG (tv program), Family
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They leave as they began: With a buzz
TV/Radio WriterLooking back, it's easy to see how Frasier and Friends became TV icons. Television has no more valuable commodity than buzz, unless it is a time slot between two popular series. Friends and Frasier, which arrived a season apart and are departing a week...Tags: University of Miami, New York City Police Department, David Hyde Pierce, Courteney Cox, Hospitals and Clinics
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Ethnicity is in the house
Sun Television CriticThe on-screen arrival of the Boomerang Generation is not the only trend of the new fall season. While not as widespread, another theme that will be explored in several series involves multi-ethnic households - with an emphasis on the humor of ethnic...Tags: Minority Groups, NBC (tv network), Holly Robinson Peete, Whoopi Goldberg, African Americans
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'Family' tops 'Friends' as best comedy ever
Sun-SentinelA lot of noses were knocked out of joint this winter when NBC President Jeff Zucker declared Friends the best comedy of all time. The cast and crew of Frasier, which also is leaving NBC this month, were the most vocal of those miffed. However, champions...Tags: David Hyde Pierce, University of Miami, NBC (tv network), Mary Tyler Moore, Family
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Paul Bogart dies at 92; Emmy-winning TV director
Paul Bogart, an Emmy Award-winning director who launched his career during the days of live television in New York and later was a prolific director on the groundbreaking 1970s sitcom "All in the Family," has died. He was 92. Bogart died of age-related...
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TV director Paul Bogart dies at 92
VarietyDirector and producer Paul Bogart, a key figure in the days of early live television who went to helm more episodes of classic sitcom "All in the Family" than anyone else and was a producer of "The Golden Girls," died in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Sunday. He...Tags: Harvey Fierstein, Archie Bunker's Place (tv program), NBC (tv network), TNT (tv network), Geraldine Page
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Royal Television Society fetes Vertue: Channel 4 dominates U.K. kudos event
VarietyLONDON -- Trail-blazing U.K. independent producer Beryl Vertue has been honored with a lifetime achievement prize at the Royal Television Society's Program Awards. Vertue, whose Hartswood produces U.K. drama "Sherlock," began her career typing comedy...Tags: Cartoon Network (tv network), London (England), David Attenborough, Autism, BBC
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Which TV shows were most influential?
CNNThe most influential show in the history of television never finished a season among the 20 most popular programs in the Nielsen ratings. In its most popular season, "Hill Street Blues," which ran from 1981 to 1987, came in 21st place. And yet, according...Tags: Lost (tv program), The Office (tv program), American Bandstand (tv program) , Mary Tyler Moore, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (tv program)
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Mary Tyler Moore's taboo-breaking shows seen in new light
In recent months the name Mary Tyler Moore has been bandied about with unexpected regularity bordering on reckless abandon. This is not just because she recently made her first TV appearance in many moons on pal Betty White's show "Hot in Cleveland" or...Tags: Betty White, Valerie Harper, Music, Ed Asner, The Good Wife (tv program)
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Of meatheads and Muslims
Tribune Media ServicesWhere is Archie Bunker when you need him? The reactionary, bigoted curmudgeon of the hit sitcom "All in the Family" was one of the key cultural touchstones of the 1970s. A buffoon, to be sure, Archie was also a readily identifiable American type, the...Tags: ABC (tv network), Concerts, Christianity, Demonstration, TLC (tv network)
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