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Oprah Winfrey Announces End of Show
Oprah Winfrey, one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry, will announce Friday that her iconic daytime talk show will wrap at the end of its 25th season.
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Oprah Winfrey
After 30 years, traffic reporter Bob Marbourg is still the Jam Man at WTOP
Bob Marbourg never wanted to spin records or read the news on the radio. One thing, and maybe only one thing, fascinated him : the mad struggle of a few million people trying to get from Point A to Point B each day.
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Television
TV Preview: Tom Shales on HBO's riveting documentary "Terror in Mumbai"
Murder may be most foul when random and arbitrary, partly because the murderers may thus be imagining themselves God's equals, entitled to administer the ultimate in verdicts. Such was the character of a callous outbreak of killings in India a year ...
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Stuever TV Preview: Novelli, of Bravo's 'Chef Academy,' more yeller than teacher
Jean-Christophe Novelli has been called the sexiest chef in France, but over here, he's about as exciting as a lump of pastry dough.
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Lisa de Moraes TV Column: Winds of justice in Balloon Boy case
This week in the continuing drama "Your Children Are Your Meal Ticket to Reality TV Stardom":
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ABC's 'Hank' and Fox's 'Dollhouse' get yanked
You know your show is about to be canceled when the network decides it would rather run a second consecutive night of "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" than broadcast your fifth episode, immediately after which the network airs your Thanksgiving ...
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Television
Dollhouse
Hank
Lisa de Moraes TV Column: World Series, Rihanna win; Leno, Chris Brown lose
Yankees win, Chris Brown gets stomped on by Rihanna. Great week or what?
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Rihanna
Chris Brown
Jay Leno
TV Previews: Hank Stuever on 'Return to Duty' and 'Secrets of the Dead'
As a mop-haired, 23-year-old layabout on "The Real World: Brooklyn," taped in 2008 and seen this year, Ryan Conklin didn't leave much of an impression. (He plays guitar! He has a crush on a roommate! They're all drunk again!) But occasionally, he ...
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The Real World
Ryan Conklin
Hank
Secrets of the Dead
Tom Shales on possible role-switching for George Stephanopoulos and Diane Sawyer
In network television, Sunday mornings are not for sleeping in, going to church or Belgian waffles. They're for the Sunday morning talk shows, serious political palaver platforms that sometimes make news and consistently attract a demographically ...
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Television
Diane Sawyer
TV preview: Hank Stuever on Discovery Channel's D.C. Sniper documentary
John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo's killing spree in October 2002 happened just long enough ago that the saga now belongs in the collective millennial-age, post-9/11 scrapbook of Washington area anxiety and paranoia.
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Television
Hank
'V' debut draws 6.8 million viewers in key age group
More than 14 million people watched the unveiling of ABC's controversial "V" do-over, making it the second-biggest new-series opening of the two-month-old 2009-10 TV season.
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Television
Two wild and crazy guys go to the Oscars
NBC has won the latest round of trophy-show one-upmanship it had been waging against ABC, when the Motion Picture Academy announced late Tuesday that Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin would co-host the 82nd Academy Awards.
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Steve Martin
Alec Baldwin
Academy Awards
TV previews of 'V' and 'By the People'
There are some twisted little microbes living in the algorithms of the television programming grid, which might explain the delicious scheduling of "V" and "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama" back-to-back on different networks Tuesday night. ...
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Television
Tom Shales On TV: Barry Levinson's 'PoliWood'
Told he's had a nothing-if-not-eclectic career, Barry Levinson thinks for half a second and says, "As it turns out, I guess it has been." True. Not everyone could go from playing a deranged bellhop in a Mel Brooks farce to winning an Oscar for ...
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Barry Levinson
Mel Brooks
The TV Column: Lisa de Moraes on 'Southland,' Seth MacFarlane and 'Family Guy'?
TNT will hold a viewing of the body of "Southland," the NBC cop drama killed by Jay Leno, starting Jan. 12.
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SouthLand
Jay Leno
Seth Macfarlane
Family Guy
TV Review of "Washington in the '60s"
"Washington in the '60s," airing Monday night on WETA, conjures up a proud but haunted District that lost itself in rancorous smoke.
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TV Previews: Hank Stuever on three returning series on Bravo
Vicki, Jeana and the other "Real Housewives of Orange County" come back to television Thursday, and life there seems subdued and less sunny these days. Viewers first met the O.C. wives in the spring of 2006, which might as well have been some other ...
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The Real Housewives of Orange County
Hank
The ABCs of TLC, GSN and A& E: Niche networks skew younger to avoid ending up MIA
Starting Friday, the Weather Channel will interrupt its coverage of whatever tsunami, blizzard, hurricane or tornado is making life a perfect hell for folks in some neck of the world to bring you . . . an old movie.
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Television
TV Column: Is prime-time violence against women really going up?
The number of violent crimes against women shown in prime time on broadcast television is extremely small, relative to the number of overall violent crimes shown in prime time on broadcast TV, according to a new study by the ever-vigilant Parents ...
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Television
Prime Time
Preview of FX's 'The League': More fantasy than football
How is it possible to screw up America's favorite two contact sports -- sex and football -- this badly?
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Television
WJLA to break taboos in breast-cancer detection education
TV news reports about breast-cancer detection and treatment are common, though usually discreet, with female breasts typically depicted only in X-rays or tastefully draped.
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Television
A peek inside the 'Real World' house in Washington, D.C.
A wet slice of tomato dangles from the edge of the kitchen sink. A schedule for kickboxing classes is taped by the fridge. A copy of "Eclipse," the third novel in a series about angsty vampires, rests on a nightstand.
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The Real World
The TV Column - Lisa de Moraes: Microsoft is incompatible with Seth MacFarlane
While Poor Little Fox is now out on the street looking for another corporate sponsor to pay for its upcoming Seth MacFarlane comedy special, the watchdog group Parents Television Council on Tuesday twirled its mustache and threatened that any ...
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Television
Seth Macfarlane
Airwaves that echo with fright all month long? The horror! The horror!
Traditionally there are 12 days of Christmas, and eight days of Hanukkah. Why, then, would we possibly need "31 Days of Halloween," which is this month's slogan and gimmick on cable's Syfy (formerly Sci Fi) channel? Many, if not most, other cable ...
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Television
TV Preview: Hank Steuver on USA's 'White Collar'
It must be said right off that Matthew Bomer, who stars as paroled forger-thief-grifter Neal Caffrey in USA's stylish new crime procedural, "White Collar," is like, even cuter than Dr. Humunuh-humunuh or whatever his name is over there on CBS's ...
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White Collar
Three Rivers
Hank
NBC fills in the margins with notes for a new strategy
NBC stunned the Hollywood community Thursday when Jeff Gaspin, the latest NBC Universal Television Entertainment chairman, announced the network had done an abrupt about-face and would no longer program to profit margins.
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Television
Hank Stuever's TV preview of 'The Jeff Dunham Show' on Comedy Central
Every so often the inexplicable success of a bad comedy act just cannot be explicked. I mean, you don't have to like Larry the Cable Guy in order to see why his fans do. Same with Dane Cook : Even if his comedy drives you up a wall, you can always ...
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Television
Hank
Dane Cook
Lisa de Moraes TV Column: Lifetime bursts balloon of Heene family
Lifetime cable network, which spent a fortune stealing "Project Runway" away from Bravo in an attempt to goose its prime-time ratings, has had a pot of ratings gold dumped in its lap but, weirdly, has said "no thanks."
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Television
Project Runway
The TV Column: Sarah Palin to Be Guest on 'Oprah'
Oprah Winfrey, on a campaign to climb back from last season's ratings slump, will attempt to kiss and make up with conservative viewers on Nov. 16 when she has Sarah Palin on her syndicated talk show .
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Oprah Winfrey
TV Preview: Hank Stuever examines the HBO Documentary 'Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags'
"Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags" is an almost minute-for-minute example of what viewers have come to expect from the perfectly sewn style of an HBO documentary. In this case the clothes on your back, which almost certainly were made in Asia or ...
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Television
The Riches
Hank
Review of 'Monty Python: Almost the Truth'
Six hours is a fittingly absurd stretch of time to contemplate the origin and successes of Monty Python, the legendary British comedy troupe, and chew over its deeper significance. Six hours is deliriously too much to look at, or look away from -- ...
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Comcast-NBC Deal Could Mean Better TV for Us
What's being billed as one of the biggest media deals in years could also be seen as rescue mission -- liberating NBC from the clutches of its fumbling management and from General Electric, the hard-hearted defense contractor that bought the network ...
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Television
Lisa de Moraes's TV Column: Conan O'Brien, Newark Mayor Call a Truce
Conan O'Brien will meet with Newark Mayor Cory Booker on NBC's "Tonight Show" Friday, in what is being billed as a summit between two warring parties brokered by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, but is in fact a good old-fashioned, ginned-up ...
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Conan O'Brien
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Hank Stuever's TV Preview of National Geographic's 'Alaska State Troopers'
They're a year late, but here are those Alaska state troopers we all were once so fascinated by, when Sarah Palin was running for vice president while grappling with some unpleasant business having to do with her ex-brother-in-law.
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Alaska
Hank
Alaska State Troopers
The TV Column: Lisa de Moraes on MTV's 'Gone Too Far' Failure
MTV's deceased-DJ intervention show, "Gone Too Far," was DOA Monday night.
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Gone Too Far
MTV
TV Highlights: Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
With the movie adaptation of his famous book soon hitting theaters, the author is profiled in the 45-minute documentary "Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak" (HBO at 7), in which the "Where the Wild Things Are" writer urges ...
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Where the Wild Things Are
TV Preview: Hank Stuever on Wanda Sykes's 'I'ma Be Me' on HBO
Last fall, comedian and actress Wanda Sykes got married to a woman and got outraged enough at the state of California's same-sex marriage debate to publicly come out as a lesbian. Then Barack Obama won the election. (And gay marriages were henceforth ...
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Hank
Lisa de Moraes TV Column: Why'd DeLay Put Away Dancing Shoes
Did the producers of "Dancing With the Stars" drop a brick on Tom DeLay's feet when he became the show's main story line and they saw where the ratings were heading?
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Dancing With The Stars
'Dancing' Trips Up Tom DeLay's Comeback
Fractured feet did in former House majority leader Tom DeLay in his bid to make himself over from scandal-tainted pol to that nice old man who won the cheesetastic Mirrored Disco Ball on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars."
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Television
Dancing With The Stars
Telenovela Casts the Census Bureau in a Subplot
In just a matter of months, lovely, dark-eyed Perla Beltrán has suffered the usual trials of a telenovela babe -- pole-dancing in a dive bar, falling in love with a hunky gangster, learning of said gangster's untimely (bang! bang!) death minutes ...
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Strip Club Worker Held in 'Housewives of Atlanta' Slaying
ATLANTA -- A strip club worker is being held without bond in the death of a "Real Housewives of Atlanta" cast member's ex-fiance.
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Television
Real Housewives of Atlanta
Hank Stuever's TV Preview of 'Man Shops Globe'
In "Man Shops Globe," Keith Johnson is the man, and the globe exists mainly to cough up 19th-century settees and sideboards, handcrafted sparkly objects, Uzbek suzani fabrics and all the other exotic accessories that wind up in the 120 Anthropologie ...
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Television
Hank
TV Column: Lisa de Moraes on 'So You Think You Can Dance'
Fox network has issued still shots of a female contestant on "So You Think You Can Dance" that refute claims by the Panty Patrol blog that the woman was not wearing any underwear during the nanosecond she was seen on the show's Tuesday episode ...
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So You Think You Can Dance
David Letterman Tells Studio Audience About Extortion Scheme
David Letterman surprised his studio audience Thursday during the taping of his CBS show when he announced that he'd had sex with female "Late Show" staffers and that someone had tried to extort $2 million from him to keep quiet about the relationships.
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David Letterman
Lisa de Moraes TV Column: 'Criminal Minds' Spinoff Is in the Works
CBS -- having fully recovered from the self-loathing that precipitated its "we can be hip, too" season a couple years back, in which it perpetrated the musical-drama "Viva Laughlin" and '70s sex-romp "Swingtown" on an unamused public -- is now focused ...
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Swingtown
Criminal Minds
TV Preview: Hank Stuever on ABC's 'Hank' With Kelsey Grammer
They made two versions of the pilot episode of "Hank," the new ABC sitcom starring Kelsey Grammer, both of which leave unfunny whiffs of doom in their wake. I nevertheless remain clinically fascinated by the show's lameness. Version 1 was released to ...
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Hank
Kelsey Grammer
Tom Shales On TV: Fox's 'Cleveland Show' Is a Cartoon Blight
Seth MacFarlane, the Hollywood trade papers say, has a deal with Twentieth Century Fox worth $100 million over the next few years. If you want to see why he is prized so highly, and what it takes to strike it rich in today's Hollywood, check out the ...
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Seth Macfarlane
The Cleveland Show
Television
"The National Parks: America's Best Idea" (MPT and WETA at 8 p.m.) looks at the early days of the National Park Service from 1915 to 1919, and how the Grand Canyon officially became a national park.
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TV Preview: On NBC's "Trauma," Thrills Come With Meaning
Cynics might scoff that on "Trauma ," NBC's explosive new action series about a San Francisco medical-rescue team, the best acting is done by the helicopters. The whirlybirds get a very large amount of screen time in the hour-long drama that premieres ...
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Trauma
Thrills
Stuever TV Preview: Ken Burns's 'National Parks': Beautiful but Sometimes Boring
Ken Burns's "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" was six years in the making and it is 12 hours long, camped out every night this week on PBS, beginning Sunday. It is beautiful and erudite and contains all the underlined importance and swelling ...
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