Taran Killam returned this weekend as snarky 19th Century newspaper critic Jebidiah Atkinson who hates everything good. The Atkinson character made his SNL debut three weeks ago and this week set his sights on favorite holiday specials and movies...

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'POV: STORYCORPS' SPECIAL RESTORES TRUE HOLIDAY SPIRIT By Eric Gould

The holiday that minds us to be thankful has transmogrified to become the largest day of acquisition. Now, a charming storytelling special showing that the best gifts in life are simple...

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BRIAN GRIFFIN: IT'S A DOG'S LIFE, 1999-2013 By Eric Gould

Well, he lived about 14 human years, and he went out in sort of the right way. But still, last Sunday's death of Brian Griffin on Fox's Family Guy was a shock...

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DYLAN TV: HOW DOES IT FEEL? By Eric Gould

What if you turned on the TV and found a lip-synched version of "Like a Rolling Stone" on every channel? Like many of Dylan's ideas, you might feel like it's a bit of a game, or a mystery....

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THIS MEAN GIRL IS A GUY By Eric Gould

Ja'mie is the queen bee of her elite private girls school, full of ingratiating compliments for the headmaster and a ton of foul-mouthed insults for anyone crossing her... and "she's" a guy...

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ONE PART SWEET, ONE PART RAUNCHY, ONE PART TRICKSTER By Eric Gould

The comic actress, at her best, is wily and spry frequently tripping the audience, with some material on par with Louis C.K....

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ROBOT IS MAN'S BEST FRIEND By Eric Gould

The reversal in the upcoming Fox sci-fi series Almost Human is that the robot is more in touch with his feelings than his loutish partner, who punches and bashes his way through all his problems...

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Nov

THE ASSASSINATION, LIVE IN THE AFTERNOON By Eric Gould

George Clooney knows a little something about the power of television news, having directed, co-written and co-starred in the 2005 Edward R. Murrow salute Good Night and Good Luck. Now he lends his voice as the narrator of a documentary on Walter Cronkite's live broadcast on November 22, 1963...

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'PARTS UNKNOWN' WRAPS SEASON IN RUINS OF MOTOR CITY By Eric Gould

Anthony Bourdain has been to some pretty tough spots like war-torn Libya. Sunday night he finishes his first season on CNN by visiting more eye-opening wreckage. In Detroit...

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ALEC BALDWIN IS 'SEDUCED AND ABANDONED' By Eric Gould

Can a picture conceived as a work of art, say in the style of Last Tango In Paris, still get made in Hollywood?...

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Eric Gould

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Eric Gould is a writer in Boston and Associate Editor for tvworthwatching.com. With prior stints in art, music, photography and design, he casts a wide net across the media pool fishing for the smart, the surprising and the oddly compelling. He will have essays on Rectify, Six Feet Under and Girls in the upcoming “Finale: Considering the Ends of Television Series” from Syracuse University Press. Email him at gould@tvworthwatching.com

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