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2008
Feb
20
 
 
The PBS series "Great Performances," tonight at 9 ET (check local listings), presents a telecast of the 2006 revival of "Company," the groundbreaking Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth. Raul Esparza plays Bobby, the single man surrounded by ambivalently married couples...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Feb
19
 
 
There's an old network trick when it comes to promoting truly tacky TV shows: If a new program is mind-numbingly bad or indefensible, don't send preview copies to critics. Fox used to be the champ at that in the reality-show genre, and did it again recently by unveiling "Moment of Truth" without sending advance episodes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Feb
18
 
 
Two of the judges from "Dancing with the Stars" learn which of their dance teams emerges as victorious in tonight's finale of ABC's "Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann." I couldn't care less. No, wait, I could care less...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Feb
15
 
 
If not for the strike, this wouldn't have happened... but starting Sunday, CBS will be repeating the first season of "Dexter," the daring Showtime series I ranked as one of the Top 10 TV shows of 2007. But it arrives, it should be noted, a little differently...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Feb
14
 
 
At first, it appeared that Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart hadn't gotten the memo that the writers were back. Otherwise, why start the show by calling it "A Daily Show," Stewart's personal show of support for his missing staffers, rather than the non-strike title The Daily Show?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Feb
13
 
 
When Writers Guild of America members voted yesterday to authorize an end to the strike, it had been exactly 100 days, by my count, since the strike began on Nov. 5, 2007. And I'm pretty sure I'm counting correctly, since that was the day, by coincidence, I launched TV WORTH WATCHING...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Feb
12
 
 
When I visited "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" last month to attend the rehearsal of an hour devoted entirely to Ringo Starr, I was impressed enough by one unfamiliar face to consider going up backstage and complimenting her afterward...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Feb
11
 
 
The end of the Writers Guild of America strike, if it plays out this week as expected, will arrive just in time, and conclude the only way it should: With the membership voting to accept terms, rather than accept the decision of the WGA equivalent of super-delegates...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Feb
8
 
 
What happens tomorrow, in separate East and West Coast meetings of active members of the Writers Guild of America, will determine whether the four-month-old strike will be ending very, very soon. My guess is based on a combination of conversations and an urgent Hollywood syzygy, with the Oscars, the upfronts and the May sweeps all dependent upon a swift resolution...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2008
Feb
7
 
 
The writers' strike, now officially into month four, could end any day now (for once, that's the same word I'm getting from various sources, who have yet to agree on anything). If these are the waning days - and nights - of the strike, then it ought to be noted that TV's late-night shows have managed to do some especially strong work lately, with or without writers...