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2010
Dec
10
 
 
Sometime Friday afternoon, you'll be able to tune to your local NPR station and hear my list of the very best new TV boxed sets and gifts for the holidays. But for TV WORTH WATCHING readers, the list follows immediately, along with easy links to go buy them...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Dec
10
 
 
Just five weeks before his Oct. 14, 1977 death, a crooning, cardigan-sweatered Ghost of TV Christmas Specials Past performed a well-worn carol with an androgynous, cutting-edge rock star 44 years his junior...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Dec
9
 
 
Big holiday weekend! You like classic Christmas episodes? You get TV Land's "Merrython," plus Spike's stackup of "Married With Children." You like new Christmas episodes?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Dec
9
 
 
Not everybody's list of film credits includes both the family fun of Santa Claus and the adult exploitation of "Shanty Tramp," plus the unmistakable oeuvre of masked Mexican wrestler/superhero Santo. But one man's does...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Dec
8
 
 
I've watched The Simpsons with delight, and with rather dedicated regularity, ever since they first popped up on Fox's The Tracey Ullman Show 23 years ago. And though I'm merely noting, not complaining, last Sunday's Christmas special ended with what I consider the naughtiest joke in the lengthy history of Matt Groening's cartoon clan. And yes, it involved the week's special "human" guest star, Katy Perry...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Dec
6
 
 
At a glance, country music artists can get awarded for pretty much anything by anybody, in categories of such graying distinction as Top Vocalist vs. Top Entertainer. (Isn't the Top Vocalist pretty much the most entertaining??) And the shows seem to be spawning. Case in point: Fox's new American Country Awards special, tonight (Monday) at 8 p.m. ET...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Dec
4
 
 
TNT's best-ever drama series -- the show that defies all conventional wisdom about what should work on TV -- finds its way to Season 2 Monday night. Amazingly, Men of a Certain Age (10 p.m. ET) has nothing to do with fatalities, legalities or life-saving medical procedures. Its three middle-aged central characters...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Dec
4
 
 
Don't worry, I'm not revealing ANY secrets about this Sunday's installments of Showtime's Dexter or (the season finale of) AMC's "The Walking Dead". But what I AM revealing -- what I marvel at -- is how incredibly, impressively tense these two shows make me as I watch...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Dec
4
 
 
Were there a logical answer to the following, finding lasting world peace wouldn't be far behind: Why are there three seasons of Keeping up with the Kardashians available for sale on DVD, but none for Brooklyn Bridge, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, The Wonder Years and Ed -- and only partial video releases of Newhart, St. Elsewhere and The Paper Chase? Now is the season of, among other things, give and get. Great news for people who want to drink endlessly from the well of Kardashian w
 
 
 
  
 
 
2010
Dec
2
 
 
Barbara Walters and ABC's prime-time domain aren't quite done with one another. She's given up her yearly pre-Oscar specials, but hasn't yet relinquished her clout when it comes to big-time hobnobbing. So here comes ABC's "One Night, One Big Event" -- namely back-to-back Dec. 9th Babs specials in which she first spends an hour with Oprah Winfrey and then presents her 18th 10 Most Fascinating People of the year extravaganza...