Stephen Nathan, one of the executive producers of the Fox hit series Bones, wrote a message to the nation's television critics that came with the DVD of the first two episodes of the seventh season. He wrote: "Bones finds itself dealing with a happily unsolvable situation: Brennan and Booth are a couple. And they are about to have a baby... but we also have seen they couldn't be more unsuited for each other...

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HOW A FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT WRITER GOT HOOKED ON 'AMERICAN HORROR STORY' By Jane Boursaw

I shouldn't like FX's American Horror Story. It's weird and shocking and disturbing. It goes against everything I know is good and true from my Midwest Methodist upbringing. And yet, every time an episode screener arrives here from FX, I drop everything to go watch it, gluing myself to the TV in rapt horror...

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'GOOD WIFE,' BAD TIME SLOT By David Bianculli

Tuesday's New York Times includes an excellent Bill Carter story about the ramifications of CBS moving its drama The Good Wife from Tuesdays to Sundays this season, making it subject to East Coast time delays from pro football overruns. CBS executives say that, in getting the word out about the annoying time shifts, they're "doing about everything we can." No, they're not. They're not doing the most obvious and important thing...

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DVD DEALS: 'L&O,' TOM HANKS' WW2! By Diane Werts

The deluge of DVD/Blu-ray gift sets has begun! And TVWW is on top of it. But we're not actually inside all those sets yet, so our reviews aren't ready. And neither, yet, is our annual Holiday Buying Guide. In the meantime, here's a quick rundown on some new big box sets we'll be exploring soon in much more depth...

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HISTORY'S 'VIETNAM IN HD' HAS CLARITY OF PURPOSE - AND PICTURES By Ed Bark

History Channel thrived on combat in its formative years, offering heaping helpings of grainy war footage. Sixteen years after its launch -- and now known simply as History -- it's back to the future with a digitally remastered, highly personalized look at armed conflict...

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AMBITIOUS 'HELL ON WHEELS' GOES WEST, BUT SOMETIMES HEADS SOUTH By Ed Bark

Everyone gets railroaded to some degree in "Hell On Wheels", a truly gritty but not always galvanizing saga of how the west was run over by the Union Pacific. Paired with AMC's resident evil hit The Walking Dead, this is easily the best western series since HBO's Deadwood. Then again, there really hasn't been a weekly western since...

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HOW 'HELL ON WHEELS' ROLLED OVER ME By Theresa Corigliano

I was about as conflicted as "Hell on Wheels" antihero Cullen Bohannon, Confederate soldier turned vigilante, seeking the men responsible for the death of his wife..Bohannon's your archetypal Western hero -- driven, mysterious and glowery, yet with a nugget of goodness inside (his Yankee wife persuaded him to give his slaves their freedom), even as he murders his way across the country...

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US! TV WORTH WATCHING IS FOUR YEARS OLD! By David Bianculli

On Nov. 5, 2007, the same day the TV writers in Hollywood decided to go on strike, the website TV WORTH WATCHING was launched. The strike didn't last, but, so far, TVWW has. It's gone from one writer (me) on Day One to more than 15 writers four years later. And we have big plans, which we hope won't exceed our grasp, for 2012...

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AN ARTISTIC CHAIN REACTION: MUSIC BY 'OZ'-MOSIS By Noel Holston

Art is a never-ending seduction. One thing leads to another. And another and another. Examples of art begetting art are innumerable, from Chagall's take on A Midsummer Night's Dream to the W.H. Auden poem inspired by Breughel's Fall of Icarus...and there is perhaps no better example of this artistic chain reaction than the immortal 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, which will have its umpteenth annual showings this weekend on TBS...

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HOLIDAY TV: CHRISTMAS MOVIES ALL WEEKEND -- YES, THIS WEEKEND! By Diane Werts

Christmastime is here. Which is no surprise to anyone who's seen the holiday tree/decor in the studios of TV shopping channels for the past, oh, month now. But it's really, truly arriving on entertainment TV this weekend, with Hallmark Channel's three-day yule marathon and its two TV movie premieres...

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