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2012
Oct
9
 
 
A social worker visits the Chance home – and, by chance, interprets their everyday shenanigans as elderly abuse inflicted upon poor Maw Maw (Cloris Leachman). The social worker is played by Jenny Slate, a former repertory member, though only briefly, of Saturday Night Live.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
9
 
 
On July 15, 2008, I filed a TVWW blog about another blog – Joss Whedon’s made-for-the-Internet Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, produced during that year’s writers’ strike. My opinion, expressed in Bianculli’s Blog, was a rave then. And it’s a rave now, four years later, as Dr. Horrible, starring Neil Patrick Harris, finally gets its prime-time broadcast network premiere, with all three parts presented in a concise one-hour format on the CW. Don’t m
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
9
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: It’s Season 31 for this indispensable PBS nonfiction series, and it begins with one of the regular highlights of every election season: The Choice, in which the presidential candidates are profiled in a more measured, thoughtful and impressive way than most other broadcast biographies. This year, of course, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama get the Choice treatment, and it’s one of my choices for tonight’s recommended viewing. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
9
 
 
The last few weeks on this show have been so unsettling, there’s been no time to point out some of the smaller but still noteworthy occurrences – such as the recent guest role by Ashley Tisdale, of High School Musical fame, as the very uncharacteristic role of young prostitute Emma Jean, who was hired by Clay (Ron Perlman) and beaten by a jealous Gemma (Katey Sagal). Tonight, Gemma’s son, Jax (Charlie Hunnam), thinks seriously about expanding the Sons into its own prostitution
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
9
 
 
On this day in 1990, TBS debuted Part 1 of the celebrated Australian miniseries, Bangkok Hilton...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
9
 
 
Arrow may not be a-point-ment television. But for starters at least, it's a sharper little tale than expected...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
9
 
 
Jon Gnagy was a TV star before Lucy, before Berle, before Kukla, Fran or Ollie. A self-taught artist, he decided teaching was his true calling, and television was the ideal classroom...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
8
 
 
On this day in 1958, NBC introduced the Western, Bat Masterson, a series loosely based on the life of frontier lawman William Barclay "Bat" Masterson...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
8
 
 
After yesterday’s action-packed quadruple-header, tonight’s postseason baseball schedule offers a mere two games, both televised by TBS. First comes Game 2 of the Washington Nationals vs. St. Louis Cardinals contest, with the Nationals enjoying a 1-0 edge after coming from behind to beat the Cardinals in their first meeting. Then, at 8 p.m. ET, the New York Yankees face the Baltimore Orioles for Game 2 of their series, after breaking open Game 1 in the ninth late Sunday night to earn
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
8
 
 
This week, after a particularly clumsy stretch of child rearing, Lily and Marshall (Alyson Hannigan, Jason Segel) decide to hire a nanny, and find a seemingly perfect caregiver who makes them cry – when she announces her expected salary.