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2012
Oct
24
 
 
I wouldn't mind knowing Peter Gunn again, today, in some way. Not just these beat-vintage DVDs, but a new incarnation or two of the half-hour "crime jazz" genre...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
24
 
 
On this day in 2000, NBC debuted The Michael Richards Show, the first major post-Seinfeld project for the show's celebrated Kramer...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
24
 
 
The Detroit Tigers swept the New York Yankees to get here with ease, and well-rested. The San Francisco Giants had to come back from a two-game deficit to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 7 to win their pennant, so the two teams have gotten to this 2012 World Series by very different paths. But they’re both here – and for game 1, Detroit ace Justin Verlander takes the mound, with Barry Zito pitching for San Francisco.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
24
 
 
Owl be seeing you in all the old familiar places… Tonight’s installment of Nature follows the snowy owl in the Arctic – which, when it snows, is sometimes difficult to do. For a full review, see Eric Gould’s Cold Light Reader. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
24
 
 
With Halloween on the horizon, here’s a fun movie to record and set aside for the occasion. Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Boris Karloff all star in this 1963 low-budget Roger Corman movie, so loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven that it barely counts. But it’s got enough tongue-in-cheek wit, and sly performances, to make you forget it nevermore.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
24
 
 
All three families have their own way of celebrating Halloween this year – and given past Halloween episodes for this series, that sounds like three times the delightful insanity.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
24
 
 
This second episode of Season 2 continues to stretch the parameters even as it’s establishing the new season’s setting and characters. Just when you think you have a handle on where this series is going, here comes the flashbacks – and, in addition, here comes the exorcist.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
23
 
 
In honor of Ellen DeGeneres' recently-awarded Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, here's a clip from Ellen that perfectly illustrates DeGeneres' style of humor...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
23
 
 
On this day in 2000, Fox launched the David E. Kelley drama, Boston Public...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Oct
23
 
 
Fifty years ago, the U.S. blockade of ships heading into Cuba, to protest the construction of Soviet missile bases within 100 miles of the Florida cost, precipitated the Cuban Missile crisis, the closest our planet has come, to this point, to nuclear war. I was a kid in South Florida at the time, but I wasn’t worried: We had been taught to duck and cover, and hide under our school desks. This new documentary profiles the three men who sat at their country’s most powerful desks, witho