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Last week’s episode was harrowing, ending with a rescue party from the prison out to free their captured group members from the Governor’s fenced-in compound. Tonight, it all comes to a head – just as The Walking Dead comes to a temporary end. This is the series’ midseason finale. But if you can’t get enough, or want to catch up on episodes you missed, AMC is preceding tonight’s new episode with the complete run of Season 3 episodes to date, beginning at 2 p.m
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
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SEASON FINALE: This is the 12th and final episode of Season 3, with Nucky (Steve Buscemi) fighting for his life, and everyone around him forced to choose sides. Last week’s episode was violent and unpredictable; tonight, expect more of the same.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
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Last week’s episode was bloody even by Dexter standards, and claimed the life of one of this season’s significant antagonists. But Yvonne Strahovski, as Hannah, is still around – though what she’ll do next, with Dexter hovering protectively, is anyone’s guess. And what George (Jason Gedrick) will do next, now that he’s taken a shot at his own boss, is anyone’s guess too.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
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Last week’s episode provided the most drama-packed Thanksgiving TV dinner of the season, with the respective mothers of Alicia (Julianna Margulies) and Peter (Chris Noth) going at it – while ironically, in an adjoining room, their children did the same thing. Wow. Can’t wait to see the after-effects of that impulsive liaison.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
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Last week’s episode revealed this show’s 24 lineage, as the investigative agency was discovered to have someone working on the inside who actually was a double agent against the CIA. On 24, the CTU had more moles than my own backyard – and now, on Homeland, the CIA may be following suit. But we can trust Carrie (Claire Danes), even though few of her colleagues do.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
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It was November, 2004 when I met Larry Hagman for coffee at a rather nice Manhattan hotel. It was probably the most intimate moment I ever had interviewing a celebrity...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
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On this day in 2004, the fashion-themed reality competition show Project Runway made its debut on Bravo...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Dec
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Few Christmas TV traditions remain, but here’s one of them. This 1946 Frank Capra holiday classic used to be shown by a ridiculous number of local stations and cable networks each year – until the film’s rights were rescued from public domain, and NBC landed a contract to televise the film exclusively, twice each year. This is the first of this month’s two prime-time NBC telecasts, with James Stewart and Donna Reed starring in a story of a small-town banker. Events of rec
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
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When this 2003 comedy was released in theaters, Will Ferrell, as a human raised by elves, was the big star. His female co-star, Zooey Deschanel, was relatively unknown at the time – as was the strength of her singing voice, now on fine display as the distaff half of She & Him. But in this movie, Ferrell hears her singing in the shower, and is enchanted. Understandably, and, in retrospect, a few years ahead of the national curve.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
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Aaron Sorkin wrote the play on which this 1992 movie was based, and wrote the screenplay, too. Presto: Before the decade was out, he was writing The West Wing. But here’s his big starting break, a little movie starring Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson. I guess everyone has to start somewhere.