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2012
Sep
3
 
 
NBC promoted Grimm regularly during the Olympics, with the hope that it would give the second year series a boost with viewers. It doesn't look as though the network's strategy worked, but it's still worth checking in to see if the monster mash has game.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
3
 
 
Anthony Bourdain kicks off his final season of downbeat dining and drinking before departing for CNN. For the premiere he visits the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. Yes, there is mondo-barbecue. For more, see Eric Gould's Cold Light Reader.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
3
 
 
On this day in 1951, CBS premiered the daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
3
 
 
It's September, and time for football: college, pro and high school...Friday Night Lights was a TVWW favorite from its premiere. It's one of the best family dramas ever made...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
2
 
 
This 1951 Alfred Hitchcock movie contains one of his most famous, and most copied, plot premises: two strangers each agree to murder someone detested by the other, so that they can get away with the perfect crime. Two of them, actually. Farley Granger, Robert Walker star.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
2
 
 
The definition of “Duos,” as used here, is arguable. Do Archie and Meathead, on All in the Family, actually constitute a duo? But unless someone wants to allow the Paley Museum a total duo-ver,  we may as well enjoy this retrospective clip special as is.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
2
 
 
MIDSEASON FINALE: Last week’s stunning conclusion would have been enough of a dramatic climax for most shows to present as a season finale – but on Breaking Bad, that was just another episode. And now we get a real finale – but only a midseason one, as the series will return, after a brief hiatus, for its final eight episodes. To say I can’t wait would be an absurd understatement. This is my favorite TV show on the air right now.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
2
 
 
It’s the third episode of this new Tom Fontana-Barry Levinson series – and if it’s like their other series, it’ll just keep getting better as the characters and story lines evolve.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
2
 
 
Poor Justin Kirk is stuck, this season in NBC’s execrable Animal Practice, so it’s worth seeing him do much better work as the co-star, opposite Mary Louise Parker’s Nancy, in this long-running, about-to-end Showtime comedy.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Sep
2
 
 
On this day in 2000, ABC presented its final episode of The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show, marking the last time a Bugs Bunny, Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies cartoon appeared on broadcast television as part of a regularly-airing series...