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Arts, Briefly: Donny Osmond, ‘NCIS’ Are Ratings Winners
According to Nielsen’s estimates, the two-hour “Dancing With the Stars” finale on ABC drew 19.2 million viewers, but CBS won the night overall.
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The TV Watch: Community Standard or Double Standard?
The fallout over Adam Lambert’s performance on the American Music Awards is a reminder of TV’s policy on gay men: Do tell, just don’t show.
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On ‘The Biggest Loser,’ Health Can Take Back Seat
Some contestants of NBC’s “The Biggest Loser” say that dangerous weight-loss techniques are common.
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Lou Dobbs Weighs Senate Run, as a Steppingstone
A spokesman for the former anchor Lou Dobbs said he may run against Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey.
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Arts, Briefly: Dancing to the Top
For the sixth time in seven weeks, ABC earned the most viewers on Monday night as “Dancing With the Stars” drew a season best: 20.5 million from 8 to 9:30 p.m., according to Nielsen’s estimates.
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Arts, Briefly: Curtains Are Drawn at the Gosselin House
About 4.3 million viewers watched the final installment of “Jon & Kate Plus 8” on Monday, Nielsen said.
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Video Game Review | Borderlands: The Thrill’s in the Gunplay, With Lots of Guns to Play With
With its gritty sense of style and comic-book-inspired art direction, Borderlands by Gearbox Software is one of the finest guilty-pleasure shooter games of recent years.
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Television Review | 'Ben 10: Alien Swarm': Teenage Hero Wears His Powers on His Wrist
In making a live-action movie out of a children’s cartoon that exists in large part to sell products, Cartoon Network hasn’t succeeded in creating something that will interest older teenagers, let alone adults.
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Ben 10
Arts, Briefly: Music Awards Strong, but CBS Is Stronger
The American Music Awards drew its largest audience in seven years on Sunday as ABC attracted 14.2 million viewers, more than 2 million better than last year.
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Television Review | 'Frontline: The Card Game': In Love Affair With Credit, It’s Business as Usual
“The Card Game,” a new “Frontline” report having its premiere on Tuesday on PBS, explores the questionable practices of the American credit card industry.
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Television Review | 'Apollo Wives': The Women Left on Earth When Space Called Men
“Apollo Wives,” a breezy documentary being shown Tuesday on BBC America, gives the spouses of the Apollo astronauts a chance to talk about the space program as they saw it.
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White House Pushes Science and Math Education
The plan will enlist companies and nonprofits, including “Sesame Street,” to spend money and time to encourage students to pursue science, technology, engineering and math.
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Looking for a Leader in the Post-Oprah Landscape
A wide range of contenders, some of them linked to Oprah Winfrey herself, will vie for the dominant role in daytime.
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Oprah Winfrey
Rachael Ray
Jay Leno
Ellen DeGeneres
The Media Equation: A Triumph of Avoiding the Traps
Oprah Winfrey’s gut intuition, about knowing when to say no and when it is time to go, is worth studying at every business school in the country.
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Television Review | 'The Lost JFK Tapes': In Small Details, a Day That Stunned the Nation
This program creates a moment-by-moment account of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy from numerous film and photographic sources.
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Arts, Briefly: Dreamworks Looks ‘Under the Dome’
Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks Television are teaming up with the author Stephen King to produce a limited series for cable based on Mr. King’s latest novel, “Under the Dome,” Variety reported.
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Television Review | 'Find My Family': Reuniting Lost Relations, Leaving Time for Tears
Based on the first episode of “Find My Family,” soul means tears.
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Let’s Take It Outside
Unlike rival small-claims shows, “Street Court” goes right to the dispute’s heart, bathroom or front lawn.
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Green Inc. Column: New Voices on Climate Change
Most television weather presenters have studiously avoided using their slots to discuss global warming. But that may be changing.
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Paul Wendkos, Director of ‘Gidget’ Surfer Movies, Is Dead at 84
Mr. Wendkos was a movie and television director best known for the frothy surfer film “Gidget,” but whose other productions ranged from thrillers to historical dramas.
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Sunday Routine | Seth Meyers: Mostly, It’s About Recovering From ‘S.N.L.’
The “Saturday Night Live” fixture starts slowly and builds toward the palate-cleansing act of doing some improvisational comedy.
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The TV Watch: The Fine Art of Quitting While She’s Ahead
It’s a measure of Oprah Winfrey’s outsize stature that the news that she would shut down “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in September 2011 buckled the media world.
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Music Review | Melinda Doolittle: A Survivor of ‘Idol’ With Heart
The former “American Idol” contestant Melinda Doolittle performed on Thursday evening at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency.
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Arts, Briefly: Bill Moyers to Leave Weekly Television
The PBS mainstay Bill Moyers said he was retiring from weekly television and would end his Friday night public affairs show, “Bill Moyers Journal,” on April 30, 2010.
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Arts, Briefly: A ‘Flash’ in the Pan?
Once one of the brightest hopes of the new fall schedule, the ABC series “FlashForward” declined to some of its lowest ratings of the year on Thursday night.
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Bill Moyers to End His Run on Weekly Television
Bill Moyers will end his Friday night public affairs show "Bill Moyers Journal" on April 30, 2010.
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Bill Moyers
Serving Up Rockers, Out of Their Shells
A new cooking show on the Independent Film Channel combines invites musicians into the kitchen.
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Familiar Faces Chasing Perps and Plots
Steven Seagal and Jesse Ventura each have a taste of reality, to varying degrees, on two new programs coming to cable.
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Steven Seagal
Film: Opening Wide His (Repaired) Heart
After heart surgery, the comedian Robin Williams has become more introspective and more grateful for what he has.
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Robin Williams
A Daytime Network Franchise Bets on Her Future With Cable
The media mogul Oprah Winfrey will end her daytime talk show, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” in 2011 as she prepares to start a cable channel of her own.
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Google to Caption YouTube Videos
The move is the first major step toward making millions of videos accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people.
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Arts, Briefly: Crime Pays for CBS
CBS finished first in the ratings on Wednesday with a crime-filled lineup.
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Nickelodeon’s Stepchild, Eager for More Love
As the musical children’s show “Yo Gabba Gabba!” continues to take significant steps into mainstream popular culture, its producers crave more support from its network.
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Arts, Briefly: Sarah Palin Generates High Ratings for ‘Oprah’
Sarah Palin delivered the highest audience in two years to “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on Monday.
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Arts, Briefly: Even With Locklear, ‘Melrose’ Lacks Bloom
The return of Heather Locklear to “Melrose Place” did little to improve that CW drama’s ratings.
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Television Review | 'Terror in Mumbai': Using Tapes and a Timeline to Trace the Mumbai Massacre
“Terror in Mumbai,” a new HBO documentary having its premiere on Thursday, uses interviews, videos and intercepted calls to untangle the attacks in that Indian city last November.
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Arts, Briefly: New ‘Oprah’ Spinoff for Interior Designer
Oprah Winfrey’s production company is proposing a daytime talk show starring Nate Berkus, an interior designer and a regular on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”
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Arts, Briefly: ‘This Is It’ on MTV
MTV Networks has acquired exclusive television rights to the Michael Jackson concert film “This Is It” for six years beginning in 2011, the company said on Tuesday.
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Ken Ober, Host of ‘Remote Control’ on TV, Dies at 52
Mr. Ober was a brassy comedian best known as the host of the 1980s-era MTV game show “Remote Control.”
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Edward Woodward, Star of Spy Series, Dies at 79
Mr. Woodward was a British actor with a long résumé in television and theater who was best known in the United States as the star of “The Equalizer.”
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Arts, Briefly: Football Rules TV
NBC’s coverage of the New England Patriots-Indianapolis Colts game delivered the highest ratings for a “Sunday Night Football” broadcast since September.
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Arts, Briefly: Larry Charles Returning to Network Television
After devoting most of his energy in recent years to feature films and cable, the writer, director and producer Larry Charles is returning to network television.
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Larry Charles
Arts, Briefly: Writer of ‘Secret Diary’ Comes Forward
A British scientist, Brooke Magnanti, told The Sunday Times of London that she was Belle de Jour, the escort whose sexual experiences inspired “Secret Diary of a Call Girl.”
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Television Review | 'Frontline: A Death in Tehran': That Face of Protest in Iran, Fading Fast
“A Death in Tehran,” Tuesday’s “Frontline” on PBS, explores the murder of the Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan.
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The TV Watch: Palin Onstage, Still Moving Off Message
Sarah Palin’s appearance Monday on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” looked less like a celebratory comeback than a redo of the presidential campaign.
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A Market Segment ‘Glee’ Can Call Its Own: Theater Folk
“Glee,” Fox’s hourlong musical comedy series, has become a cult favorite among the theater community in New York.
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John J. O’Connor, a Times TV Critic in Years of Industry Upheaval, Dies at 76
Mr. O’Connor was as a television critic for The New York Times for more than 25 years.
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Arts, Briefly: Lou Dobbs to Visit ‘O’Reilly’
Lou Dobbs is scheduled to appear as a guest on Monday night’s edition of “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News, Variety reported.
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Video Game Review | New Super Mario Bros. Wii: Mario and Luigi, Back to the Wii: The More Players, the Deadlier
New Super Mario Bros. Wii is nothing close to a casual party game. It will drive many children into a tantrum or a sulk.
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A Sapphic Victory, but Pyrrhic
The appearance of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi on Oprah Winfrey’s show underscored how tough it is to figure out where Americans stand on same-sex marriage.
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