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World Series: Rocks & Sox On FOX

Sorry about the headline. You’ll see/hear that a billion freakin’ times before the series ends. The Colorado Rockies and Boston Red Sox play Game 1 of the World Series tonight at Fenway Park on FOX/FOX HD at 8:35pm ET. Should be a good series, with the Rockies on some freakish winning streak and the Red Sox coming off their usual ALCS comeback. Boston is probably the superior team, but the Rockies have silenced all the doubters before (and they have Jesus on their side). Part of us is pulling for the Rockies to finish the fairy tale and take some […]

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Comedy

Countdown To Extinction Week 4: A “Cavemen” Recap

Like “The Onion” once did with John Leguizamo’s abysmal sketch show “House of Buggin’,” we’re going to provide weekly recaps of “Cavemen” until it gets canceled. If you watched the first three episodes of Cavemen (come on, I can’t be the only one) you know that Nick’s work ethic is a bit lacking. So, when “The Mascot” begins with him getting ready for his new job as a substitute schoolteacher, it’s a momentous occasion — one that requires the taunting by his roommates. But, as it turns out, Nick’s not the only one looking for work: Andy has put together […]

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Action

“Chuck” Recap: Chuck Versus The Sizzling Shrimp.

When JD and Turk leave our moving picture boxes after this season of Scrubs, Chuck and Morgan look to be next in the Hetero-lifemates TV Character Line. Yes, that’s a real line and it forms to the left. No skipping. That means you, Sam and “Sock” from Reaper. Obviously dealing with separation anxiety, Morgan has organized “An Evening Of Morgan” with Chuck. And the second Sarah appears wearing her work uniform, we know Morgan’s evening is doomed. Morgan’s idea of the ultimate evening turns out to be shrimp. And lots of it. Unfortunately, the restaurant that houses the greatest sizzling […]

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Drama

You “Cane” Always Get What You Want — A Recap

Posted by Sarah This episode could’ve been titled “Alex’s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day.” That, or, “Someone Found Their Santana Collection and Decided to Play Every Song.” We start out in a meeting between Frank and Alex, which is normal enough until we start seeing it in green, and with the sound quality of a wiretap. Interesting. Cop-voiced cop comes into the room (there goes theory #1) and gives Alex back his gun, telling him it’s clean. Well, duh — you think Alex was going to have Quinonez shot with his own gun? The bad news is that a […]

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Comedy

“How I Met Your Mother” Recap: How I Met Everyone Else

Posted by Mike Last week I complained about the decline in the physical appearance of the show’s central cast. Well, I’m happy to report that at least Robin and Ted cleaned up nicely for this episode and actually looked like the Robin and Ted we know and love. Lily still has bad bangs, but it seems a little unreasonable to complain about something like that when an episode is as good as this week’s show. So let’s get on with the recap. As Future Ted tells his kids the story of yet another one of his girlfriends, he can’t recall […]

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Sports

More “E:60”: The Laker Girl, Baby Bullfighters, Ocho Cinco And A Deadly Bet

Features on tonight’s (Oct. 23 at 7pm ET) edition of ESPN’s E:60 newsmagazine series: The Laker Girl It’s not easy being Jeanie Buss. At age 46, Buss is juggling a set of complicated relationships while running business operations for the Los Angeles Lakers. Buss’ father, Jerry, owns the Lakers but has handed day-to-day oversight to Jeanie and her brother Jim, who runs the basketball side of the club and could eventually compete with Jeanie for the top job. Jeanie is in a long-term relationship with the team’s head coach, Phil Jackson, whom her father once fired. As the 2007-08 NBA […]

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Magazine Archive

A Timeline Of TV Terror

With additional reporting by Ryan A. Berenz, Karl J. Paloucek, Jeff Pfeiffer, Lori Lundquist Acken and Sarah Stefanko Prehistoric parents likely told scary stories around the family fire, horrific warnings designed to keep their children close to the cave. Soon after Gutenberg created the modern printing press, said press churned out The Poem of the Last Judgment, a lurid piece that must have given Renaissance children nightmares. Early radio broadcasts were filled with scary series like The Shadow, while silent films like Nosferatu scared people at the movies. Horror also made a very effective transition to the small screen, as […]

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TV News & Program Updates

Ellen and Iggy: If Ya Can’t Beat ‘Em, Put A Sad Lookin’ Kid On The Air.

Let’s see where we are, here on Day Three of Iggy-gate. Iggy … ‘member Iggy?… There he is! So cute in his little T-shirt! No wonder everyone is fighting over him. Iggy … has been placed with another family. Who hopefully live in rural Kansas and will not let him watch TV, use the Internet or read the tabloids until he is old enough to understand. Meanwhile, his first mother, Ellen …’member Ellen? … There she is! …doesn’t want to talk about it any more. Ellen doesn’t want to talk about anything anymore. So she’s taken her show off the […]

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TV News & Program Updates

New Start For “Starter Wife”

It took home one of the 10 Emmys for which it was nominated, but The Starter Wife — the hit USA Network miniseries of earlier this year — will have some more chances to take home the gold when it becomes a series. USA announced today that it has given a series order to Starter, which was originally based on a novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer, who returns as executive producer along with writers Josann McGibbon and Sara Parriott. Of course a key ingredient to its success is Debra Messing, and she is indeed coming back to reprise her role […]

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Comedy

“The Office” Recap: Money

Over the past few years, Pam has put up with a lot from Michael. So the fact that he has been watching The Devil Wears Prada in installments, and has identified with Meryl Streep’s character doesn’t faze her much. Besides, he eventually gets to the “big surprise ending” in which it turns out she’s the bad guy, and he apologizes. It’s when his next Netflix rental arrives that Pam begins to worry. “He’s watching Million Dollar Baby. … He’s going to try to kill me.” And so begins the final hourlong episode of The Office until the season finale. Next […]