Good news for “Dollhouse” fans. Fox will air all 13 episodes despite the show’s paltry ratings. The announcement came on the heels of impressive DVR data for last month’s “Dollhouse” premiere (up 50 percent from 1.0 to 1.5). “We’re going to run all the episodes,” Fox scheduling chief Preston Beckman told The Hollywood Reporter. “We’re [...]

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Five years in, a TV show has real got to pump up the volume or turn the beat around if it wants to stay fresh and juicy.  As we begin this fifth year, Seattle Grace Hospital is in trouble.  Its ratings have dipped, its staff is on edge, and the patients just [...]

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I’m a bit of a sucker ABC’s sappy melodramatic drama porn’s (except for ‘Private Practice’) but the third season of Brother & Sisters was a little too soap and a little less sap.
Season three starts off to a rocky start. Recycling the who’s-the-sixth-sibling plot from season two, but this time with [...]

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What do Woody Allen and J.J. Abrams have in common? They both have their own font. I know this from watching hours and hours of ‘Fringe’ and the tasty special features that come inside its magical little boxed set. Like many shows every fall, I get [...]

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This is how it usually goes down: a whole year of television goes by and I don’t watch one episode of ‘Desperate Housewives,’ then at the end of the summer the box set shows up on my desk, I watch one episode while doing laundry and other stuff, then another [...]

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Who’s going to rescue Tommy?
“Rescue Me” ended its strong fifth season with Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary), bleeding to death on a barroom floor after being shot twice by a revengeful Uncle Teddy (Lenny Clarke), grieving over the recent alcohol-fueled death of his wife.
Peter Tolan, co-creator of the FX show, told TVGuide.com that the shocking ending [...]

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Season 3 of “Mad Men” is about change, and that theme was evident in “Love Among The Ruins,” Sunday’s second episode. Change is coming to America in a big way during the pivotal year 1963, and it’s affecting the professional and personal lives of the characters in the absorbing AMC drama.
Don Draper contemplated the inevitability [...]

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