CBS' ‘The Mentalist' almost works, but when ‘Opportunity Knocks' on ABC, don't answer
McClatchy Newspapers
9/22/2008, by Glenn Garvin
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Remember when they used to call CBS the Tiffany Network? These days, it's the Xerox Network, its new shows like perfect third- or fourth-generation copies that can't be told from the originals _ "CSI" if they're dramas, "Two And A Half Men" if they're comedies. If a new ...
‘The Guardian' becomes ‘The Mentalist' for new CBS series
McClatchy Newspapers
9/22/2008, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Network lineups are loaded with television shows where bits of hair and fibers, drops of DNA and a host of other small clues are used to track down criminals. Most of the time the tests are run in police labs that look like something from the 1960s animated TV show "The ...
What's that lingering odor? Sunday night's Emmys ceremony
McClatchy Newspapers
9/22/2008, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Sunday night's telecast of the 60th Annual Emmy Awards set a new standard for awards shows. You could take every elephant Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus owns, feed them rancid chili and spoiled boiled eggs for a month, and they could not create a bigger ...
‘You Must Remember this: The Warner Bros. Story,' on PBS' ‘American Masters'
McClatchy Newspapers
9/19/2008, by Hal Boedeker
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - Warner Bros. has told many stellar stories. But the studio stumbles with its own in "You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story." The five-hour documentary is a scrapbook of classic clips and self-congratulation. PBS' "American Masters" presents this superficial ...
Time to fall for TV — again?
McClatchy Newspapers
9/19/2008, by Chuck Barney
Contra Costa Times (MCT) - For years, Jacqueline Piona carried on a passionate love-affair with television, her heart steadfast and true But then came the messy breakup.
Shortly after TV's script writers went on strike last fall, the Benicia, Calif., resident watched in horror as her favorite new ...
Producer hopes new CBS series ‘Worst Week' has better luck than show's protagonist
McClatchy Newspapers
9/19/2008, by Rick Bentley
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - The idea behind the new CBS comedy "Worst Week" is that Sam Briggs (Kyle Bornheimer) is having a bad stretch of luck. It is a really bad stretch. We are talking the length of the Great Wall of China stretch. But through it all he prevails. At least he had better or ...
Aussie actress Anna Torv is busy keeping secrets on ‘Fringe'
McClatchy Newspapers
9/19/2008, by David Hiltbrand
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT) - Anna Torv has just returned to her Manhattan apartment from another demanding shoot on the set of Fox's new suspense series, "Fringe" (Tuesdays, 9 p.m. EDT). But her workday is not done. "I have to cram pages of dialogue for tomorrow," the actress says on the ...
Suspense over magician David Blaine's upcoming feat
McClatchy Newspapers
9/19/2008, by Bob Groves
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT) - David Blaine, the magician who has been buried alive and encased in ice, now plans to let fame go to his head, with the help of a North Jersey physician. Blaine will hang upside down 50 feet above Central Park for 60 hours Monday through Wednesday.
In previous ...
Blockbuster's Top 10 video game sales and rentals
McClatchy Newspapers
9/18/2008
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT) - RENTALS - These are the Top 10 renting video-game titles at U.S. BLOCKBUSTER stores for the week that ended Sept. 14. 1.
MERCENARIES 2: WORLD IN FLAMES _ X360
2.
MADDEN NFL 09 _ X360
3.
MERCENARIES 2: WORLD IN FLAMES _ PS3
4.
SOUL CALIBUR IV _ ...
Capsule previews of four returning network series
McClatchy Newspapers
9/18/2008, by Hal Boedeker
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) - The new television season officially starts Monday. The networks hope old favorites still have their oomph or can win back viewers. Television critic Hal Boedeker looks at four returning series. _"Dancing With the Stars"
Season start: 8 to 10 p.m. Monday, 9 to 10 p.m. ...
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