Archive | Television
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TV Review: Real Housewives Of New Jersey Season 2
In its second season, The Real Housewives of New Jersey returned to form with a season premiere full of deception, double-talk, nastiness, narcissism, and the usual filler that has inexplicably made this edition the highest-rated of all The Real Housewives shows.
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Column: Geriatrics Get TV Laughs
I’ve been convinced for a very long time that the competition for the title of television’s funniest demographic is a two-horse race. On one side, pregnant ladies. On the other, old people. Why? They can get away with telling whoever they want whatever they want, with absolutely no consequences.
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TV Winners And Losers
It’s been one hell of a season in the television world, and I’ve tried to keep up with it as much as possible in this column. Whether I succeeded or not has yet to be seen, but I’m going to make one last push.
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Actor opens up about ‘Saved By The Bell’ experiences
Mark-Paul Gosselaar, best known as Zack Morris from the hit ‘90s television show “Saved by the Bell,” spoke about his struggles and successes as an actor at Emory U.
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Column: TV Cannot Capture College … And Maybe It Should Stay That Way
TV cannot manage get college right. Flashback to my youth (the start of TV shows failing to capture college and the college process correctly) and a fascinating episode of Saved By The Bell where Zack Morris (swoon) does surprisingly well on his SATs, receiving an astonishing 1502.
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TV review: Romantically humorless
Most ABC television shows, especially the comedies, are hit or miss. Series like ABC’s recent creation Modern Family have gumption that viewers fall in love with; the characters are original and flawed to the necessary comic extent, and the circumstances parody reality. Then there are the failures.
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‘Matchmaker’ dishes on college, relationships
Before her days as Bravo’s glamorous “Millionaire Matchmaker,” U. Miami alumna Patti Stanger studied screenwriting, lived in the Mahoney-Pearson dorms and frequented Bagel Emporium (for her signature scooped bagel with chicken salad and melted muenster).
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Writer talks “Family Guy,” social satire
When he was young, Andrew Goldberg would write stories as a way to calm down and collect his thoughts during school, where he described himself as “the class clown.
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“Aqua Teen” hits the road for live shows
Ten years ago, Dave Willis co-created a show about a milkshake, French fries and a glob of meat that live in suburban New Jersey and solve crimes. What sounded like the most obscenely stupid plot ever has since blossomed into a cartoon classic.