Department Index
Television 2009:
What you're watching.
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- Stop Them Before They Pout Again Is The City destroying America?
Nov. 25, 2009 - Time for a Beauty Pageant How to score chicks on the Disney Channel.
Nov. 20, 2009 - I Love Glee Who knew a musical comedy could be so good?
Nov. 12, 2009 - Slouching Towards St. Louis A journey through the Travel Channel.
Nov. 6, 2009 - Guess Who's Coming To Eat Us for Dinner The classic '80s series V gets a post-9/11 update.
Nov. 3, 2009 - Thrust, Lunge, Vomit, Smile! A TV critic journeys through the cheerful hell of exercise shows.
Oct. 30, 2009 - The League Finally, a great comedy about fantasy football.
Oct. 28, 2009 - Lock 'N Load A show about the people who actually buy guns.
Oct. 23, 2009 - The Plot Thins FlashForward was a genius idea for a show. Too bad it's flailing.
Oct. 21, 2009 - 30 Rock's Smug Premiere There's nothing wrong with being fun and popular and just giving people what they want!
Oct. 16, 2009 - Crap Jobs Parking Wars and All Worked Up repossess reality TV.
Oct. 16, 2009 - Don't Throw the Baby Out With the Bathwater I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant is a freak show in a family way.
Oct. 8, 2009 - The Good Wife Julianna Margulies on-ramps and stands by her man.
Oct. 7, 2009 - Bank of Mom and Dad A new show in which parents try to instill financial sense into their kids.
Oct. 2, 2009 - Doctors on TV What America learns about health care from watching Mercy, Three Rivers, HawthoRNe, and Grey's Anatomy.
Oct. 1, 2009 - Modern Family Kind of like Married … With Children crossed with Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Sept. 23, 2009 - The Nipples of Eastwick The third adaptation of John Updike's most anatomically baroque novel.
Sept. 23, 2009 - Brownstone Noir Jason Schwartzman as a Brooklyn writer-turned-detective in Bored to Death.
Sept. 18, 2009 - Community and Cougar Town One of these shows is funny in a good way.
Sept. 16, 2009 - The Jay Leno Show The great experiment in low expectations kicks off with a surreal Kanye moment.
Sept. 15, 2009 - Prêt-à-Couch Is Fashion Week best appreciated in one's bunny slippers?
Sept. 13, 2009 - The Vampire Diaries Imagine Dawson's Creek with a lot more necking.
Sept. 10, 2009 - Feel Like I've Been Here Before The new Melrose Place.
Sept. 4, 2009 - Kinder, Gentler Body-Slams Professional wrestling tries to become more family-friendly.
Sept. 1, 2009 - The G4 Man He loves gaming, The Goonies, and girls who can prioritize their tasks.
Aug. 28, 2009 - Let the Good Lines Roll The new season of Project Runway reviewed.
Aug. 20, 2009 - The Importance of Being Shaq The seven-footer is the wittiest superjock around.
Aug. 18, 2009 - Self-Promotion on the Beach Kourtney and Khloé Take Miami is mindless, shameless, and well worth watching.
Aug. 14, 2009 - Give Him Footage or Give Him Death TV lion-tamer Dave Salmoni plays the showman to the point of idiocy.
Aug. 12, 2009 - Kattan Death March The former SNL cast member tries to revive his fame in Bollywood Hero.
Aug. 6, 2009 - Dreamfloats Full-figured women vie for a full-figured man in More To Love.
July 28, 2009 - To Catch an Anticlimax NBC's new manhunt show, The Wanted.
July 21, 2009 - Wide Receivers on TV Keyshawn Johnson loves interior design; Terrell Owens loves hot tubs.
July 17, 2009 - The Wendy Williams Show Who wouldn't want to chat over pinot grigio and buffalo wings?
July 16, 2009 - Fresh Fake News Jimmy Fallon's "Slow Jam" and the puckish souls behind "Auto-Tune the News."
July 9, 2009 - Michael Jackson's Tasteful Farewell Not unlike the sendoff for a church deacon in St. Louis.
July 7, 2009 - Remote Roulette The fun new TV game that everyone is playing.
July 2, 2009 - Big Membership Has Its Privileges Hung considers the fortunes of a well-endowed guy in Detroit.
June 26, 2009 - Vanity Fair Jr. Why you might want to watch NYC Prep.
June 24, 2009 - Make It or Break It The Friday Night Lights of women's gymnastics.
June 19, 2009 - Can Alexa Chung Save MTV? The network's unbelievably charming new talk-show host.
June 17, 2009 - Mission Accomplished Colbert's high-risk, highly entertaining tour of Iraq.
June 12, 2009 - The Crazy Bunch Jon & Kate Plus 8 scares me in many ways.
June 10, 2009 - Prickliness Edie Falco in Nurse Jackie.
June 5, 2009 - Scenes From the Next CW What will be corrupting your daughters this fall.
May 22, 2009 - The Baddest CBS and LL Cool J strut their stuff at yesterday's upfront.
May 21, 2009 - Imagine Lost Directed by M. Night Shyamalan Handicapping the new shows introduced by ABC.
May 20, 2009 - I Have Seen the Legs of Eliza Dushku Checking in with the TV industry at the Fox upfronts.
May 19, 2009 - Kobe Being Kobe Spike Lee's mild documentary about a game in the life of the basketball star.
May 15, 2009 - Not a Cop Out Southland is pretty good, and thus temporarily halts the sad decline of NBC.
May 14, 2009 - Things Rank and Gross in Nature The real housewives of the Garden State.
May 12, 2009 - Save It Irritating new budget-conscious lifestyle shows.
May 8, 2009 - Four Old Women Share an Apartment Why The Golden Girls was sitcom genius.
April 30, 2009 - Glenn Beck The hot new mob leader of 2009.
April 23, 2009 - Among the Cougars What does a cub wear to a cougar party?
April 22, 2009 - Decaying Preppies Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange in Grey Gardens.
April 17, 2009 - No Extra Charge The dubious art of infomercials.
April 13, 2009 - Not Funny In the land of one-joke sitcoms, Parks and Recreation is king.
April 10, 2009 - Everyone's a Critic And everyone reviews movies on the Rotten Tomatoes Show.
April 6, 2009 - Andy Richter Comes in From the Rain Why he's the best late-night-show sidekick of all time.
March 31, 2009 - Just Look Away HBO's adaptation of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
March 26, 2009 - Late Night With Barack Obama The president as sitcom dad.
March 20, 2009 - Better Off Ted What you'd get if you turned Mad Men into a bad, unfunny sitcom.
March 17, 2009 - The City A boring heroine you can't help rooting for.
March 16, 2009 - Cramer vs. Stewart The Daily Show showdown was mesmerizing but not quite satisfying.
March 13, 2009 - Fallon Upward The new Late Night With Jimmy Fallon is a mutant multimedia experience.
March 3, 2009 - Twist and Shout The Weather Channel brings us Tornado Week.
Feb. 26, 2009 - Eurosports Why I love Top Gear.
Feb. 16, 2009 - She's Got Legs Eliza Dushku in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse.
Feb. 13, 2009 - Futon Follies The CollegeHumor Show brings college humor to MTV.
Feb. 10, 2009 - Must-Geek TV Is the world ready for an Asperger's sitcom?
Feb. 6, 2009 - 43 Observations on the Super Bowl The cute puppies, Al Michaels, Obama's fireside chat, and other moments you might have missed.
Feb. 2, 2009 - Sad Money The best personal finance show.
Jan. 30, 2009 - CNN Goes to the Ball After the event, it was time for the pseudo-event.
Jan. 18, 2009 - The United States of Tara Toni Collette has multiple personalities, all of them written by Diablo Cody.
Jan. 15, 2009 - Badass Award Patrick Swayze as a lone wolf FBI agent in The Beast.
Jan. 14, 2009 - The Original Twilight A pop Wuthering Heights on PBS.
Jan. 9, 2009 - A Spoonful of Sugar Sanjay Gupta is a sweet choice for surgeon general.
Jan. 7, 2009 - Homeland Security USA A show about the brave agents defending America from Swiss belly dancers.
Jan. 5, 2009
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