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• Reindeer Games Rudolph, bard of the can-do Christmas.
  Virginia Heffernan Dec. 23, 2002
  
• Golden Girls The dowager View dismisses its debutante.
  Virginia Heffernan Dec. 19, 2002
  
• Take My Candidacy … Please Gore kills on SNL!
  Virginia Heffernan Dec. 15, 2002
  
• That's Totally Wrong, Jon The Daily Show with Stephen Colbert
  Virginia Heffernan Dec. 13, 2002
  
• Righteous Reruns Crocodile tears for lost television.
  Virginia Heffernan Dec. 11, 2002
  
• Martha Makes Merry Stewart's persistent gilt on Christmas From Martha's Home.
  Virginia Heffernan Dec. 5, 2002
  
• Wayward Diva Week Mariah Carey redeemed and Whitney Houston unstrung.
  Virginia Heffernan Dec. 5, 2002
  
• The Meanest Roast Chevy Chase, humiliated again.
  Virginia Heffernan Dec. 2, 2002
  
• Getting Taken Steven Spielberg, paranormal huckster.
  Chris Mooney Nov. 27, 2002
  
• Osbourne Again MTV's bat-biting family man is back.
  Virginia Heffernan Nov. 27, 2002
  
• Holy Strollers The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show goes to church.
  Virginia Heffernan Nov. 21, 2002
  
• Why Does Everyone Love Raymond? CBS's Seinfeld for Catholics.
  Virginia Heffernan Nov. 21, 2002
  
• Al Jam Letterman's double play.
  Virginia Heffernan Nov. 18, 2002
  
• Pumping Iron: The Return It wants to pump you up all over again.
  Virginia Heffernan Nov. 14, 2002
  
• Keeping It More and More Real TV Guide's anthology and the myth of TV progress.
  Virginia Heffernan Nov. 12, 2002
  
• My Dinner With Jon King Favreau's nights at the round table.
  Virginia Heffernan Nov. 7, 2002
  
• Blood Test A Halloween showcase for the new PBS.
  Virginia Heffernan Oct. 31, 2002
  
• Best in Show The charismatic villain of Animal Planet's doggie drama.
  Virginia Heffernan Oct. 24, 2002
  
• Dress Downer VH1's joyless costume party.
  Virginia Heffernan Oct. 17, 2002
  
• Political Geography on CNN The map behind Bush's head.
  Virginia Heffernan Oct. 8, 2002
  
• Dial Miami for Murder CSI's Florida sojourn.
  Virginia Heffernan Oct. 3, 2002
  
• Minimal HBO! Jews on TV! And other breakthroughs at this year's Emmys.
  Virginia Heffernan Sept. 23, 2002
  
• Outside the NFL How is every down a passing down?
  Virginia Heffernan Sept. 19, 2002
  
• The Day That Will Live in Synergy CBS sticks with the president; a gossipy question about those French filmmakers.
  Virginia Heffernan Sept. 5, 2002
  
• Breakfast at Empathy's Sex and the City's bittersweet fifth season finally wins our woman over.
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 22, 2002
  
• A Few Sanctimonious Men CBS's JAG preaches all that it can preach.
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 15, 2002
  
• Faster, Harder, Stupider 
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 8, 2002
  
• The Anna Nicole Show's Druggy, Delirious Debut 
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 7, 2002
  
• Unsafe on Any Sunday SOS in America brings you fear lite.
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 1, 2002
  
• Bully Idol American Idol, Fox's smash talent show, suffers a live, televised meltdown.
  Virginia Heffernan July 18, 2002
  
• Louis the Second Welcome to the private sector, Mr. Rukeyser.
  Virginia Heffernan July 11, 2002
  
• Def Poets Society Can Russell Simmons make poetry cool?
  Virginia Heffernan June 27, 2002
  
• Hello Kitty The precious pedagogy of the PBS cat.
  Virginia Heffernan June 20, 2002
  
• Call and Response Crank Yankers and the quiet heroism of customer-service people.
  Virginia Heffernan June 13, 2002
  
• Haul of Fame Extra and Access Hollywood: popular shows with no fans.
  Virginia Heffernan June 6, 2002
  
• Conscience Point Barbara Kopple's Hamptons vacation.
  Virginia Heffernan May 31, 2002
  
• Y'all Rise Texas Justice is more forgiving than you might think.
  Virginia Heffernan May 23, 2002
  
• Babe in Spyland Have a good summer, Agent Bristow.
  Virginia Heffernan May 16, 2002
  
• Stirrups for Sissies The "Dummies" series is reborn on television.
  Virginia Heffernan May 9, 2002
  
• Their Finest Two Hours Where are the great TV docudramas of yore?
  Michael Waldman April 30, 2002
  
• Sweet Emotion The continuing appeal of Aerosmith's aging, derivative, eyeliner-wearing hams.
  Virginia Heffernan April 29, 2002