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• The Year in Year-End Specials Barbara Walters picks the most fabulous people and Perez Hilton names the best sex tape of 2007.
  Troy Patterson Dec. 28, 2007
  
• Framed and Iconoclasts Exploring the outer limits of celebrity-on-celebrity interviews.
  Troy Patterson Dec. 21, 2007
  
• Pop Quiz Show Why ABC's Duel is painful.
  Troy Patterson Dec. 19, 2007
  
• Our Brains Are Our Secret Weapon The stunning mother-daughter pageant competition Crowned.
  Troy Patterson Dec. 14, 2007
  
• Who's the Fairest of Them All? A comparison of all of the women's television networks.
  Troy Patterson Dec. 13, 2007
  
• The Farnsworth Invention Aaron Sorkin's new play about the glories of television.
  Troy Patterson Dec. 7, 2007
  
• Battlestar Galactica Fans in Bath Towels The strike videos are starting to get weird.
  Troy Patterson Dec. 3, 2007
  
• Cheerleader Girlfriends and Sinus Infections Two new shows about high-school sports.
  Troy Patterson Nov. 29, 2007
  
• David Duchovny, Why Won't You Love Me? Or, reasons to watch Californication during the writers' strike.
  Daphne Merkin Nov. 21, 2007
  
• A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Will Lucy let Charlie Brown kick the football, this one time?
  Troy Patterson Nov. 21, 2007
  
• Boing Boing TV A new Web video endeavor about nothing.
  Troy Patterson Nov. 16, 2007
  
• quarterlife The creators of My So-Called Life try to capture the new angst.
  Troy Patterson Nov. 16, 2007
  
• The Daily Show Archive Why you may never watch Jon Stewart live again.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 14, 2007
  
• Feel the Sting of My Foam Sword A must-see documentary about LARPing.
  Grady Hendrix Nov. 12, 2007
  
• Coffee, Muffins, YouTube The writers pull out the big guns for their strike.
  Troy Patterson Nov. 9, 2007
  
• TV Writers Are on Strike What's on the Home Shopping Network?
  Troy Patterson Nov. 7, 2007
  
• Project Runway Live! A report from a lovely little pseudo-event at Lincoln Center.
  Troy Patterson Nov. 6, 2007
  
• Pushing Daisies A show that will either annoy or enchant you.
  Troy Patterson Oct. 31, 2007
  
• Owen and Wes Parsing the weirdness of their MySpace interview.
  Troy Patterson Oct. 29, 2007
  
• Dirty Sexy Money Tabloid-ready blue bloods with a talent for decadence.
  Troy Patterson Oct. 24, 2007
  
• Foxy Network Short skirts, dubious advice, and tighty-whitey jokes on the Fox Business channel.
  Troy Patterson Oct. 22, 2007
  
• Did You Watch Chuck Last Night? It's 24 meets The O.C.
  Troy Patterson Oct. 16, 2007
  
• A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila The bisexual MySpace star has a dating show on MTV.
  Troy Patterson Oct. 10, 2007
  
• The Cavemen Arriveth And dude culture reaches a new nadir.
  Troy Patterson Oct. 3, 2007
  
• Funny Muslims Aliens in America and Little Mosque on the Prairie reviewed.
  Troy Patterson Oct. 1, 2007
  
• The Experience of Actually Watching Live TV A Wednesday night showdown between Kitchen Nightmares and Private Practice.
  Troy Patterson Sept. 28, 2007
  
• Mean Girl Watch Bionic Woman for the best villain on television.
  Troy Patterson Sept. 25, 2007
  
• I Love This Dirty TV Show Irresistible offerings from Perez Hilton and TMZ.com.
  Troy Patterson Sept. 14, 2007
  
• Among the Princesses A day with reality-show contestants.
  Troy Patterson Sept. 10, 2007
  
• Pottery Barn Sex The bland couplings of HBO's Tell Me You Love Me.
  Troy Patterson Sept. 7, 2007
  
• Fashion Don't Tim Gunn's Guide to Style disappoints.
  Troy Patterson Sept. 6, 2007
  
• Californication A literate sex fantasy for the quasi-literary.
  Troy Patterson Aug. 10, 2007
  
• Scott Baio Is 45 … and Single And like a bucket of KFC, a guilty pleasure. Plus: Mission: Man Band gives boy band has-beens three weeks to grow up.
  Troy Patterson Aug. 7, 2007
  
• The Guest From Hell Savoring Norman Mailer's legendary appearance on The Dick Cavett Show.
  Troy Patterson Aug. 2, 2007
  
• Almost Blue The contemplative joys of Shark Week.
  Troy Patterson July 30, 2007
  
• His Old House Before he played a doctor on television, Hugh Laurie was half of a genius sketch duo.
  Troy Patterson July 25, 2007
  
• Fire and Ice Holly Hunter and Glenn Close get star vehicles.
  Troy Patterson July 23, 2007
  
• The Black Laguna Beach And other new BET shows that joust with race and class.
  Troy Patterson July 20, 2007
  
• Vintage Sex in the City Mad Men is a randy, cynical show about the "golden age" of advertising.
  Troy Patterson July 18, 2007
  
• EUTube When bureaucracy and Web video collide.
  Troy Patterson July 13, 2007
  
• Nostalgia on Deck The Bronx Is Burning and The Ghosts of Flatbush savor baseball seasons past.
  Troy Patterson July 11, 2007
  
• The Paula Abdul Reality Show We couldn't not watch. We think her dogs are out to get her.
  Katherine Meizel June 28, 2007
  
• A Man Needs a Cave Assessing the latest crop of home-improvement shows.
  Troy Patterson June 21, 2007
  
• Flight of the Conchords A new HBO comedy channels the spirit of Ricky Gervais and Christopher Guest.
  Troy Patterson June 15, 2007
  
• When Oprah Met Cormac He's no Salinger.
  Troy Patterson June 6, 2007
  
• USA! USA! A close reading of cable's top-rated network.
  Troy Patterson May 30, 2007
  
• Reality TV Goes to the Tanning Salon Do you wanna get the Lindsay Lohan?
  Troy Patterson May 25, 2007
  
• Can't Sleep? Watch Alan Berliner's insomnia documentary.
  Troy Patterson May 22, 2007
  
• The CW Shows Some Leg Plus: tipsy scenes from the Fox party.
  Troy Patterson May 18, 2007
  
• Three Hits and a Bomb What to expect from CBS this fall.
  Troy Patterson May 17, 2007
  
• The A Is for Affluent Eight questions about the ABC upfront.
  Troy Patterson May 16, 2007
  
• NBC Goes Bionic And Brooke Shields attempts to channel Carrie Bradshaw.
  Troy Patterson May 15, 2007
  
• Kirk Cameron Proves That God Exists Just kidding.
  Troy Patterson May 10, 2007
  
• Mom Can't Clean Iron Chef meets Martha Stewart on Perfect Housewives.
  Troy Patterson May 7, 2007
  
• Brand Brando The greatest film actor deserved a weirder documentary.
  Troy Patterson May 1, 2007
  
• That's Sex! A documentary portrait of Helmut Newton.
  Troy Patterson April 30, 2007
  
• All Hail Ari Gold Entourage's narcissism triumphs where Studio 60's failed.
  Troy Patterson April 24, 2007
  
• The Good, the Bad, the Long-winded Watching the PBS series America at a Crossroads.
  Troy Patterson April 18, 2007
  
• America's Next Top Thunderstorm The 100 Biggest Weather Moments.
  Troy Patterson April 12, 2007
  
• Pregnantsomethings The new ABC sitcom Notes From the Underbelly.
  Troy Patterson April 11, 2007
  
• Letterman Meets Maxim The bouncy pleasures of Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld.
  Troy Patterson April 6, 2007
  
• Deep Teeth, Big Tans The Bachelor begins its 10th season on a nautical note.
  Troy Patterson April 3, 2007
  
• Blazingly Gratuitous Sex And other missteps in The Tudors.
  Troy Patterson March 30, 2007
  
• Watch Andy Barker P.I. Before it's canceled and attains cult status on DVD.
  Troy Patterson March 29, 2007
  
• Sketchy Jack Black's Acceptable TV.
  Troy Patterson March 26, 2007
  
• Television Without Pity Will corporate ownership ruin a cult Web site?
  Dana Stevens March 23, 2007
  
• Women's Work The L Word locates America's G spot.
  June Thomas March 22, 2007
  
• Pictures Came and Broke Your Heart This American Life debuts on television.
  Troy Patterson March 21, 2007
  
• Roman Holiday Barbarians week on the History Channel.
  Troy Patterson March 9, 2007
  
• Copy Catwalk Terrible new America's Next Top Model clones.
  Troy Patterson March 5, 2007
  
• The Shame Game Fox's humiliating new game show, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
  Troy Patterson March 2, 2007
  
• The Black Donnellys Television doesn't get more Irish than this.
  Troy Patterson Feb. 27, 2007
  
• Enter the Octagon The lovely spectacle of Ultimate Fighting.
  Troy Patterson Feb. 20, 2007
  
• Republicans Make Jokes The Daily Show for conservatives shows up on YouTube.
  Troy Patterson Feb. 15, 2007
  
• Sing Sing Trapped in the Grammys funhouse.
  Troy Patterson Feb. 12, 2007
  
• Queen of Farts Lost in the shallows of The Sarah Silverman Program.
  Troy Patterson Feb. 1, 2007
  
• Girls Gone Mild The Miss America Pageant returns.
  Troy Patterson Jan. 29, 2007
  
• Against Girlie-ness The snide brilliance of Tina Fey on 30 Rock.
  Troy Patterson Jan. 26, 2007
  
• The Perkiness Never Stops Does the world need four hours of the Today show?
  Troy Patterson Jan. 22, 2007
  
• The Colbert-O'Reilly Clash A worthy stunt?
  Troy Patterson Jan. 19, 2007
  
• Watching the Golden Globes The "Glam Cam" leaves us cold.
  Troy Patterson Jan. 16, 2007
  
• One Nation, Under 24 Can Jack Bauer exist only in a decadent superpower?
  Troy Patterson Jan. 12, 2007
  
• Straight Eye for the Queer Guy The new dating show Gay, Straight or Taken?
  Troy Patterson Jan. 8, 2007
  
• Almost Journalist MTV's I'm From Rolling Stone.
  Troy Patterson Jan. 5, 2007
  
• Gangs of New York ABC's Knights of Prosperity and In Case of Emergency.
  Troy Patterson Jan. 3, 2007