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