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  <title>The plague of cast overpopulation on Heroes, Lost, and Grey's Anatomy.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Click here for more from the Fall TV issue.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2174388/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Matthew Gilbert</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:58:40 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Slate's fall TV issue.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The sky is blue, the air is crisp, apples hang from branches—which means it's just about time to head indoors and see what's on TV. Over the next few days, Slate will train its gaze on the fall schedule. Our TV critic Troy Patterson will scrutinize the durability of Kelsey Grammer and the depravity of the Gossip Girls. Our "Sandbox" columnist Ann Hulbert will examine the philosophical underpinnings of Kid Nation. Our foreign editor June Thomas, inspired by the many British actors now starring in U.S. shows, will enlist a voice coach, ditch her Manchester lilt, and learn to speak American. We'll also have pieces assessing, among other things, the rise of the character blog, the supposed fall of the laugh track, and the consistent mediocrity of shows about New Orleans. No flipping.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2174348/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:34:15 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>The best characters on television.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The start of fall TV season is a bit like a new school year: You get the chance to reunite with people you haven't heard from all summer. Here, Slate writers and editors offer love letters to the TV personalities they're looking forward to seeing again.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2174389/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:21:01 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>What the movies and TV always get wrong about New Orleans.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  I've yet to see a TV show or movie set in New Orleans that evokes the place I grew up in. As a kid, I got used to seeing Hollywood depict the city as a tidy fusion of the French Quarter and a smoky, fetid swamp. I watched the basketball movie Blue Chips and wondered why Nick Nolte had to take a fan boat to go on a scouting trip to the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers—the rough equivalent of hiring a bush pilot to go from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Wouldn't it have been faster if he took the bridge?<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2174390/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=8276" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=8276" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
  <category>tv week</category>
  <author>Josh Levin</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:17:13 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>Will Kelsey Grammer revive the old-school sitcom?</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  NBC premieres up zero—don't count 'em, zero—new comedies this fall, instead referring viewers in need of yucks to the Thursday-night lineup emplaced last season: My Name Is Earl, The Office, 30 Rock, and Scrubs. Meanwhile, ABC will have three new sitcoms on offer—Samantha Who? (starring Christina Applegate as a daffy amnesiac), Carpoolers (centered on the rush-hour antics of four suburban dudes), and Cavemen (the Geico-ad spinoff you may already be sick of). Further up the dial, the CW will debut its Islam-themed fish-out-of-water comedy Aliens in America after the third-season premiere of Everybody Hates Chris.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2174387/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
  <category>tv week</category>
  <author>Troy Patterson</author>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:26:27 EST</pubDate>
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