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What does it say about the Screen Actors Guild that their awards show Sunday on TNT and TBS has more categories for TV than movies? (The movie-acting nominees mirror the Oscar ballot exactly, btw.)...
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‘Daisies,’‘Damages’ get lotsa love from the Foreign Press
Released this morning, the Golden Globe television nominations (by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association) had lots of love for critical (and ratings) darling Pushing Daisies, as well as lots of...
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As usual, we’ll just present the TV nominees here, but if you want to see the film nominees too, go here. As usual, my picks in parentheses, but I haven’t seen the vast majority of the TV...
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Weeds fans the flames and heads south for the summer
How do you feel about marijuana? The answer that question—and a score of related ones about regulation, legalization, medical use, etc.—may well inform your feelings about Weeds, Showtime’s dark...
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Emmy nods are in and ‘The Wire’ snubbed for all but one writing nom
Emmy nominations were announced this morning, and the good news: Comedies like “30 Rock” and “The Office” are in the mix for best series, as well they should. The bad: I swear the only reason “The...
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Weeds (belated) recap: No man is pudding
This is going to be a quickie because it’s three days overdue (hey, the day job calls!), but this week’s episode of Weeds was the best so far this season. Not only did it contrast with last week’s...
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Weeds Season Finale: ‘If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself...
It all finally caught up with Nancy Botwin, and she was finally ready to put her head on the block to atone for her sins. True to form, bad karma eludes our heroine. And we fans are left wondering...
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SAG Award noms bring some familiar matchups while Office workers moonlight...
So the Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations were released the other day, and the comedy match-ups are pretty familiar. It’s not surprising the same names keep coming up in these contests, since...
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Weeds returns for a fifth season Monday (and the best part is what becomes of...
I caught the season premiere of Weeds last night, thanks to an advance screener I was lucky enough to score. I have to admit, I wasn’t that excited about the show’s June 8 return. Partly that’s...
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