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    Mary And Martha

    April 20, 2013 - 04:04p.m.

    Mary And Martha debuts tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern on HBO.

    At first, the off-the-cuff insensitivity that Mary And Martha’s characters persistently exhibit seems benign enough. Mary And Martha is, after all, a made-for-TV melodrama about two mothers ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 10

    Out There

    April 19, 2013 - 09:04p.m.

    Out There is a much sweeter, gentler-spirited show that you might guess from its pedigree—the series’ creator, Ryan Quincy, was previously best known for his work on South Park—or even from a random glimpse. It’s certainly a ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 8

    Nathan For You - “Private Investigator/Taxi Company”

    April 18, 2013 - 10:04p.m.

    Diminutive Canadian Nathan Fielder looks and acts like the kind of clammy, Poindexter co-workers actively avoid at the Christmas party. On Nathan For Youhis brilliant Comedy Central show that ends its first season tonight, Fielder cuts an unabashedly meek ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 1

    Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell

    April 18, 2013 - 06:04p.m.

    Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell debuts tonight on adult swim at midnight Eastern.

    Most of the shows on Adult Swim can be graphed according to how high one has to be in order to find them funny. On ...

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    Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life And Time Of Tim Hetherington

    April 18, 2013 - 04:04p.m.

    Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life And Time Of Tim Hetherington debuts tonight on HBO at 8 p.m. Eastern.

    The premiere episode of the new HBO newsmagazine series Vice featured a scene in which Shane ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 1

    Who Gets The Last Laugh?

    April 16, 2013 - 04:04p.m.

    Who Gets The Last Laugh? debuts tonight on TBS at 10 p.m. Eastern.

    Given TBS’ increasing insistence that it’s a force to be reckoned with in the arena of original programming—along with the relative success of its ...

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    The Central Park Five

    April 16, 2013 - 02:04p.m.

    The Central Park Five makes its TV debut tonight on PBS at 9 p.m. Eastern.

    Ken Burns’ documentary The Central Park Five departs from his usual style, perhaps because it’s a collaboration with his daughter Sarah (who previously ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 1-3

    Burger Land

    April 15, 2013 - 09:04p.m.

    Burger Land airs Mondays on Travel Channel at 10 p.m. Eastern. The first three episodes were screened for this review.

    What does one have to do to get George Motz’s job?

    The self-made Motz empire consists of a ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 1

    Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown

    April 14, 2013 - 11:04p.m.

    Of all things, Anthony Bourdain’s Twitter bio may actually describe him best: “enthusiast.” Whether you live for Bourdain’s dry as a bone, smirking sarcasm or want to force-feed him tofu, you can’t deny the guy’s enthusiasm ...

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    Louis C.K.: Oh My God

    April 13, 2013 - 06:04p.m.

    Louis C.K.: Oh My God debuts tonight on HBO at 10 p.m. Eastern.

    To watch Louis C.K. the past few years is to witness an artist hitting his peak. More or less since the cancellation of his ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 1

    Bet On Your Baby

    April 13, 2013 - 04:04p.m.

    Bet On Your Baby debuts tonight at 8 p.m. on ABC.

    A few weeks ago, the Los Angles Times dug up an old 1988 issue of their defunct magazine, devoted to predicting what life would be like in 25 ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 1

    Da Vincis Demons

    April 12, 2013 - 04:04p.m.

    Da Vincis Demons debuts tonight on Starz at 10 p.m. Eastern.

    Da Vinci’s Demons is the answer to a question no one has ever asked: What would happen if you took all the cutscenes from the Assassin ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 1

    Ready For Love

    April 9, 2013 - 11:04p.m.

    Ready For Love is a catastrophe of a television show, a desperate attempt to cheaply create drama out of the sad, pathetic lives of women who seem to believe that they can find true love on a television show. It ...

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  • Other Shows: season 2013, episode n/a

    WWE Wrestlemania XXIX

    April 8, 2013 - 07:04p.m.

    Only two years ago, I caught my first shoddily assembled video top 10 list of Rey Mysterio’s most astounding moves on YouTube. I was in awe. Seeing Mysterio, a high flying luchador, spin-crawl around his opponents with apparently such ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 1

    All In With Chris Hayes

    April 5, 2013 - 08:04p.m.

     When Laurie Anderson hosted the video-art anthology series Alive From Off Center on PBS in the 1980s, she often shared the screen with her “clone,” a digitally altered, gender-reversed Mini-Me version of herself. Chris Hayes looks like a clone of ...

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  • Other Shows: season 2, episode 25-26

    Scooby-Doo!: Mystery Incorporated - “Through the Curtain”/“Come Undone”

    April 5, 2013 - 06:04p.m.

    Of all the adjectives one might expect to see used as a descriptor of a series within Hanna-Barbera’s long-running Scooby-Doo franchise, “epic” is probably pretty far down the list, hovering somewhere in the same vicinity as “hip” and “hilarious ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 1

    Vice

    April 5, 2013 - 04:04p.m.

    Vice debuts tonight on HBO at 11 p.m. Eastern.

    When Vice magazine first launched in 1994 as the Voice Of Montreal, it was funded in part by the province’s government and served—at least in theory—as a ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 1-2

    Forever Young - “Bridging The Gap”/“The Hunt”

    April 3, 2013 - 11:04p.m.

    TV Land’s new reality series has the sort of premise that makes you think, “This could work if it was well-executed, but there’s no chance in hell it will be.” Five senior citizens arrive at a Big Brother ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 1

    Rogue 

    April 3, 2013 - 06:04p.m.

    Rogue debuts tonight on DirecTV's Audience Network at 9 p.m. Eastern.

    Rogue feels like a good show. It’s not really, but there’s something bewitching about its aesthetic—Thandie Newton is frail and beautiful, Marton Csokas is ...

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  • Other Shows: season 1, episode 1

    How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life)

    April 3, 2013 - 02:04p.m.

    How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life) debuts tonight at 9:30 p.m. on ABC.

    The cumbersomely titled How To Live With Your Parents (For The Rest Of Your Life) arrives with the stink ...

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