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If you saw M. Night Shyamalan's brilliant 1999 The Sixth Sense, you got a glimpse of the mental disorder Munchausen by proxy syndrome - in which a child's parent or other caregiver secretly creates an illness in the child in a twisted effort to get attention, sympathy and respect. And you may have…
At last - Michael Douglas as Liberace, on HBO. The highly touted, much-anticipated Behind the Candelabra, from filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, with Matt Damon as Liberace's 40-years-younger lover, Scott Thorson, is clearly the TV event of the week. In fact, it will air for weeks and be available on…
This year's May sweeps end Wednesday night - and the schedule over these final four days is a veritable dessert cart of TV goodness. Tomorrow night (5/20), there's the delectable "Mel Brooks: Make a Noise" offered by PBS's American Masters. Also tomorrow night: the final performance show of this…
Yes, I did compare Randy Jackson's yo-yo-yo dawg-dawg-dawg repetitiveness to Barney the Dinosaur a few weeks ago in terms of things I simply cannot bear to watch anymore. But now he's leaving " American Idol" and I feel kind of bad. It's the end of an era - and all the more reason that this week's…
The broadcast networks' season is coming to an end, and series showrunners are hell-bent to leave us wanting more. The next two weeks we will see stunt casting, cliff-hangers and plot twists enough to lure even the most casual viewer to the tube. Here are seven we want to see:
Bob Newhart's fans have been waiting for this one - his first appearance on The Big Bang Theory Thursday night (May 2). Duly promoted as befits a sweeps-sized casting coup, Newhart has come aboard TV's highest-rated sitcom for at least three episodes, playing a "Mr. Wizard"- style kiddie science…
Alan Alda is uncomfortable with the word "Legacy." "It's always sounded like some kind of monument you want to leave for yourself," he says with a tinge of sarcasm.
For the past three seasons of Showtime's The Big C, Laura Linney's cancer-stricken character, Cathy Jamison, has gone through three stages of grief - denial, anger, bargaining. In the season that launches April 29, subtitled "Here after," Cathy will reach the stage of acceptance. This is a…
At the Mad Men Season 6 premiere last month at the Director's Guild Theater in Hollywood, Jon Hamm told reporters that the drama's time frame for this season has parallels to today - an intriguing idea, in that Mad Men is now in 1968, arguably the most dramatic year of calamity and change in those…
Poor Mr. Selfridge, freighted with comparisons before he even opens for business. Will the Masterpiece Classics series that debuts tonight (3/31) on PBS become the new Downton Abbey? After all, Downton's timeslot successor is also set in Edwardian England, and comes complete with upper crust…