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At long last, the 2012 London Olympics begin this week, and we can hardly wait to be amazed by the athletic feats, the moving stories, the pageantry! We will be in good hands: 60-year-old Bob Costas is at the top of his game going into this, his 10 th Olympics for NBC Sports and his ninth as…
Anyone looking forward to scathing wit or incisive drama from a program touted as a "Limited Series Event" -- one rich with Oscar and Emmy winners in its pedigree, no less -- had better dial down their expectations before watching "Political Animals." However, this dishy, inside-the-Beltway USA…
Kyra Sedgwick's "The Closer" returns to the TNT lineup for its final batch of six original episodes tomorrow night (7/9) - and they're absolutely must-see viewing for fans of the smart, bitingly funny police procedural. Sedgwick's candy-gobbling Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson is well on her way…
If you are like most TV-owning Americans of a certain age including myself, chances are you have spent at least one or two Independence Day nights with the Boston Pops on the tube -- either paying close attention to the magnificent musicianship and prodigious pyrotechnic pageantry on display, or…
Lisa Kudrow's self-centered online therapist, Fiona Wallace, returns to cable television in all her vainglory tomorrow night (7/2), as "Web Therapy" begins what they're calling its "Season 2.0" on Showtime. If you haven't already sampled it, this is an opportune time. The largely-adlibbed show,…
After viewing the pilot and several subsequent episodes, I found Aaron Sorkin's "The Newsroom" to be full of brilliance -- inspiring, funny and wonderfully acted. But the show, premiering tonight (6/24) on HBO, has taken a critical drubbing from coast to coast, accused of such ills as being…
TNT's "Falling Skies" is getting fan and critical applause for its upgrade of the alien beings seen on the Steven Spielberg-produced show -- among the improvements made thanks to the budgetary increases in the wake of Season 1's success. I asked star Noah Wyle his feelings about those…
It's not just the return of "Dallas" that has me feeling revved up about TV this week. Producers of tonight's 66th Annual Tony Awards promise there will be more performances from the musicals and plays nominated this year on the show than ever, and prodigiously talented host Neil Patrick Harris is…
Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper, Randolph Scott...
The National Memorial Day Concert is more than just a music event. It is, of course, a tradition in itself, a TV destination for millions of us who wish to honor the original intent of the holiday as a day of remembrance for those who have died in service to our country.