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A+E Networks Have Big Ambitions

By: R. Thomas Umstead | May 13 2013 (All day)

NEW YORK — A+E Networks is not content to battle just its cable-network competitors: the company is taking the fight to the broadcast networks.

Calling...

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FAMILY TREE

By: Michael Demenchuk | May 6 2013 (All day)

If you’re a fan of the Christopher Guest-directed theatrical mockumentaries — A Mighty Wind, Best In Show, Waiting for Guff man et. al....

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Going Off the Grid — And Occasionally Naked

By: R. Thomas Umstead | May 6 2013 (All day)

Discovery Channel, Travel Channel and TNT will look to offer new wrinkles to the venerable survival-based competition reality series genre with news shows set to...

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Review: 'Inside Amy Schumer'

By: Kent Gibbons | Apr 29 2013 (All day)

The sketches (scripted vignettes) here are clever, oh-so-topical and funny. Star Amy Schumer can do clueless, self-absorbed, nice girl, all of it credibly. Even...

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Digital Shares Stage as Upfronts Roll On

By: R. THOMAS UMSTEAD | Apr 29 2013 (All day)

NEW YORK — Major digital-media initiatives shared center stage with new original series as part of cable networks’ latest round of upfront presentations...

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Review: 'Brain Games'

By: Kent Gibbons | Apr 22 2013 - 10:17am

“Pay attention: this is a test.” That’s the first thing you hear from host Jason Silva as this catchy new show kicks off, with a challenge to...

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Review: 'Rectify'

By: Kent Gibbons | Apr 22 2013 - 10:00am

This astonishing six-part drama grips you from the opening scene, in prison, where Daniel Holden, played by Aden Young, is about to be released after nearly 20...

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FS1 Jumps Into the Ring

By: R. Thomas Umstead | Apr 22 2013 (All day)

The new Fox Sports 1 national sports service will deliver a weekly one-two punch of ring sports action when it launches this summer.

The network — set...

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Defiance

By: R. THOMAS UMSTEAD | Apr 15 2013 (All day)

Syfy is hoping to break new ground with its ambitious sci-fi drama series Defiance. Although the plot interplay between the linear series and its...

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GAC’s New Series Slate About More Than Music

By: R. Thomas Umstead | Apr 15 2013 (All day)

Great American Country is slowly changing its tune to offer more lifestyle-themed reality fare alongside its traditional country-music video programming.

The...

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