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Drama

Boardwalk Empire recap: Season 4 episode 5 “Erlkönig”

In the world run thoroughly by corrupt agents that is 1920s America and HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, there is little distinguishing between “good guys” and “bad guys,” which leaves us generally rooting for those among bad who go about their badness with some semblance of common sense and at least some universalist notion of honor. This generally puts them at odds with worse of the bad – the Machiavels, the draconians, the narcissists – and makes the worse act even more the heel, which only shores up our predisposition. Last night’s episode put some stark, ugly and, in a couple cases, […]

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Movies

On Demand DVD New Releases Oct. 7-13

On Demand DVD New Releases Oct. 7-13 After Earth Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith star in director M. Night Shyamalan’s futuristic tale of a father and son stranded on Earth a millennium after humanity left the planet. The son must brave the treacherous habitat to signal for help for him and his injured father. Also stars Sophie Okonedo (PG-13, 1:40) 10/8 The Hangover Part III Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) are back as the Wolfpack in this Vegas-set adventure. An angry gangster holds their friend hostage demanding that they find Chow, who stole millions of […]

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Drama

Scandal Season 3 recap: Episode 1 – “It’s Handled”

Scandal Season 3 recap: Episode 1 — “It’s Handled” By Sterling Silver III Scandal Season 3 started with Vanessa Chandler (Jennifer Peo) reporting the affair between the president (Tony Goldwyn) and Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington). Olivia was just about to leave for a run when she was met with the media bombshell. She hopped in the limo she was guided to and was met by her father, Rowan Pope (otherwise known as the look-alike, personality-opposite Magic Johnson, played by Joe Morton). Rowan shook his daughter’s confidence with a pressure-filled lecture on a new identity, new bank account, and a new country away […]

2013 WNBA TV Schedule
Sports

WNBA Finals 2013 on ESPN and ESPN2

WNBA Finals 2013 on ESPN and ESPN2: The Minnesota Lynx take on the Atlanta Dream in the best-of-five-game WNBA Finals 2013 beginning Sunday, Oct. 6, on ESPN. Full press release and schedule from ESPN: WNBA Finals Begin Sunday, Oct. 6; Return of Ref Cam The Minnesota Lynx will take on the Atlanta Dream in the WNBA Finals 2013 Presented by Boost Mobile beginning Sunday, Oct. 6. The best-of-five series is a rematch of the 2011 championship in which the Lynx swept Atlanta in three games. It is the third straight season that Minnesota has advanced to the championship round, having […]

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Drama

Scandal Season 3 premiere sets series-high viewership

Scandal opened its third season last night with a 71% viewership increase year to year over the Season 2 premiere in Adults 18-49, according to ABC. The network says that the Scandal Season 3 premiere episode, which aired in the 10pm ET time slot, set series highs in Total Viewers (10.5 million) and Adults 18-49 (3.6/10). The episode generated ABC’s best numbers for a Thursday 10pm series telecast since January 2010 in viewers, and since November 2010 in young adults. The Scandal Season 3 premiere was the No. 2 TV show of the night in Adults 18-49, behind only The Big Bang Theory on CBS. ABC also […]

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News & Current Events

New FOX News primetime lineup debuts Oct. 7

After Gretchen Carlson moved from morning to daytime, FOX News Channel continues tweaking its programming when the new FOX News primetime lineup debuts on Oct. 7, the date that marks the 17th anniversary of the launch of FOX News Channel (FNC). Also on that day, the network will debut a new program in daytime, hosted by Shepard Smith. The new FOX News primetime lineup will kick off with On the Record, hosted by Greta Van Susteren, which airs at 7pm ET starting Oct. 7. After hosting her show at 10pm for many years, Van Susteren joked in a recent release about […]

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Comedy

Sean Saves the World premieres tonight at 9/8CT on NBC

Will & Grace’s Sean Hayes is back as a gay guy with comical family, friend and workplace issues in Sean Saves the World, which premieres tonight  on NBC. But this time, instead of acting like a child, a la Jack McFarland, he has one. And instead of Rosario to mother him, he has an actual mother played by actress Linda Lavin, a ’70s comedy trendsetter herself as singing waitress Alice. But the laughs are signature Hayes. Hayes says his groundbreaking former series helped pave the way for this throughly modern family sitcom in which he stars as a single dad trying to balance his […]

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Reality TV

Gold Rush Season 4 begins Oct. 25 on Discovery

Discovery Channel announced that its highest-rated series, Gold Rush, will be back for Season 4 with a two-hour premiere Oct. 25 at 9pm ET/PT. The Gold Rush pre-show, The Dirt, will also be back, again hosted by series executive producer Christo Doyle, starting Oct. 25 at 8pm ET/PT. In Gold Rush Season 4, Todd Hoffman puts his life on the line, and asks his crew to do the same, braving malaria, poisonous snakes and quicksand to set up a mining operation in a patch of jungle deep in Guyana, South America. Last year, their Klondike operation delivered a million-dollar season, […]

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TV News & Program Updates

Win a reading with Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo in Tweet to Win event

Get ready for your chance to win a reading with Long Island Medium Theresa Caputo during TLC’s live Long Island Medium Tweet to Win event on Sunday, Oct. 6 beginning at 9pm ET. So how exactly do you enter this Long Island Medium tweet to win sweepstakes? First, you’re going to need to sign up for a Twitter account. Based on all the letters and comments we get from viewers who are desperate to get on Theresa’s waiting list, I’m anticipating this will be a sought-after prize; however, I’m also anticipating many of Theresa’s fan base may not be all […]

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Sports

MLB ALDS schedule 2013

MLB ALDS schedule 2013: Dates, times and TV channels for the Tampa Bay vs. Boston and Detroit vs. Oakland ALDS series. MLB Playoff Schedule at a Glance Wild-Card Games, TBS (Oct. 1-2) Division Series, TBS & MLB Network (Beginning Oct. 3) National League Championship Series, TBS (Beginning Oct. 11) American League Championship Series, FOX (Beginning Oct. 12) World Series, FOX (Beginning Oct. 23) ALSO SEE: MLB playoff schedule 2013 MLB tiebreakers 2013: Tampa Bay at Texas TV channel MLB Wild Card 2013 TV schedule MLB NLDS TV schedule 2013   MLB ALDS Schedule 2013 ALDS Game Matchup Date Time (ET) […]