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Sports

MLB tiebreakers 2013: Tampa Bay vs. Texas TV channel

MLB tiebreakers 2013: Tampa Bay Rays at Texas Rangers tiebreaker game airs Monday, Sept. 30, on TBS. ALSO SEE: MLB playoff schedule 2013 MLB Wild Card 2013 TV schedule MLB NLDS TV schedule 2013 MLB ALDS TV schedule 2013   The Tampa Bay Rays and Texas Rangers will play a 163rd regular-season game in a tiebreaker to determine which team advances to the AL Wild Card game against the Cleveland Indians. TBS airs Tampa Bay at Texas on Monday, Sept. 30, at 8pm ET. Brian Anderson, Joe Simpson and John Smoltz call the game with reporter David Aldridge. Press release […]

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Interview

Interview with MasterChef Junior judge Graham Elliot on working with kids

Interview with MasterChef Junior judge Graham Elliot. Twenty-four kids ages 8 to 13 demonstrate their culinary smarts and passion for food in the “junior” version of FOX’s successful foodie series MasterChef — in MasterChef Junior airing Fridays at 8pm ET/PT on FOX. Gordon Ramsay, Joe Bastianich and Graham Elliot serve as judges in a format that is quite similar to what fans are familiar with. “It’s the exact same format — the same judges and really the same tone,” Elliot tells us. “We wanted to make sure we didn’t dumb it down. The only big difference is when they leave […]

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Drama

Boardwalk Empire recap: ‘All In’

It could be seen as ominous last night on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire when Eddie (Anthony Laciura) repaired with new business associate/friend Ralph Capone (Domenick Lombardozzi) to a beerhall populated with fellow German expatriates and spilled a little too proudly of his elevated status within his organization. The organization, of course, is the Atlantic City-based bootlegging empire of Nucky Thompson. After taking a dose of lead in the war with mafia don Joe Masseria, Eddie picked up a limp but also a promotion from Nucky’s Man Friday to administrative capo, hence his making the drop of a payoff to the Capone […]

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Drama

Masters of Sex: Michael Sheen and Lizzie Caplan on playing sexologists Masters and Johnson

Their names were synonymous with things folks didn’t discuss in polite company in the ’50s, but agonized over in private — until their 1966 tome Human Sexual Response made it downright fashionable to talk about sex. Now Showtime is bringing the life, and life’s work, of famed sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson to fascinating light in its new series Masters of Sex, which premieres Sunday, Sept. 29 at 10/9CT. Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon) and Lizzie Caplan (New Girl) are engrossing as Masters and Johnson in this beautifully crafted character study culled from the 2009 book by critically acclaimed biographer […]

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Holiday

Halloween TV programming 2013

As the Halloween 2013 season fast approaches, there will once again be plenty of Halloween TV programming to enjoy, from terrifying frights to more family-friendly fare. Here is some of the notable Halloween TV programming airing in 2013. All times are ET; check back for updates and additions. A Haunting (Season 6) — Sept. 29 at 10pm on Destination America. The spooky series that showcases stories of the supernatural returns. In the Season 6 premiere, Stephanie Winters and her husband encounter strange noises and objects moving on their own in their new house. They attempt to ignore the activity, but it soon escalates. […]

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Magazine Archive

MLB playoff schedule 2013

MLB playoff schedule 2013: TBS has coverage of the NL Wild Card Oct. 1-2, and TBS and MLB Network share coverage of the Division Series beginning Oct. 3. ALSO SEE: MLB tiebreakers 2013: Tampa Bay at Texas TV channel MLB Wild Card 2013 TV schedule MLB NLDS TV schedule 2013 MLB ALDS TV schedule 2013 Rookie outfielder Yasiel Puig has been a catalyst for the Los Angeles Dodgers since his June debut, helping the Dodgers get into the position of contending for a World Series. He’s an electrifying player who will get a lot of attention this October. It remains […]

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Drama

A Young Doctor’s Notebook: Jon Hamm, Daniel Radcliffe play the same M.D. in Ovation series

Physician, Heal Thyself: Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe play the younger and older versions of a troubled Russian physician in A Young Doctor’s Notebook which has its American television premiere Oct. 2 on Ovation.  Jon Hamm is 6’2″, from America’s Corn Belt and best known as unscrupulous ad exec Don Draper on AMC’s Mad Men. Daniel Radcliffe is 5’5″ and English as Earl Grey, and became an international superstar by age 12 as the feature-film incarnation of literary kid wizard Harry Potter. Hardly two guys you’d peg to play the same guy in shared scenes in a single production. But as […]

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News & Current Events

Gretchen Carlson joins FOX News Channel daytime lineup

Following her departure from the FOX & Friends morning show on FOX News Channel (FNC), with Elisabeth Hasselbeck taking over her spot on that show a few weeks back, Gretchen Carlson will debut her new one-hour daytime show on FNC starting Sept. 30. Called The Real Story With Gretchen Carlson, the program will air weekdays at 2pm ET. According to an FNC release, The Real Story With Gretchen Carlson will “focus on all current events from general news to crime to politics and investigative reports.” In her new role, Carlson will interview newsmakers and lead panel debates. FNC says the show will also use social […]

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Interview

Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight: HBO film examines the 1971 Supreme Court decision that made Muhammad Ali The Greatest once more

Christopher Plummer and Frank Langella headline HBO’s fascinating new film Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight, which weaves scripted drama of the Supreme Court justices at work with pithy archival footage of Ali to display — through the prism of Ali’s conscientious-objector crusade— the high court’s vivid inner workings at a revolutionary time in America’s social and political landscape. Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight premieres Oct. 5 at 8/7CT on HBO. 1964 was a knockout year for young Cassius Clay. The cocky, verbose 22-year-old stunned boxing fans by beating fearsome belt-holder Sonny Liston for the world heavyweight title, then revealed that he’d followed his mentor, Malcolm […]

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Animation

Boomerang bringing back classic “Looney Tunes” shorts in October

I’ll admit I wasn’t a huge fan of Cartoon Network’s The Looney Tunes Show, an attempt to bring back the classic Warner Bros. animated characters in a modern format. While it was fun seeing the old gang like Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, I found the show too formulaically sitcomish, and not nearly “looney” enough — certainly not up to the standards of inspired comic insanity set by the original Looney Tunes short films. Those short films will be making a return to the Cartoon Network family, on its sister network Boomerang. Beginning Oct. 5, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, […]