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2012 PGA Championship TV schedule

The Ocean Course at the Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina hosts the PGA Championship, the final major of 2012. Luke Donald, Rory McIlroy, Lee Westwood, Webb Simpson, Bubba Watson, Jason Dufner, Matt Kuchar, Justin Rose, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods are among the contenders to take home the Wanamaker trophy and end the season on a high note. Last year, Keegan Bradley had a thrilling comeback and won the tournament in a three-hole playoff against Dufner. TNT and CBS share coverage of this year’s PGA Championship Aug. 9-12. PGA Championship Preview: Tournament will have a European feel GOLF […]

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PGA Championship Preview: Tournament will have a European feel

  If some of the European golfers participating in this week’s PGA Championship appear to feel at home on the Ocean Course at Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina, it’s probably because it plays much more like something you’d find on the other side of the pond. With the way the course is designed, 10 holes run alongside the Atlantic Ocean and are subjected to inconsistent winds. In fact, it’s said that a player’s club selection on the par-3, 17th hole can range anywhere from a 7-iron to a 3-wood depending on the direction and gusts of the wind. RELATED: 2012 […]

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Action

Where to get your Batman fix on TV this weekend

And where … is the Batman? Well, most notably the Caped Crusader will be kicking ass at the box office starting Friday, July 20, as the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises, premieres in theaters. But if that’s not enough for you, or if you can’t get tickets, Gotham’s Dark Knight can also be seen on television in various incarnations throughout this coming weekend. Here are some highlights: * Batman: The Animated Series Rises Marathon — July 20, 4-9pm ET on The Hub. A 10-episode marathon of episodes from the superb early ’90s series Batman: […]

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Drama

“The Closer”: Kyra Sedgwick says goodbye (video)

With the final six episodes of The Closer beginning tonight, TNT has released this video in which star Kyra Sedgwick emotionally reflects on playing Brenda Leigh Johnson for seven seasons, and tearfully thanks the cast, crew and fans of the series. The behind-the-scenes video also shows her wrapping her final scene as Brenda. RELATED STORY: KYRA SEDGWICK SHARES WHAT’S IN STORE FOR FINAL EPISODES OF “THE CLOSER” The Closer‘s final six episodes begin tonight, July 9, at 9pm ET/PT on TNT. The series finale is set to air Monday, Aug. 13.

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On set with Eric McCormack of TNT’s “Perception”

By Kate O’Hare In the feature film A Beautiful Mind, schizophrenic mathematician John Nash (Russell Crowe) goes against a doctor’s advice and decides to forgo his medication and use his intellect to deal with his symptoms, including vivid hallucinations. In the TNT drama Perception, Eric McCormack plays neuroscience professor Dr. Daniel Pierce, who is also off his medication, instead using his hallucinations and paranoid delusions to help a former student, FBI agent Kate Moretti (Rachael Leigh Cook), solve crimes. But Pierce’s symptoms and the behavior they cause also put him at risk — and the disruption caused by his crime-solving […]

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Kyra Sedwick shares what’s in store for final episodes of “The Closer”

By Jay Bobbin Sooner or later, every drama series must close. Even The Closer. By her own choice, Emmy winner Kyra Sedgwick wraps up her seven-season TNT run as police interrogator extraordinaire Brenda Leigh Johnson with six final episodes beginning July 9. As the preceding stories started to establish, the character’s past catches up with her as she’s investigated herself for certain actions taken in the course of doing her job. Most of Sedgwick’s Closer costars will continue into the spinoff Major Crimes, which TNT debuts immediately after The Closer finale Aug. 13. And interestingly, Sedgwick’s series run ends just […]

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Reality TV

Contestants run for the money on TNT’s “The Great Escape”

By Jay Bobbin The Amazing Race has won so many Emmys for Outstanding Reality-Competition Series — eight, to be exact — it would be amazing if its makers didn’t reapply the formula somehow. Actually, they tried last summer with ABC’s short-lived Take the Money & Run. Undeterred, they’re trying again this summer: In association with Oscar winners and Imagine Entertainment partners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, producers Bertram van Munster and Elise Doganieri launch the unscripted TNT series The Great Escape. Described by host and NFL Network sportscaster Rich Eisen as “a mini-movie every week,” the new show takes contestants […]

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New “Dallas” video updates us on the Ewing saga

TNT released this behind the scenes video clip today in advance of its updated return of the drama Dallas next week, June 13, at 9pm ET/PT. In the clip we see a nice recap of the colorful history of the famous Ewing clan, and get caught up with what’s been happening in the 20 years since we’ve last seen them in case you’ve forgotten (or in case you weren’t even born when Dallas was originally in its heyday). There’s a look at the initial rivalry between the Ewing and Barnes families, which apparently continues to spill over into the new […]

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TNT’s “Dallas” update is hotter than a Texas summer!

It is late in the afternoon on the final day of the two-week schmooze-a-palooza that is the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour. Half of the assembled critics are nursing a nagging cold that has spread through the frigid, windowless conference rooms; no one has had enough sleep. And everyone — even those of us who would watch way too much TV even if we weren’t paid to do so — has had just about enough of talking about television. Then onto the stage walks Larry Hagman in a dashing white cowboy hat, followed by Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and […]

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2012 NBA playoffs TV schedule

NBA playoffs TV schedule on TNT and ESPN continues with the conference finals starting with Oklahoma City at San Antonio on Sunday, May 27, on TNT. The NBA Playoffs are down to the final four as the Conference Finals begin Sunday, May 27, at 8:30pm ET with the Oklahoma City Thunder at the San Antonio Spurs. In the East, it’s the Boston Celtics at the Miami Heat on Monday, May 28, at 8:30pm ET. TNT has exclusive coverage of the West finals and ESPN carries all the Eastern Conference games. 2012 NBA Playoffs TV Schedule All times Eastern *If necessary […]