TV

11/10/2009

Documentary filmmaker puts a human face on D-Day
Tim Gray filmed interviews with many of the former Navy men who were there

11/09/2009

40 years of sunny days
Big Bird is leaving Sesame Street!

Surprises among fall TV’s winners and losers
‘Jay Leno Show’ biggest flop in the new season

11/07/2009

John Lithgow’s serial killer character soars on ‘Dexter’
LOS ANGELES — John Lithgow was going to pass on the chance to play serial killer vs. serial killer on “Dexter,” with an Italian vacation, cruise and his son’s wedding awaiting him.

New faces hope to break logjam of white male hosts on late-night TV
Minutes into a conversation with George Lopez, you realize he’s intent on making TV history.

11/04/2009

Providence woman on Oprah show
Judy D’Arcy was chosen in response to a request for women who wanted to shake up their lives

11/02/2009

Bravo’s got a sense of right and wrong
The network has developed some sort of moral center

Leaving homely behind
A few Halloweens ago, a favorite costume roaming the night involved an embroidered poncho reading “Guadalajara” and a bushy unibrow. This year, the original poncho is mounted in the owner’s new office and her eyebrows are neatly tweezed. “Ugly Betty” is looking less dowdy.

10/29/2009

Channel 12 beats out Channel 10 in R.I. 11 p.m. news ratings
Channel 10, a leader for decades, slips to second, but maintains its lead for the 6 p.m. slot

* Bill Reynolds: Ex-Hendricken star makes career of football, minus the NFL
He has played arena football for teams in South Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Washington, New Hampshire, and Louisiana, and that’s just some of the places.

10/30/2009

The pros of playing a con on ‘White Collar’
If the show finds a good audience, busy actor Matt Bomer could become a star

Microsoft exits as sponsor of ‘Family Guy’ special
NEW YORK — Fans of “Family Guy” are chortling about Microsoft’s belated discovery that a “Family Guy” special might not jibe with the software giant’s corporate image.

10/27/2009

Partisan politics are pervading the pop culture world
Billions of years ago, we had the Big Bang. Today, we’re living through the Big Blur. Politicians becoming celebrities, news turning into entertainment. With the explosion of media and technology, every area of public life seemed to go pop.

11/01/2009

Designers honor Grace Kelly’s cool, classic style
Grace Kelly film fest on TV

10/26/2009

ABC may choose man to replace Sawyer
Since the news broke last month that Diane Sawyer will be leaving ABC’s Good Morning America to replace Charles Gibson on the network’s flagship evening broadcast, female broadcasters such as Ashleigh Banfield and Suze Orman have eagerly volunteered to replace her.

10/19/2009

No mystery about sexual tension on ABC’s ‘Castle’
It doesn’t take a detective to figure out when a TV show has a pair of mystery solving partners — one male, one female — they’re eventually going to be doing more than sleuthing.

Real role for a pretender
Actor Tim DeKay never quite grew up. He still loves pretending, he says. “As a kid I always loved playing cowboys and Indians, and it was always freeing for me to really be the Indian, not be the cowboy. As I got older I thought, ‘I want to be a lawyer,’ ‘I want to be a doctor.’ But I realized I don’t really want to be those, I just want to PLAY them, behave like those people.”

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Providence College's 'grunge' edition of Romeo and Juliet
Brown engineering students race cars you can compost
Ice carving: Chainsaws and chisels in the hands of Johnson and Wales chefs-in-training


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