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Weekend Roundtable: 2018 TV Catch-Up

Josh Zyber — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 17:00:06 +0000

In this era of so-called Peak TV, there’s simply way too much television content on the air, on cable, satellite, and on streaming to keep up with everything of interest. As a corollary to last week’s Roundtable theme, which TV shows from 2018 do you need to make time to binge? David Krauss My wife...

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‘The Americans’ Contest Results

Josh Zyber — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:00:29 +0000

The second season of FX’s excellent spy drama ‘The Americans’ begins February 26th. If you missed the show last year, you’ve got some catching up to do. Today, one of our lucky readers will win a box set of the complete first season on Blu-ray. Let’s find out who won! As explained in the original...

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Privyet, Comrades – Win ‘The Americans: The Complete First Season’ on Blu-ray!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:00:21 +0000

It’s been too long since we’ve had a contest around here. Let’s rectify that problem by giving away a pretty swell prize. FX’s ‘The Americans: The Complete First Season‘ was one of last year’s best new TV shows. The Blu-ray box set hits stores today, February 11th, but you can win a free copy from...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of February 9th, 2014 – To the Bitter End

Josh Zyber — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:00:17 +0000

This week’s Blu-ray assortment brings us a couple of last year’s biggest disappointments, but don’t get too discouraged. Some smaller movies, as well as catalog titles and TV box sets, might still be worth a look. New Releases ‘Ender’s Game‘ – Orson Scott Card’s original novel was a landmark of science fiction literature. Unfortunately, the...

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Spike’s Idiot Box: Pilot Episode

Michael Spike Steinbacher — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 19:00:18 +0000

I’ve been in thrall of television for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, I loved ‘Sesame Street’, ‘Our Gang’ reruns, game shows, ‘Donahue’, reruns of ‘The Brady Bunch’, ‘Gilligans’s Island’, ‘Bewitched’, and ‘The Andy Griffith Show’. Saturday mornings were spent on the carpet directly in front of the idiot box...

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‘The Americans’ Pilot Recap: “Someone’s Been Reading Too Many Spy Novels”

Josh Zyber — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:00:38 +0000

Finally, the 2013 TV season has at least one new show worth watching. FX’s Cold War thriller ‘The Americans’ premiered last week with a pretty great pilot episode and a lot of potential. The year is 1981. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys from ‘Brothers & Sisters’ and Keri Russell from ‘Felicity’) are a perfectly...

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