Monthly Archives: July 2012

Tuesday TV: Life After ‘So You Think You Can Dance’

Travis Wall made his name on “So You Think You Can Dance,” where he finished fourth in season two but went on to become one of the show’s top choreographers, earning Emmy nominations for his work. Now he’s breaking out with his own reality series, “All the Right Moves” (Oxygen, 9 p.m.) which follows his [...]

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Mamie Gummer: A Dork as Doc

“Emily Owens M.D.” is the first starring role for Mamie Gummer, the expressive daughter of Meryl Streep and sculptor Don Gummer. But, she told reporters at the TV Critics press tour in Beverly Hills Monday, “I feel like I’ve been the star of my own show for a while now, and I’m just really glad [...]

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Monday TV: Models Age and Are Sage

You could watch a dozen seasons of “America’s Next Top Model” and never glean the knowledge dropped by the wise and often trailblazing women featured in Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ documentary “About Face: Supermodels Then and Now” (HBO, 9 p.m.). Part of the thrill of the film is to see past supermodels today – in the business, [...]

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Jeff Probst Getting Into Talk Show Biz

When Jeff Probst invites his audience into the studio of his new daytime talk show, he won’t say “Come on in,  guys.” He’ll leave that “Survivor” catchphrase for the islands, and bring in the Los Angeles audience for his syndicated talk show into a luxurious greenroom where they can get messages, have snacks and get [...]

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Sunday TV: Inspector Lewis Solves David Soul Mystery

The quartet of new Inspector Lewis mysteries on “Masterpiece Mystery” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings) wraps up with the murder investigation of a visiting American professor with a controversial theory of genetics and crime. He’s played by David Soul, who not only played Det. Kenneth Huthinson on the original “Starsky and Hutch” but also released [...]

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Award Show and No Shows

It stands to reason that an awards show for television show would begin to be dominated by thanks delivered by video. So it was for Louis C.K., thanking the Television Critics Association for his two awards Saturday night, in messages taped earlier in the day, when he stopped at a studio (or a law office [...]

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The Appeal of Danish Murder Mysteries

Despite the cancellation this week of “The Killing,” the adaptation of Danish thrillers continues to be an attraction to makers of American television. Saturday, FX chief Jon Landgraf announced it had ordered a pilot for a new drama, based on the Scandinavian series “Bron,” which was about a body found on the Oresund bridge between [...]

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Saturday TV: Whole Lotta Games

The games begin in earnest, and after a huge audience for Friday’s opening ceremony, the other networks quietly beg off, even more than they do already in the dead of summer. So for now, let’s get interested in women’s basketball with U.S. vs. Croatia (NBC, 11:45 a.m.), women’s volleyball with U.S. vs. South Korea (NBC,3 [...]

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Bristol Palin Among ‘Dancing’ All-Stars

The Palin plan for conquering America now has nothing to do with politics, it’s all about reality TV. With the unveiling Friday of Bristol Palin as cast member of “Dancing with the Stars” all star editions, immediately after the run of her Lifetime series “Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp,” it will be the third season [...]

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Friday TV: Olympic Opening And Not Much Else

There’s plenty of pressure on London’s Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games (NBC, 7:30 p.m.) to live up to the big event in China four years ago. While the vastness of that event is unlikely to be duplicated, director Danny Boyle of “Slumdog Millionaire” will be a lively event that will boast such sons [...]

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