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January 14, 2008
Future Fighters

The Terminator franchise lands on television with atavistic androids and a sizzling Sarah Connor.

January 7, 2008
Twilight Over Baltimore

The Wire draws to a close, but not before zeroing in on one more failed institution.

December 17, 2007 |
The Year in TV

Angie Harmon renewed our faith in the cop show, Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver blew up the class divide, Queen Latifah doled out condoms, and Michael Keaton self-imploded.

December 10, 2007
Dark Holiday Fare

Kyra Sedgwick lies her way through The Closer, and an entirely campy Tin Man reimagines The Wizard of Oz.

December 10, 2007
Solving Grace

A four-part finale cracks the riddle of Saving Grace’s engrossing, self-destructive lead.

November 19, 2007 | Feature
Watch This Instead

It’s a good week to practice watching documentary television.

November 12, 2007
'The Deal'

Writer Peter Morgan, director Stephen Frears, and actor Michael Sheen have an unnatural interest in the politician Tony Blair.

November 12, 2007
'Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character'

Not only is this �American Masters� valentine to the great comedienne well deserved and overdue, but it’s surprisingly adequate to its surpassing task.

November 12, 2007
Murder, They Wrote

Big-shot crime novelists talk about true cases they didn’t fictionalize�but maybe should have.

October 22, 2007
Sing for the Money

Viva Laughlin soft-shoes its way into treacherous territory: the TV musical.