Tube Talk: Peculiarly intriguing reality shows: ‘Oddities,’ ‘Face Off’ and ‘Lizard Lick Towing’

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer One of the great things about cable TV is there is a place for virtually any
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Tube Talk: New year brings new episodes

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer After a couple weeks of year-end repeats, most TV viewers are more than ready for the return
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Tube Talk: Don’t miss your favorite holiday classic on TV

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer At this time of year, Lifetime, Hallmark and ABC Family are littered with hokey made-for-TV holiday movies.
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Tube Talk: Some celebrities should think twice before doing a ‘reality’ show

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Like millions of Americans, I’ve been known to follow a soap opera or two. I often watch
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Tube Talk: Fairy tales and horror shows debut this fall

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer With the TV landscape riddled with crime procedurals, sitcoms and medical dramas, innovative series tend to stand
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Tube Talk: TV remembers Sept. 11 — 10 years later

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer It’s hard to believe that 10 years have passed since the devastating terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,
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Tube Talk: History Channel’s ‘American Pickers’ in town July 9

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Hold onto your old bikes (motorized or people-powered), porcelain advertising signs and sundry collectibles — the American
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Tube Talk: TNT goes sci-fi with Steven Spielberg’s ‘Falling Skies’

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Thanks to hit shows like The Closer, Men of a Certain Age and Rizzoli & Isles, TNT’s
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Tube Talk: Oprah’s final show—the end of an era

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer This afternoon, I set my DVR to record the final episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. While
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Tube Talk: Still time to get into AMC’s newest series

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer AMC is known for powerful and well-produced original series like Mad Men, Breaking Bad and last fall’s
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Tube Talk: ‘Grey’s: The Musical’

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Long before Glee, in a less-crowded TV universe, a little series called Cop Rock tried—and failed—to draw
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Tube Talk: Is your favorite show on the bubble?

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer It’s that time of year again when hardcore fans begin strategizing and plotting campaigns to save their
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Tube Talk: Competition of reality competition

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer As home of two of TV’s longest-running reality competition shows, it’s no surprise CBS is heavily promoting
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Tube Talk: A conversation with Chicago Code’s Matt Lauria

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer I recently had a long, interesting conversation with Matt Lauria, who plays Detective Caleb Evers on Fox’s
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Tube Talk: New nights, old(en) times

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Friday nights are often viewed as the night of the week TV shows go to die. Perhaps
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Tube Talk: New year, new shows

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Now that the holidays are over, and the post-Christmas crud I’ve been battling (aka the never-ending cold)
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Tube Talk: Holly jolly Christmas returns to TV this year

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Judging from the promos alone, NBC’s Thursday night comedies want to put the merry back into Christmas.
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Tube Talk: A very Gleeful Syfy Christmas

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Some of your favorite shows are airing special episodes this December. A couple popular summer shows are
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Tube Talk: Geoffrey Baer offers TV’s best tours of Chicago

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Anyone lucky enough to have a TV that receives Chicago’s PBS station WTTW should be familiar with
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Tube Talk: Already time for holiday shopping?

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer My sister-in-law just unofficially kicked off the holiday season by suggesting we should start exchanging wish lists
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Tube Talk: CoCo time: Conan O’Brien returns to late night Nov. 8

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer It’s hard to believe Conan O’Brien has already been gone from The Tonight Show for longer than
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Tube Talk: Scary and scarier: Attack ads and The Walking Dead

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer This is the time of year when being scared can be fun. Haunted houses, horror flicks
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Tube Talk: Comedy, music and plenty of fun

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer This Thursday, Oct. 21, you can kick back, laugh and maybe even learn something by watching Comedy
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Tube Talk: 30 Rock to air live at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 14

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer After spending several years at Saturday Night Live as both head writer and cast member, Tina Fey
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Tube Talk: Cancellation axes swing early in new season

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer The new TV season was barely two weeks old before the cancellation axes began swinging. Fox was
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Tube Talk: Making time for new favorites

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer With so many promising new shows debuting this fall, I’m plotting out which shows I’ll watch live,
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Tube Talk: Some promising new shows debut this fall

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer The new season is finally here. Some new shows may have more buzz than others, but here
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Tube Talk: Martha Stewart invades Hallmark Channel

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer A week from now, if it seems like Martha Stewart has invaded Hallmark Channel, it’s probably because
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Tube Talk: Tough competition, but Emmy winners deserving

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Did you enjoy the opening number of the Emmys as much as I did? Host Jimmy Fallon
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Tube Talk: Weirdest crossover ever? Ghost Hunters and Real Housewives of Atlanta

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Most TV crossovers make sense, like when a case on NCIS leads the agents to Los Angeles
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Tube Talk: The reality of local realty shows

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer As a bungalow dweller who occasionally writes for American Bungalow magazine, I tend to get annoyed when
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Tube Talk: Life, death and animated birthdays

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Just glance at the TV listings, and you’ll quickly realize there really is a show for every
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Tube Talk: Late-summer entries–Being Human, Rubicon

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer A ghost, a vampire and a werewolf decide to share a house. Sounds like the setup for
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Tube Talk: What do the shows you watch say about you?

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer My old friend TV Snob was at it again the other day. She’ll watch almost anything on
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Tube Talk: Mad Men returns

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Fresh off the heels of receiving 17 Emmy nominations—the most of any drama series this year—AMC’s acclaimed
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Tube Talk: Fresh faces in Emmy race

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Each year, TV fans and critics express disappointment when Emmy voters fail to recognize new shows. This
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Tube Talk: Old and new summer series

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Summer viewing heats up even more this week with the season openers of several new shows. Some
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Tube Talk: Summer faves return

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer When Rescue Me ended last season with Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary) shot by his Uncle Teddy (Lenny
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Tube Talk: TNT launches Southland, Memphis Beat and Rizzoli & Isles

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer TNT raised the bar for original cable series with The Closer, which last year pulled in ratings
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Tube Talk: The Good Guys, Persons Unknown, Burn Notice among fun summer fare

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Some books make for light, fun summer reads. The same is true of some TV shows. Whether
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Tube Talk: The Tony Awards June 13

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer If you think Broadway is elitist entertainment reserved for theater snobs and has nothing to do with
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Tube Talk: A Lost goodbye: Lost signs off May 23 after six seasons

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer After six seasons of flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash-sideways, Lost is coming to an end this Sunday, May
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Tube Talk: Seasonal affective disorder

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Major networks used to have their regular TV season along with mid-season replacement shows and summer re-runs.
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Tube Talk: Comedy queen Betty White hosts SNL May 15

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer Whether you’re 9 or 90, at some point in your life Betty White has made you laugh.
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Tube Talk: Weekend TV a vast wasteland

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer As I type, this is the first weekend I’ve had in a while that hasn’t been busy
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Tube Talk: Gleeking out again

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer After what feels like forever, FOX’s surprise hit Glee is finally back! McKinley High’s New Directions has
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Tube Talk: Digging Bones: 100th episode airs Thursday, April 8, on FOX

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer I remember watching the pilot episode of Bones well before it aired. A lot of people I
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Tube Talk: You can learn helpful things from TV

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer When was the last time you learned something truly useful, if not downright valuable, while watching TV?
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Tube Talk: Flash Forward, Breaking Bad among spring’s early returns

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer This is the time of year for all kinds of returns. As the snow melts, signs of
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Tube Talk: Networks order updates of old shows like Charlie’s Angels, Hawaii Five-O

By Paula Hendrickson Contributing Writer This is the time of year when networks order pilot episodes of shows they might want to
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