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Intimacy, understanding, and admiration in male friendships are no longer cultural taboos.
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Transgender women make a statement on reality TV
The CW's "America's Next Top Model" (above) and VH-1's "I Want to Work for Diddy" are two reality shows featuring transgender woman this season.
Is frantic TV coverage giving us the business?
Covering the recent financial crisis on television has proven trying for those networks who are easily caught up in the minutiae of the crisis.
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On 'The Last Enemy,' Big Brother is watching
"The Last Enemy" works to revive all the once sinister associations attached to 24/7 surveillance.
TV and radio news
- Misty May-Treanor out of 'Dancing with the Stars' (AP, 9:25 a.m.)
- 'Idol' singer Paris Bennett gives birth to girl (AP, 6:27 a.m.)
- ABC names new `This Week' producer (AP, 10/6/08)
- ABC names new `This Week' producer (AP, 10/6/08)
- Miley Cyrus celebrates Sweet 16 at Disneyland (AP, 10/6/08)
- Hopper stars in Starz series `Crash' (AP, 10/6/08)
- Hopper stars in Starz series `Crash' (AP, 10/6/08)
- Women's soccer league on Fox network (AP, 10/6/08)
- Misty May-Treanor out of 'Dancing with the Stars' (AP, 10/6/08)
- Slick Rick among honorees at VH1 Hip Hop Honors (AP, 10/6/08)
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HOTLANTA Real Housewives of Atlanta 9 p.m., Bravo I love it that Bravo has created a franchise out of the whole "Real Housewives" thing, from Orange County to New York to, now, the South. And I love it that the channel is premiering the Atlanta series opposite a presidential debate. The names of the belles are NeNe Leakes, DeShawn Snow, ... (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
Transgender women make statement on reality TV
Levi Valentine had never watched a full season of Tyra Banks's reality show "America's Next Top Model" in the 10 seasons it's been on the air. Then Valentine heard that a transgender woman, Isis Tsunami, was going to be one of the contestants. That was enough to persuade Valentine, a 29-year-old transgender man who lives in Jamaica Plain, to tune ... (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
The Air This Week
Throughout the week Midnight-5 a.m. Jazz with Bob Parlocha (Mon.-Thurs.) (WGBH: 89.7, wgbh.org) . . . 5 a.m.-1 p.m. Jazz (daily) (WHRB: 95.3, whrb.org) . . . 7 a.m. In Performance (Mon.-Fri.) (ABC Classic FM: abc.net.au/classic) . . . 8:30 a.m. Le concert de l'apres-midi (Mon.-Fri.) (France Musique: radiofrance.fr/francemusique) . . . 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Classical music (Mon.-Fri.) (WGBH) (repeated ... (Boston Globe, 12 a.m.)
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THE 1 DIVA AT THE MEGAPLEX Craving big-league opera but can't make it to New York? The Met's popular series of high-definition simulcasts to movie theaters around the world (including several in Greater Boston) starts in earnest Saturday with a performance of Strauss's "Salome," featuring the exhilarating soprano Karita Mattila in the title role. Expect a voice of cool Nordic ... (Boston Globe, 10/6/08)
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DVDS - TV 30 Rock, Season 2 Tina Fey is riding so high off her too-close-for-comfort Sarah Palin impressions on "Saturday Night Live" that it's way too easy to forget that she also stars in "30 Rock," the spoof of a sketch comedy show that will begin its third season on Oct. 30 on NBC (and Oct. 23 online). The ... (Boston Globe, 10/6/08)
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MORE KUDOS VH1 Hip Hop Honors 10 p.m., VH1 Tracy Morgan hosts the fifth annual show celebrating all things hip-hop. This year, the honorees are Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Naughty by Nature, Too Short, and Slick Rick. Performers include Q-Tip, Big Boi, and Ghostface Killah. (Boston Globe, 10/6/08)
Late TV Listings
The Chris Matthews Show. Topics: Has Barack Obama captured the momentum; will Sarah Palin help John McCain get his momentum back? Guests: Richard Stengel, Time magazine; Michele Norris, NPR; Joe Scarborough, MSNBC; and Kathleen Parker, Washington Post Writers Group. 5:30 a.m. (5) (Boston Globe, 10/5/08)
Cohasset native Cara McKenney wins Emmy for design work on 'Mad Men'
A year and a half ago, Cara McKenney took home the script of the pilot for the TV series "Mad Men" and thought she recognized a winner. (Boston Globe, 10/5/08)
It's the economy making television look stupid
We're conditioned to turn to our television sets in times of crisis - to get our news updates in visceral, visual real time - and more often than not, TV delivers. It's a live-action thrill on election night, a collective way to experience the start of a war or the path of a hurricane. So it seemed natural to turn ... (Boston Globe, 10/4/08)
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FEY REPLAY? Saturday Night Live 11:30 p.m., Channel 7 Will Tina Fey be back yet again? Will she even have to write her skit? Or will she just borrow copy from Thursday night's vice presidential debate? All eyes on "SNL," as the series is handed an embarrassment of political material in the weeks before the election. (Boston Globe, 10/4/08)
On 'The Last Enemy,' Big Brother is watching everybody
Before "Big Brother," the insipid spy-cam reality show, there was Big Brother, the terrifying, Orwellian authority figure constantly looking over our shoulder. "The Last Enemy," a compelling five-part "Masterpiece: Contemporary" thriller, works to revive all the once sinister associations attached to 24/7 surveillance. In our age of terrorism and debates about civil liberties, "The Last Enemy" proposes, George Orwell's "1984" ... (Boston Globe, 10/4/08)
WERS makes the grade as nominee for best college station
Emerson College's WERS-FM (88.9) has long looked beyond campus for its listeners. Particularly since it abandoned the usual eclecticism of college radio and established a consistent weekday format of acoustic music and softer new rock two years ago, the station has pitched itself as an alternative to commercial stations like "The River" WXRV-FM (92.5) and WBOS-FM (92.9). But WERS, which ... (Boston Globe, 10/4/08)
'Valentine' and 'Easy Money' could use a little divine intervention
Maybe I'd have relished watching any actress play a borderline nutcase who goes all "Fatal Attraction" on the tightly wrapped hero of "Dexter." But Jaime Murray, so intense as Lila on the Showtime drama, has become one of my favorite TV actresses. There's something slyly irrepressible about her and her dark eyes, even when she's playing a cool con artist ... (Boston Globe, 10/4/08)
Romantic comedy tries too hard to impress
Remember when "so" was so overused? Well "The Ex List" officially marks the so-over-ness of "really" as a retort. Really? Really. (Boston Globe, 10/3/08)
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The 20 Greatest Redneck Moments II 8 p.m., CMT If you can't beat the stereotypes, make a TV show about them? CMT continues its embrace of all things redneck with this look at some historical landmarks. Among them: the opening of "Smokey and the Bandit" (above, with Burt Reynolds), the premiere of "The Jerry Springer Show," when "Dueling Banjos" from ... (Boston Globe, 10/3/08)
TV critic Matthew Gilbert took your questions
Boston Globe TV critic Matthew Gilbert was online Thursday, Oct. 2, at noon to discuss all things TV related. Curious about Gilbert's thoughts on this fall TV season? Catch up here. (Boston Globe, 10/2/08)
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The Vice Presidential Debate 9 p.m. Will this be cringe comedy? Will "Saturday Night Live" be able to turn around a better skit by Saturday than it did last week on the first presidential debate? PBS's Gwen Ifill moderates tonight's face-off between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. The live event from St. Louis will be airing on all the major ... (Boston Globe, 10/2/08)
On ABC, a night of series second chances
They are series, interrupted. Tonight on Channel 5, ABC is bringing back three 2007 shows whose freshman runs were completely blown off track by the writers' strike. Few viewers have probably been pining madly for the return of "Pushing Daisies" at 8, "Private Practice" at 9, and "Dirty Sexy Money" at 10, because they weren't around long enough to take ... (Boston Globe, 10/1/08)
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Friday Night Lights 9 p.m., DirecTV's Channel 101 The third season begins tonight, but PSYCH - only if you have DirecTV. The rest of us heathens (and legally minded types) will have to wait until next February, when NBC will do the honors. I did see a preview disc of the premiere, and it's mostly good ol' "FNL." Last season, ... (Boston Globe, 10/1/08)