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Items by By MIKE HALE
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Television Review | 'Sordid Lives: The Series': Gay Texans and Their Kin: Cheatin’, Lyin’ and Lovin’
Posted: October 15th, 2008, 4:18am GMT by By MIKE HALE
“Sordid Lives: The Series,” on Logo, sends up its Texas milieu without the condescension that mainstream television usually brings to depictions of working-class America.
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The Web: Television Keeps a Hand in the Online Game With Serialized Shows
Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 1:30pm GMT by By MIKE HALE
Television networks are joining other media companies in throwing things at the Web wall to see what sticks.
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Television Review: Diddy, Tiffany and Luke: Celebreality Triple-Header
Posted: August 11th, 2008, 3:47am GMT by By MIKE HALE
VH1’s three new reality shows don’t make too much of an effort to rise above the clichés of their genres. But there are some laughs to be had.
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TV Review | 'From G’s to Gents': Being a Thug Ain’t Smart, It Ain’t Chic, It Ain’t Etiquette
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:38am GMT by By MIKE HALE
The evil genius of “From G’s to Gents,” a new reality show on MTV, is that it encourages exactly the kind of behavior it pretends to abhor.
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TV Review | 'Food Detectives': Private Eye for the Food Guy: Cuisine Sleuths on the Case
Posted: August 5th, 2008, 3:37am GMT by By MIKE HALE
Those who complain that the Food Network’s best days are in the not-too-recent past will only feel more disillusioned after watching Ted Allen’s new show, “Food Detectives.”
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Television Review: Girls, Gunfire and Despair: Senior Year for 4 Iraqi Boys
Posted: August 4th, 2008, 5:31am GMT by By MIKE HALE
This film follows four Iraqis -- a Sunni, a Shiite, a Kurd and a Christian -- through their senior year of high school in 2006-7.
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Television Review: Four Marines on the Mexican Border, and the Killing of One Young Civilian
Posted: July 8th, 2008, 4:53am GMT by By MIKE HALE
The film, which is being shown on the “P.O.V.” series on PBS, puts the killing of Esequiel Hernández, an 18-year-old Texan who was shot by a United States marine, in the context of geopolitics.
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Television Review | 'On a Wing and a Prayer': When Pursuing Happiness Means Taking to the Skies
Posted: July 7th, 2008, 2:39am GMT by By MIKE HALE
If this documentary were in Us Weekly it would be called “American Muslims: They’re Just Like Us.”
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Television Review: Novelist, Scholar, Tweaker of Autobiographical Facts
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 5:09am GMT by By MIKE HALE
In “Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun,” an “American Masters” documentary on Wednesday night on PBS, we learn that she also pioneered a very 21st-century genre: the unreliable memoir. -
Television Review: At the Port, Peril Is Around Every Corner
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 3:35am GMT by By MIKE HALE
“America’s Port” is out to prove that there is peril around every corner, or at least in front of every camera. -
Television Review: Singer’s Family Revisits Its Reality-Show History
Posted: March 20th, 2008, 3:14am GMT by By MIKE HALE
In its two short seasons on BET, “Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is” has stood atop the celebreality genre.