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<title><![CDATA[Neophyte actress hits the 'Lights']]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[While on a one-semester break from the University of Texas, Austin, Stephanie Hunt auditioned for the football-centered, small-town drama <i>Friday Night Lights </i>(9 p.m. Wednesdays on DirecTV's 101 Network; the show will air later this season on NBC).]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Yo Gabba Gabba! hits mainstream]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[These days, even monsters have handlers.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Programs examine Mumbai attacks]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA["The first 360-degree view of terrorism" -- that's the promise that writer Fareed Zakaria makes at the beginning of <i>Terror in Mumbai</i>, an HBO documentary about the attacks in that Indian city last November that left more than 170 people dead. In addition to the usual eyewitness interviews and surveillance videos, the film, which Zakaria narrates, makes use of hours of intercepted telephone conversations between the 10 gunmen and their controllers in Pakistan. "This time you are with the terrorists," Zakaria intones.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Some known films miss Oscar cut]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Of the 89 documentary films eligible for Oscar consideration this year, 15 were selected for a short list of potential nominees. And Michael Moore's <i>Capitalism: A Love Story</i> wasn't one of them.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[TV Tidbits: Creasey family got a lot more than just a new house]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/nov/22/creasey-family-got-a-lot-more-than-just-a-new-hous/entertainment-tv/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[The Creasey family didn't just get a new house in <i>Extreme Makeover: Home Edition</i> -- they were also showered with gifts from local businesses.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Simpsons to offer 'La Bomba']]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/nov/21/the-simpsons-to-offer-la-bomba/entertainment-tv/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Ladies' man Ricardo Bomba is bringing his charms to <i>The Simpsons</i>, and it's all the doing of a hospital operations manager with a vivid imagination.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[No Heir Apparent: Loss of show would be blow to CBS Corp.]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience yesterday that she would end her show in 2011 after 25 years on the air. Winfrey told the audience that she loved <i>The Oprah Winfrey Show</i>, that it had been her life and that she knew when it was time to say goodbye. "Twenty-five years feels right in my bones and feels right in my spirit," she said.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Can CNN thrive down the middle?]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[To some in the TV industry, CNN's exchange of opinionated "advocacy journalist" Lou Dobbs for even-handed anchor John King represents a significant shift -- the triumph of down-the-middle delivery at cable TV's first 24-hour news channel.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[I'm the blogging call girl, British scientist says]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[A British scientist says she is Belle de Jour, the anonymous blogger whose accounts of life as a call girl were turned into books and a TV series.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Oh, those awful pop-up promos!]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/nov/19/oh-those-awful-pop-up-promos/entertainment-tv/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in the universe of TV viewers, there's got to be a person who actually likes those pop-up, onscreen promotions. Someone who thinks, "Thank you, network people, for those useful, informative announcements that block what I'm watching to tell me what I'm watching, or tell me what I could be watching next, which will then be blocked by reminders of what I could be watching after that."]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Star Trek full of  action and plenty  of extras]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[<b>Star Trek</b> (PG-13): J.J. Abrams' reboot of the <i>Star Trek</i> franchise was a risky venture, aiming to draw in new fans while not alienating the show's current fan base. For the most part, it succeeded, though there will of course always be fans able to find nits to pick.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Famous Birthdays]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[<b>Today:</b> Actor Alan Young (<i>Mr. Ed</i>) is 90. Talk-show host Larry King is 76. Talk-show host Dick Cavett is 73. Media mogul Ted Turner is 71. Newsman Garrick Utley is 70. Actor Dan Haggerty is 68. Fashion designer Calvin Klein is 67. Sportscaster Ahmad Rashad is 60. Actor Robert Beltran (<i>Star Trek: Voyager</i>) is 56. Actress Kathleen Quinlan is 55. Journalist Ann Curry is 53. Actress Allison Janney (<i>The West Wing</i>) is 50. Actress Meg Ryan is 48. Actress Jodie Foster is 47. Actress Terry Farrell (<i>Becker</i>) is 46. Singer Tony Rich is 38. Dancer-choreographer Savion Glover is 36. Singer Tamika Scott of Xscape is 34. Rapper Lil' Mo is 32.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[CNN stays pat despite ratings woes]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[The latest rough patch for CNN illustrates the contradictions at the network's heart.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Heather Locklear retakes her 'Place']]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[In the seven seasons that Heather Locklear spent on <i>Melrose Place</i>, the vintage 1990s Fox soap opera, she was synonymous with ruthlessness, deviousness and hemlines that rose as high as prime-time television would allow.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Late-night TV lacks women writers]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/nov/16/late-night-tv-lacks-women-writers/entertainment-tv/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[In many ways, television today is about women more than men.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[TV Tidbits: Want to go watch 'Makeover' filming? Here's how]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/nov/15/want-to-go-watch-makeover-filming-heres-how/entertainment-tv/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[It's too late to volunteer for <i>Extreme Makeover Home Edition</i>, which is currently filming in Lexington. But the show is encouraging spectators to come watch the construction in progress.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Prisoner gets a modern spin]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Ian McKellen had already read the script of a new version of the late-1960s cult television series <i>The Prisoner</i> when he met the author, Bill Gallagher, last year at a London restaurant to discuss the project. As Gallagher recalls their first encounter, McKellen hugged him, then gently patted him on the head and asked, "What goes on in that mind of yours, Bill?"]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Don't expect timidity from Sykes]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[Wanda Sykes has trust issues.

Last week, a few days before her debut as the host of <i>The Wanda Sykes Show</i>, a new weekly talk show that began Saturday on Fox, Sykes recalled that her last venture with that broadcast network did not work out exactly as hoped.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Characters even better  than the animation in smart Up]]></title>

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<description><![CDATA[<b>Up</b> (G): Pixar continues its tradition of fantastic, family-oriented films with this smart, poignant and imaginative fable. Ed Asner provides the voice of a grumpy widower whose sole joy in life was his wife. Determined to live out her last dream, he tethers thousands of balloons to the home they shared and sets sail by air to a jungle retreat she had hoped to visit. But he has an unwitting stowaway, an eager young Wilderness Explorer who tags along on the journey. Joining them along the way is Dug, an eager, goofy dog who steals any scene he is in. The computer-animation is beautiful, but it is the characters who matter most.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Week In, Week Out]]></title>

<link><![CDATA[http://www2.journalnow.com/content/2009/nov/12/111830/7/entertainment-tv/]]></link>


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<description><![CDATA[What to do this week if you're staying in or going out.]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:30:03 EST]]></pubDate>
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