Television
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Dining with Hitler a no-go
Oct 26, 2008 11:00 pm - BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Amid widespread criticism, a Belgian public broadcaster on Monday scrapped a television show on Adolf Hitler's favorite meal. Belgium's Flemish broa...
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Let's play seven: Fox hopes to stretch out World SeriesOct 23, 2008 11:00 pm - The Fox network doesn't care who wins the World Series. It just wants it to go long, preferably six or seven games. Fox has been taking a bath in recent years. The White...
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Buffalo Grove gal tossed from 'Survivor'Oct 23, 2008 11:00 pm - Bad luck and an irritating reputation caught up with Buffalo Grove's Kelly Czarnecki Thursday night when she became the sixth person voted out in CBS' "Survivor: Gabon."...
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The CW's 'Easy Money' stands to profit viewersOct 23, 2008 11:00 pm - NBC begins and ends the workweek with a couple of big-budget, high-profile new dramas that are eager to please, but as it turns out the upstart CW network has a humbler,...
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TV creating 'currency of momentum' in meltdown coverage
Oct 23, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK - This financial crisis has really redefined the notion of "talking heads." On business news channel CNBC, at any one time, 10 of them can be crowding the scree...
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Everything old is new again on two cop-show remakesOct 22, 2008 11:00 pm - "Life on Mars" is yet another new drama based on a ridiculous premise borrowed from an overseas TV show. In this case, it's about a cop mystically and inexplicably trans...
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'Oprah Winfrey Show' to be offered in Spanish
Oct 20, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is becoming bilingual. Chicago-based Harpo Productions says the show is being made available in Spanish through Secondary Audio Programming and ...
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Holmes comes to epitomize 'Eli Stone's' sweetnessOct 20, 2008 11:00 pm - "Eli Stone" is treacly and tender and sentimental, with a head as soft and mushy as its heart. Yet at 9 p.m. Tuesday on ABC's WLS Channel 7 it gets a jolt from someone w...
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Oprah Winfrey's show to be offered in Spanish
Oct 19, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Oprah Winfrey Show" is becoming bilingual. Chicago-based Harpo Productions says the show is being made available in Spanish through Secondary Audio Programming and ...
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Not entirely live, from New York
Oct 19, 2008 11:00 pm - NEW YORK -- More people are checking out Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impersonations Saturday night later than Saturday night live. Fey's dead-on take of the Republican vice p...