Television
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Now 86, Dan Rather is big on FacebookNov 12, 2017 10:00 pm - Halfway through his ninth decade, Dan Rather is years past the time when he and TV networks ruled how Americans thought about the world around them. Yet now 86, Rather h...
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Lifetime to premiere movie on Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping
Nov 11, 2017 6:00 am - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Kidnapping victim Elizabeth Smart is pleased with how a Lifetime movie and documentary she helped produce about her harrowing ordeal turned out. Bu...
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Mt. Prospect veteran wins $18,300 on 'Wheel of Fortune'Nov 10, 2017 6:00 pm - U.S. Army veteran Bill Swiniuch of Mount Prospect won $18,300 in cash and prizes, including a trip to Hawaii, during his appearance on "Wheel of Fortune" Friday evening....
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Feder: WGN's Robert Jordan writes about TV coverage of crimeNov 10, 2017 12:00 am - Retired news veteran Robert Jordan of WGN-Channel 9 has just written Murder in the News: An Inside Look at How Television Covers Crime, focusing on Chicago stations and...
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Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping recalled in A&E, Lifetime productionsNov 09, 2017 10:00 pm - On June 5, 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom in her parents' Salt Lake City home by religious fanatic Brian David Mitchell, thus beginning...
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Study: More LGBTQ characters on TV series, fewer women
Nov 09, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - TV series are including more LGBTQ characters and adding gender-nonconforming ones, but there's a need for richer, more complex stories about them, accordi...
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Fox's Smith avoids story covered heavily by colleagues
Nov 09, 2017 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - While Fox News Channel has spent hours talking about Hillary Clinton and an Obama-era uranium deal in recent weeks, its news anchor Shepard Smith avoided...
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Mount Prospect veteran on 'Wheel of Fortune' FridayNov 09, 2017 12:00 am - U.S. Army veteran Bill Swiniuch of Mount Prospect will compete on “Wheel of Fortune” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 10, on ABC 7 as one of the contestants during the game sho...
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Feder: Weigel Broadcasting suing over use of the name ReachMe.TV.Nov 09, 2017 12:00 am - Weigel Broadcasting, Chicago-based parent company of the popular Me-TV Network, is suing Los Angeles-based Pervasive TV for using the name ReachMe. TV. Also, several Vet...
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Josh Groban joins Tony Danza in Netflix's "The Good Cop"
Nov 08, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Josh Groban is adding the role of police detective to his TV resume. Netflix said Wednesday that Groban will play a straight-laced New York City detec...