Television
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New season of 'SNL' roars back by mocking Donald Trump early
Oct 01, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The new season of "Saturday Night Live" wasted no time getting topical - or mocking Donald Trump - with an opening sketch that featured Alec Baldwin skew...
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Author events: Roz Varon stops in Naperville, Dan Brown in Downers GroveSep 30, 2017 7:28 am - • Chicago's ABC-7 News traffic reporter Roz Varon signs copies of her book "On the Road With Roz: Adventures in Travel and Life" at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 1, at Anderson's ...
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Maria television reporting raises echoes of Katrina coverage
Sep 30, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - As the days pass since Hurricane Maria ripped across Puerto Rico, television reports increasingly echo those after Katrina a dozen years ago in sounding ...
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CNN's David Axelrod looks beyond political pals for series
Sep 29, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - David Axelrod makes a point of not just talking to people he agrees with politically on his podcast and CNN series, which resumes this weekend featuring ...
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Widescreen: New 'Star Trek' tainted by CBS' app-happy sales pitchSep 29, 2017 6:00 am - “Six bucks a month for new ‘Trek'? Beam me up!” — Sean Stangland, Nov. 4, 2015 “CBS, you greedy sons-a-guns!” — Sean Stangland, Sept. 24, 2017 OK, perhaps I toned d...
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Feder: WBEZ reporting project tackles Chicago's gun violenceSep 29, 2017 1:00 am - "Every Other Hour" has been a yearlong enterprising reporting project on Chicago's gun violence epidemic, produced by Chicago Public Media WBEZ FM 91.5. (The title refer...
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Fox's 'Family Guy' launches Season 15 on Sunday
Sep 28, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - As everyone must know by now, Fox's animated series "Family Guy" lives to lampoon human nature and human frailties, and does so without fear or favor. Th...
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Topical PBS show seeks big questions behind the news
Sep 28, 2017 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - In a television world larded with topical talk shows, Carlos Watson and Denise DiIanni faced the challenge of finding a new idea that could be palatable ...
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus says she has breast cancer
Sep 28, 2017 1:00 am - Emmy-winning "Seinfeld" and "Veep" star Julia-Louis Dreyfus has been diagnosed with breast cancer, according to a note the actress posted Thursday on Twitter. "1 in 8 wo...
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Megyn Kelly is striking out with her celebrity guestsSep 27, 2017 11:00 pm - Megyn Kelly said on the first episode of her new NBC morning show, which aired Monday, that for years she'd "dreamed of hosting an uplifting show." But just a few episod...