Ted Cox
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The new fall TV shows -- or are they?Mar 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Happy April Fools' Day, Aware One. As a regular reader of Your Friendly Neighborhood TV Critic, you can't fall prey to something sneaky creeping on you, can you? No, you...
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Wally Phillips let listeners in, tooMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Sure, Chicagoans like to think they're tough. This, after all, is the city of the big shoulders, where the police officer is there not to create disorder, but to preserv...
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These are a few of my favorite things -- on the South SideMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - As you read this, they're probably just cooking up the Eisenberg brats that will be trucked in, rewarmed and served soggy all summer in the Wrigley Field bleachers. To t...
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Don't be fooled: new book brains Cubs fansMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - Cubs fans are natural born suckers. We all know that. They've been rooting for the same losers for 100 years. So of course they're also natural born targets for sales pi...
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Nanook of New YorkMar 27, 2008 11:00 pm - "Facts are stubborn things," John Adams recently reminded us on HBO, but nevertheless the course of history is fluid. Each new generation interprets the past differently...
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Leonard takes family, viewers on a wild, enjoyable 'Ride'Mar 26, 2008 11:00 pm - "My wife thought it was the craziest idea she'd ever heard," Mike Leonard says of the concept for what turned out to be his documentary miniseries "The Ride of Our Lives...
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Former WGN radio host Wally Phillips dead at 82Mar 26, 2008 11:00 pm - Sure, Chicagoans like to think they're tough. This, after all, is the city of the big shoulders, where the police officer is there not to create disorder, but to preserv...
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PBS airs 'Peter' with a biteMar 24, 2008 11:00 pm - I'm not sure that moving tiny puppets little by little to create the impression of motion constitutes a "great performance," but PBS expands its definition of that phras...
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Back to the 'Futurama'Mar 20, 2008 11:00 pm - Seth MacFarlane's "Family Guy" used home video to revive itself and get back on network TV, and now its old Fox rival "Futurama," the labor-of-love sci-fi cartoon create...
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Channel 2 hopes to be No. 1 with new studiosMar 19, 2008 11:00 pm - WBBM Channel 2 is hoping that if it builds it, viewers will come - both literally and at home via the remote. "It," in this case, is Channel 2's impressive new studios, ...