Ted Cox
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Davlantes moonlighting on WTTW's 'Rewind'Nov 06, 2008 10:00 pm - WMAQ Channel 5 anchor-reporter Anna Davlantes moonlights on WTTW Channel 11 with the new weekly panel-discussion program "Rewind," debuting at 8:30 p.m. Friday. The Rog...
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HBO's import 'Summer Heights High' a curiosity at bestNov 05, 2008 10:00 pm - Here's a little chemistry lesson, class. Take Ricky Gervais' original version of "The Office," with its mockumentary style, mix in the crass down-under comedy of the ori...
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Fey's Palin, Russert's death altered coverage ... and resultsNov 04, 2008 10:00 pm - The long national nightmare we call a presidential campaign is at last over. Looking back on the campaign, I find to no one's surprise that the TV coverage had a dramati...
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Chicago rallies to put best face forwardNov 04, 2008 10:00 pm - It didn't appear on television, but one of the indelible images from Tuesday's Obama election rally in Grant Park found revelers gathering afterward around the statue of...
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NBC's Saunders cutting back to just 10 p.m. newsNov 03, 2008 10:00 pm - WMAQ Channel 5 anchor Warner Saunders will cut back to just the 10 p.m. newscast with the new year on his way to retiring midway through 2009. NBC has ordered a full sea...
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Festive, optimistic Obama supporters fill Grant ParkNov 03, 2008 10:00 pm - A festive, optimistic crowd filed into Grant Park for Sen. Barack Obama's evening rally this afternoon, helped by a police decision to allow access early. Although early...
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Studs, relishing the common, epitomized ChicagoOct 31, 2008 11:00 pm - Studs Terkel would have relished the almost festive irony of dying on Halloween. So news of his death didn't make me sad or gloomy Friday. How could it? Studs - and let...
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Who replaces Brenly should he leave the booth?Oct 30, 2008 11:00 pm - Let me admit right up front: I was wrong, wrong about Bob Brenly. When Brenly first returned to town to serve as color analyst alongside Len Kasper on Cubs TV broadcasts...
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'30 Rock' - TV's best comedy - is only getting betterOct 29, 2008 11:00 pm - The season premiere of "30 Rock" finds the sitcom settling into a comfortable, confident maturity in its third year. Now if only it could break its painful addiction to ...
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Steppenwolf's 'Glass Menagerie' earnest, powerfulOct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - No Chekhovian gun placed onstage has ever packed as much dread as the precious little unicorn figurine when it's set precisely if tenuously on an end table in "The Glass...