Ted Cox
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'Simpsons' showing its age in 19th 'Treehouse of Horror'Oct 28, 2008 11:00 pm - "The Simpsons" unveils its 19th annual "Treehouse of Horror" special at 7 p.m. Sunday on Fox's WFLD Channel 32. It opens with Homer being confronted by a rigged voting m...
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'Chicks in Chains,' 'Coolio' hit new low in reality TVOct 27, 2008 11:00 pm - As if "American Idol" weren't already bad enough, imagine a like-minded singing competition between "beautiful, talented and troubled women" - who've been in jail. That'...
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Mancow's back: Muller lands morning show on WLS talk radioOct 23, 2008 11:00 pm - The 'Cow's come home, even though he never really left town. Erich "Mancow" Muller is returning to the Chicago radio airwaves. As of Monday, he'll join all-talk WLS 890-...
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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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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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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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Channel 5 leads local EmmysOct 18, 2008 11:00 pm - WMAQ Channel 5 led all stations with 10½ awards when the 50th annual local Emmys were presented Saturday night at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place downtown. WGN Channel...
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Sports stations thrive on people meterOct 16, 2008 11:00 pm - "The format is strong," says WSCR 670-AM Program Director Mitch Rosen, "as strong as it's ever been." What he's referring to is the all-sports radio format, and not just...