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Todd VanDerWerff has a follow-up to his ’70s sitcoms primer: an extensive guide to the U.S. sitcom in the 1980s . Even though my...

Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of January 10th, 2011)

The return of The Game on BET, years after being canceled when the CW divested itself of African-American sitcoms, did better than...

40 years ago tonight, CBS aired the pilot episode of All in the Family . It was actually the third pilot (or fourth if you count...

CBC tackles the big questions of 2011 with an exclusive panel made up of my relatives

Not for anything that’s happening on the show, mind you. The interesting part is that several cast members have been let...

"The Middle" was always going to get picked up for a third season (it’s doing quite well in a difficult time slot), but I’m glad...

Headline murders tend to have a moral message as well as a sexual component

Was it the result of nasty political rhetoric -- or not ... of weak gun laws -- or not ... or yet another failure of an...

Well, this is some strange news. The History Channel in the U.S. put a lot of money into The Kennedys , an eight-part miniseries...