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RATING: (SNOOZING VIEWER) Sons of Tucson: Sitcom. 9:30 p.m. Sundays on Fox. If you back up far enough from "Sons of Tucson," Fox's latest attempt to create a nonanimated sitcom, you can almost see what they must have seen. But you need to be at some distance....
SFGate: Tim Goodman
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) The Pacific: Miniseries. Executive-produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. 9 p.m. Sundays on HBO. Beyond the fact that HBO's ambitious new miniseries, "The Pacific," is a superb, viscerally moving and harrowing depiction of World...
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In July 2003, a small cable network that was making a lot of noise with its grit and fearlessness - FX - premiered "Nip/Tuck," which ends Wednesday night after seven seasons and 100 episodes - a success by any standard. Except that it wasn't very good. It was...
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Television Critics Assn.: New chief Chris Albrecht says originals not only way -- Chris Albrecht made his first public appearance as the big boss of Starz on Saturday during the pay cabler's sesh at the winter Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena.
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Television Critics Assn.: Landgraf talks about O'Brien's options -- With Conan O'Brien about to become a free agent, FX would be interested in having him host a latenight comedic program, possibly in the vein of a Comedy Central staple.
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Television Critics Assn.: Former HBO exec, now Starz topper, talks at TCA -- Chris Albrecht has just made his first TCA appearance as the big boss of Starz Media.
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Television Critics Assn.: Cabler creates cuisine-oriented programming block -- IFC is creating a cuisine-oriented programming block to air Tuesday nights.
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Television Critics Assn.: Goldberg-Meehan will write, exec produce comedy -- ABC has picked up a comedy pilot from former "Friends" scribe Shana Goldberg-Meehan.
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Television Critics Assn.: Each program recently scored record ratings -- ABC Family announced renewals for original series "The Secret Life of the American Teenager" and "Make It or Break It."
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Television Critics Assn.: Pilot follows San Diego sports arena manager -- ABC has given a pilot order to "Mr. Sunshine," a laffer starring Matthew Perry.
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Television Critics Assn.: TCA panel took place Tuesday -- ABC's comedy showrunners Eileen Heisler, DeAnn Heline ("The Middle"), Steve Levitan ("Modern Family") and Bill Lawrence ("Cougar Town") had reason to smile at the Television Critics Assn. panel Tuesday afternoon.
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Television Critics Assn.: Network also gives second season order to 'The Middle' -- ABC Entertainment Group prexy Steve McPherson announced Tuesday morning that he had given early second-season orders to Wednesday night frosh "Modern Family," "Cougar Town" and "The Middle."
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Television Critics Assn.: Rice and Reilly also talk about net's sked at TCA -- Fox execs love Conan O'Brien - but they're still a long way from making a deal with the displaced late-night host.
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Television Critics Assn.: Peter Rice could be on verge of overseeing cable assets -- A major exec shakeup appears to be in the works at Fox Cable Networks.
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Television Critics Assn.: Reality series' judge to focus on 'X Factor' -- Fox execs and Cowell himself on Monday confirmed the acerbic judge's decision to exit the hit talent competish in order to help launch his long-awaited U.S. version of Brit TV sensation "The X Factor."
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Television Critics Assn.: Network to conduct nationwide casting search as part of special -- Fox confirmed Monday that it would pick up a second season of the series (Daily Variety, Jan. 11) , not a complete surprise, given the frosh drama's hit status.
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Television Critics Assn.: Comedian and partner Feresten develop sketch show for Fox -- Dana Carvey is plotting a TV comeback, partnering with scribe-turned-TV host Spike Feresten to develop and star in a new sketch comedy series for Fox.
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Television Critics Assn.: 'Tonight Show' host not happy with network proposal -- Conan O'Brien was stung by NBC's decision to downgrade him to after midnight.
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Television Critics Assn.: Show to feature 'Housewives' star Frankel -- Bravo is giving "Real Housewives of New York" featured player Bethenny Frankel her own show while expanding its food franchise with spinoff "Top Chef: Just Desserts."
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Television Critics Assn.: Cabler announces shows 'Fashion Drop,' 'Hair Battle' -- Female-skewing Oxygen, trying to continue the momentum of "The Bad Girls Club" and "Dance Your Ass Off," announced several shows at TCA that it currently has in development.
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Television Critics Assn.: Shows by Kelly, Bruckheimer and Carell in the mix -- NBC, looking to quickly fill the 10 p.m. timeslot filled with the departure of "The Jay Leno Show," has greenlit a handful of pilots that will be contenders for the 2010-11 season.
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Television Critics Assn.: Net wants to keep all three latenight show hosts -- NBC made it official on Sunday morning -- The Peacock's "The Jay Leno Show" experiment is dead.
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Television Critics Assn.: Jeremy Irons will star as patriarch of Renaissance family -- With period piece "The Tudors" ready to sign off, Showtime has again reached back into European history with new series order "The Borgias."