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NBC primetime schedule 2013-14
Channel Guide MagazineNBC has put out its lineup of primetime shows for the upcoming 2013-14 season, including returning series, and eight new dramas and six new comedies. NBC hopes its schedule this upcoming year will be bolstered by its coverage of the Winter Games in... -
2013 TV upfronts: NBC revamps with family Thursday, Spader Monday
NEW YORK -- In a time long removed from Michael Scott and must-see TV, NBC is hoping Michael J. Fox and Sean Hayes can help fill its Thursday night comedy void. The network on Monday unveiled its programming for the year ahead during its annual upfront...Tags: The New Normal (tv program), Les Miserables (musical), Shaun White, Chicago Fire (tv program), Television
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Counting down to Lit Fest
(This selection is edited for clarity and length.) Tom Acitelli What do you think of when you think of Chicago? Oddly enough, the 1860 Republican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln. Who is an author you'd like to meet, dead or alive?...
Tags: Thelonious Monk, People (magazine), Ray Bradbury, Apple iPad, Ernest Hemingway
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NBC's 2013-14 schedule banks on new shows, past stars
RedEyeHoping to change it prime time fortunes, NBC announced a bold new schedule Sunday filled with new shows and familiar stars. The network plans to introduce 17 new series during the season, including six new comedies, eight new dramas and three new reality...Tags: Katie McGrath, Tribeca, Eric Fellner, Manhattan (New York City), Providence
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2013 Upfronts: 'About a Boy' among five new series orders from NBC
On Thursday NBC announced it was giving series orders to five pilots, including new shows from industry heavyweights J.J. Abrams, Jason Katims and James Burrows. In “The Family Guide,” J.K. Simmons stars as a blind dad going through a...
Tags: James Burrows, NBC (tv network), Lance Gross, Washington, DC, David Walton
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NBC Picks Up 'About a Boy,' 'Crisis,' 3 Other Pilots
ReutersMay 09 (TheWrap.com) - On Wednesday, NBC handed out several pilot passes, declining to pick up the high-profile "Hatfields & McCoys," "Bloodline" and five other pilots. (The network also axed its freshman drama "Deception.") Now it's time to fire up the...Tags: Friends (tv program), NBC (tv network), Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Alice (tv program), Benjamin Stockham
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Baltimore authors share what they're reading
Local authors share the titles they're enjoying right now. Madison Smartt Bell, whose most recent novel is "The Color of Night": "Noble Savages," by Napoleon Chagnon, back to back with "Triste Tropiques" by Claude Levi-Strauss. Sort of a bookend...
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'Playing for Keeps': Why does football keep sacking soccer at the box office?
The last 15 years have been, in some respects, the glory days of sports movies. I don't mean this in a qualitative sense -- "Remember The Titans" isn't exactly "The Natural" -- but it's certainly a time when sports movies have prospered. There have been...Tags: Football, Soccer, Gerard Butler, Ken Loach, Skyfall (movie)
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Teen fashion maven Tavi Gevinson is 16 going on 30
Tavi Gevinson, for whom we will all work one day, was walking home from school, books pressed to her chest, skirt swishing. It was a portrait of suburban idyll, the first day of class at Oak Park and River Forest High School. And yet, during the first two...
Tags: Chicago Reader, Banking, Miley Cyrus, Human Interest, Teaching and Learning
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Freddie Mercury biopic moves forward; Sacha Baron Cohen to star
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticQueen guitarist Brian May has reignited talk of a long-gestating Freddie Mercury biopic when he confirmed a shooting schedule and Sacha Baron Cohen’s participation as Mercury. While that information sinks in, think of Cohen, best known for his star-...Tags: Queen (music group), Sacha Baron Cohen, Entertainment, Music, Freddie Mercury
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The funky soul of Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon's new novel, "Telegraph Avenue," is like a child's bedroom overflowing with '70s pop culture — with used vinyl records and Motown name-dropping and cheesy blaxploitation movies, and set against a backdrop of racial identity in...
Tags: Kill Bill (movie), Michael Chabon, Music, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Quentin Tarantino
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A funky throwback
Archy Stallings, the African-American record store merchant at the center (or slightly off center) of Michael Chabon's grand new novel "Telegraph Avenue," lives by his belief that the decade after his 1968 birth "corresponded precisely with the most...
Tags: Culture, Authors, Michael Chabon, Music, Maury Povich
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