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TBS picks up Bill Lawrence comedy 'Ground Floor'
Bill Lawrence's "Cougar Town" will return with new episodes in 2014, and it will be joined by his new comedy, "Ground Floor," co-created with "2 Broke Girls" writer Greg Malins. The series, which is expected to premiere its 10-episode first season in...
Tags: Cougar Town (tv program), TBS (tv network), Entertainment, ABC (tv network), 2 Broke Girls (tv program)
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Al Pacino in 'Glengarry Glen Ross': What did the critics think?
Twenty years ago, Al Pacino starred in the movie version of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," receiving an Oscar nomination for his performance as Ricky Roma, one of a group of shady real-estate agents whose directive from management is to "always be...
Tags: Charles McNulty, Bobby Cannavale, Richard Schiff, Al Pacino, David Mamet
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Turner Nets Order Bill Lawrence Comedy âGround Floor,â Reality Skeins
VarietyThe Turner cablers are crashing the Big Four's pilot pickup party with orders for two shows at TBS and a TNT reality series. Sitcom vets Bill Lawrence and Greg Malins are shepherding "Ground Floor" for TBS and Warner Horizon TV, which has a 10-episode...Tags: TBS (tv network), TNT (tv network), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc.
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'42': Jackie Robinson has to share the spotlight with Branch Rickey ★★ 1/2
"42," writer-director Brian Helgeland's carefully tended portrait of Jackie Robinson, treats its now-mythic Brooklyn Dodger with respect, reverence and love. But who's in there, underneath the mythology? Has the movie made Robinson, a man who endured so...
Tags: Major League Baseball, Entertainment, Jackie Robinson, Movies, Los Angeles Dodgers
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'Alex Cross'
After Morgan Freeman's two turns as James Patterson's psychology-driven police detective, Tyler Perry - in a rare-for-him situation as an actor for hire, without also writing and directing - has the title role in this grim melodrama. Cross mulls a big...
Tags: Giancarlo Esposito, Entertainment, Cicely Tyson, Blu-ray Discs, Movies
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This week: Election Night; ‘The Voice’ times three; Shelley Long returns to ‘Modern Family’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelElection Night towers over all the offerings this week. Cable news will be going in earnest through the day Tuesday. ABC, CBS and NBC go to wall-to-wall coverage at 7 p.m., right after their evening newscasts. Fox Broadcasting also starts at 7. PBS... -
Tonight: One Direction vs. Maroon 5; Wil Wheaton vs. Amy on ‘The Big Bang Theory’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe highlights in Thursday prime time and late night: 1. The singing contests hope to bolster their audiences with starry performances and contestant eliminations. On “The Voice,” at 8 on NBC, mentor Adam Levine and Maroon 5 debut their single... -
A 'Glengarry' that has forgotten its realistic soul
NEW YORK— Early in "Glengarry Glen Ross," as David Mamet brilliantly employs the scene-blackout-scene rhythm he learned sweeping floors at Chicago's Second City cabaret, Shelley can't-close-a-deal Levene is told that he cannot have the "premium...
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Alex Cross
Fox 5 San Diego staffThe best-selling novels by James Patterson are back on the big screen; and they got Tyler Perry to take off the wig. It’s a buddy cop flick, with a serial killer that has more twitches than any killer you may have ever seen on screen. It probably...Tags: Entertainment, Mel Gibson, Cicely Tyson, Heath Ledger, Movies
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In the 'Cross'hairs
OPENING TONIGHT AT 9 Paranormal Activity 4 Mockumentary filmmakers Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (Catfish) know a thing or two about misdirecting an audience, as they proved again with 2011’s ‘‘Paranormal Activity 3.’’...
Tags: Rachel Nichols, Ben Affleck, Roger Moore, Entertainment, Tyler Perry
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Mamet plays iron out details: McGinley in 'Glengarry,' 'Anarchist' moves venues
VarietyAdditional elements are locked in for the two David Mamet plays on tap for Broadway this fall, with John C. McGinley joining the cast of "Glengarry Glen Ross" and new title "The Anarchist" shifting theaters from the Lyceum to the Golden. McGinley ("...Tags: Theater, Entertainment Events, Alan Rickman, Entertainment, Al Pacino
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Word power
When the animated character Becky Botsford isn't dealing with fifth-grade homework or her family, she turns into WordGirl and fights villains while correcting their vocabulary in the TV show of the same name.
The Scholastic Media production began its...Tags: Chris Parnell, Entertainment, PBS (tv network), Arrested Development (tv program) , Jeffrey Tambor
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