Articles By robert abele

New on DVD: Hiya, Kids!! A '50s Saturday Morning

Wed, May 7, 2008, 11:57 am

Attention-span hell or mother's little helper?

PBS's Cranford: It Takes an Eccentric Village

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 2:53 pm

Gossip and gross-out humor blend with Masterpiece's high acting

Sex and the Globe: Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman

Wed, Apr 30, 2008, 2:52 pm

New York—based filmmaker Jennifer Fox has many issues as a modern woman in her early…

PBS's Carrier, Life and War Aboard the USS Nimitz

Wed, Apr 23, 2008, 11:55 am

I’m three episodes into the 10-part PBS documentary series Carrier, which runs in double segments…

Sweet Nothing in My Ear: Jeff Daniels and Marlee Matlin play out the sound and fury

Wed, Apr 16, 2008, 1:13 pm

With reality fluff proliferating on every channel, sometimes you need to take a break and…

BBC's Gavin & Stacey Heading to NBC?

Wed, Apr 16, 2008, 1:12 pm

A fine romance

Rock the Cradle: Inherit the Wind

Wed, Apr 9, 2008, 3:14 pm

MTV's new celeb-kid talent search

Green Screen at Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

Wed, Apr 2, 2008, 2:15 pm

Lessons in Slime

Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 4:55 pm

Brit sends up the American character in one-actress-fits-all fashion

Hot Lesbian Logic on The L Word

Wed, Mar 26, 2008, 4:50 am

At the end of the fifth season, it's as loopy and luscious as ever

Bush’s War: Frontline's “Worst of” Clip Show

Wed, Mar 19, 2008, 12:00 pm

What not to war

John Adams: America's Middleman

Wed, Mar 12, 2008, 11:00 am

HBO's patriot gamesmanship

End of The Wire

Mon, Mar 10, 2008, 1:00 pm

Jimmy McNulty and company take a last look at the Baltimore cityscape. TV may never see another series like it

Terminal City, Canterbury's Law

Wed, Mar 5, 2008, 2:45 pm

One show crosses the border; the other pushes the pee line

Oprah's Big Gives

Wed, Mar 5, 2008, 2:35 pm

Some philanthr-Oprah

Unhitched and quarterlife: TV's Cool Hunters

Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 10:17 am

Networks turn to webisode angst in their eternal quest for the fountain of youth

Oscar Interruptus

Wed, Feb 27, 2008, 10:15 am

Acceptance speeches: Accept them

The Equalizer Returns

Wed, Feb 20, 2008, 5:22 pm

Pudgy loner with a handgun now on DVD

Lewis Black's History of the Joke

Wed, Feb 13, 2008, 6:00 pm

Why did the chicken cross the Appian Way?

The Whitest Kids U'Know, Fighting to Offend

Wed, Feb 13, 2008, 3:17 pm

Conform or disappear

Lipstick Jungle vs. Cashmere Mafia

Wed, Feb 6, 2008, 5:00 pm

Battle of the fashionista working gals

The Moment of Truth; Bernard and Doris

Wed, Feb 6, 2008, 4:55 pm

Fox's lie-detector game show; Fiennes, Sarandon as the ultimate butler and heiress

In Treatment's Mind Games

Wed, Jan 23, 2008, 3:00 pm

Telling the doctor where it hurts

Extreme Sports Weekend

Wed, Jan 23, 2008, 11:57 am

It was a loaded, extreme-weather, sports-TV weekend, especially if you not only follow football, but…


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