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• Global Domination The World Idol contest promises to crown a god among amateurs.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 30, 2003
  
• In the Bedroom Clean Sweep trots out the junk in the homes of American consumers.
  Dennis Cass Dec. 29, 2003
  
• Cops and Robbers In ABC's Line of Fire the good guys are bad, and the bad guys even worse.
  Dennis Cass Dec. 23, 2003
  
• Laughter in the Workplace The second season of The Office is as entertaining as the first.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 20, 2003
  
• One-Man Show Why is Two and a Half Men the hit no one is talking about?
  Dennis Cass Dec. 15, 2003
  
• The $3.77 Million Wedding Trista and Ryan tie the knot on ABC.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 12, 2003
  
• Antiques Gone Wild The Keno brothers paw through other people's things on PBS.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 10, 2003
  
• Saturday Night Fever Al Sharpton shimmies to James Brown on SNL.
  Dennis Cass Dec. 8, 2003
  
• Embarrassing Riches How The Simple Life makes you feel sorry for Paris Hilton.
  Dennis Cass Dec. 3, 2003
  
• All Geek to Me Nerd Love on Average Joe.
  Dahlia Lithwick Nov. 26, 2003
  
• Crash and Bluff Doyle Brunson wipes out on World Poker Tour.
  Steve Lichtman Nov. 24, 2003
  
• These Are a Few of My Favorite Thongs The Victoria's Secret spectacle on CBS.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 21, 2003
  
• The One On ESPN2's chess championships, Garry Kasparov tries to stop the rise of the machines.
  Dennis Cass Nov. 17, 2003
  
• Baby Boys The men are the most interesting thing on Rich Girls.
  Dennis Cass Nov. 12, 2003
  
• How the Other Half Lives National Geographic gets cheap laughs out of pig sacrifices.
  Dennis Cass Nov. 4, 2003
  
• Surface Beauty Fox's Skin is a shiny, superficial show.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 31, 2003
  
• Lord of the WB Tarzan in puppy love.
  Dennis Cass Oct. 27, 2003
  
• The Producer Robert Evans, back in the habit, in Kid Notorious.
  David Edelstein Oct. 22, 2003
  
• Acting Out The Handler wonders what happens when undercover cops can't keep their cover.
  Dennis Cass Oct. 17, 2003
  
• Grandma Knows Her G-Spots Sex chat with an elderly Canadian.
  Steve Lichtman Oct. 15, 2003
  
• Sexy Food Nerds Cooking geeks get hot on America's Test Kitchen.
  Stephen Metcalf Oct. 13, 2003
  
• Save the Cows! The downside of rescuing livestock on Animal Planet.
  Matt Feeney Oct. 10, 2003
  
• Are You There, God? Where's the religion in Joan of Arcadia?
  Austin Bunn Oct. 9, 2003
  
• Alias With Accents The great British spy show MI-5.
  Steve Lichtman Oct. 7, 2003
  
• Dr. Phil Is a Softie The TV shrink's weird fat-fighting crusade.
  Dennis Cass Oct. 2, 2003
  
• Extreme Home Makeover The bullies and home-wreckers of While You Were Out.
  Marc Weingarten Sept. 30, 2003
  
• Life Lessons From Joe Schmo The reality show that's good for you.
  Meghan O'Rourke Sept. 25, 2003
  
• Freaks, Geeks, and Nazis Will HBO's surreal Carnivàle add up to anything?
  Dennis Cass Sept. 23, 2003
  
• Death Stalks the Emmys 
  Steve Lichtman Sept. 22, 2003
  
• Last Year's Model VH1 catches up with Elle MacPherson and her fellow goddesses.
  Stephen Metcalf Sept. 19, 2003
  
• Liars in Love HBO's K Street is good drama but lousy epistemology.
  Timothy Noah Sept. 15, 2003
  
• Sealed With a Kiss The MTV Video Music Awards featured an orgy of duets and Madonna embracing Britney Spears.
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 29, 2003
  
• Toast to the Bride and Groom MTV's latest celebsploitation show.
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 27, 2003
  
• Interpretation of Dream ABC remembers Martin Luther King Jr.'s great speech.
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 26, 2003
  
• The Smoking Gun, Slashed A Web site turns into a TV show, and it ain't pretty.
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 21, 2003
  
• Dark City My night in blacked-out New York.
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 16, 2003
  
• Rumble Fish by the Sea Fox's O.C. brings back the tender delinquent.
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 13, 2003
  
• Family Matters Snooty butlers vs. Jersey goombahs on ABC.
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 8, 2003
  
• Catch a Fallen Star E!'s Star Dates features has-beens and the people who want to date them.
  Virginia Heffernan Aug. 1, 2003
  
• Cutups FX's Nip/Tuck can't control its own impulses.
  Virginia Heffernan July 30, 2003
  
• Confessions of Innocent Minds A&E's riveting documentary on the Central Park jogger.
  Virginia Heffernan July 18, 2003
  
• I Want My MPTV! The barnyard sounds of Tony Blair's C-SPAN show.
  Virginia Heffernan July 15, 2003
  
• E!'s Celebrity Fake-Out Explaining, sort of, how Britney spends her millions.
  Virginia Heffernan July 11, 2003
  
• Dateline Valley Forge James Woods travels through time on the Discovery Channel.
  Virginia Heffernan July 9, 2003
  
• Greenlight Means Caution The impending disaster of HBO's indie-film series.
  Virginia Heffernan July 3, 2003
  
• Yep, She's Nice Ellen DeGeneres' naive HBO special.
  Virginia Heffernan June 27, 2003
  
• From California to the New York Island The patriotic kids' show that gets teens to swap lives.
  Virginia Heffernan June 25, 2003
  
• InsideJob The tricky clique of Showtime's Out of Order.
  Virginia Heffernan June 20, 2003
  
• Dogg Show Snoop does his bizzle on MTV.
  Virginia Heffernan June 18, 2003
  
• When Comedy Gets Cruel Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, and other mean comics on the Trio network.
  Virginia Heffernan June 13, 2003
  
• First Ladies Hillary Clinton and Barbara Walters square off.
  Virginia Heffernan June 9, 2003
  
• Here, Queer, and Used To It The movies of Gay Pride Month.
  Virginia Heffernan June 6, 2003
  
• The Dark Lady of Six Feet Under The end of a great villain and an astonishing season.
  Virginia Heffernan June 2, 2003
  
• Dressing for England The brutal fashion critics of the BBC's What Not To Wear.
  Virginia Heffernan May 30, 2003
  
• Ain't That a Kick Is Punk'd star Ashton Kutcher our new Dino?
  Virginia Heffernan May 28, 2003
  
• Fables of the Reconstruction Extreme Makeover's promise that surgery can make you happy.
  Virginia Heffernan May 23, 2003
  
• Matt Lauer Sees a Serious Place The Today showfinds "military overtones" on Korea's DMZ.
  Virginia Heffernan May 20, 2003
  
• VH1's '80s nostalgia 
  Virginia Heffernan May 16, 2003
  
• "The Person I'm Sharing With You Now" Is Stephen Glass really sorry?
  Virginia Heffernan May 12, 2003
  
• A Toothless White Teeth The Zadie Smith adaptation has no bite.
  Virginia Heffernan May 9, 2003
  
• Fast Women The speedy but gentle Gilmore Girls.
  Virginia Heffernan May 7, 2003
  
• More Talk From Tina Brown The debut of CNBC's Topic A.
  Virginia Heffernan May 1, 2003
  
• Weaver's Last Stand The Discovery Times Channel investigates Ruby Ridge.
  Virginia Heffernan April 25, 2003
  
• Monica the Chaperone Lewinsky turns motherly for Fox's Mr. Personality.
  Virginia Heffernan April 22, 2003
  
• Those Crazy Carnies The Travel Channel books a freak show.
  Virginia Heffernan April 18, 2003
  
• The Ring Cycle Heartbreak on Fox's Married by America.
  Virginia Heffernan April 15, 2003
  
• Kicking Cable What do you need from TV in wartime?
  Virginia Heffernan April 8, 2003
  
• Freaks and Greeks What are the girls on MTV's Sorority Life doing?
  Virginia Heffernan April 4, 2003
  
• Rudy's Cheap Trick 
  Virginia Heffernan March 31, 2003
  
• Wayne Newton, Meet Celine Dion For a cool $100 million, the diva becomes a Vegas lounge singer.
  Virginia Heffernan March 27, 2003
  
• Wanted: Saddam, Taped or Live 
  Virginia Heffernan March 20, 2003
  
• Baby Talk Can a 20-year-old host handle his own show?
  Virginia Heffernan March 19, 2003
  
• Beene of Queens Can Fox's new sitcomlive up to the comic legacy of its neighborhood?
  Virginia Heffernan March 17, 2003
  
• Hollywood's Raging Riders Trio recalls the glory days of American cinema.
  Virginia Heffernan March 12, 2003
  
• Tell That to Khalid Sheik Mohammed! Clinton and Dole mix it up on 60 Minutes.
  Virginia Heffernan March 10, 2003
  
• Got a Case of the Mondays? The healing powers of BBC America's The Office.
  Virginia Heffernan March 8, 2003
  
• Documentary Circus The purists of Bravo's Cirque du Soleil Fire Within.
  Virginia Heffernan March 6, 2003
  
• Under and Out The living end of Six Feet Under.
  Virginia Heffernan March 1, 2003
  
• In Black Johnny Cash's bleak new video.
  Virginia Heffernan Feb. 26, 2003
  
• Cohen Brother The U.K.'s white rapper brings his head games to HBO.
  Virginia Heffernan Feb. 24, 2003
  
• Norah's Night A quiet, repressed evening at the Grammys.
  Virginia Heffernan Feb. 24, 2003
  
• Seduction and Betrayal on ABC The caddish editors of The Bachelorette.
  Virginia Heffernan Feb. 20, 2003
  
• See Spot Strut The grim spectacle of the Westminster dog show.
  Virginia Heffernan Feb. 13, 2003
  
• Joe Fake-Out What's up Joe Millionaire's sleeve?
  Virginia Heffernan Feb. 11, 2003
  
• Off the Wall ABC's case against Michael Jackson.
  Virginia Heffernan Feb. 7, 2003
  
• Spy Another Way Jennifer Garner's scary makeover.
  Jodi Kantor Feb. 7, 2003
  
• Top Guns PBS goes Tom Clancy for a night.
  Virginia Heffernan Feb. 4, 2003
  
• Mark Twain Under the Sea The moral vision of SpongeBob SquarePants.
  Virginia Heffernan Feb. 3, 2003
  
• Clintonology 101 Back to school with C-SPAN2.
  Virginia Heffernan Jan. 30, 2003
  
• Super Bowl Mondays Always Get Me Down Jimmy Kimmel Live improves a long, slow day of TV.
  Virginia Heffernan Jan. 27, 2003
  
• The Show That's Too Canadian for Canada 
  Virginia Heffernan Jan. 21, 2003
  
• Dick Clark's Golden Globalization 
  Virginia Heffernan Jan. 20, 2003
  
• High-School High Where were you in '92?
  Virginia Heffernan Jan. 14, 2003
  
• Date Expectations The Bachelorette makes her debut.
  Virginia Heffernan Jan. 9, 2003
  
• The Sun Salutation King Oxygen's yoga bully.
  Virginia Heffernan Jan. 7, 2003
  
• Enron: The TV Movie 
  Virginia Heffernan Jan. 3, 2003