Department Index
Television 2006:
What you're watching.
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- With Friends Like These... Courteney Cox's Dirt.
Dec. 29, 2006 - Pressing Their Luck Two more game shows from NBC.
Dec. 18, 2006 - Uncovering the Plot Showtime's Sleeper Cell.
Dec. 15, 2006 - Son of a Televangelist Jay Bakker in One Punk Under God.
Dec. 13, 2006 - Miracle on 34 Channels Holiday TV that's worse than fruitcake.
Dec. 8, 2006 - Girls on Film Four new reality shows.
Dec. 7, 2006 - All My Transgender Children A new, um, face for a venerable soap.
Dec. 1, 2006 - Captain's Log Want to understand Battlestar Galactica? Eavesdrop on its writers.
Nov. 29, 2006 - Wedding March A slow walk down the aisle in ABC's Big Day.
Nov. 28, 2006 - The News From Qatar Al Jazeera English debuts.
Nov. 21, 2006 - Waking Life Alias meets Groundhog Day in ABC's Day Break.
Nov. 16, 2006 - Case Closed Helen Mirren's final Prime Suspect.
Nov. 10, 2006 - Chris Matthews, Dan Rather, and Voting With My Dog The colorful election coverage of the news networks.
Nov. 8, 2006 - Bob Barker Daytime TV's last old-school gentleman.
Nov. 3, 2006 - The Colbert Retort How to beat the host at his own game.
Nov. 2, 2006 - Hey, Dude Steve Coogan in BBC America's Saxondale.
Oct. 27, 2006 - Easy-Listening TV ABC's nauseating lineup of yuppie dramas.
Oct. 24, 2006 - Click, Respond, Repeat How to watch Web video.
Oct. 18, 2006 - Apocalypse Noir The gloomy charm of Battlestar Galactica.
Oct. 13, 2006 - Touchdown TV NBC's marvelous Friday Night Lights.
Oct. 10, 2006 - Oral Pleasures The Food Network gets dirty with Nigella Feasts and Paula's Party.
Oct. 5, 2006 - I'm Aaron Sorkin and You're Not The knowing charms of Studio 60.
Oct. 2, 2006 - Our Girl Friday ABC's unfashionably fashionable Ugly Betty.
Sept. 28, 2006 - Super Kids The men and women of NBC's Heroes.
Sept. 26, 2006 - The Man Shows The heroes of Smith, Jericho, and Shark—and the women who love them.
Sept. 22, 2006 - Moochers of the World, Unite! The true genius of Entourage.
Sept. 20, 2006 - Foreign Office The French and Germans have remade the BBC series. Why?
Sept. 20, 2006 - Red Like Me The blissful existence of Elmo.
Sept. 20, 2006 - Katie Couric Faces the Nation Katie Couric's CBS Evening News debut.
Sept. 6, 2006 - Requiem for the Crocodile Hunter The man who took wildlife TV to the extreme.
Sept. 5, 2006 - From Justin to Diddy Scenes from the MTV Video Music Awards.
Sept. 1, 2006 - The Small Screen A downsized Emmy Awards.
Aug. 28, 2006 - All About My Mother Mary-Louise Parker in Weeds.
Aug. 25, 2006 - Flood Story Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke.
Aug. 21, 2006 - Resort TV Plum, the network of Aspen, Telluride, and Nantucket.
Aug. 18, 2006 - Bride TV Two ways to look at marriage on WE.
Aug. 14, 2006 - Present at the Creation Reliving MTV's first moments on earth.
Aug. 2, 2006 - Gen-Y Yuppies The hapless romantics of One Ocean View.
Aug. 1, 2006 - Fans on Film Two ways to make a Jessica Simpson video.
July 28, 2006 - The Daily Show Do news reporters make for good TV?
July 24, 2006 - Land of the Freak What America's Got Talent says about America.
July 20, 2006 - Overtime at The Office NBC's sitcom, now in Web installments.
July 18, 2006 - Meerkats Inc. The new, sexier Animal Planet.
July 17, 2006 - All the News That's Fit To Vlog Amanda Congdon leaves Rocketboom.
July 11, 2006 - Chappelle on Chappelle Why the "lost" episodes are genius.
July 7, 2006 - Football in Manhattan On the town with the World Cup.
July 6, 2006 - Mourning Star Will The View survive without its sassy host?
June 30, 2006 - Aaron Spelling's Art The man who gave us 90210 and Models Inc.: an appreciation.
June 26, 2006 - Emote Control Angelina, Britney, and the art of the celebrity interview.
June 21, 2006 - Around the World in 60 Minutes The globe-trotting losers of NBC's Treasure Hunters.
June 19, 2006 - Bored, Naked, Desperate What happens when artists go on reality TV.
June 16, 2006 - Patients, Virtues Saved is about an EMT with a heart of gold.
June 12, 2006 - Like the Oscars, but More Toasted A boozy night at the MTV Movie Awards.
June 9, 2006 - Who Really Wants To Be a Millionaire? The perils of getting rich: NBC's Windfall.
June 8, 2006 - These Friends of Mine Girlfriends, a show from UPN that was worth saving.
June 5, 2006 - The Rules of the Game Studying inhumanity in Human Behavior Experiments.
June 2, 2006 - Road Kill A bad week in the desert in Stephen King's Desperation.
May 23, 2006 - Whither the TV Networks? The news from Fox, the CW, and MyNetworkTV.
May 16, 2006 - All Wet David Blaine comes up for air.
May 9, 2006 - 7th Heaven Goes to Heaven Saying farewell to the longest-running family drama in TV history.
May 8, 2006 - Dinner Theater Why Stephen Colbert didn't bomb in D.C.
May 2, 2006 - Who Is That Girl on the Bar? The women of The Ultimate Coyote Ugly Search.
April 27, 2006 - Mild Mild Horses ESPN2's soothing presentation of polo.
April 25, 2006 - Mother Superior In the final season of Alias, Sydney Bristow wants it all.
April 20, 2006 - Leaden Chef NBC's atrocious Celebrity Cooking Showdown.
April 18, 2006 - Priest or No Priest? In God or the Girl, four men ponder the celibate life.
April 14, 2006 - Moses, Like You've Never Seen Him Before Do we really need another Ten Commandments?
April 10, 2006 - The News With Katie Does the CBS Evening News really require gravitas?
April 6, 2006 - Brazilian Whacks The fragile gangsters of Sundance's City of Men.
April 4, 2006 - Divas Gone Wild Liza Minnelli in Liza With a "Z," Tori Spelling in So noTORIous.
March 31, 2006 - Thief FX's tense new drama.
March 29, 2006 - Con Jobs Heist and The Evidence: Crime shows without a clue.
March 22, 2006 - Real Wife Desperate housewives, wife-swappers, and the women of Bravo.
March 21, 2006 - Geeks in Love The new Dr. Who.
March 19, 2006 - Metaphysical Mobsters The new, ruminative season of The Sopranos.
March 13, 2006 - The Merry Wives of Bill HBO's triple-headed Big Love.
March 10, 2006 - Color Commentary FX's creepy new race-swap show.
March 8, 2006 - Legal Briefs Conviction, NBC's sultry look at the law.
March 3, 2006 - House Arrest Another trip to MTV's The Real World.
Feb. 28, 2006 - In His Shoes Bravo's Project Jay celebrates the life of a reality-TV star.
Feb. 22, 2006 - The New New Madonna What two videos say about her.
Feb. 21, 2006 - Kinky and Bobby Two Texas louts and their reality-TV shows.
Feb. 17, 2006 - Farewell to the Bluths The dyspeptic finale of Arrested Development.
Feb. 13, 2006 - Defending NBC's The Office A British import the network didn't mangle.
Feb. 9, 2006 - Rock Me Shameless Another ridiculous, wonderful night at the Grammys.
Feb. 9, 2006 - Senator, We're Ready for Your Cameo What was John McCain doing on 24?
Feb. 7, 2006 - Girls Gone Proper Ladette to Lady, a British experiment in refinement.
Feb. 2, 2006 - The Secret to Jason Lee He ain't no redneck.
Feb. 2, 2006 - God and Man on Television For the networks, Friday is the new Sunday.
Jan. 27, 2006 - Oprah's Apology The ritual cleansing of a talk-show host.
Jan. 26, 2006 - There She Is … The new, unimproved Miss America Pageant.
Jan. 23, 2006 - America's Glitziest Dinner Party A boozy night at the Golden Globes.
Jan. 17, 2006 - Roll Models Rollergirls puts all-female roller derby in its rightful place: television.
Jan. 3, 2006
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