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The two candidates for president got together Tuesday night for a “town-hall meeting.” Read more

From the Orange to the Apple to the Georgia Peach, Bravo’s popular Women With Money franchise has now fetched up “The Real Housewives of Atlanta.” As in “The Real Housewives of Orange County” and “The Real Housewives of New York,” there is a dollop of irony attached to the phrase “real housewives.” Read more

“SPORTS NIGHT,” which lived for two seasons a decade back, was the first in a trilogy of TV series written by Aaron Sorkin and produced by Thomas Schlamme; “The West Wing” and “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip” are, respectively, its more successful and less successful successors. Read more

I was driving around Europe earlier this year in a van equipped with a GPS system that would beep whenever we approached a surveillance camera. Read more

“Sanctuary,” which premieres tonight on Sci Fi Channel, is a draggy piece of somber silliness that recalls a host of earlier fantasies, including “The X-Files,” “X-Men,” “Men in Black,” Sci Fi’s own “Eureka” and “Beauty and the Beast” (the TV series) and the Island of Misfit Toys segment from “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Read more

I’m one of those who thinks that with regards to the “Star Wars” saga, it’s all been mostly downhill since “The Empire Strikes Back,” except, of course, Carrie Fisher in slave gear for “Return of the Jedi.” Read more

That the funniest straight-ahead sitcom of the American fall television season is a 2-year-old British import airing on a basic-cable network is because of a few things: a dearth of new American sitcoms, the availability of road-tested foreign product, and the ongoing expansion of the vast tracts of basic cable into the kind of programming that has traditionally defined broadcast television. Read more

Billie Piper, beloved as Rose Tyler in the renascent “Doctor Who” and somewhat less adored as the star of “Secret Diary of a Call Girl,” gets back to saving the world Sunday night as Victorian girl detective Sally Lockhart in “The Shadow in the North.” (Sally would probably not countenance being called a girl detective; as much of a Nancy Drew as she is, she’s also a proto-feminis Read more

There are cartoons and then there are cartoons. Read more