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Project Runway

"Project Runway" recap: Campbell's couture

Week four: Dresses are covered in the soup company's branding. Oh, and it has something to do with heart disease
Cheryl Wischhover
Undercover Boss

CBS's capitalist fairy tale

In an age of executive excess, this series is a poignant exercise in make-believe for the underpaid working classes
Heather Havrilesky
Super Bowl

Best and worst of Super Bowl ads

Cars, beer, Betty White -- and a whole heap of male anxiety Video
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Race

NBC's racial fail

The network celebrates Black History Month with culinary stereotypes
Mary Elizabeth Williams
John Edwards

The scorned confidant spills

"20/20" turns ex-aide Andrew Young's confessional into a hoary Victorian melodrama with a sex-tape finale Video
Louis Bayard
Lost

Pass me whatever the smoke monster is smoking

Characters die, live again and exist in two different realities. Let the final season of island foolishness begin!
Heather Havrilesky
Frontline

Digital overload: What the hell have we done?

We're Googling ourselves stupid. Even tech guru Douglas Rushkoff has regrets. PBS investigates our Information Age
Heather Havrilesky

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Monday, Feb 1, 2010 08:03 EST

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Friday, Jan 29, 2010 09:30 EST

"Project Runway" recap: Reining in the crazy

Week three, when the wheat gets separated from the chaff. The assignment? High-end and budget couture
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Wednesday, Jan 27, 2010 10:17 EST

"Jersey Shore": The wisdom of Snooki

Like Chance the Gardener from "Being There," MTV's reality star offers timeless insights into the human condition
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Sunday, Jan 24, 2010 21:01 EST

"Damages": Return of the dragon lady

In Season 3 of FX's rich, complex thriller, enigmatic villainess Patty Hewes is more unpredictable than ever
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Saturday, Jan 23, 2010 21:01 EST

"La La Land": Move over, Borat!

Marc Wootton's dark, elaborately planned stunt comedy will make you laugh until it hurts Video
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Saturday, Jan 23, 2010 09:24 EST

Adieu, Conan

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Friday, Jan 22, 2010 19:23 EST

Jay Leno, then and now

"Conan, it's yours!" the late-night host said five years ago Video
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Thursday, Jan 21, 2010 20:22 EST

"Caprica": Prattlestar melodramatica!

Like the clumsy "Star Wars" prequel, Syfy's "Battlestar" rewind is a pale shadow of the original (remade) series
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Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010 20:21 EST

"The Deep End": Lawyer Barbies in love

Like its ambitious first-year attorneys, ABC's frothy legal soap feels a little too shiny and perfect to succeed
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Wednesday, Jan 20, 2010 07:21 EST

Today in owning it: Letterman

On Leno: "Isn't it funny that he always turns up at the scene of the crime?" Video
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Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010 08:51 EST

Team Coco takes to the streets

The latest in the late-night dustup: Fans rally for Conan, while Leno gets earnest Video
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Saturday, Jan 16, 2010 21:01 EST

"24": Jack Bauer goes soft

Terror alert red! "24's" ballsy agent now a cooing grandpa, nation's security hangs in the balance!
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Friday, Jan 15, 2010 15:16 EST

Here's to the chicken-hearted and the gutless!

NBC exec calls Conan "failure" for refusing to cater to the lowest common denominator
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Friday, Jan 15, 2010 07:16 EST

Kimmel slays Leno

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Thursday, Jan 14, 2010 15:15 EST

Conan forever

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Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010 20:20 EST

"Archer": The spy who shoved me

FX's animated James Bond parody injects cheap sex and hand-to-hand combat into the workplace comedy
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Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010 22:13 EST

Palin: Crazy like a Fox News pundit

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Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010 15:13 EST

And Conan is telling you, he's not going

"'The Tonight Show' at 12:05 simply isn't 'The Tonight Show,'" writes O'Brien, in an epic press release kiss-off
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Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010 08:13 EST

Late night hits back

"I'm Conan O'Brien, the new host of 'Last Call with Carson Daly.'" Plus: Leno and Letterman join the pile-on
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Monday, Jan 11, 2010 20:20 EST

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Monday, Jan 11, 2010 15:58 EST

Filling the Leno-shaped hole

NBC scrambles to fill its primetime vacancy with pricey designer names. Can the network possibly succeed?
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Move out and move on, Conan!

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