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  • "Undercover Boss": Capitalist fairy tale

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

    Should Focus on the Family's anti-choice message interrupt the biggest night in sports?
  • 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
  • Will "Survivor" mastermind Russell reign supreme?

    The most intimidating tribemate since Richard Hatch rules through manipulation and paranoia. But will he win?
  • "Mentalist," "Lie to Me": The truth hurts

    Simon Baker and Tim Roth are charismatic and coy as TV mind readers, but the cheese is still spread a little thick
  • So your marriage is like an inflamed bunion

    Whose isn't? On "The Good Wife" and "Dexter," rotten betrothals make for great drama
  • High-fiving 40-year-olds? Get out of "Cougar Town"!

    Why has Courteney Cox's painfully manic midlife-crisis sitcom been embraced by fans and critics?
  • I Like to Watch

    "Dollhouse" lives, "Earl" dies, and Leno joins the living dead! The networks announce their puzzling fall lineups.
  • CBS Tries to Out-Hulu Hulu with TV.com

  • CBS considered Limbaugh, Coulter to investigate Rathergate

    Discovery in Dan Rather's lawsuit against his old network reveals that CBS thought about appointing some very conservative figures to its panel.
  • Desperation becomes her

    "The Ex List" is like "Sex and the City" without the trustworthy friends, the cool clothes and the laughs. Is this a dramedy, or a cautionary tale?
  • Another Palin-Couric debacle

    Katie Couric interviews Sarah Palin yet again, and once again ends up with evasion and one truly puzzling answer.
  • I Like to Watch

    This fall's TV season comes in like a BBQ Pork Ravioli Bite and goes out like a bad case of indigestion, from Fox's "Fringe" to CBS's "The Mentalist."
  • I Like to Watch

    Hot-tempered vampires are running amok, from Alan Ball's new HBO drama "True Blood" to CBS's "Big Brother 10" to Bravo's "Flipping Out"!
  • So long, Billy Packer

    After three decades calling the Final Four, he's out at CBS. Has anyone in sports TV lasted so long while being loved so little?
  • Mixed martial arts on CBS: Truth gets KO'd

    For all the hand-wringing about the Tiffany Network dirtying its hands on a blood sport, it was the Eye that acted sleazy.
  • I Like to Watch

    Trying new things has its costs, whether you're trading partners on CBS's "Swingtown" or trading lives on FX's "30 Days."
  • Finale wrap-up: "Survivor: Micronesia"

    "Survivor's" best season ever ends like a John Hughes movie, with selfish popular girls, angry outbursts and a great big love confession!
  • Misbegotten "Moon"

    Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove" may have been the best TV western ever made. Can his new CBS miniseries "Comanche Moon" shine as bright?
  • TV Daily

    Salon's guide to what to watch on Thursday: CBS's new musical dramedy "Viva Laughlin" must be seen to be believed.
  • I Like to Watch

    How suggestible are you? CBS's "Kid Nation," NBC's "Bionic Woman" and ABC's "Private Practice" aim to play you like a fiddle.
  • Kids gone wild

    CBS's new reality show "Kid Nation" lets kids run rampant -- with nary an adult in sight. Is that really so bad?
  • TV Daily

    Salon's guide to what to watch on Thursday: "Survivor: China" promises new challenges inspired by "the most mysterious place on Earth."
  • TV Daily

    Salon's guide to what to watch on Wednesday: The controversial reality show "Kid Nation" premieres on CBS.
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