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Would you rather lose your memory or your money? HBO's "The Alzheimer's Project" and Frontline's "The Madoff Affair" unearth your worst nightmares.
  • "I am grateful for public television's courageous stand"

    The host of "The UltraMind Solution" responds to Salon's critical article of his PBS medical special.
  • PBS's latest infomercial

    By airing another self-help show disguised as medical science -- the dubious "UltraMind Solution" -- the public network continues to undermine its credibility.
  • When the big banks tanked

    "Frontline" offers a play-by-play of how Bernanke and Paulson tried to prevent a catastrophe during last year's unprecedented financial implosion.
  • Darkness becomes him

    A head-spinning new "Oliver Twist" reflects both the bleakness and the levity of Dickens' novel.
  • Still flailing in Katrina's wake

    PBS's Frontline documentary "The Old Man and the Storm" tells a tale of adversity triumphing over one ordinary man.
  • Shades of "Grey Gardens"

    An upcoming PBS doc traces the bickering Beale women of Albert and David Maysles' 1975 cult hit from their squalid Hamptons mansion to the bright lights of Broadway.
  • "Your father was a monster"

    In the PBS documentary "Inheritance," the daughter of Nazi murderer Amon Goeth struggles to accept an unbearable legacy.
  • Is breast cancer lurking in your family?

    A new PBS documentary explores the dreaded "BRCA" gene mutation, which is leading more and more women to get preventive double mastectomies.
  • Brain scam

    Why is PBS airing Dr. Daniel Amen's self-produced infomercial for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease?
  • City of lost children

    The PBS documentary series "Carrier" discovers conflict and camaraderie among the (shockingly young) inhabitants of the USS Nimitz.
  • TV Daily

    Salon's guide to what to watch on Tuesday: Frontline's "The Undertaking" offers a gentle look at the work of funeral director and poet Thomas Lynch.
  • TV Daily

    Salon's guide to what to watch on Tuesday: PBS's "Cheney's Law" offers a detailed look at how this administration has acquired unprecedented power.
  • TV Daily

    Salon's guide to what to watch on Friday and this weekend: The PBS "NOW" special "Child Brides: Stolen Lives" is a sobering look at the lives of girls sold into marriage.
  • TV Daily

    Salon's guide to what to watch on Monday: Mark the holiday by watching the PBS doc "The Magnificent Voyage of Christopher Columbus."
  • 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.
  • TV Daily

    Salon's guide to what to watch on Friday and this weekend: PBS premieres Ken Burns' insightful, affecting documentary series on World War II, "The War."
  • I Like to Watch

    America the dutiful! After PBS doc "The Anti-Americans" makes us feel fat and dumb, Ken Burns' "The War" reminds us that we're muy macho.
  • "America at a Crossroads" veers to the right

    The highly touted PBS series on Islam and terrorism casts a cold eye on Bush's Iraq disaster -- but fails to examine Mideast history or America's failed policies in the region.
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    Despots rule! Vic Mackey of "The Shield" seeks revenge, while Showtime invents a slimmer, sexier King Henry VIII.
  • Arming our enemies?

    An interview with journalist Martin Smith, the maker of a new PBS documentary on Iraqi militias, about how the U.S. strategy of Iraqification could backfire.
  • Bush renominates four stalled judicial nominees

    Forsaking the olive branch for a sop to the right.
  • PBS cans technical virgin

    A kids show host is fired for appearing in a blue parody PSA.
  • Tough cookies

    The director of a PBS documentary about a Girl Scout troop whose moms are behind bars says our obsession with locking up women is harming their kids.
  • Refuge in "Bleak House"

    Masterpiece Theatre's languid take on the Dickens classic is a refreshing break from our sound-bite, bloggified culture.
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