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Ellen Gray   

Daily News TV critic Ellen Gray has been paid to watch television since 1994. And yes, it's very nice work if you can get it.
 
 
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Posted 2:19am
NEW YORK - People who like their dramas dark and complicated and their comedies animated should find plenty to look forward to next season from Fox, whose entertainment president, Kevin Reilly, yesterday told reporters that "we're just looking for good, noisy shows."
Posted 05/15/2008
NEW YORK - When it comes to CBS, edgy is so 2007. The network that last May vowed to "make a little noise" with a schedule that included Cuban-American millionaires, 1970s swingers, a singing, dancing casino owner and a vampire, has sent "Cane" and "Moonlight" packing, along with James Woods' "Shark."
NEW YORK - If you liked what you saw on ABC last fall, get ready to like it all over again. Because as ABC entertainment president Stephen McPherson met with reporters yesterday to outline the schedule he'd present to advertisers later in the day, he had just two new fall shows to talk about.
SUPERNANNY. 9 p.m. Wednesday, Channel 6. JO FROST'S CONFIDENT BABY CARE. Hyperion paperback. $15.95. WHEN JO FROST pulls up to someone's house in her black London taxicab, there's usually trouble waiting.
FRONTLINE: STORM OVER EVEREST. 9 p.m. tomorrow, Channel 12. LEFT FOR DEAD: MIRACLE ON EVEREST. 9 p.m. May 20, National Geographic.
HEAR AND NOW. 8 tonight, HBO. IF I COULD say one thing to documentary filmmakers everywhere, it would be this: If you're going to make a film - not just a home movie - about your family, please make sure they're worth introducing to strangers. Post a comment
AMERICAN MASTERS. 9 tonight, Channel 12. I DON'T KNOW if anyone keeps stats on how many of those profiled by PBS' "American Masters" had troubled relationships with their fathers, but I'm guessing just one would be recorded as having lost his life in the conflict.
I WOULDN'T WANT to be a TV executive next week, as broadcasters meet with advertisers in New York to talk about the fall season, make the case that network television's still the place to put their ads and try to explain, yet again, where all those missing viewers have gone.
TWO AND A HALF MEN. 9 tonight, Channel 3. CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION. 9 p.m. Thursday, Channel 3. WHAT HAPPENS when TV's No. 1 comedy and CBS' No. 1 drama trade writers?
CRANFORD. 9 p.m. Sunday, also May 11 and May 18, Channels 12 (see scheduling note below) and 39. 'MY SISTER does not care for the expression, 'suck,' " explains a character in the first installment of "Cranford," "Masterpiece's" latest solution for those who'd sometimes like to crawl into a small English village and pull the covers over their heads.
SO MUCH television, so little time: _ Reason No. 4,567 to Believe the Apocalypse Will Be Here as Soon as It Raises Money for Gas comes to us from cable's G4 channel, which yesterday announced a summer series that "combines speed-eating with intense physical challenges."
SECRET LIVES OF WOMEN: POLYGAMY CULT. 10 tonight, WE. FARMER WANTS A WIFE. 9 p.m. tomorrow, CW. ONE MAN, way too many women.
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