Jonathan Storm has watched television since he was 5 years old. He would wake up early, turn on the TV and watch the test patterns as he waited for The Modern Farmer to begin. Five years later, he began his news career as editor-in-chief of the mimeographed newspaper in Mr. Merrill's fifth-grade class.
He spent six years as a true journalist at the Rutland Herald (Vt.) and six more at the Detroit Free Press. He joined The Inquirer in 1982, working as an editor in various departments. In 1987, he edited the newspaper's special sections on the Constitution and a companion four-month series. The package won a national award from the Benjamin Franklin Foundation as best special Constitution coverage by a newspaper.
Seeing an opportunity to watch television for a living, he grabbed it and became The Inquirer's television critic in 1990. His reviews appear in the Daily Magazine.
- Mavericky, but more lipstick than pit bull
- A Chance to Catch Up with Courteney Cox and "Cougar Town"
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Even the best outfits make the occasional blunder. Cable's FX, which has reliably churned out good watching for most of this decade, drives off a cliff tonight with an offensive and shockingly unfunny sitcom, The League.
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When times are tough, ingenuity's importance increases, as PBS's American Experience demonstrates both on the screen and in its operations, conserving resources as it stays relevant with a new, five-part series about the '30s.
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There are only an estimated 33,000 wild mustangs left horsing around in the American West. One of them is Cloud, the TV star, first featured on PBS's Nature in 2001, and then again in 2004.
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Do not let your dog watch USA Network's new White Collar. The likable show, premiering Friday at 10 p.m., has something for everyone: handsome young star, sympathetic "older" costar, pretty former TV hottie, easy-to-follow caper plots, a little humor.
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We are a chattering, communal species, nosy, intensely curious about the joys and travails of others, because they help each of us understand how we fit into the human fabric.
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Jonathan Storm: Very naughty boys
- A six-hour Monty Python documentary profiles the troupe whose absurd and irreverent wit changed comedy forever.Premiering 40 years and 13 days ago, Monty Python's Flying Circus ran only 39 episodes, the equivalent of less than two seasons of a contemporary American sitcom, as it changed the course of English-speaking comedy.
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The science show Nova tonight has "Hubble's Amazing Rescue," at 8 on WHYY TV12. The title doesn't lie. You're unscrewing the cover to put a new bulb in a light fixture. Oooops. Now where did that darn screw go?
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'There are a lot of people who don't know anything about our town other than what they read in the newspaper," says a Pennsauken resident, making a face tonight on WHYY TV12. "You know, the negative stories."
- Among mediocre new medical shows, 'Three Rivers' rates.The call had gone out across the land: "CBS was looking for a medical show," executive producer Carol Barbee told TV critics at their summer meeting in Los Angeles.
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LOS ANGELES - The father of the children on Jon & Kate Plus 8 said yesterday that it's "not healthy" for his children to continue appearing on the TLC reality show.
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