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.
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New shows in bold. Shows with new times in italic. Monday 8 Gossip Girl 9 One Tree Hill Tuesday
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Without a Trace - gone without a trace. Cold Case - still warm. Medium - moved from NBC. The Unit marches off to oblivion. Nurse Hathaway gets a law degree and marries Mr. Big. Dharma becomes a baby mama, and NCIS gives birth, too.
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Lillian Adler, may she rest in peace, took the McKinley High show choir (or whatever you call it) to the championship back in '93. Her picture's right there in the trophy case, along with the big loving cup. She looks just like what a glee-club adviser should look like.
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Jonathan Storm: Little reality in latest 'Real Housewives'
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Review: Dina Manzo, with her post-op lips, tools her black Mercedes into a handicapped parking spot in the first episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. And that's just the start.
- CBS's "Cold Case" films here twice a year to inject the city's history and life and legend into the show about Philadelphia cops.What a birthday celebration! Reuben R. Shelly turned 171 on March 21, and along came TV stars from CBS's Cold Case - Kathryn Morris, John Finn, Thom Barry, Danny Pino - and vanloads of extras and TV crew, poking around in a big hole just yards from where Reuben has lain since he died more than 100 years ago.
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It took cancer to quiet Bea Arthur, a strong-voiced actress who stridently helped push TV to grow up. She had an impact spanning two decades, first as a gutsy, middle-aged mother on Maude, then as an active pre-senior with a mind and desires of her own in The Golden Girls.
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Andrew Lawrence checks in from L.A., where he lives with his brother, the Reptile Man. Andrew, youngest of three acting Lawrence brothers who are to Abington what the Baldwins are to Massapequa, N.Y., stars in a Hallmark Channel movie tonight. It's called Chasing a Dream, a pretty good description of what Andrew is doing in his own life.
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'Hi! Billy Mays here for" . . . well, for Billy Mays. The ubiquitous purveyor of Kaboom! and Orange Glo cleaners, Mighty Putty and the Swiffer SweeperVac - not to mention the Awesome Augur, Ding King auto dent remover, and, of course, Lint-B-Gone - now has his own real TV show.
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