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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.
- Penn grad Whitney Cummings loves this city
- Cowell dumps his pal Paula Abdul from 'The X Factor'
- Joe Frazier doc screens on Hulu
- On 'My 600-lb Life,' weight-loss truth isn't always pretty
Ellen Gray: Television lately has been as focused on the word "vagina" as a 1970s teen clutching her first edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves. And it's possible Philly helped get this party started.
- On 'My 600-lb Life,' weight-loss truth isn't always pretty
Ellen Gray: The horses aren't the only things going round and round in HBO's racetrack drama "Luck," which officially hits the starting gate at 9 p.m. Sunday with the pilot the channel first previewed last month.
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All-star cast rolls out new HBO series 'Luck'
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Ellen Gray: And it was off to the races with the four horses in the lead of HBO's track-based drama "Luck": executive producers David Milch ("Deadwood," "NYPD Blue") and Michael Mann ("Heat") and stars Dustin Hoffman and Nolte.
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Fox tries a CBS trick with its new 'Touch'
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Ellen Gray: There are people who will be incredibly touched by Touch, the story of a small mute boy whose mind grasps patterns in numbers he can't communicate. How I wish I were one of them.
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Berdy of 'Switched ...' isn't the silent type
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* SWITCHED AT BIRTH. 8 tonight, ABC Family. PASADENA, CALIF. - You might not guess it from watching him as the teen rebel Emmett on ABC Family's "Switched at Birth," but Sean Berdy is a bit of a chatterbox.
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S. Jersey guy co-creates 'Unsupervised' for FX
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Ellen Gray: Rob McElhenney's waistline is just about back to normal after taking off most of the 50 pounds he gained for the most recent season of FX's "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." His empire, though, is expanding.
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New villains in 'Justified'
- Two bad guys added to the plotEllen Gray: As FX's Justified returns tonight for its third season, the backwoods Mags Bennett is gone for good - but far from forgotten - and U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is facing a whole new set of challenges.
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Fox's new 'Alcatraz' not an easy cell
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Ellen Gray: People who go into the two-hour premiere of Fox's "Alcatraz" expecting "Lost"-meets-"Prison Break" are bound to be disappointed.
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Grandma's back in animated 'Napoleon'
- Martin & film cast return in animated 'Napoleon'Ellen Gray: PASADENA, Calif. - Sandy Martin knows a good job when she sees one.
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'Firm' producer learned the law at Temple
- Reiter switched to writing* THE FIRM. 10 tonight, NBC10. PASADENA, Calif. - You might not think of a TV show about a lawyer who's on the run from the mob - and possibly his own partners - as showcasing the benefits of a legal education, but a Temple law degree's worked out pretty well for Lukas Reiter, who developed an update of John Grisham's The Firm for NBC.
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3 shows pin hopes on juicy time slots
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The ability to play well with others can be as important in a TV show as it is in real life. Especially at midseason, when viewer habits may already have been formed and networks are looking to tweak their schedules after the fall carnage.
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Addictive British soap 'Downton Abbey' returns
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Ellen Gray: I haven't slept well lately, having spent a good chunk of the holidays watching the second season of "Downton Abbey," only to discover that those fiends at PBS' "Masterpiece Classic" had withheld the Feb. 19 finale from critics, leaving us as much in the dark as our readers about the fates of some of the addictive soap's most compelling characters.
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