Non-shockers

June 30, 2006

TNT renewed "The Closer." Next season, 15 episodes.
Kathy Najimy's family is smarter than Brande Roderick's family. The two sides squared off to determine the winner of CBS's kicky "Gameshow Marathon," with the Najimy clan taking the Ricki Lake-hosted "Family Feud." No word if it's coming back next summer. Hope so -- I'd like to see them go deeper in the Goodson-Todman vault. "Tattletales," anyone?
Barbara Walters's last measure of dignity evaporated this week when she was caught lying ... and had the temerity to chew Star Jones out for not lying as well.

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Waiting for NBC to be sold. Preferably to someone who knows how to run a network.
The audacity to remake. Over three nights beginning Sunday, AMC is airing a new take on the 1960s boggler “The Prisoner,” a task not for timid cable channels. See my review in Sunday's A&E.
"Andy Barker, P.I." on DVD. With the release earlier this year of “Andy Richter Controls the Universe,” our collection of the funniest sitcoms nobody watched is now complete.

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Writing ill of the dead. Richard Schickel gratuitously roasted the new Robert Altman biography (author Mitchell Zuckoff is at the Plaza Branch on Monday), calling the director an angry, drug-addled auteur of "historical curiosities."
Rupert Murdoch's war on fair use. The Fox chieftain doesn't believe anyone should be allowed to quote or mashup his content without paying for it. Sadly for him, recent court rulings have all gone the opposite direction.
Waiting nine months for "Mad Men" season four to start.

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