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Million Dollar Listing: New York [Bravo, Wednesdays, 10/9C] doesn’t have anyone forced to live with anyone else. There’s no forced competition – with or without battles, challenges or any other crazy thing dreamt up by the show’s creators. It’s just three ridiculously good looking land sharks selling real estate in the toughest market in North America.
Grade: A-
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It seems that all the major networks saved their best shows for mid-season. In the case of NBC, they were holding back the season’s best new series, Awake [Thursdays, 10/9C] – a startlingly intelligent show about a police detective who is living two lives – in two worlds – simultaneously.
Grade: A+
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Detective Michael Britten survives a horrible car accident only to discover he is now trapped in two alternate realities – one where is son has died and his wife survived and another reality that is the opposite. But as he tries to do his job and solve murders, he finds the clues from a murder in one reality, bleeds into the other. Michael desperately tries to hold onto his sanity while living in two separate worlds with his beloved wife and son.
Starring Jason Isaacs, Laura Allen, and Dylan Minnette.
Created by Kyle Killen.
Directed by David Slade.
Written by Kyle Killen, Howard Gordon, and Evan Katz.
Produced by Kyle Killen and Howard Gordon.
Genre: Supernatural Police Procedural.
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Cab Calloway enjoyed new fame in 1980 with the release of The Blues Brothers, directed by John Landis. By which time, he had largely been forgotten. In Cab Calloway: Sketches [PBS, American Masters, 10/9C], Landis is but one of many who reflect on Calloway and his music style charged a generation and influenced many more.
Gail Levin’s Cab Calloway: Sketches isn’t what you would call a biography. It’s more of a collection of reflections and reminiscences that chart his progression as a musician, entertainer and innovator.
Grade: A
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The River [ABC, Tuesday, 9/8C] is the latest attempt to produce a scary horror show for network television. Co-created by Oren Peli – of Paranormal Activity fame – it’s a show that follows the family, friends and crew of a famed explorer/television host as they follow a previously unknown offshoot of the Amazon River six months after he disappeared. And, yeah, it’s scary.
Grade: A-
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Smash [NBC, Mondays, 10/9C] is a risky oddball of a series that was developed for cable before winding up on NBC. The story of the mounting of a Broadway play, Marilyn: The Musical, it is a big budget swing for the fences that knocks it out of the park.
Grade: A+
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