Listen up! If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Do you remember a perfect America? You know, when we all had health insurance? When we all took care of each other and didn’t say hateful things? When we weren’t embroiled in half-a-dozen foreign conflicts and dual energy and economic […]
Danny Hooley
Bio: Danny Hooley lives in Durham, writes about television and music and plays in The Bastages.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/dhoohoo
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This season, there are very special episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm
Curb Your Enthusiasm HBO Season Premiere Sunday, Sept. 20, 9 p.m. It’s the anti-reunion of the year. Anyone who casts even a cursory glance at Entertainment Weekly‘s cover at the supermarket checkout line knows that the cast of Seinfeld is joining that show’s co-creator Larry David for the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm (9 […]
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Viewing options and death panels for fall shows
While millions of TV viewers wait to see if Tom DeLay can do the quickstep on Dancing With the Stars as joyously as he lambada’d on voting rights in Texas, there are many others who thirst for something new. Something fresh. Something that doesn’t suck or include Tom DeLay. As usual, a lot of the […]
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta
The Real Housewives of Atlanta Thursdays beginning July 30 Bravo Oh, how we Time Warner cable subscribers in the Raleigh-Durham area bitched and moaned for years because we didn’t have the Bravo network. We finally caught a break at the very end of last year, when the channel was added to our cable lineup, just […]
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Shows for the staycation economy
Michael and Michael Have Issues 10:30 p.m. Wednesdays Comedy Central This summer, standard cable TV offers recessioners on staycation the usual mix of mystery/ crime shows and reality series, with some half-hour comedies peppered in. Even with the fall TV season already waving at us from a near distance, new summer fare just keeps on […]
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A ribald but serious premise to HBO’s new comedy Hung
Hung HBO Premieres Sunday, June 28, at 10 p.m. It’s a meaty premise, that’s for sure. A guy, down on his luck, and with nothing much going for him except his huge penis, decides to capitalize on it by going into business as a prostitute who serves unfulfilled women. So goes the basic description of […]
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Showtime celebrates pharmaceuticals with Edie Falco’s Nurse Jackie and a new season of Weeds
Nurse Jackie premieres June 8 at 10:30 p.m. Showtime’s new half-hour comedy-drama, Nurse Jackie, is good cause for hope and high expectations. For one thing, it stars Edie Falco, who racked up numerous awards, including three Emmys, for her work on The Sopranos. For another, it looks like Showtime finally has a worthy companion to […]
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Showtime celebrates pharmaceuticals with Edie Falco’s Nurse Jackie and a new season of Weeds
Nurse Jackie Premieres June 8 at 10:30 p.m. Weeds Season premiere June 8 at 10 p.m. Showtime’s new half-hour comedy-drama, Nurse Jackie, is good cause for hope and high expectations. For one thing, it stars Edie Falco, who racked up numerous awards, including three Emmys, for her work on The Sopranos. For another, it looks […]
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American Idol contestant Anoop Desai gets a warm, if restricted, reception back in Chapel Hill
The big screen set up behind the podium of Alumni Hall at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill was there for a different reason than most folks would probably expect on May 4like, say, watching Anoop Desai’s highlights on American Idol. After all, he was the Carolina Club’s guest of honor that afternoon. Hundreds of […]
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An all-star local musical makes its TV debut
Good Ol’ Girls Wednesday, April 22, 9 p.m. UNC-TV A good ol’ girl is the kind of girl that’s been to Gatlinburgwith a man. A good ol’ girl over 50 has had her hysterectomy “took out.” And a good ol’ girl is NOT a vegetarian. These are just a few of the rules proudly shared […]
