Carina Chocano writes about TV for Salon. She is the author of "Do You Love Me or Am I Just Paranoid?" (Villard).

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Thursday, May 28, 2009 03:28 PDT

Join the shame parade

From Kate Gosselin to Elizabeth Edwards to Facebook users, the scorned are flaunting humiliation like never before.
Tuesday, Feb 4, 2003 13:00 PST

What's Spanish for "fuhgeddaboudit"?

NBC's drug-lord miniseries "Kingpin" isn't really a crude Latino rip-off of "The Sopranos," say its creators, it's ... Shakespearean! Plus: "Dragnet" -- it's about a cop.
Thursday, Jan 30, 2003 13:00 PST

Dark late-night of the soul

Helpless, alone, rejected by female guests except Tammy Faye Bakker, Jimmy Kimmel drifts toward the ninth circle of talk-show hell.
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2003 12:21 PST

Find man, lose him, repeat cycle

The thinking girl's guide to serial monogamy.
Monday, Jan 27, 2003 13:00 PST

Brewskis, butt jokes and reefer madness

This year's Super Bowl ads reflect a depressed nation: We need jobs, our animals don't talk anymore and we're terrified of big butts and bad drugs. How 'bout a beer?
Thursday, Jan 23, 2003 13:00 PST

Spy vs. spy (vs. Mom and Dad)

ABC's "Alias" features a butt-kicking espionage babe, awesome costumes and settings and possibly the most convoluted family drama in TV history. So why isn't it huge yet?
Wednesday, Jan 22, 2003 13:00 PST

TV's queen bitch

Joan Rivers is unbelievably vile and crude -- she and daughter Melissa must get their own reality show! Plus: Kelly Osbourne gives a clinic on dealing with Dad.
Wednesday, Jan 15, 2003 13:00 PST

Scenes from the class struggle on Fox

In "Joe Millionaire," with its lumpen-wacky TV vision of the rich, pop culture finally faces inequality in "classless" America.
Saturday, Jan 11, 2003 13:00 PST

Reality TV's clone wars

Yeah, "The Bachelorette" and the rest of the next-gen reality shows are the mutant offspring of deformed parents. Sometimes that's better.
Monday, Jan 6, 2003 13:00 PST

Ordinary people

With "Lance Loud! A Death in an American Family," PBS closes the circle on the legendary 1973 series that mesmerized the nation and prefigured reality TV.
Thursday, Dec 12, 2002 13:00 PST

Bureaucracy made hilarious

Fox's absurd-yet-true office comedy "Andy Richter Controls the Universe" makes other sitcoms look as if they're die-stamped by robots. (Which they are.)
Tuesday, Dec 10, 2002 13:00 PST

Divorce Italian style

No major characters got whacked in the season finale of "The Sopranos." The destruction was way bigger than that.
Wednesday, Dec 4, 2002 13:00 PST

Lightening up the graveyard shift

On Comedy Central's "Insomniac," join stand-up comic Dave Attell on his boozy journey through a late-night world of drunks, strippers, cops, sewage workers and just plain folks.
Monday, Dec 2, 2002 13:00 PST

Oprah's hulking stepchild

No-nonsense "Dr. Phil" has struck a national nerve with his bootstrap psychology. But can he escape the shadow of his famous patron?
Wednesday, Nov 27, 2002 13:00 PST

Stardom hasn't spoiled "The Osbournes"

America's fave TV family is back -- and ready to prove they can survive George W. Bush, Greta Van Susteren and whatever other horrors fate may bring them.
Saturday, Nov 16, 2002 11:00 PST

Meet "The Moth"

Manhattan's hit nightclub storytelling series comes to TV, minus the cocktails but with its intimate front-porch spirit intact.
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2002 10:00 PST

This story takes place on the day of the "24" season premiere. Bong!

Sen. Palmer is now the president, Jack has facial hair, and North Koreans are planning to nuke L.A. Hey, and where's Nina? Tick, tick, tick.
Thursday, Oct 24, 2002 13:00 PDT

An alternate TV universe

The Hollywood renegades at the Other Network are bringing legendary failed TV pilots to a comedy club near you. And they're better than what got on the air.
Tuesday, Oct 22, 2002 12:00 PDT

Real parents, dumb kids, David Duchovny doing weather

Bonnie Hunt discovers an unconventional path to good comedy on her extremely funny new sitcom "Life With Bonnie."
Saturday, Oct 19, 2002 13:00 PDT

How to catch a wild young king

Hot for Prince Harry or Prince Felipe? Better learn to race cars and sail yachts, advises "Young, Sexy & Royal." And whatever you do -- don't curtsy!
Thursday, Oct 17, 2002 13:00 PDT

We're, like, totally lawyers -- as if!

David E. Kelley's ditsy new "girls club" is a great step backward for the legal profession, women in the workplace, San Francisco and decent TV.
Monday, Oct 14, 2002 14:07 PDT

Holy Batbabes!

In the WB's bizarrely entertaining "Birds of Prey," Batman has skipped town -- but his illegitimate daughter and a reshaped Batgirl are kickin' butt in New Gotham.
Thursday, Oct 3, 2002 12:00 PDT

Giddyup, spaceman

Buffy's creator gallops into outer space with "Firefly," taking the connection between sci-fi and westerns a little too literally.
Monday, Sep 30, 2002 13:00 PDT

Family, work and literary vampirism

This week's new TV sitcoms offer two dismal duds -- and a sly, bittersweet comedy about a dissipated writer who hits on his own daughter.
Thursday, Sep 26, 2002 13:00 PDT

Same old mish-"M*A*S*H"! Stat!

On "MDs" and "Presidio Med," rogue, renegade and maverick doctors search for a cure for HMOs.
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