First off, this is the sole opinion of Mark O. Estes, aka The Anti-Critic.

Last week, there were a lot of entertainment reports conveying surprise that DVR playbacks added to the live-plus-7 data, which Nielsen initiated a while ago to add the ratings of DVR playbacks with those of the live airings of programs. Dollhouse, Melrose Place, and Fringe (all considered “low-rated” by critics) all saw rating boosts from DVR playbacks that were lacking in their live performances. The reports also…

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2001 was a big year for HBO. Already riding high off the successes of The Sopranos and Sex and the City, and their new sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO was being critically acclaimed as finally making smart television for cable. But somewhat lost in this shuffle of groundbreaking TV was another fantastic show, Six Feet Under.

Six Feet Under followed the Fisher family, whose family-run funeral parlor has been handed down from generation to generation. When the father and namesake of the…

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Beautiful People Musical Number

I bet you didn't know you needed to watch a television show that fictionalizes the life of Barney's window designer and raconteur Simon Doonan's life, did you? Well you do. This show is filled with heart, laughs, and as you can see from above, musical numbers.

"Beautiful People" (LOGO, check local listings) is the fictionalization of Simon Doonan's life growing up in Redding, England. The show is framed by an object that Simon is either wearing…

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Michael and Tony hashing out world peace…naah it's just sports talk. But, it is good sports talk.

During the summer, sports can become a big part of  the TV schedule. This is because fringe sports can fill in the slots that would have to be filled with original programming. And, for many of the sports, it is the time they wheel and deal and make trades. Coaches and GM's are fired or hired. The world is filled with sports. You…

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A sitcom that's main character has Asperger's? Count me in!

When it comes to my television watching habits and my mother's we are not exactly a match. Her taste runs more to "Two and a Half Men", "NCIS", and HGTV. My taste is more geared toward challenging long form drama ("Lost", "The Wire") and postmodern situation comedies ("30 Rock", "Arrested Development"). So, there are very few times that our tastes converge. Imagine my surprise when during ym mom's last visit…

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Summer's here. That means you should be out enjoying the weather. You know, swimming, going to the park, taking walks, etc. But, sometimes it's TOO hot or it's raining or you are just tired. So, you decide to stay in and watch TV. Unfortunately, you remember it's summer. There's nothing on, right? WRONG! If you look in the right places you can find some fun, diverting television and maybe even some interesting new shows that are getting a summer…

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There are some television shows you watch just because you turn the TV on, and there they are. Then there are the other kind; the type that immediately draws the viewer in, and makes them look forward to a weekly date with their television. Leverage falls into the latter category. It is, by far, one of the best written and acted shows on TV today, and it concludes its first season next week with episode 13, “The Second David Job”.

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This week’s episode of Battlestar Galactica, “Blood on the Scales,” begins with the arrest of Admiral Adama and Colonel Tigh. The flash grenade the mutinous marines threw into the airlock at the end of the last episode has incapacitated them both, and Adama appears to be bleeding from his ears.

Meanwhile, Roslin and the other refugees from Galactica approach the Cylon baseship with two vipers closing in for the kill. Hotdog hesitates in making the kill, especially after he hears Roslin’s…

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