Showtime Tries to Make the Odd Resonate
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By DAVID BAUDER  NEW YORK - At Showtime, the bosses are accustomed to having a very narrow window of opportunity.
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Networks hope to rejuvenate the genre by experimenting with new formats and unconventional storylines.
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At the instigation of a human rights group, television shows are rethinking interrogation scenes. Even Jack Bauer is on board.
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The Anchor Behaving Badly show seems to be in reruns.
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For a town still fighting an impression of hopelessness, the arrival of a big-time network television show has been both welcome and somewhat anxiety inducing.
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LOS ANGELES  - Cable channel Showtime  unveiled three new series for its 2005-06 lineup Wednesday,  including an adaptation of box office hit "Barbershop."
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One film has an oblique ending that's left some viewers dissatisfied and others floored by its profundity. The other features a slowly developing plot and a brutal, operatically violent finale.
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The first season of ShowtimeÂs ÂWeedsÂ turned out to be an irreverent and absorbing nighttime soap opera. Three episodes into the second season, however, the show is straining for a new Âbuzz.Â
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Trying out for a reality show is strange enough, but when it's 'Big Brother,' the experience goes way beyond weird.
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The high ratings for the program have come at a high price for NBC, as some advertisers say they are wary of being associated with the showâs content.
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Fans of "Grey's Anatomy" should be careful what they wish for.
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In the wake of the three-month Hollywood writers strike, television viewers are hungry for something Â anything Â new on TV, right? Not quite.
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LOS ANGELES  - Showtime is having it  rough with "Huff," its new primetime series that premiered at  10 p.m. Sunday.
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Showtime's comedy, starring Hank Azaria, is a clear-eyed, good-humored look at an upper-middle-class midlife crisis.
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When MTV gets around to playing video clips nowadays, as opposed to reality shows or visits to celebrities, itÂs a strange coalition of niches.
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a television series with a fretfully contrived premise that turns out to be completely charming. Count your latest unexpected blessing, lucky viewers.
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It was an off-Broadway rave, but this play has more trite than bite