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  Re: The Good Show? Broadcast, Cable, Quality, and The Good Wife

  Issues of genre with quality

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  Noel Kirkpatrick Unaffiliated

  Monday, October 10, 2011 — 8:47 pm

  about a woman's search for herself. For instance, the show's procedural aspects earned it an ...
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  The Good Show? Broadcast, Cable, Quality, and The Good Wife

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  Noel Kirkpatrick Unaffiliated

  October 10, 2011

  4 comments

  The Good Show? Broadcast, Cable, Quality, and The Good Wife The Good Wife quality TV cable broadcast Curator's Note Thinking through a show is a hallmark of the cable programming we’ve come to expect over the past decade. Except that  The Good Wife i ...
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  Re: One Man Army: Ultimate Warfighters and Interchangeable Tough Guys

  Inclusiveness

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  Charity Fox University of Baltimore

  Thursday, September 29, 2011 — 2:40 pm

  accusations of a gay agenda in response to Jeff's win, but more positive comments (either supportive of ...
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  One Man Army: Ultimate Warfighters and Interchangeable Tough Guys

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  Charity Fox University of Baltimore

  September 28, 2011

  4 comments

  congratulate each other on wins, encouraging their “brothers.” They battle circumstances and time rather than ...
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  A Question of Taste: Cultural Identity on Chopped

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  Jeremy Sarachan St. John Fisher University

  September 27, 2011

  3 comments

  judged on taste, presentation and creativity. Presumably the most deserving creations win, but as ... wins the contest. Again, the narrative is emphasized, and may suggest that race can play some part in ... a significant part in determining who wins, and members of all ethnicities have won Chopped. But, on numerous ...
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  Re: NBC Comedy, 2011 Style

  Qualified optimism

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  Megan Mullen University of Wisconsin-Parkside

  Sunday, September 25, 2011 — 5:30 pm

  higher-earning years. Catering to our longer attention spans and desire for well written shows might not be such ...
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  Can TV See Class? Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Believe in the American Dream

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  Robert Cannon California State University, Los Angeles

  September 23, 2011

  1 comment

  thrusted out of the lower class with their lottery win.  When that happens, I vote that we all write in to ...
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  NBC Comedy, 2011 Style

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  Ethan Thompson Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi

  September 22, 2011

  2 comments

  NBC Comedy, 2011 Style up all night seinfeld NBC fall season comedy arnett Curator's Note I watched Up All Night, a new NBC sitcom starring two supremely talented comic actors (Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph) and another exceptional one, Christina Appl ...
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  An Award without Ceremony: The Critics' Consensus

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  September 16, 2011

  2 comments

  requirement that a program must earn a two-thirds (2/3) consensus from the critics to win. Though “consensus” ...
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  Best Actress in a Dramedic Role?: The Emmy Awards' Genre Problem

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  Myles McNutt University of Wisconsin - Madison

  September 15, 2011

  5 comments

  Curator's Note While it’s not uncommon for stars to indulge in self-deprecation upon winning a major ... shows, Falco skips over humble and lands on incredulous, citing her win as “ridiculous” because she’s, ... between the two genres are competing in comedy categories, and winning. Falco’s win is part of a growing ...

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