A holiday classic and the season premier of a durable sitcom are among tonight’s highlights.
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Channel Surfing: Shatner tries to stir the pot
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Channel Surfing: Christmas’ mean greens
ABC’s Dancing With the Stars is over for the season, and CBS is airing nothing but repeats tonight. But no matter, because there are plenty other things of note.
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Madonna’s documentary helps Malawi send a message to world
I Am Because We Are will air tonight on the Sundance Channel.
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Director Danny Boyle revels in the Oscar buzz surrounding 'Slumdog Millionaire’
Director Danny Boyle has made films about junkies (Trainspotting), zombies (28 Days Later), and even astronauts hurtling toward the sun (Sunshine), all with a characteristic visual energy and brio.
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Catherine Martin talks about designing for 'Australia' and working with her husband, director Baz Luhrmann
An Academy Award winner twice over, Australian production and costume designer Catherine Martin could have her pick of projects on the big screen.
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If the film `Australia’ renews your interest in the land Down Under, here’s an ocean of DVDs to dive into
With director Baz Luhrmann’s epic Australia inspiring theatergoers worldwide with what the Aussie tourist board hopes is the sting of Outback wanderlust, it recalls 30 years ago when many Americans got their first cinematic gaze at that big, brown land on the far side of the Pacific.
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Ohio woman’s blog shines spotlight on newsman’s ties
Each night after watching Brian Williams deliver the NBC Nightly News, an English teacher in Ohio is moved to go to her computer and write — about what Williams wore around his neck.
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Channel surfing: Unusually fresh holiday TV fare
Today offers an unusual amount of first-run programming for a Saturday, especially one on a holiday weekend. But you have the advantage if you have a thing for science, nature or humor.
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Channel Surfing: Prepare for a TV marathon or two
College football dominates the afternoon on ABC and CBS, pre-empting much of the regularly scheduled daytime programming. Otherwise, we get more marathons, and actual new episodes of Everybody Hates Chris, The Game, Monk and Psych.
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Art-house movie screenings in Dallas-Fort Worth
The Magnolia at the Modern
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Screen test: Be smart, win movie tickets
This week’s question: Before Hugh Jackman got the male lead in Australia, another Aussie actor was cast in the role but backed out to do another film. Who was the actor, and what was the movie?
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List of movie screenings in North TexasChannel surfing: So much to be thankful for
Today offers several marathons, but once the parades, specials and football games were in this column, I ran out of room — so the marathons are covered in a longer version of the column on the Pop Cultural District blog at star-telegram.com/blogs.
WFAA/Channel 8’s news at 10 p.m. a victor in November sweeps raceWFAA/Channel 8’s 10 p.m. newscast scored another victory in the November "sweeps" race, which concluded Wednesday evening. This is the seventh consecutive victory at 10 p.m. for the station, which also continues to dominate in the 5 and 6 p.m. races, according to preliminary figures from Nielsen Media Research.
Channel Surfing: Rosie, Barbara — together in sweeps specialsIt’s the last night of November sweeps, and Rosie O’Donnell and Barbara Walters are back — but not together again. They’re not even on the same network.
'Dancing With the Stars’ has had more than a few casualties this seasonThe latest season of the hit ABC show has had more than a few casualties, and it’s not over yet.
Channel Surfing: Goodbye to 'The Shield’Big stuff tonight, the penultimate night of November sweeps. For some, the biggest thing will be the season finale of Dancing With the Stars; for others, including me, it’s the series finale of The Shield.
A conversation with James Roday and Dule Hill of 'Psych'The costars occasionally carpool to work together and Hill insists that Roday still fails miserably at spotting those pesky red lights.
Channel Surfing: Revisiting the HolocaustDancing With the Stars airs the first part of its finale, Worst Week has a wedding, and three documentaries look at aspects of World War II and the Holocaust.
Robert Pattinson of 'Twilight’ gets a strange taste of fameORLAND PARK, Ill. — "Bite me."
'Wizards’ star calls for a chatArlington’s Jennifer Stone talks about her character, comics and Miley Cyrus.
Channel Surfing: As expected, it’s a JFK nightThis is the 45th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, and the night has its share of JFK-related programming.
Movie preview No. 5: 'Nothing Like the Holidays’Nothing Like the Holidays
Movie preview No. 4: 'The Day the Earth Stood Still’The Day the Earth Stood Still
Channel Surfing: Getting dirty with E!, '20/20’Troubled child stars. Prostitutes. Nasty jobs. Thank heaven we have Larry the Cable Guy to give this Friday night some class.
Charlie Kaufman, writer and director of 'Synecdoche, New York,’ talks about the movie and his styleWritten and directed by Charlie Kaufman, the unnervingly strange Synecdoche, New York has opened to some of the most entertainingly divergent reviews of any movie in years. In The New York Times, Manohla Dargis effused that it’s "as much a cry from the heart as it is an assertion of creative consciousness."
Our holiday-movie preview: 12 cinematic gifts that may be on Santa’s listWith the economy giving us big, ugly lumps of coal this year and with the only trips anyone can afford to take being flights of imagination, it’s a good time to head to the dark confines of the movie theater. At least there, no one can see you crying or — thanks to the deafening digital sound — hear you scream.
Movie preview No. 1: 'Australia’Australia
Movies showing in DallasOpening
Movie preview No. 6: 'Seven Pounds’Seven Pounds
Movie preview No. 3: 'Frost/Nixon’Frost/Nixon
Movie preview No. 12: 'Valkyrie’Valkyrie
Movie preview No. 8: 'Yes Man’Yes Man
Movie preview No. 10: 'Marley & Me’Marley & Me
Movie preview: more holiday releasesAlso opening
Movie preview No. 11: 'Bedtime Stories’Bedtime Stories
Screen test: Be smart, win movie ticketsThis week’s question: For the movie
Channel Surfing: One for the underdogsSure, Grey’s Anatomy and CSI have new episodes tonight, but those hits don’t need my help, so here are a few offerings that often get more critical and cult attention than they do viewers.
Fans can’t wait for 'Twilight'The movie's Los Angeles premiere draws a screaming teen crowd.
Maloof family's entertainment portfolio growingThey own a basketball team and a casino, and a piece of Hollywood's pie.
'Last Comic’ winner Iliza Shlesinger makes first Bass Hall appearanceTalents from Last Comic Standing will perform at Bass Hall.
Channel Surfing: Bring on the stunts for sweepsStunt-cast guest stars typically increase during sweeps months — but even for a sweeps period, tonight’s Criminal Minds and CSI: NY are a little out of control.
Today’s new releasesCDDavid Cook: American Idol’s reigning champ makes his major label debut with a collection of heart-on-the-sleeve rockers that don’t shy away from a few quirky flourishes.
Channel Surfing: Pairs make night sizzleTonight’s lineup features the Bible, Big Boi and Bogey and Bacall.
Channel surfing: A night full of gimmicksIt’s another busy sweeps Monday, with guest stars, gimmicks and even a genius.
A young Cody Linley steps into final four on 'Dancing With the Stars’ tonightLearning to dance interested the 18-year-old actor from Lewisville.
A conversation with John Noble of 'Fringe'When John Noble of 'Fringe' says he "knows" his character, he means it quite literally.
Channel Surfing: TV movies, stand-up comedy lead the way tonightThanks in part to dueling, fact-based TV movies -- one that sounds uplifting, the other tawdry -- and a stand-up special, this is an unusually busy Saturday.
It's become a 'Really Big' year for Ellen DeGeneresThe comedian talks about politics and a second variety special.
Lone Star International Film FestivalDay Three of the Lone Star International Film Festival offers a diverse menu, from the spooky to the somber, from places near — a documentary about the Cliburn amateur competition called They Came to Play will be shown at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth — and extremely far.
Excerpts from the Lone Star International Film Festival weekend festivalThe second edition of Fort Worth’s Lone Star International Film Festival continues through Sunday, including:
List of movie screenings in North TexasMoore relives his years as James Bond in autobiographyRoger Moore made seven James Bond films — more than any other actor who played 007. And he’s lived to tell all in his new autobiography, "My Word Is My Bond."
Jimmy Fallon prepares to take the late-night micThe comedian is touring the clubs and getting advice from the pros.
Channel Surfing: 'Price Is Right' goes prime-time for veteransVeterans Day was Tuesday, but it's never too late to honor the troops, and a special 'Price Is Right' does so tonight.
Screen test: Be smart, win movie ticketsThis week's question: What specific thing had to be digitally airbrushed out of 'Quantum of Solace'?
'Quantum' mechanics: Latest Bond-movie installment goes through the motions without any heartFrom its opening sequence, a high-speed car chase along a twisty mountain road in Italy, the new James Bond thriller 'Quantum of Solace' seems afflicted by a very curious ailment: Call it 'The Bourne Ultimatum'-itis. The editing is hyperkinetic and frenzied, lurching from one geographic point to the next, rarely bothering with an establishing shot. The soundtrack throbs and pulses and pounds -- a nerve-jangling exclamation point appended to each frame.
'Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer' hums along nicely'Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer' begins with a bang.
'Morning Light' could use some brightness, competitive attitudeFor all its pretty young faces, prettier seascapes and moments of tension, 'Morning Light,' a new Disney documentary about a youthful crew training and competing in a sailboat race, is sorely lacking in drama.
Swedish vampire film will give you chills, thrillsThese days, vampires are glamorous, sexy savages, stalking the line between homicidal and erotic — from 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' to 'True Blood' to the popular "Twilight" novels.
Film review: 'I've Loved You So Long'In 'I've Loved You So Long,' Kristin Scott Thomas is like a flower opening in extreme slow motion.
Channel Surfing: Ghosts of TV past returnAnthony Edwards makes a one-shot return to "ER" tonight, and he’s just one NBC guest star that may remind you of the '90s — or the '80s, for that matter.
Sans celebrities, the film is the star of the festivalThe red carpet was rolled out and photographers stood at the ready Wednesday evening for the first night of the second annual Lone Star International Film Festival at the AMC Palace Theater downtown. But there was one thing missing: big names.
Fox-4's Clarice Tinsley has been at the station 30 years todayIt's a Monday afternoon at KDFW/Channel 4, and Clarice Tinsley and Baron James, her always stylishly dressed co-anchor for the last nine years, are doing the 5 p.m. newscast.
Channel Surfing: Feelin' a little bit countryThe big deal tonight, especially if you're a country-music fan, is the Country Music Association Awards (and the line between being a country and a pop fan is growing increasingly thin).
Lone Star Film Festival giving Fort Worth an indie image of its ownIf nothing else, Dennis Bishop — the new director of the Lone Star International Film Festival that kicks off Wednesday in various Tarrant County locations — wants Hollywood and the rest of the film community to know that Fort Worth is not Dallas.
Channel Surfing: It's a very 'Brady' weekConsidering that it's a sweeps month, it's pretty much business as usual tonight with new episodes everywhere but surprisingly few stunts.
Talking shop with Andy and Angela from 'The Office'Theirs is one of the most dysfunctional romances on TV, if you call the relationship between Andy Bernard and Angela Kinsey of 'The Office' a romance.
Channel Surfing: Big game or big electionOnce again, a big college football game is the Saturday highlight, and cable has the bulk of the alternatives, including a couple of TV movies and a new Nickelodeon show.
'Soul Men' is a fitting tribute to a truly funny soulWe know we've lost Bernie Mac. And it takes only about 10 minutes of his next-to-last screen appearance, in 'Soul Men,' to show us just what we've lost.
TV host aims to take his nature show back to his native state: TexasFort Worth native Brady Barr talks about returning to the "snake palace" and planning for a show on feral hogs.
Screen test: Be smart, win movie ticketsThis week's question: The late Bernie Mac appears in two movies opening this weekend -- 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa' and 'Soul Men.' A snippet of his stand-up material from a Def Comedy Jam routine was once sampled by which major artist?
Lone Star International Film Festival returnsThough last year's initial Lone Star International Film Festival was mired in some controversy, it returns with five days of films and festivities beginning Wednesday.
TV viewers desperate for salvation from 'Saved by Zero’ Toyota commercialThe "Saved by Zero" theme song and constant play of the commercial have even spawned a Facebook group.
Channel Surfing: Cable rolls out new showsCable has several noteworthy programs tonight, including a new "CMT Crossroads" and a couple of new environmentally conscious series.
'Madagascar' sequel made for merchandising'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa' is a disappointment, though your kids aren't likely to feel that way.
'Synecdoche, New York' is the most 'Kaufmanesque' movie of them allCharlie Kaufman may not be a household name, but over the past decade he has come about as close as any screenwriter gets to the level of fame reserved for our best-known directors.
The Boy in the Striped PajamasThis is the most heartbreaking film about the Holocaust since 'Schindler's List.' That Mark Herman's film of John Boyne's novel manages such poignancy in 93 compact minutes is nothing short of miraculous.
Dallas Video Festival gets ready to hit 'play'The 21st annual Dallas Video Festival continues Friday through Sunday with some noteworthy titles.
'Role Models' with Paul Rudd carries no surprises but some laughsPaul Rudd may have started his career as something of a sensitive, serious soul -- in earnest series such as 'Sisters,' a TV version of 'The Great Gatsby' and films like 'The Cider House Rules' -- but he has also often been the smart-aleck perpetual manchild who just wants to hang with his buds and do the right thing, if it's not too much trouble.
Channel Surfing: Look for the guest stars tonightIt's a sweeps Thursday, and it's all about the guest stars. And "30 Rock" scores the biggest name. It starts with O.
Sweeps weeks bring some guest stars, prime-time specialsNovember TV features guest stars like Oprah Winfrey and Jennifer Aniston, a Rosie special, and lots and lots of "30 Rock."
Latest wave of popular reality TV: down-home hip-hop starsThe latest wave of popular cable reality TV: down-home hip-hop stars and their families.
Channel Surfing: Revisiting Tuesday nightTuesday night's election coverage affected tonight's programming, which includes a couple of schedule changes and the return of one of TV's longest-running series.
Today's new releasesCD: Hinder: The Oklahoma sleaze-rockers are back with their sophomore disc, Take It to the Limit, a slick collection of sex-drenched rave-ups and painfully pedestrian ballads.
A conversation with Emily Procter of 'CSI: Miami''CSI: Miami' star Emily Procter, a sweet-natured Southern girl, isn’t the type to go around committing heinous crimes
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15-Game Winner Vicente Padilla Reaches Preliminary Agreement to Remain With RangersLike a big turkey dinner with all the trimmings at holiday time, the Barnett Shale natural gas field around Fort Worth not only brings the city's energy producers back home but attracts interested visitors with appetites for investment.
Panthers-Eagles StatsMerger news drove Wall Street higher Monday as private-equity buyout offers for companies including Four Seasons Hotels Inc. and OSI Restaurant Partners Inc. revived the belief among investors that stocks are not generally overvalued. The Dow Jones industrials rose more than 100 points.
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