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Filling the Renaissance boots that The Tudors left, Showtime is broadcasting The Borgias, a drama about the conspiring and scandalous papal family of Pope Alexander VI. In this lavish Canadian-Hungarian-Irish …
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The major networks have a glut of occupational scripted programs. We see police, lawyers and doctors do their jobs, each with varying levels of attention paid to their personal lives. …
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Certified Copy is a tri-lingual, partially subtitled story about love, life and art that came out at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. Now it has arrived in Cambridge. …
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Big Love, my favorite winter (and sometimes summer) show, ended on March 20 after five seasons. Despite the fact that the Henrickson family — large, pious and polygamous — is …
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When we were kids, we knew we were in the 1990s and the same time, the ’90s were all we knew. Now, as we get nostalgic for the “good” kids …
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While there are some shows I make time for to watch every week, my list gets pretty full, and it eventually gets to the point where I’ve missed more than …
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I have the (sometimes antisocial) habit of becoming enveloped by whatever is on the nearest television set. It could be a sports game I don’t care about or daytime talk …
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On Feb. 2, a commercial transformer malfunctioned at 881 Comm. Ave. causing a switch to emergency power and a lack of early evening programming for 10 Buick St. residents. “It …
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