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05.08.2009 5:41 pm

The end is near: TV finale, season finale dates

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Season finales, some of which will turn out to be series finales, are already underway, continuing into June. For reference, here is a roundup of dates:

May 8 • “Dollhouse” • “Everybody Hates Chris”
May 10 • “The Amazing Race” • “Brothers…

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05.03.2009 8:00 pm

7 shows that should be on your radar this week (May 4-10)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

After a slow start to the week, the action picks up, so keep the DVR on standby. In addition to season and series finales, Bravo clones “Project Runway” and HBO rivals PBS for classy fare. Watch them or avoid them, here are seven…

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04.02.2009 11:08 pm

‘ER’ finale: bloated, anticlimactic and touching

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Benton, Carter together again.

Benton, Carter together again.

Thursday night, “ER” ended its 15-year run with a three-hour celebration of past, present and future. At least I guess that’s what John Wells was going for. The one-hour retrospective that led off the evening was a…

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03.02.2009 9:03 pm

ABC will drop ‘Life on Mars’

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Joe Adalian at TV Week is reporting exclusively that ABC won’t order additional episodes of “Life on Mars” beyond this season’s 17. The news comes in time for producers to craft a series finale, which will probably air in April.…

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01.13.2009 11:56 am

Fox cancels ‘Prison Break’

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I liked this show out of all proportion to how good it was, but the time has come (maybe a season late) to end it. Fox agrees and announced today that the final episodes will begin airing April 17. “The…

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12.09.2008 9:48 am

‘Boston Legal’ ends its run: bye bye, Denny Crane

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

For the last couple of years, whenever someone has said, “You know what’s the best show on TV?” I’ve known what they were about to say: “Boston Legal.” To me, “BL” was a show that could have been great but…

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12.09.2008 9:38 am

I did it: a week without ‘Heroes’

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Last night I needed to watch the “Boston Legal” series finale for a story I’m writing. That was 8-10 p.m. I also record “Prison Break” and “Heroes” at 8 p.m. One had to go — and at this point, it…

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11.25.2008 4:43 pm

No cut to black when ‘The Shield’ ends its run tonight

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“The Sopranos” ended with that infamous black screen, puzzling and annoying and ultimately intriguing fans. “The Shield” doesn’t go out with that kind of ambiguity. In tonight’s sledge-hammer series finale (9 p.m. on FX), Vic Mackey (the awesome Michael Chiklis)…

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11.13.2008 10:47 am

‘MADtv’ will end 14-year run on Fox

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The last episode of the late-night comedy series “MADtv” will air in May, Fox confirmed today. Here’s the announcement:

FOX has announced the final season of Emmy Award-winning sketch comedy series MADtv. Now in its 14th year, MADtv will air its…

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