Antenna contributors respond to FOX and The CW's fall premieres. Check back as we update over the next week!
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UPDATED: Premiere Week 2010 – FOX & The CW
Peggy’s Social Consciousness: Corporate Culture and Counterculture
An intersection of civil rights and women’s rights is woven through this episode about women’s voices.
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Fall Premiere Week With Antenna (or we watch NBC so you don’t have to)
Join us for Antenna's fall premiere event, beginning tomorrow - our contributors cover every new series premiering on American network television!
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The 2010-2011 Season Primetime Network Draft
Why conduct fantasy drafts of professional athletes when you can instead draft the new network television shows?
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Open or Closed? Mad Men, Celebrity Gossip, and the Public/Private Divide
This week's Mad Men is all about gossip.
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What Do You Think? The Emmys
The 62nd Primetime Emmys aired last night on NBC with a first-time host, and several first-time winners. There's much to discuss, and at Antenna, we're curious: what do you think?
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A 21st Century Sherlock
This summer's premiere of BBC's new Sherlock raises issues on how one modernizes the Victorian Sherlock Holmes to fit in an alternate 21st century London, as well as shaping a world that a century's worth of Holmes has never impacted.
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Transformation, Adaptation, Derivation? Moffat’s Sherlock and the Art of AUs
In the end, while individual plot points, objects, and places are important for fans to recognize, the most successful approach seems to come about when the writer extrapolates the character’s underlying identity, exploring those aspects that remain the same in the new setting, and how they will manifest.
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Televising New Orleans in 2010…or Why Sonny isn’t Watching The Real World: New Orleans
The Real World: Back to New Orleans, like Treme, brings to life how "authentic" New Orleans has taken on new and often multiple meanings for tourists, volunteers, and television watchers
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Louie, Luckily
FX's Louie and new possibilities for half-hour television comedy.
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Glee: The Good, The Bad and The Funky
“Funk” exemplified everything I’ve come to expect from Glee: a confusing mix of rousing musical performances and out of place racist/sexist/heterosexist jokes
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Nationalism, nul points, or, How Eurovision Makes for a Better World
The Eurovision Song Contest has the unparalleled capacity to make that skeleton of nationalism a little less scary – by putting it into a camp costume and acoustically accompanying it with pop music
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Losing SOAPnet
Disney’s announcement that it will be replacing cable channel Soapnet with a new preschool channel has generated serious concerns for U.S. soap viewers.
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Being Gary Coleman
Friday, Gary Coleman passed away after what appeared to be, by most accounts, an incredibly difficult 42 years, many of which were spent in an unsuccessful attempt to stay out of the spotlight and live as normal a life as humanly possible.
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DVR vs. Twitter
Is the virtual watercooler making timeshifting impossible? Can you have your DVR and Twitter too?
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