Antenna's reviewers address new reality and variety programming from MTV, PBS, Syfy, Lifetime, ABC Family, truTV, Comedy Central, TLC, and Travel Channel
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Tags: ABC Family, Adam Ruins Everything, Bazillion Dollar Club, comedy central, Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Fall Premieres, Fashionably Late with Rachel Zoe, I'll Have What Phil's Having, Lifetime, Monica the Medium, MTV, PBS, pilots, premieres, Reviews, Road Spill, Suddenly Royal, Syfy, The Brain with David Eagleman, TLC, Todrick, Travel Channel, truTV, Uncommon Grounds
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Antenna's reviewers evaluate the latest scripted offerings from Disney XD, FX, AMC, TNT, PBS, Comedy Central, and IFC
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Tags: AMC, American Horror Story: Hotel, Bastard Executioner, Benders, comedy central, Disney XD, Fall Premieres, Fargo, Fear the Walking Dead, FX, IFC, Indian Summers, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, Moonbeam City, PBS, Pickle and Peanut, pilots, premieres, Public Morals, Reviews, The Last Kingdom, TNT
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Comedy Central has long courted young men with disconcerting portrayals of women, but several of its programs this spring provide small indications of a different politics of representation.
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Tags: comedy central, demographics, gender/representation, Inside Amy Schumer, Kroll Show, media industries, Saturday Night Live
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Comedy Central's new sketch comedy program Kroll Show offers an infinite regression of media industry meta-discourses, recreating a dominant reading position that masquerades as oppositional.
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Tags: comedy central, Hollywood, Joel McHale, Kroll Show, Nick Kroll, parody, Reality TV, SCTV, sketch comedy
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Is Key and Peele tentatively picking up the mantel of satiric sketch comedy that Chappelle abandoned? Why now?
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Tags: chappelle, comedy, comedy central, identity, key and peele, Obama, race, satire
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