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
Posted in Current Events, TV | Comments Off on Fall Premieres 2015: Cable (Scripted)
Jennifer Jones recommends checking out Damages on Netflix in our "Late to the Party" series.
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Tags: Damages, FX, Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Ted Danson
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Whereas AMC’s new slogan reflects its consistent lack of direction, FX’s brand extension embodies its continuous push forward.
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Tags: AMC, branding, Contemporary TV, FX, marketing
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Ten (or more) media industry news items you might have missed recently.
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Tags: Comcast, copyright, digital media, Disney, FTC, FX, FXX, GDC, HBO, Hollywood, Hulu, industry, News Corp., streaming, Supreme Court, television, TV, upfronts, Variety, video games
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Sons of Anarchy has often been described as Hamlet on Harleys for good reason. But my readings of late have me thinking that the show actually offers some really different inflections on Modleski’s Loving with a Vengeance.
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Tags: FX, gender, melodrama, soap opera, Sons of Anarchy
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This summer’s crop of original cable series leaves me wondering if we’ve entered a new era, as I increasingly find less innovation and distinction among many of cable’s originals.
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Tags: AMC, cable, cable networks, Covert Affairs, FX, Louie, Memphis Beat, Rizzoli and Isles, TNT
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FX's Louie and new possibilities for half-hour television comedy.
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Tags: FX, HBO, Louis C.K., Seinfeld, sitcom, stand-up comedy
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Looking back at Damages, I realize it would have been right at home amidst '80s film narratives that demonized career women while asserting the proper place of women at the hearth in the home.
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Tags: Damages, FX, gender/representation, Glenn Close, television
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