Posts Tagged ‘ TLC ’

Fall Premieres 2015: Cable (Reality & Variety)

September 15, 2015
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Fall Premieres 2015: Cable (Reality & Variety)

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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On TLC, Television Studies, and the Specter of the Recent Past

October 27, 2012
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On TLC, Television Studies, and the Specter of the Recent Past

Maureen Ryan calls for a history of lifestyle and its emergence as a dominant form of commercial programming in the US.
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Dumpster Divers or Culture Jammers?: TLC’s Extreme Couponers

May 5, 2011
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Dumpster Divers or Culture Jammers?: TLC’s Extreme Couponers

The Learning Channel's Extreme Couponing evokes surprise, and even disgust for the lengths to which people go to accumulate coupons, acquire products, and display their stockpiles. It fails, however, to thoroughly explore people’s motivations for their actions.
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The State of Reality TV: When Reality Worlds Collide

February 16, 2011
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The State of Reality TV: When Reality Worlds Collide

What does the rumored union between Pauly D and Farrah Abraham “mean” to us, and what does it tell us about the state of contemporary reality television?
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