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"While working at the Newark Star-Ledger, Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall created a popular column debating the merits of then-current television. Eventually they went on to successful careers as critics elsewhere, but the debate raged on and now comes to an epic conclusion in TV (THE BOOK). Alan and Matt have established The Pantheon of top TV shows using a complex, obsessively all-encompassing ranking system by which to order and stack them...
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Television and TV viewing are not what they once were--and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columnist for the London Observer from 1972 to 1982, James has witnessed a radical change in content, format, and programming, and in the very manner in which TV is watched. Here he examines this unique cultural revolution, providing a brilliant, eminently entertaining analysis of many...
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Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and Walter White ushered in the era of the television antihero, with compelling narratives and complex characters. While critics and academics celebrated these characters, the antiheroines who populated television screens in the twenty-first century were pushed to the margins and dismissed as "chick TV."
In this volume, Yael Levy advances antiheroines to the forefront of television criticism, revealing the varied and subtle...
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2009
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3 videodiscs (ca. 464 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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As a hard-charging London surgeon, Martin Ellingham didn't need a bedside manner. His patients were unconscious, so he could be as rude and arrogant as he pleased. All that changes when he develops a crippling fear of blood and is forced to give up surgery. Now a GP in a sleepy, picturesque Cornish fishing village, Doc Martin offends everyone in town, including the one person he wants to impress, beautiful teacher Louisa Glasson. Getting her attention...
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[2012]
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2 videodiscs (368 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Martin Clunes is back as the surly, self-centered Dr. Martin Ellingham. In the fifth series, the doctor plots his escape from the idyllic town of Portwenn and its idiosyncratic residents. Includes eight episodes.
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[2025], [c2024].
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5 videodiscs (812 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Madeline "Matty" Matlock is a brilliant septuagenarian who achieved success in her younger years and decides to rejoin the work force at a prestigious law firm, where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases. Matty is assigned to Olympia, a senior attorney and key rainmaker with a thirst for justice. Olympia's ex-husband, Julian, the son of the head of the firm, is intrigued by Matty and her clever skills. As Matty endeavors...
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[2019]
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4 videodiscs (ca. 730 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In Season Four, viewers will see the world of Madison Clark and her family through new eyes, the eyes of Morgan Jones, who is joining the story. The characters' immediate pasts mix with an uncertain present of struggle and discovery as they meet new friends, foes, and threats. They fight for each other, against each other, and a legion of the dead, and work to build an existence strong enough to resist the crushing pressure of living coming apart....
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[2025]
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2 videodiscs (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the Satanic Panic of the late 1980s, a struggling high school rock band of outcasts realizes they can capitalize on the town's sudden interest in the occult by building a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings and reported supernatural activity triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads directly back to them"-- Provided by publisher.
16) Orphan black
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[2024]
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15 videodiscs (2,181 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A woman assumes the identity of one of her many clones.
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[2025]
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2 videodiscs (approximately 271 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Frasier follows Frasier Crane in the next chapter of his life after he returns to Boston to face new challenges, forge new relationships and with hope finally fulfill an old dream or two. Frasier's sophomore season will see Dr. Frasier Crane return to his radio roots at KACL in a Seattle-themed episode. The series is filmed in front of a live studio audience at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. The 2-disc collection includes every hilariously entertaining...
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[2025]
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2 videodiscs (302 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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It's the season for change for the teachers of Abbott Elementary. Janine leads ambitious growth initiatives for the school while navigating personal and professional challenges. Gregory embrances his role as the "cool" teacher. Ava surprises with moments of unexpected leadership. From Career Day to a heartfelt end-of-year celebration, the Abbott staff prove that with teamwork- and Janine's relentless drive- they can handle anything.
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[2025]
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3 videodiscs (450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"A story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them above"-- Provided by publisher.





