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The OfficeThat one dose it! It Is Official! The Brit Version of the NBC comedy sensation is as querky and as funny as the American version I have come to love featuring Steve Carell as a midrange paper supply company branch manager in Scranton New JersyThe Office (UK) Jelly Stapler - Holy God Man - Its like they are using the same story lines in thhis UK counterpart to NBCs The OfficeThe Office - Tommy Gear Keith Gives His Co-Worker Some Pointers On Traveling To AmericaThe Office (UK) Comic Relief DayThe Office (UK) RedundanciesIn This Room I Have Special Authority, Well played chap, Well Played IndeedThe Office (UK) Form An Orderly Queue LadiesCritic's cornerStand Up to Cancer 8 p.m., Channels 4, 5, 7 Hollywood is one big happy family, right? Tonight, ABC, NBC, CBS, and a whole mess of famous people - Meryl Streep, Sally Field, Lance Armstrong, Halle Berry, James Taylor, David Cook - are uniting to raise money for cancer research. They'll make appearances, and they'll also be standing by the ... At first bite Watching vampire stories, you inevitably dwell on death, as human bodies are punctured, drained of spirit, left pallid and rubbery. Why on earth do we love telling ourselves these gory, nighttime tales of blood thirst, from "Dracula" and Anne Rice's vampire chronicles to the forthcoming "Twilight" movie and the new HBO show "True Blood," which premieres Sunday at 9? '90210': New generation, same old story Really, the original "Beverly Hills 90210" was pretty bad. Maybe some of us have romanticized the Fox series since it left the air in 2000, and blocked out the fact that it was an earnest, obvious teen soap. Maybe time has dulled our memories of its sappy after-school-special lessons. Maybe the Peach Pit kids have gained an appealing camp cachet, ... Critic's corner Big Brother 10 8 p.m., Channel 4 They've been having fun all bummer long. Forbes 10 Most Expensive Celebrity Divorces 8 p.m., E! Debt her out of my heart. Biker gang saga 'Anarchy' has 'Sopranos' appeal Kurt Sutter, the creator of FX's intriguing new drama "Sons of Anarchy," spent years as a writer-producer for FX's "The Shield." And it shows. About a gun-running motorcycle gang in California, the grimy, B-movie-tone "Sons of Anarchy" is similarly obsessed with brutality, amorality, and the ruthless politics of self-preservation. Critic's corner Top Design 10 p.m., Bravo The show returns for its second season with a new host. Todd Oldham is out, although he will be onhand as a Tim Gunn-like mentor. And India Hicks (left) is in. An interior designer, fashion model, and socialite, Hicks also happens to be the goddaughter of Prince Charles. How jolly. Critic's corner 90210 8 p.m., Channel 56 They're back. The View 11 a.m., Channel 5 They're back for season 12. In new legal drama, a case of deja vu Remember that famous scene from "A Few Good Men," when Tom Cruise's self-righteous lawyer yells, "I want the truth!"? After watching three episodes of TNT's foolish new courtroom drama - called, ironically, "Raising the Bar" - I felt as though I'd sat through that fist-shaking Cruise clip on a nonstop loop for three hours. Critic's corner Today 7 a.m., Channel 7 NKOTB. Gossip Girl 8 p.m., Channel 56 XOXO. 'Gossip Girl' returns with rich wit You know how "Clueless" was a reboot of Jane Austen's "Emma," and how "Ten Things I Hate About You" brought Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" to the halls of Padua High School? Well, the CW's "Gossip Girl" really has no specific canonical underpinnings, no classic blueprint that will give its fans an acceptable excuse. We have no literary defense. It's time to watch -- and wait Still running behind schedule due to last season's writers' strike, the networks and cable channels are premiering fewer new series this fall, and so far they've made only a handful of them available to critics for preview. Here's the lowdown on those new series I've seen, those still to come, and the returning favorites. Critic's corner FIRED UP FOR LOVE For the Love of Grace 9 p.m., Hallmark Channel This new movie stars Mark Consuelos, who is Kelly Ripa's husband. He plays a firefighter who rescues a woman named Grace, then falls in love with her. Talk about being hot for someone. Critic's corner 15 Most Shocking Political Sex Scandals 8 p.m., E! Alas, they're no longer shocking. Dog Whisperer 9 p.m., National Geographic A female greyhound doesn't like men. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Proximity trumps pathology "The Grizzly Man Diaries," Animal Planet's new eight-episode series, arrives tonight at 9 as a very unlikely spinoff. The disturbing tone of "Grizzly Man," the 2005 documentary about the life and violent death of bear enthusiast Timothy Treadwell, seemed to close off forever the possibility of enjoying Treadwell's voluminous bear footage. Critic's corner Democratic National Convention Obama. (Local translation: Obamer.) Evening 7 p.m., HBO Signature Puts the sag in saga. |
