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It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947662.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: It's the usual "Jersey Shore" wannabe, only situated on different but even less-authentic shores. /review/VE1117947662.html Mon, 28 May 2012 15:32:28 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947637.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: A fun soundtrack from Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, great dance numbers, and appealing leads compensate for the overwhelming sense of been there, done that. /review/VE1117947637.html Thu, 24 May 2012 18:06:10 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947636.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: The six-hour "Hatfields & McCoys" has a certain grungy intensity, a la "Deadwood," but also features arid stretches, and too many supporting characters who register so sparingly you barely get to know them before they start catching bullets. /review/VE1117947636.html Thu, 24 May 2012 18:02:30 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947635.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: An overlong period piece that's earnest and handsome, true, but strangely inert, and perhaps because Ernest Hemingway's larger-than-life persona is so familiar, frequently feels stilted and cliched. /review/VE1117947635.html Thu, 24 May 2012 17:58:28 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947619.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: Even with a game, mostly appealing cast, the pilot provides scant incentive to invest in a weekly subscription. /review/VE1117947619.html Tue, 22 May 2012 17:03:31 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947544.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: At more than four hours, "The Weight of the Nation" -- HBO's do-gooder documentary about the U.S.' obesity epidemic, mounted in concert with multiple health organizations -- is, pardon the expression, a little flabby. /review/VE1117947544.html Sun, 13 May 2012 17:46:01 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947543.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: "Johnny Carson: King of Late Night" is a documentary worthy of its subject -- a comprehensive "American Masters" celebration of the host's seemingly effortless skills without whitewashing his personal peccadilloes. /review/VE1117947543.html Sun, 13 May 2012 17:41:48 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947531.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: While USA has a genuine knack for wringing maximum effect from such light-hearted concepts, this one ought to come with a prenup. /review/VE1117947531.html Wed, 09 May 2012 17:38:58 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947525.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: An interesting if familiar premise -- focusing on a group of London flatmates, cutting between then and now, beginning in 1965 -- "White Heat" hardly merits the name, proving more plodding and cliched than anything else. /review/VE1117947525.html Mon, 07 May 2012 18:35:18 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947499.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: Even better than the first time, Masterpiece Mystery's second flight of "Sherlock" -- consisting of three 90-minute movies that migrate the 19th-century sleuth into a modern setting -- is great fun, and vastly superior to Warner Bros.' recent features. /review/VE1117947499.html Fri, 04 May 2012 14:53:13 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947494.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: Some might admire how seamlessly Eddie Izzard's leg is removed, but the digital wizards might as well have gone a few steps further and erased the whole thing. /review/VE1117947494.html Thu, 03 May 2012 18:00:14 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947466.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: The animus between African-Americans and the Los Angeles Police Dept. is explored in fascinating detail by "Uprising: Hip Hop and the L.A. Riots," marking the 20th anniversary of the widespread unrest unleashed by the "not guilty" verdict in the Rodney King beating. /review/VE1117947466.html Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:20:00 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947453.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: Aside from consciously evoking a popular movie title and giving headline writers fits, "My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding" is just TLC's latest subcultural oddity -- presented, much like "Sister Wives," as the TV equivalent of a carnival sideshow. /review/VE1117947453.html Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:05:24 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947445.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: Based on true events, Michael J. Murray's script tugs the heart with such precision it might touch even the hardest of them. /review/VE1117947445.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:37:18 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947444.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: The 80-minute film is sort of a wonderful mess -- disjointed, poorly ordered, but like Lee himself, irrepressible and bubbling with energy. /review/VE1117947444.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:31:16 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947429.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: Described as an "international hit," "Total Blackout" has the makings of a U.S. success by Syfy's standards as well. /review/VE1117947429.html Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:00:20 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947417.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: Sebastian Faulks' "Birdsong" comes to PBS as a two-part, three-hour, stubbornly old-fashioned melodrama. /review/VE1117947417.html Sat, 21 Apr 2012 08:55:04 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947415.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: A Canadian import airing on CW, "The L.A. Complex" borrows from "Fame" and "A Chorus Line," unexpectedly emerging as one of the best things the netlet's offered in ages. It's an affectionate, amusing, sometimes surprising takes on would-be stars, as well as the established luminaries and has-beens who pass through their orbits. /review/VE1117947415.html Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:15:39 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947413.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: "Firelight" is merely earnest and mildly uplifting, if wholly predictable in an especially tired way. /review/VE1117947413.html Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:33:31 +0000 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117947412.html?cmpid=RSS|Reviews|TVReviews TV Reviews: Essentially a limp version of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" against a D.C. backdrop, with Julia Louis-Dreyfus gamely playing to the absurdity of the situations, but yielding only modest returns. /review/VE1117947412.html Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:29:34 +0000