Denis Leary is nothing if not polarizing. But he’s built a career out of controversy, and for better or worse, he’s still at it, prolific and polemical as ever.

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The cast of The Real World: Brooklyn moved into the Red Hook district to start filming the show in August and have been roundly reviled by the community ever since. As an avid fan of the show, I chalked it up to Brooklyn-hipster snobiness and thought

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It’s kind of a mash-up of my old movie review show Reel to Real , a really cool DVD extra, Inside the Actor’s Studio and The Jack Paar Show (that’s where I got the glasses and the slicked back hair). With all due respect to Mr. Ebert and Mr. Siskel there

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Put down the rum and coke and grab a box of tissues. Showcase and Trailer Park Productions/Topsail Productions announces that after seven successful seasons, the Showcase Original mockumentary series Trailer Park Boys will conclude its regular series

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A message from Mike Clattenburg, creator of the Trailer Park Boys : “Over the past few months there has been a lot of discussion among our fans and those in the media about the future of Trailer Park Boys. Will there be another season, another special,

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The Shield is so gritty that if it were a fictional cop, it would be Vic Mackey, star of the hit-series The Shield . If that makes no sense to you because you've never seen The Shield , then you're in the right place. On September 9th Vic Mackey is bringing

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One could fairly describe me as a vocal David Simon advocate. Through five seasons of The Wire , I was that guy who would take every possible opportunity to declare it the best show on television and to crown Simon, its creator, the shimmering salvation

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If there’s one thing Boogie Nights proved, it’s that movies should very rarely exceed the two-hour mark. If there’s two things it proved, it’s that the 70s looked like sex. Most people think this is because people were having a lot of sex in the 70s,

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Happy Friday, Blog-Readers! This week saw the unveiling of Global’s new fall line-up , and snuggled in there next to the big guns like 90210 and the Christian Slater vehicle My Own Worst Enemy is the American remake of Life on Mars . The latest British

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If you’re like me (and if you’re not, you might want to get on that), the end of The Wire has left a gaping, pain-soaked hole in your psyche. To make it worse, the cast has started popping up in decidedly un-Wire-like roles, as if trying to prove that

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Our old chum Jeff Zucker over at NBC (pronounced enn-bee-sea) had a big week by anyone’s standards. The highlight came last night when he appeared in a commercial before My Name is Earl and took a swipe at the writers over the recent bitter strike. In

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Let’s recap: Eight episodes into the strangest season yet, Lost fans now have a month to wait before the final five episodes of the shortened fourth stanza. Oh, and the show’s on at a different time when it returns in April. The tagline for season four

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We're all used to watching TV online now, but how many of us would actually make the leap to watch a web-based serial on a major network? It was big news when NBC snapped up the MySpace series, Quarterlife , with big hopes of bringing its web success

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Happy Friday Blaugs! If you like possibly true news stories, have I got a scoop for you! On Thursday night, former Disney head Michael Eisner told CNBC that a deal was struck a week ago and the writers will be back on the job shortly. It seems all that’s

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Talk about biting that hand that pleases you. We’ve heard that Jenna Jameson announced her retirement from the porn industry, or to quote her directly from this year’s AVN Awards, “I will never ever ever spread my legs again for this industry ever,” (cue

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