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Television Review | '24: Redemption': Saving the World in Less Than a Day
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Kiefer Sutherland is back as Jack Bauer in “24: Redemption” on Sunday on Fox, but the title is a bit misleading.

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Television Review | 'A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All': Unwrap the Presents, Unleash the Parody
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Stephen Colbert is delightful, a few of the song parodies are clever, but over all, the show is too long and more than a little strained, much like the holiday specials it mocks.

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CW Says It Is Retaking Control of Its Sunday TV Lineup
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he CW network has canceled its low-rated Sunday lineup and ended a $15 million deal with Media Rights Capital, the company that produced the shows.

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Ailes Agrees to Remain at Fox News 5 More Years
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The News Corporation announced Thursday that Roger Ailes, the chairman and chief executive of Fox News, had signed a new five-year contract with the company.

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Arts, Briefly: CBS Wins the Night
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“Criminal Minds” and “CSI: NY” led CBS to another victory in the ratings on Wednesday, according to Nielsen’s estimates.

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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
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Laura Linney has been named the host of “Masterpiece Classic,” a spinoff of the PBS series “Masterpiece Theater,” which was divided into three different shows in 2007.

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TV Decoder: Roger Ailes Renews Contract
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The mastermind of the Fox News Channel has renewed his contract with the News Corporation, the company announced Thursday.

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For ‘60 Minutes,’ a Jump in Ratings
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“60 Minutes” on CBS has been the most-watched program in the nation the last two weeks — including the full episode on Sunday devoted to Steve Kroft’s interview with Barack and Michelle Obama.

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A Sendup of the Season, Some Sincerity Required
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To a television world long bereft of the annual holiday cheer spread by a Como or a Crosby comes an unlikely new Christmas champion: Colbert.

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What Happy People Don’t Do
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Happy people spend a lot of time socializing, going to church and reading newspapers — but they don’t spend a lot of time watching television, a new study finds.

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Legal Tangles of ‘Project Runway’ Keep It Frozen on the Catwalk
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Producers have already shot segments for the series’s sixth season, but those new episodes are unlikely to be seen for several months, according to people involved in the case.

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Totally Over: Last Squeals for ‘TRL’
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The afternoon video show, which ended Sunday after being an MTV flagship for 10 years, was just a little too 20th-century to survive the YouTube age.

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