NEWS
May 22, 2009
King's response 8:30 p.m. [TNT] Now that the Orlando Magic has humbled LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers, what will King James' response be in Game 2? Apparently 49 points weren't enough in Game 1.
NEWS
March 26, 2009
1 More Madness (Part 1): The early NCAA game (7 p.m, chs. 13, 9) is Xavier-Pittsburgh. Xavier is the best school with the nickname Musketeers. 2 More Madness (Part 2): The late game (same channels) is Villanova-Duke. 'Nova means "it doesn't go" in Spanish - bad for selling a car but no issue for the Wildcats. 3 Check with Cuz: During the Suns-Trail Blazers game (10:30 p.m., TNT), TNT could interview Portland's Brandon Roy about his cousin Patrick losing the NHL wins record. 4 Not in the Army: So you're not playing in the tournament today (3 p.m., Golf Channel)
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By DAVID ZURAWIK | January 26, 2009
TNT is using its hit The Closer to serve as lead-in tonight to the premiere of Trust Me, a new series starring Eric McCormack and Tom Cavanagh. Trust me, there is almost nothing in this drama that works. The series is set in an ad agency with McCormack and Cavanaugh playing two best friends since childhood who now work together thinking up ads for products like cell phones. In the opening scenes, the two are shown mid-day stretched out at a pool, recovering from hangovers. They lie shamelessly about how hard they are working when the boss calls.
NEWS
January 15, 2009
1 In the basement: North Carolina tries to get out of last place in the Atlantic Coast Conference while facing Virginia (9 p.m., ESPN). 2 Mounting challenge: Long Island travels to Emmitsburg to face Mount St. Mary's (7 p.m., MASN). LIU is the Blackbirds, but only one black bird matters around here. 3 And no crab dribble: You see that wild, over-the-head shot LeBron James made Tuesday night? Let's see him do it again (Cavaliers at Bulls, 8 p.m., TNT). 4 Smooth shooter: See the new, improved free-throw stylings of Shaquille O'Neal (Suns at Nuggets, 10:30 p.m., TNT)
NEWS
December 25, 2008
1 NBA, Part 1: Some Christmas Magic. Playing against some Christmas Hornets (noon, ESPN). 2 NBA, Part 2: In the Spurs-Suns game (2:30 p.m., chs. 2, 7), Steve Nash might sit out to rest for Boxing Day tomorrow (being that he's Canadian). 3 NBA, Part 3: This is the marquee matchup, Celtics-Lakers (5 p.m., chs. 2, 7), so why did the NBA schedule it during dinner time? 4 NBA, Part 4 : Just in case you didn't eat yet, here's the Christmas turkey: Wizards at Cavaliers (8 p.m., TNT)
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By David Zurawick | December 5, 2008
Corporations have all the power, all the money, Nathan Ford (Timothy Hutton) tells a weeping mother at the end of the pilot for a series premiering Sunday night on TNT. "We provide [pause] leverage." So begins Leverage, a Mission Impossible-type series of a band of merry pranksters - hackers, grifters, escape artists and thieves - assembled to right the wrongs of society with high-tech tools. There is nothing new or exciting about the team, which is mainly done as caricature. There's the immature computer hacker who drinks orange soda, the femme fatale who seduces men into deals they shouldn't make, and an escape artist who is blond and lithe and seems to have studied every one of Uma Thurman's moves.
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By RAY FRAGER | November 20, 2008
Lakers@Suns 10:30 p.m. [TNT] It's always nice when old pals (right) Shaq and Kobe get together. Maybe they'll discuss, oh, say, O'Neal's offseason efforts to expand his abilities in freestyle rapping.
NEWS
November 6, 2008
1 Come to Papa: You have the NFL Network (left)? Then you have a game tonight - Broncos at Browns at 8:15. And, remember, Bob Papa has replaced Bryant Gumbel on play-by-play. 2 Hungry team: When the Terps play at Virginia Tech tonight (7:30, ESPN), they should know they're being scouted by the Chick-fil-A Bowl. Yum, what could be more incentive than that? 3 Hoop it up: The first game of TNT's NBA doubleheader features Philadelphia at Orlando (8 p.m.). Which reminds us of that old song by Pilot - "oh, oh, oh, it's Magic!"
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By DAVID ZURAWICK | September 1, 2008
One of the sadder aspects of this job is having to review the work of once-great writer-producers who are over the hill and merely recycling their old and tired tricks. That's the case with Steven Bochco's new series, Raising the Bar, premiering tonight on TNT. The man who helped change the face of network drama from soft-focus escapist fare to the hard-edged grit of Hill Street Blues in 1984 debuts a big-city legal drama that follows the same conventions of such series as his NYPD Blue and Brooklyn South.
NEWS
August 9, 2008
BASEBALL Rangers@Orioles 7 P.M. [CH. 13, MASN]: It's probably the best pitching matchup of the weekend with the Rangers sending Vicente Padilla (12-5, 4.59 ERA) to the mound against Daniel Cabrera (7-7, 4.97). Cabrera has struggled recently, but you still have to hope he'll figure it out someday. Why not tonight? GOLF PGA Championship 11 a.m. [TNT], 2 p.m. [CHS. 13, 9]: Hey, golf might be an Olympic sport in the near future. Did you even realize a major was going on? Without Tiger Woods, you have J.B. Holmes to root for.