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The Best of the Set: Louie
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The Best of the Set: Louie

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Louis CK is the hardest working comic in the business. After years on the road as a stand-up comedian, working gigs and honing his raw tone and sharp insight into a funnel for social satire and jabs at the ridiculous nature of culture, he has finally found the perfect outlet for his unflinching humor and surprisingly touching intellect: FX.
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The Best of the Set Pt. III: Deadwood
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The Best of the Set Pt. III: Deadwood

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Set at the titular mining camp at the base of the Black Hills of South Dakota, "Deadwood" follows the members of the small, lawless community as they acclimate to or try to keep control of the unsteady nature of the makeshift town. But not being a part of the United States and owing justification to no one, Deadwood thrives on mischief, mayhem, whiskey and whores.
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The Best of the Set - Twin Peaks: A Retrospective
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The Best of the Set – Twin Peaks: A Retrospective

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The 90's were a glorious time for television. With the lighthearted and almost meaningless fluff that filled living rooms the last forty years finally wearing viewers, and the emergence of cable stations like HBO as a viable means to tell gripping stories without the restraints of basic cable budgets, producers, and writers alike saw a change in audiences brewing and took the opportunity to push their creativity and story telling into a new, much more raw territory.
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ABC Wants You to Get Ready for the Most Interactive Oscar Night in History
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ABC Wants You to Get Ready for the Most Interactive Oscar Night in History

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It seems like this might be the first year that an online, web streaming version of a televised event may be superior to the actual TV version. That may be the case with the 2011 Oscars, hosted by James Franco and Anne Hathaway. ABC is putting a ton of effort into their online portal for all things Oscars and it almost seems like they had web developers and web designers working till the wee hours of the morning for months (I hope they got a break after the launch!).
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New SyFy show Face Off is like Project Runway for geeks!
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New SyFy show Face Off is like Project Runway for geeks!

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Face Off has no relation to the Nicolas Cage/John Travolta movie of the same name (although it should - Nicolas Cage does a lot of good work). SyFy TV's version of Face Off is a competitive reality show in the same manner of the popular fashion series Project Runway, but instead of making clothes and outfits, contestants must tap their make-up and special effects skills and create living monsters, beasts, and characters.
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