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That's Life (CBS, 8 p.m. - all times Eastern) If the Italian American milieu in this comedy-drama were any more overfamiliar and phony, it'd be served at The Olive Garden with unlimited breadsticks and salad. In case you should ever forget the ethnicity of the characters, the soundtrack is packed with Frank Sinatra tunes, "That's Amore" and "Mambo Italiano," and there's actually a character with the surname Buttafucco (sic). That said, this series, about Lydia DeLucca (Heather Paige Kent), a 32-year-old New Jersey woman who ditches her troglodyte fianc? to go back to college...
...WASHINGTON JOSEPH J. ELLIS He didn't actually have wooden teeth, and in his first military command--at age 22--he presided over a bloody disaster that helped kick off the French and Indian War. Handsome, burly, charismatic and enigmatic, Washington turns out to be nothing like the frozen, overfamiliar face on the dollar bill, and his life, which was in many ways a charmed one, makes for an engrossing and revelatory read...
...boxing reality show also from "Apprentice" and "Survivor" producer Mark Burnett. NBC has been trying and failing for several years to find new hit sitcoms and dramas, but it's had the most success instead with reality shows. It seems that TV viewers are finding new scripted shows boring, overfamiliar and repetitive. If only somebody could figure...
...biopic material goes, the Kennedy clan is the most bio-picked-over of all. The overfamiliar scenes of Kennediana crawl by like the Stations of the Cross (J.F.K.'s horse-drawn casket, the inevitable football tossing), and the genre has the awkward burden of forcing climax and resolution on lives that were actually ended in midstory by assassinations...
...meta references to other series and itself). It snipes at young, pretty tube stars yet casts young, pretty Katherine Towne as a teen troublemaker looking for her birth mother after her father has answered her inquiries with "M.Y.O.B." (mind your own business). Still, it's somewhat better than its overfamiliar ingredients. Creator Don Roos has distilled and sanitized the vicious humor of his film The Opposite of Sex for prime time. That which survives the translation makes for good, mean...