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John Leonard

November 20, 2006 | Feature
Watch This Instead

If you prefer television that puts something into your brain instead of cutting something out, there are three worthy documentaries all airing on Tuesday, November 14.

November 9, 2006
It’s Not Exactly Brain Surgery

3 Lbs. joins Grey’s Anatomy in the sexed-up hospital genre: plenty of sin, skin, and scalpels.

November 13, 2006
Iron Maiden

With the final installment of Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren says good-bye to her greatest role.

October 16, 2006
Pearl Before Swine

A documentary about Daniel Pearl and his murderer charts a tragic collision between two surprising men.

October 9, 2006
Heroes

If they weren’t in New York to begin with, you can bet that this gang—the Japanese salaryman who teleports, the Indian genetics professor with a superpowers theory, the Las Vegas stripper with a guardian-angel doppelgänger, the beat cop who hears what people think, the high-school cheerleader who can walk through fire, the male nurse who can fly, and the drug-addicted artist who is painting the horrific future—would wind up in this city together.

October 9, 2006
Runaway

We’ve been here many times before, with a whole family on the run, although this time, at least, it has nothing to do with the witness-protection program.

October 9, 2006
Casanova

When you’ve got Peter O’Toole in a Masterpiece Theatre mini-series, who cares how many liberties teleplaywright Russell T. Davies took with the confabulations of Giovanni Giacomo Casanova?

October 9, 2006
Falling Flat

Men in Trees is Northern Exposure Lite—and it’s not the only new comedy that’s depressingly familiar.

October 2, 2006
Ugly Betty

Don’t miss executive producer Salma Hayek’s hilarious guest appearance in the pilot, as a sexy maid in a Spanish-language telenovela.

October 2, 2006
Six Degrees

However much executive producer J. J. Abrams is actually involved in this tedious series of interlocking melodramas—and rumor has it that the mastermind of Lost keeps his distance—it’s still not enough to make us care.

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