Tom Shales
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TV Previews
Remember Kenneth Branagh, British actor, director and writer -- and, for all we know, doctor, lawyer and Indian chief? It was said the man could do anything. Well, he can't play FDR -- or so it seems for about the first half-hour of "Warm Springs," an HBO movie premiering tonight at 8.
 
TV Preview: Censors and Sensibility: AMC Gives Us 'Bleep!' (Post, April 26, 2005, Page C01)
 
TELEVISION: After 'Raymond,' What? The Hazy Future of Sitcoms (By Tom Shales, April 24, 2005, Page N01)
 
TV Preview: 'Locusts': CBS Puts Viewers in Swarms' Way (By Tom Shales, April 23, 2005, Page C01)
 
Pope Benedict XVI, Seen From Every Possible Angle (By Tom Shales, April 20, 2005, Page C01)
 
TV Preview: NBC's 'Revelations': It's a Long Way To Armageddon (By Tom Shales, April 13, 2005, Page C01)
 
All Eyes on Rome: Television Proves To Be a Blessing (By Tom Shales, April 9, 2005, Page C01)
 
TV Preview: Whoopi Takes the Long Way Back Home (By Tom Shales, April 9, 2005, Page C01)
 
TV Preview: 'Grey's Anatomy': No Heart, No Brain (By Tom Shales, March 26, 2005, Page C01)
 
TV Preview: Cue the Shark Music and Prepare to Be Scared (By Tom Shales, March 19, 2005, Page C01)
 
TV Preview: 'Saving Milly': An Aloof Treatment Of a Family's Loss (By Tom Shales, March 12, 2005, Page C01)
 
Dan Rather, Leaving By the High Road (By Tom Shales, March 9, 2005, Page C01)
 
'The Contender': Junior Lightweight (By Tom Shales, March 7, 2005, Page C01)
 
TV Previews: 'Fat Actress': Jolly-Unsaturated (By Tom Shales, March 7, 2005, Page C01)
 
'Deadwood': Still Shooting From the Hip (By Tom Shales, March 5, 2005, Page C01)
 
A Case for Cloning (By Tom Shales, March 3, 2005, Page C01)
 
Holding E! In Contempt for Trial Reenactment (By Tom Shales, March 2, 2005, Page C01)
 
Rock, Well . . . Didn't (By Tom Shales, February 28, 2005, Page C01)
 

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