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Return of the War Room: Not-So-Extreme Makeover

Caryn James | Posted 10.12.2008 | Entertainment

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Caryn James

Sometimes a political documentary plays like a horror movie, and Return of the War Room and its accompanying déjà vu scared me more than anything I've seen in a while.

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Layalina: Changing Perceptions About America in the Arab World

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.30.2008 | Media

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Amb. Marc Ginsberg

One way to change adversarial attitudes toward us is to reintroduce America to the Arab world through the medium of television, which Layalina does with its responsible, American-style commercial programming.

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Cablevision buys Sundance Channel for almost $500M

AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 05.07.2008 | Home

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NEW YORK — Cablevision Systems Corp. is buying the Sundance Channel, a cable network founded by Robert Redford, for $496 million, the New York-a...

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Cablevision The Frontrunner To Acquire Sundance Channel: Report

New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 04.25.2008 | Media

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Cablevision is the frontrunner to acquire Robert Redford's Sundance Channel, The Post has learned. According to two sources close to the negotiations...

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Elvis Costello Gets A Talk Show

Reuters | Posted 04.03.2008 | Entertainment

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British rocker Elvis Costello will host a talk show for Sundance Channel, beginning later this year, the cable channel said Wednesday. "Spectacle: El...

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Sundance Channel Up For Sale

TV Decoder | Brian Stelter | Posted 03.19.2008 | Media

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The Sundance Channel, a joint venture of NBC Universal, CBS and Robert Redford, is being put up for sale, a media analyst said Wednesday. The channel...

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Darn That Dream

Bill Barol | Posted 10.31.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Tom Petty, Peter Bogdanovich, Sundance Channel, Movie Reviews, Film Criticism, Tom Petty and the Hearbreakers, Runnin Down a Dream, Howie Epstein, Entertainment News
Bill Barol

Peter Bogdanovich's magisterial Runnin' Down a Dream makes a powerful case for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers as the great American rock and roll band of the last three decades.

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Our Brush with Homeland Security: Can Better Understanding of Mental Illness be Legislated?

Ben Selkow | Posted 10.22.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Bipolar Disorder, Manic Depression, A Summer in the Cage, Sundance Channel, Entertainment News
Ben Selkow

If we want to start breaking the cycle of recidivism that faces those who suffer from mistreated mental illnesses, our prisons must be better equipped to recognize and treat such inmates.

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