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Charlie gets the last word
Charlie McCollum has the last word on what's on TV and what's going on in the TV industry. From the latest gossip to what's good to watch tonight, you can get the inside scoop by reading Charlie's web log.
`Hoop Dreams' approach shows immigrants' travails One thing you can say for certain about PBS's ``The New Americans'': It's not some quick hit on a hot-button issue. The makers of this seven-hour documentary (9 tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday, Ch. 9) began their look at immigration to this country more than a decade ago. For more than four years, they followed immigrants from five countries to what the newcomers thought would be the American dream of liberty and riches.
Playing catch-up with the TV scene
For most of the past couple of weeks, I've been off doing serious beach time in a part of the world where English-language television is pretty much limited to CNN International and something called the American Channel, a mix of old Danielle Steel TV weepers and episodes of ``Survivor: Africa.''
`Deadwood' explores sin in Old West In 1876, the town of Deadwood -- located in the Black Hills of what is now South Dakota -- was the Sodom and the Gomorrah of the frontier West.
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