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Glenn Garvin: TV Coverage
A lifelong television nut who is rumored to be the real father of Rachel's baby on Friends, Glenn Garvin took over the critic's job in 2002 after 19 years covering Latin America -- the last five of them as The Herald's bureau chief in Managua. A 1975 graduate of Stanford University, Garvin is the author of two books on Latin America and the only living person who actually saw an episode of My Mother, The Car. You can e-mail him at ggarvin@MiamiHerald.com.
Check out Glenn Garvin's blog, Changing Channels.

Television Review

The kid’s not funny in Fox’s ‘Allen Gregory’

‘Allen Gregory.’ 8:30-9 p.m. Sunday. WSVN-Fox 7.
Television Review

NBC’s ‘Grimm’ is well-done supernatural horror

Grimm. 9-10 p.m. Friday. WTVJ-NBC 6.
Television review

Who ya gonna believe, Freud or a talking cricket?

Once Upon A Time. 8-9 p.m. Sunday. WPLG-ABC 10.
Television Review

Kelsey Grammer’s bare-knuckled ‘Boss’ is captivating

Boss. 10-11 p.m. Friday. Starz.
Television Review

Man overboard!

Man Up! 8:30-9 p.m. Tuesday. WPLG-ABC 10.
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ABC’s ‘Last Man Standing’ just not funny

Last Man Standing. 8-9 p.m. Tuesday. WPLG-ABC 10.
Television reviews

The corpse that loved me and other tales of horror

A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King. 8-9 p.m. Monday. Turner Classic Movies.American Horror Story. 10-11:30 p.m. Wednesday. FX.
TELEVISION REVIEW

Don’t miss the big bang of Showtime’s ‘Homeland’

Homeland. 10-11 p.m. Sunday. Showtime.
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Stolen jokes are fine, as long as they’re funny

Suburgatory. 8:30-9 p.m. Wednesday. WPLG-ABC 10.How to be a Gentleman. 8:30-9 p.m. Thursday. WFOR-CBS 4.
Television Review

‘Revenge’ a delicious stew of hot chicks, mean tricks

Revenge. 10-11 p.m. Wednesday. WPLG-ABC 10.
Television Reviews

Television reviews of ‘2 Broke Girls,’ ‘The Playboy Club’

2 Broke Girls. 9:30-10 p.m. Monday. WFOR-CBS 4.The Playboy Club. 10-11 p.m. Monday. WTVJ-NBC 6.
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2 new NBC ‘comedies’ are must-miss TV

Up All Night. 10-10:30 p.m. Wednesday. WTVJ-NBC 6.Free Agents. 10:30-11 p.m. Wednesday. WTVJ-NBC 6.
In 2006, the world kept turning

An April 2006 look back at a half-century of ''As the World Turns.''
TELEVISION

Review | 'Good Family' makes fun of the world's do-gooders

Life's not easy if you're an organic-eating, tree-hugging, SUV-eschewing, carbon-footprintless, gender-identity-indifferent, diversity-celebrating, nonjudgmental (well, except for those damn U.S. flag pins) vegan pacifist. Just ask Gerald and Helen Goode, the First Couple of PC America.
The Trail at 80: A new documentary retraces the eccentricities of South Florida's signature highway

Escape to Dreamland, 9-10 p.m. Sunday, WLRN-PBS 17 Because I grew up halfway across the country in the middle of a desert, my knowledge of Florida's sultry southern tip was vague and tenuous. For years my dominant and perhaps only mental image of South Florida was grubby tenement rat Dustin Hoffman's quiet expiration in the back of the bus at the end of Midnight Cowboy, the beaches he dreamed of shimmering delusively in the background.
Breaking boundaries

Although transsexual characters have appeared regularly on television since at least 1975 - when Archie Bunker unknowingly gave one mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the back of his cab in All in the Family - they're treated as curiosities at best.