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  Television Q&A

  ‘Storage Wars’ star started out in produce

  According to his A&E biography, “since the age of 15, Barry has made a name for himself as an antique collector.” He told AOL TV last year that he was also “in the produce business for 20-25 years, and I retired about four years ago. I just was traveling around the world and enjoying life, really. The way this opportunity came along was a close friend of mine, Thom Beers, who is the creator of the show, was over one night. I don’t know, we were having a few drinks. He said he was working on something with these storage lockers, and would I like to be a part of it? And basically that’s sort of how things unfolded.”
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  POLITICS

  South Beach club crowd stumbles into politics at “Morning Joe” broadcast

  Bring a political talk show to South Beach before dawn on a Monday, and you’ll get a rowdy audience. But club-goers aren’t alway addicted to politics. “Who is Newt Gingrich?”
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  Public Radio

  ‘Radiolab’ hosts bring live show to Miami Beach Wednesday

  The creator-hosts of public radio’s envelope-pushing ‘Radiolab’ bring their live show to South Florida
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  Television Q&A

  ‘Dead’ set to walk again; ‘Rules’ rerun on tonight

  After a break, AMC’s The Walking Dead will continue its second season on Feb. 12. The CBS comedy Rules of Engagement was scheduled to start the current season on Saturday nights. But when How To Be a Gentleman proved unsuccessful, Rules was put in its 8:30 p.m. Thursday slot beginning with its sixth-season premiere in October. It has since been bumped so CBS can try out Rob on Thursdays (with The Big Bang Theory as a potent, 8 p.m. lead-in). The network says Rules will be back at 8:30 p.m. Thursday “later this season.” And there will be some reruns, including one at 8 p.m. Saturday. Q. What happened to The New Adventures of Old Christine?

• As primary approaches, PBS show examines mood of Florida’s senior voters

  Florida’s senior vote, a powerful factor in Florida’s primary, will be analyzed Friday in a weekly PBS newsmagazine Need to Know or NTK.

• Florida’s challenge in luring films and TV shows: Money

  Producers say the state needs to give more incentives to lure films and TV shows to be shot here.
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  On TV, it’s still about finding the big hit

  Despite technological advances changing the landscape, finding hit shows is still the rule.

• TV execs crave viewers who watch two screens

  Apps appeal to those who watch TV and keep an eye on a tablet or a cellphone at the same time.
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  Television Q&A

  ‘Mad Men’ due back in late March

  While I have not seen an official date from AMC, star Jon Hamm said in a recent Doug Loves Movies podcast interview that the series will return on March 25. New York magazine calculated that it will have been 525 days since the last new episode aired.

• HALLANDALE BEACH

  Travel show coming to Hallandale Beach

  If you live in Hallandale Beach and you want to win cash and prizes, the crew of a new Travel + Escape Channel show wants to hear from you.
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  Television reviews

  Two puzzles, one worth a shot

  Napoleon Dynamite. 8:30-9 p.m. Sunday. WSVN-Fox 7.Alcatraz. 8-10 p.m. Monday. WSVN-Fox 7.
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  Television

  Daytime ‘Revolution’ from man behind ‘Biggest Loser’

  J.D. Roth’s first email upon learning that ABC had decided to air his transformational new daytime series, The Revolution, came from his mother-in-law: “You killed Erica Kane!”

• DIRECTV

  No TV deal means no Fox for some South Florida homes

  A quarter of a million South Florida homes lost access to WSVN-Fox 7 Saturday when the station yanked its signal from DirecTV’s satellite service in a dispute over retransmission fees that’s getting uglier by the minute.
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  Television Q&A

  ‘Southland,’ ‘Merlin’ are back in business

  Southland resumes on TNT Tuesday. Syfy has already aired three seasons of Merlin, with the third coming to DVD next week. The fourth season began Friday.Q. The last new episode of Terra Nova that aired in December was advertised as the season finale. Does this mean that we won’t be seeing any new episodes again until next fall? If so, why such a short season?
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  Television Reviews

  See ‘Rob’ and ‘The Finder’ before they go to cancellation heaven

  'Rob.' 8:30-9 p.m. Thursday. WFOR-CBS 4. 'The Finder.' 9-10 p.m. Thursday. WSVN-Fox 7.
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  Emilio Estefan tries his hand — again — at reality TV

  Emilio Estefan tries his hand — again — at reality TV

  With the premier Wednesday night of Dale con Ganas, the new family weight loss competition show on Univision, Miami producer Emilio Estefan returns to a medium which he enjoys just as much as music.
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  Confessions of a TV critic

  Ten years and one day ago, my byline ran for the first time on a Miami Herald column about television. I didn’t see it. I was aboard an airliner flying to Los Angeles, where TV critics from all over the country were gathering to get a look at the spring season shows. When I got off the plane, I discovered that slumping ABC had fired all of its top programming executives.
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  Television review

  A disappointing return for ‘Downton Abbey’

  ‘Downton Abbey.’ 9 p.m. Sunday. PBS.
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  Television review

  A ‘House of Lies,’ built by slime balls

  ‘House of Lies.’ 10 p.m. Sunday. Showtime.
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  Television Q&A

  ‘Torchwood’ derailed by cancer diagnosis for creator’s partner

  Starz carried Torchwood: Miracle Day, set partly in the United States and continuing the characters from the British series that had previously aired on BBC America. There has been much talk about another round of Torchwood for 2012, but that has seemed less clear in recent weeks.

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