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Today's TWoP News: Tuesday, August 21, 2012

by Ethan Alter August 21, 2012 5:09 PM
Today's TWoP News: Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Farewell Dunder Mifflin employees. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

The Inbetweeners: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the American Inbetweeners

Although its version of Skins may have been an epic botch, MTV hasn't given up trying to transform a hit UK teen show into a stateside success. Last night, the network unleashed The Inbetweeners, the Americanized version of the acclaimed and award-winning British comedy about a quartet of sex-obsessed teen boys dealing with the humiliations of high school life. The original series ran for three seasons on the E4 network and spawned a 2011 movie that became a big worldwide hit (it opens here in two weeks).

TV on DVD: Tuesday, August 21, 2012

by Ethan Alter August 21, 2012 5:58 AM
TV on DVD: Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Revenge has never looked this chic.

Today's TWoP News: Monday, August 20, 2012

by Angel Cohn August 20, 2012 3:09 PM
Today's TWoP News: Monday, August 20, 2012

Will Mrs. Garrett be making a comeback too?

Episodes: This Week's True Hollywood Story

With one episode of its second season left to go, Episodes brought some of its central relationships to a head last night. Bev and Sean seem permanently splitsville, with him encouraging her to go on a second date with the strapping house painter Rob that goes very well indeed. Meanwhile, Carol mourns her boss/lover Merc's impending (and still unbeknownst to him) firing from his comfy network chair... until she learns that she may be getting his job. Oh, and Matt slept with Labia again before trying one more time to kick her to the curb, but we're still pretending that plot isn't happening.

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Copper: Back in the New York Groove

The most surprising thing about BBC America's heavily hyped, hugely ambitious first original scripted series, Copper -- which follows the exploits of a New York city detective who patrols the streets of Lower Manhattan circa 1864 -- isn't that 19th century police work was so different than it is today: it's that the cop show formula seems to remain the same, no matter the era. Brought to you by creative team responsible for the late, great police drama Homicide: Life on the Street (that would be Tom Fontana, who co-created the show, and Barry Levinson who is on board as the executive producer), Copper may take place in the past, but it mostly sticks to contemporary genre rules.

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Today's TWoP News: Friday, August 17, 2012

by Samantha Rullo August 17, 2012 3:41 PM
Today's TWoP News: Friday, August 17, 2012 Update: The apocalypse is here, Bunheads has been renewed by ABC Family.

TV Hearsay: The Week's Best Out of Context Quotes

by Angel Cohn August 17, 2012 3:06 PM
TV Hearsay: The Week's Best Out of Context Quotes

We might need to wash our ears out with soap.

The Most Heinous Person on Reality TV This Week

While June from Here Comes Honey Boo Boo has developed into the most fascinating person on TV, these other people were just horrible.

TWoP 10: Most Disappointing New Shows of the Summer

by Angel Cohn August 17, 2012 6:00 AM
TWoP 10: Most Disappointing New Shows of the Summer

Thank goodness for our returning shows, because otherwise this would have been a tough TV summer. While Teen Wolf, Suits, True Blood and Breaking Bad have all delivered week after week, most of the new programming of the last few months has left a lot to be desired. Breaking Pointe was fun and we're oddly obsessed with the surreal Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, but too many other freshman series were underwhelming at best. Here's what let us down the most:

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