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Jewish World Review
Online goes prime time
By
Randy A. Salas
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
(MCT) Prime-time television is heating up again with the recent season premieres of biggies such as "24" and "American Idol" and the pending post-break return of fan favorites such as "Heroes" and "Lost." Here are some ways to keep up with your favorite shows online.The networksWhen I last wrote about television nearly a year ago, the major networks' websites largely existed as promotional fluff. Significant makeovers since then have made them essential stops for serious fans. They're brimming with complementary material for their shows. At ABC (www.abc.com), for example, you can watch episodes of "Vidas de Fuego," the fictional soap opera that the title character watches on "Ugly Betty." Fox (www.fox.com) has a 24-minute video recap of the first 13 episodes of "Prison Break" to catch up viewers to its recent mid-season restart. NBC (www.nbc.com) offers deleted scenes from "The Office" and an online comic based on "Heroes." CBS (www.cbs.com) had a live webcast this week from the set of "The Class." The CW (www.cwtv.com) lets users create videos using clips from their favorite shows. All of the sites contain recaps, thriving fan forums, downloads and more. ABC, CBS and NBC even offer free full-length episodes of many shows soon after they've aired. Check the Yahoo! Directory (www.startribune.com/a2179) to find the sites for other networks. www.televisionwithoutpity.comTelevision Without Pity specializes in pithy, unbridled recaps of episodes you might have missed -- but only the ones it deems worthy. "CSI," for example, isn't covered -- gleefully, by the way. "Honestly, we thought this show would be bagged and tagged in the first season," the site says about the perennial ratings juggernaut. It also doesn't bother with half-hour sitcoms, because "it's hard to say funny things about shows that are already funny." Regardless, any show is fair game in the site's free-for-all forums, where fans exchange lots of juicy gossip and spoilers. Television Without Pity's main drawback for those looking for a quick fix is that its lengthy recaps tend to drone on, although it does offer shortened "recaplets" for some shows.www.ew.comIf it's breezy you want, Entertainment Weekly's TV Watch recaps work nicely. Not all shows are covered, but the most popular are represented, including the sitcoms and other shows that Television Without Pity shuns. Better, users can post comments immediately below the recaps. TV Watch is just part of EW's teeming TV section that includes reviews, news and photo galleries, such as "The 10 All-Time Best 'American Idol' Performances."www.metacritic.com/tvIf you're looking for a critical consensus of what's on TV, check out Metacritics. The site compiles (and links to) print reviews of current shows. The reviews, culled coast to coast from the New York Times to the Hollywood Reporter, are assigned a score out of 100 based on the opinions stated and then averaged on a weighted scale to arrive at a Metascore. The season premiere of "24," for example, has a Metascore of 79 based on 23 reviews, which means it has received generally favorable critiques. Users offer their own ratings on a 10-point scale, along with their comments, giving "24" a high average rating of 8.6.
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Randy A. Salas is a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Do you have a favorite Web site or a question about how to find something on the Internet? Send a note by clicking here.
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