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<p></p><p><em>Durham County</em>: “HBO can eat its heart out”

Durham County: “HBO can eat its heart out”(4)

August 30, 2007

by: Michele Byers / Saint Mary’s University
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Durham County (2007) is a hybrid creature–exportable Canadian drama stripped of all national and cultural
markers and defying generic conventions. The six-episode series about a cop and a serial killer competes with the US specialty cable market and is grabbing both audience approval and critical acclaim.

<p></p><p>The Seven Steps to Getting a Job in Television

The Seven Steps to Getting a Job in Television

by: Alan McKee / Queensland University of Technology

You want to work in television, do you? These seven steps might prove useful.

<p></p><p>Punk-Rock Presidency: The State of Presidential Satire on Television

Punk-Rock Presidency: The State of Presidential Satire on Television

by: Jeffrey P. Jones / Old Dominion University
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Presidential caricature on television has come a long way from the days of presidential impersonators on late-night talk shows or sketch comedy send-ups on Saturday Night Live. The bookending of the Bush presidency by Comedy Central’s That’s My Bush! and
Lil’ Bush announces a bold new era in the satirization
of a sitting president.

Flow Poll #4: Emmy Nominations — Part II


by: Flow Staff

Vote for your favorite comedic and dramatic actors and actresses in Part Two of our Emmy Nominations Poll.


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