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The back story to the series is that Lynn moves her girls from New Mexico to New York after her husband has an affair with Karen’s best friend. While Karen (a pouty dead ringer for Angelina Jolie) cuts ties with her dad, sensitive Sophie keeps him filled in on their lives with regular emails. That action, ultimately, will force her to choose between her parents. And “Melrose Place” fans will delight in seeing Zuniga verbally spar with her estranged TV husband Grant Show.
A quirky film about a single mother and the suffocating, tragic love she has for her 6-year-old child, “Loverboy” serves as an answer to anyone who might wonder if you can love your child too much: Absolutely. Emily (Kyra Sedgwick from “The Closer”) is an eccentric, anti-social woman yearning for the affection her parents showered on each other, but never on her.
“Tabloid Wars,” a six-week reality series that debuts tonight, follows the staffers of the New York Daily News as they track down leads on juicy stories, finesse sources into giving them quotes and lay out pages they hope will attract more readers than those of their archenemy, the New York Post.
After eluding agents from the nefarious Centre for a good three years, Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) finds himself back at the shady research facility (that kidnapped him during his youth) in the opening episode of the fourth and final season of The Pretender. Held against his will, Jarod is caged and routinely tortured by Miss Parker’s (Andrea Parker) calmly evil brother, Lyle (Jamie Denton, who would go on to bill himself as James Denton on Desperate Housewives). But, as the opening to each episode points out, Jarod is a pretender–a genius who can become whoever he wants to be. He can pass himself off as an FBI agent, surgeon, or drug addict.
The problem with the series is that the premise grows redundant pretty fast. Each contestant must make it through three challenges. The first is usually a test of your strength or speed (see above reference to attack dogs). The second relies on creepy crawly things either being ingested or smothering your face. And finally, we have tasks that must be completed faster than the other opponents.