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V Makes First Contact
ABC's V remake has the geek world abuzz, but is that enough to keep it from joining its network sci-fi predecessors in the cancellation graveyard?
14 TV Shows We Want Back
The end of the formal television season has spurred yet more network culling this week. Samantha Who?, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Eleventh Hour, Cupid, Everybody Hates Chris, Reaper, and Privileged are among the shows not coming back. Every year, great shows get canceled too soon. We look back at a few of our favorites.
Everything You Need to Know About the Upfronts
Advertisers walk out on Jay Leno, Fox execs confess financial difficulties (but renew the hardly watched Dollhouse for fear of angering its tiny cult following), and ABC places its bet on comedy: new, unheard-of comedy-and lots of it. Kim Masters reports from this week's television upfronts.
Will Your Favorite Shows Be Canceled?
The economics of television have changed this year, Kim Masters reports. Now season finales of shows like Chuck, Dollhouse, and My Name Is Earl may actually be series finales.
Will TV Slay Joss Whedon?
Television's premier geek auteur, Buffy creator Joss Whedon, on why his new series, Dollhouse, isn't another Firefly, how Eliza Dushku found her inner Meryl Streep, and when Dr. Horrible will sing again.
This winter, scripted television returns with a vengeance. From wacky new dramedies like United States of Tara and Trust Me, to the edutainment revival of The Electric Company, to the reprise of mega-hits Lost and 24, there's nearly-but not quite-too much to watch. The Daily Beast previews the best-and warns of the worst. By Miriam Datskovsky.

















