There are so many teen dramas on the boob tube nowadays. There's One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, The Secret Life Of The American Teenager, Beverly Hills 90210. And before that, there was The OC, Dawson's Creek, Beverly Hills 90210 (the original), Gilmore Girls and more. Admittedly, there are a lot of teenagers watching TV, so it only follows that most or a lot of the TV shows being shown should be able to relate to them and teenagers can also relate. But are these shows really accurate in their depiction of the teenagers? I know when I was growing up as a...

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During the writer’s strike last year, Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly) occupied himself by creating a story that he later developed as a musical webisode. News of this story first came out around the start of the summer season. Joss Whedon and his team sought the help of the networking abilities of blogs to spread the word about a musical fiction he and his team produced: Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. Starring Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Filion and Felicia Day, Dr. Horrible is the story of a guy in love with a girl and will do anything to get her...

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The last six-eight weeks of the summer hiatus can be hell. The new season hasn't started rolling out its schedule yet, so you can't decide which shows look the most promising. The old season is long over and hasn't yet been released on DVD to give you a chance to re-live it all before the season premieres. Even with some channels (like TNT) offering fresh programming, you still can't fill up your evening "tube time." It's very frustrating!

So why not do, what I do? I have a few standard shows that I fall back on when I know...

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