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Spinoff is like 'The Practice' made imperfect
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Chicago Sun-Times
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October 1, 2004
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- Phil Rosenthal
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'BOSTON LEGAL'
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When: 9 p.m. Sunday on WLS-Channel 7
Starring: James Spader, William Shatner, Monica Potter, Mark
Valley, Rhona Mitra, Lake Bell
In real life, Alan Shore and Denny Crane -- the obnoxious, oily,
morally limber lawyers James Spader and William Shatner play on ABC's
"Boston Legal" -- would repel you almost immediately.
On TV, however, they are amusing, outlandish caricatures.
Charming, almost.
It's all the absurd stuff going on around them in David E.
Kelley's new "Ally McBeal"-ified spinoff of "The Practice" that looks
to drive you away.
If the sight of Larry Miller's bared buttocks in the first few
minutes doesn't cause your remote hand to twitch reflexively, you
might make ...
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'BOSTON LEGAL' GUILTY PLEASURE.(Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);
October 6, 2004 ;
Saunders, Dusty;
722 words
......McBeal and you get Boston Legal. Created by David E...turned the moralistic Boston legal firm into a hotbed...cities. It looks is if Boston Legal will offer a weekly...part of the charm of Boston Legal. In Sunday's premiere...as Tara Wilson and Lake Bell, ...
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`Boston Legal' gets a change of venue to Tuesdays.
Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI);
July 28, 2005 ;
Duffy, Mike;
787 words
......ticket. As he wrote the opening season of Boston Legal last fall and winter, David E. Kelley...romp Ally McBeal. Much of the comedy on Boston Legal revolves around the screwloose camaraderie...eccentrics at the humorous heart of Boston Legal, portrayed by James Spader and ...
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Boston Legal.(Movie Review)
Daily Variety;
October 1, 2004 ;
559 words
......Chase Mark Valley Tara Wilson Rhona Mitra Sally Heep Lake Bell Denny Crane William Shatner Maybe producer David E. Kelley...containing all those attributes as well as a top-flight cast, Boston Legal suffers from the pervasive feeling of been here, seen...relationship continues with the stunning ...
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'Boston Legal' puts charge into ION.
Daily Variety;
February 20, 2008 ;
Dempsey, John;
264 words
......history, grabbing reruns of Twentieth TV's Boston Legal for a license fee that could reach...episode for at least the 88 hours of Boston Legal that the studio has produced up to now...April and May. ION will start stripping Boston Legal reruns in primetime in September. If...
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Kelley keeps cranking (for now) with `Boston Legal'.
Zap2It.com;
October 6, 2004 ;
640 words
......day-to-day workload on his new show, Boston Legal. Eventually. I've been pretty involved...McBeal and The Practice (from which Boston Legal was spun off). He believes, however, that Boston Legal, which premiered Sunday night, has a...
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Holding down the court.(Boston Legal: Season One)(Video recording review)
Video Business;
May 15, 2006 ;
Frisch, Gary;
244 words
...Boston Legal: Season One Fox, color, t 2 hours plus...Oct. 2004 The creative talent behind Boston Legal discuss the throes of creating a series...show, The Court is Now in Session: How Boston Legal Came to Be which includes interviews...
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'Boston Legal': Lawyers On the Loose
The Washington Post;
October 2, 2004 ;
Tom Shales;
611 words
......freak fact, with ABC's sort-of-new "Boston Legal" leading the raucous brigade. It may...Cases," the title for this episode of "Boston Legal." In the course of an episode that is...rhetorically, "Is it casual Monday?" "Boston Legal" appears to have no lofty aspirations...
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`PRACTICE' SPINOFF `BOSTON LEGAL' MAKES A GOOD CASE FOR ITSELF
The Boston Globe;
October 2, 2004 ;
Matthew Gilbert, Globe Staff;
372 words
......David E. Kelley's new series, "Boston Legal." Boston lawyers, not so great. They're...more than to take Chase down. "Boston Legal" is the third entry in Kelley's Boston law trilogy, and it's slightly...Monica Potter, Rhona Mitra, and Lake Bell. These women shamelessly ...
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Aging gracefully in 'Boston Legal'
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);
February 21, 2006 ;
Scott D. Pierce Deseret Morning News;
564 words
......only show he currently has on the air, "Boston Legal," is so groundbreaking or out-there...But because of who he has starring in "Boston Legal." More specifically, how long those...attract for the sake of advertisers -- "Boston Legal" bucks the trend. The big draw for tonight...
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'BOSTON LEGAL' GUILTY PLEASURE
Rocky Mountain News;
October 6, 2004 ;
Dusty Saunders, Rocky Mountain News;
690 words
......Ally McBeal and you get Boston Legal. Created by David E...turned the moralistic Boston legal firm into a hotbed of...cities. It looks is if Boston Legal will offer a weekly script...part of the charm of Boston Legal. In Sunday's premiere...Mitra as Tara Wilson and ...
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BOSTON LEGAL/DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES/LOST
The Village Voice;
October 13, 2004 ;
Press, Joy;
787 words
......housewives, crash dummies, and loopy lawyers BOSTON LEGAL Sundays at 10 on ABC DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES...with every deliciously cartoony scene. Boston Legal does for law dramas what Nip/Tack did...David E. Kelley series The Practice, Boston Legal pivots around two loopy, morally ...
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WE LOVE TV: 'Boston Legal' a 'guilty' pleasure
Charleston Gazette;
January 6, 2007 ;
Megan Green;
453 words
......never been so quick-witted as on ABC's "Boston Legal." The show involves the legal firm of...at 10 p.m. Now in its third season, "Boston Legal" is still as exciting as ever. New lawyers...alive to face charges at a later date. "Boston Legal" doesn't just involve legal cases, though...
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ION Television to Air Boston Legal This Fall
Wireless News;
February 21, 2008 ;
355 words
......02-21-2008 ION Television to Air Boston Legal This Fall WIRELESS NEWS-February 21, 2008-ION Television to Air Boston Legal This Fall (C)2008 10Meters - http...Kelley hit television series, Boston Legal, on ION Television, beginning this...
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'Grey's Anatomy' success means longer recess for 'Boston Legal'
Chicago Sun-Times;
April 12, 2005 ;
175 words
......time slot and cut short the season for "Boston Legal." "Grey's Anatomy," about first-year...Sunday time slot that had belonged to "Boston Legal." Both shows were winning the time slot...million for the legal drama. The blow for "Boston Legal," a reworking of the long-running ABC...
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A LIBERAL DOSE OF 'BOSTON LEGAL'.(Living)
The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);
February 21, 2006 ;
527 words
......received (think: Ally McBeal ), but ABC's Boston Legal has come into its own in its second...series, most notably Picket Fences. On Boston Legal tonight (10 p.m., Channel 9), Kelley...from contemporary network sensibility, Boston Legal has introduced young, demo-bait characters...
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