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So Tell Me About My Generation: A Movieline Premiere Week FAQ

Bad news, television watchers. Tonight brings the premiere episodes of three of the worst reviewed shows of the fall. Is My Generation worse than Outsourced and $#*! My Dad Says ? That answer and many more ahead in the latest edition of Movieline’s Premiere Week FAQ.

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So Tell Me About My Generation: A Movieline Premiere Week FAQ

So Tell Me About Running Wilde: A Movieline Premiere Week FAQ

Until the never-happening Arrested Development movie happens, the closest fans will get to a reunion is Running Wilde . Created by Mitch Hurwitz and starring Will Arnett and David Cross, the new Fox sitcom brings with it a load of expectations, some fairly negative reviews and a pilot that was fiddled with all summer. But is it funny? That answer and many more ahead in the latest edition of Movieline’s Premiere Week FAQ.

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So Tell Me About Running Wilde: A Movieline Premiere Week FAQ

So Tell Me About Lone Star: A Movieline Premiere Week FAQ

“Son, this is a house of cards. You don’t get to live in it.” So says a con man father to his con man son in the pilot for Lone Star (premiering tonight at 9). But will you want to live inside the soapy Fox drama about the increasingly claustrophobic double life of a handsome Texas con man and the women he loves? That answer and many more ahead in the latest edition of Movieline’s Premiere Week FAQ.

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So Tell Me About Lone Star: A Movieline Premiere Week FAQ

So Tell Me About Mike & Molly: A Movieline Premiere Week FAQ

The losses of King of Queens and According to Jim may have left you with a yearning in the pit of your stomach for a reliable, middle of the road sitcom and tonight, CBS tries to sate that hunger with Mike & Molly . The new project from Chuck Lorre premieres at 9:30 and promises all of the ingredients paramount to a working class comedy: blue collar comic actors (lead Billy Gardell hails from Pittsburgh), all-American settings (police station, school, diner) and familiar concerns that the middle class understands and finds hilarious (“That sandwich is a suicide with meatballs as bullets!”). Will those elements yield a new classic tonight — or just a retread of a tired genre full of tired Americans? Proceed to Movieline’s Premiere Week FAQ to find out.

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So Tell Me About Mike & Molly: A Movieline Premiere Week FAQ

So Tell Me About Machete: A Movieline FAQ

In keeping keeping with Movieline’s fine tradition of reader service and/or forensic hype analysis, please find herewith the latest in our series of handy pop-culture FAQ’ s. This time around, it’s Machete , which opens this weekend with all kinds of delicious contributions from Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan, Jessica Alba, Steven Seagal and the one-and-only Danny Trejo in the title role. You have questions, I’ve got answers (and spoilers , so be warned).

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So Tell Me About Machete: A Movieline FAQ

Craig Kilborn’s New Talk Show: A Movieline FAQ

Just last month Fox announced that Craig Kilborn would be returning to the airwaves for a syndicated half-hour talk show called The Kilborn File and — surprise! — it premieres on Monday. What kind of format will Fox use to showcase the former Late Late Show host’s sardonic sense of humor and — even more importantly — why should you care about Kilborn’s new joint? Continue to Movieline’s FAQ to find out!

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Craig Kilborn’s New Talk Show: A Movieline FAQ

Emma Roberts Attacked by Rabid RPattz Fans

Hell hath no fury like Robert Pattinson fans scorned. After Emma Roberts harmlessly proclaimed herself to be Team Jacob on The Tonight Show , she was deluged with so many angry Twitter attacks (despite her own backpedaling tweet: “Rob Pattinson is so nice! I was slightly disappointed his skin wasn’t glittering & the song ‘Wild Thing’ didn’t start when he shook my hand”) that she was forced to cancel her own account. Where was this massive grassroots action on Pattinson’s behalf when Remember Me came out? [ E! ]

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Emma Roberts Attacked by Rabid RPattz Fans

Just How Long is Jonah Hex Exactly?

At least the reviews aren’t as bad as Marmaduke ? Well, not yet anyway. The early critical notices for Jonah Hex are in, and they’re… awful . Only 12 critics have weighed in on Rotten Tomatoes thus far and with the exception of Roger Ebert — seriously, Roger? — the consensus is that the DC comic adaptation is the latest worst movie of the summer . However if there is one thing unifying all the negative reviews — beyond the general hatred — it’s in commenting on just how quickly Jonah Hex hangs around. Brevity might be the soul of wit, but in this case it’s also the soul of a totally hacked-apart studio movie. But just how long is Jonah Hex ?

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Just How Long is Jonah Hex Exactly?