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I'll admit to looking askance at the review DVD for a new food show called "Chef Academy." It's easy to tire of these reality shows and I plead guilty.

HE IS quite possibly the most famous and most recognisable detective of them all a ' and Universal Playback has the case all sown up for Christmas with Columbo: The Complete Series 1-10 on DVD from October 19, 2009.

Universal Playback have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of several box-set collections and a few individual TV show releases over the next month or so.

HARRISONBURG Carmen Miranda, the classic movie star, stepped out of the van and sauntered up the red carpet and into JMU's Festival Ballroom on the arm of TV detective Lt.

As an attorney and television aficionado, I was pleased to see "The 25 Greatest Legal TV Shows," August.

Most of the time in the TV Universe, the actors who play the Toobworld characters also exist on Earth Prime-Time and as actors there as well.

For an ostensibly peaceable, turn-the-other-cheek society, we certainly like our homicides.

Permanently enshrined in the hearts of television viewers and mystery fans for his Emmy and Golden Globe-winning portrayal of the savvy Lt.

A few days ago, in British television's five-billionth repeat from the NBC series , Peter Falk's Columbo solved another "perfect" murder and, in doing so, he once again made my day.

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Okay, I do a lot of theorizin' and splainin' here at "Inner Toob". But this time I'm going to throw out a Toobworld situation and ask for your opinion.

TV's best crime-solvers - from Lt. Columbo to Jessica Fletcher and Gil Grissom - eventually fade into reruns.

Entertainment Tonight Headlines After several months of legal proceedings a decision was made to place actor Peter Falk under a conservatorship on Monday.

Peter Falk's daughter and his wife of 30 years are fighting for conservatorship of the Hollywood icon, who suffers from dementia, court records show.

In a hearing Wednesday, the daughter of "Columbo" star Peter Falk described lifelong tensions between the 81-year-old actor's children and his wife of more than 30 years.

Columbo-philes and lollipop totin' Kojak lovers, this is your quiz. Ready? Book 'em, Dan-O. #1 "Good morning, Angels" opened each episode of "Charlie's Angels". This actor was heard, but never seen, as the voice of Charlie Townsend.

It was an interminable sermon, everyone agreed. And then a scream. It's 1988 and Pierre Trudeau has returned to Parliament Hill to dissuade a Senate committee from backing the Meech Lake Accord.

The cast of Prescription For Murder included Wendy Linke, Gina Woodring, Warren Johnson, William Hanson, Ann Small, Terrill Bowles and Robert Sorenson.

Posted on May 7th, 2009 5:37 PM By Neal Justin Can Kenneth Branagh's Kurt Wallander become one of the top 10 TV detectives of all time? If so, he'd have to knock off someone from this class.

Sunday night saw the introduction of a new character into Dick Wolf's corner of Toobworld.