Contributor: Bob Hoose

After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.

The Voice

A whole new batch of singing star wannabes go head-to-head in the spotlight. But nobody’s talking about Idols on this stage.

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The Big Bang Theory

How long a sitcom squirms around on TV screens doesn’t necessarily change how many of its sleazy jokes bomb.

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America’s Got Talent

Fifty percent American Idol. Fifty percent The Gong Show. One hundred percent spectacle.

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Glee

For years, unlikely schoolmates have united to sing and dance their way into your living room and your heart. High School Musical? Nope. This Fox curtain call makes us feel quite a bit less happy than that.

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Teen Wolf

MTV knows a thing or two about transmogrifications. Handy information, that, when nurturing a coming-of-age show about a werewolf.

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Victorious

Girls just wanna have fame. And it doesn’t seem to matter much to some of them how stupid you have to act in order to achieve it.

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Jamestown

It isn’t all that historically accurate, and it wallows in mucky moments, but Jamestown has its soapy appeal.

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Better With You

The generation gap of love takes center stage in yet another ABC “family” sitcom. And just look at how fast wow! can turn into yawn.

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Austin & Ally

UPDATED REVIEW: Austin & Ally is a standard-issue Disney sitcom … with a Nickelodeon twist.

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Necessary Roughness

USA’s newest “characters”-based soap/drama places Dr. Dani right in the path of teenage train wrecks and sports star meltdowns.

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Parenthood

UPDATED REVIEW: It’s tough to be a parent—and sometimes parents themselves make the work even tougher. This NBC dramedy, based on the 1989 movie, unearths a whole lot of those sometimes.

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The Office

UPDATED REVIEW: Even the “world’s best boss” can’t stick around forever. And now Michael is no more. But, of course, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Fringe

UPDATED REVIEW: Paranormal battles with an alternate reality all but consume J.J. Abrams’ effort at stitching together a Frankensteinian sci-fi police procedural. But the drama’s real showstoppers each week are its blood, gore and squirm-inducing torture scenes.

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Hannah Montana

It’s been an eventful few years since Hannah Montana launched Miley Cyrus’ career. But while Cyrus herself may have altered her image a bit—some might say more than a bit—her flagship show is still pure Disney.

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The Vampire Diaries

UPDATED REVIEW: Yet another knock-off effect of our culture’s vampire craze, this supernatural CW soap idolizes two angsty blood-sucking brothers, both now in their 160s.

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