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Dani Dornfeld
Dani Dornfeld's Articles
When Looking for the Perfect Comeback Show, All You Need Is 5 Years’ Love, and Divorce
| Apr 24Love, marriage, divorce. Complicate the order, add two powerhouse singers, and you’ve got the best musical you’ve never seen.
Family Ties Stay Strong on Brothers & Sisters
| Apr 21Passover seders are usually a great chance to catch up with your family. As soon as those pesky relatives leave, though, you can catch up with the Walkers. Yes, after a two-month, strike-induced hiatus, we finally have a chance to hang out with the eclectic, eccentric, but mostly lovable clan featured on Brothers & Sisters.
Monday Nights Are Out With the Old, in With Fox's New Amsterdam
| Mar 4The Fame kids may have wanted to live forever, but all John Amsterdam wants to do is die.
End of Strike Brings Nourishment for Couch Potatoes
| Feb 15There are four words that every television fan has been waiting to hear since November—and they’re finally here: the strike is over.
It’s The End of TV As We Know It, and It’s Not Fine
| Nov 16Imagine a television schedule filled with only reality shows and reruns. Sounds like summer? Well, it might just be winter too this year.
For Scrubs, the Doctor is Almost Out
| Oct 25After six seasons of jokes, fantasies, rants, and the occasional medical mystery, Scrubs checks in for its seventh and final season tonight.
Jumping on the Borat Bandwagon, Aliens Looks for Humor in International Exchange
| Oct 1Start with an outcast, add a popular sibling and two not-so-cool parents—sound familiar? Well, what if you put a Pakistani-Muslim exchange student into the mix?
Are We Smarter Than the Ratings?
| Dec 31On Tuesday, Feb. 27, Fox broke an eight-and-a-half year record. It would be easy to assume that it was American Idol that broke this record, considering that the entire winter/spring television schedule revolves around it.
In the Hot Seat on Millionaire
| Dec 31It is rare that a primetime television game show can boast a truly dedicated following, but that's what Who Wants To Be a Millionaire did in the early fall of 1999.
Anne Sings, But She Can't Carry a Tune
| Dec 31Trips down to the Village usually involve trendy shopping and chic boutiques, but from now until May 5, they might also involve a trip through the world of Avonlea in the new musical adaptation of Anne of Green Gables at the quaint Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village.
Don't Forget About Brian
| Dec 31ABC's What About Brian ends its second season tonight, despite an uncertain future about its return in the fall.
All About Me and Your Mother
| Dec 31Have you met Ted? Well, if you haven't, Suit Up! It's going to be Legendary!
Despite the Bugs, Bones is a Hard Hit
| Dec 31Like Beanie Babies, leg warmers, and Furbies, television has had its fads.
Remote Recap: Tuesday Night on The CW
| Dec 31Since September, everyone has known that it was only a matter of time before Luke and Lorelai got back together.
Peanuts, Pooh and Puppy Love Valentine
| Dec 31Like it or not, Valentine's Day is one of the biggest holidays on television-and this year proves to be no exception.
Nobody Likes a Smarty Pants
| Dec 31By Dani Dornfeld
Columbia Daily Spectator
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip has almost every element that goes into a hit television series. It has humor, drama, romance, drug-addicted characters, splashy guest stars, an all-star cast, brilliant writing and directing, an almost-formulaic structure, and dead-pan dialogue.
CW: Free to Be . . . Unnoticed?
| Dec 31By Dani Dornfeld
Columbia Daily Spectator
"What is the CW?" one first-year even went so far as to say. "I really don't know anything about the CW. At first, I had no idea what you were talking about until ... it clicked that it's Columbia's news station on TV.







