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'Law & Order' Finale Recap - From Bombers to Bloggers

In September of 1990, NBC began airing a new crime show that took a different narrative approach from traditional television dramas. It was called Law & Order. Each episode was structured to spend half of every episode with detectives investigating crimes and the other half with lawyers prosecuting them. It probably seemed like an unremarkable premise at the time, but it ended up tying for ...

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MTV's True Life - 'I Have Digital Drama' - Cell Phone and Facebook Addicts

Since MTV's long-running show 'True Life' covers just about every compulsion known to man, it should come as no surprise that it would tackle digital addictions. Pretty much everyone nowadays is plugged in, but some people's plugs are a little stickier than others. As you'd expect, these people cause a lot of digital drama. Which brings us to two featured couples: Nicole and George, and Devin ...

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The Good Wife Takes on a Twitter Scandal [VIDEO]

Some television shows naturally lend themselves to internet worship. Ever heard of a little program called 'Lost?' Recently, other shows have been incorporating tech buzzwords and popular sites into storylines in hopes of getting on that elusive web gravy train. This week on your grandmother's (and my) favorite show, CBS' The Good Wife, there was an actual Twitter storyline in which someone ...

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