US – Saturday, March 20

Photo: AMC‘Breaking’ character
Walter White thought he was about to lose it all when we first met him in the “Breaking Bad” pilot — the mild-mannered chemistry teacher discovered he had lung cancer, and in blind desperation turned to cooking meth to provide for his family.
 
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Metro’s spring ’10 guide to television
Check us out all this month for our picks for the best series premieres, season returns and must-see episodes.
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Back in the trenches
Steven Spielberg makes strikingly vivid, breathtakingly poetic movies about some of the most terrifying conflicts in the history of man. The filmmaking aesthetic he pioneered with “Saving Private Ryan” — and continues to perfect in HBO’s new WWII miniseries, “The Pacific” — was born out of a desire to translate as honestly as possible his conversations with veterans on their combat experience.
 

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3 Things Jessica didn’t know about beauty
In “The Price of Beauty,” a new docu-reality series premiering Monday on VH1, Jessica Simpson and her best friends, CaCee Cobb and hairstylist Ken Paves, travel the world learning the meaning of physical attractiveness as defined by various cultures — and find out blond bombshell isn’t the universal sex symbol. Here are a few other things Simpson found out.
 

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As clear as black and Lillywhite
Steve Lillywhite has spent the past three decades producing some of the biggest pop rock acts in the world, including U2, Matchbox Twenty  and the Dave Matthews Band. Now he wants a new job. He wants to replace Simon Cowell as a judge on “American Idol.”
 
My Television
Metro’s spring ’10 television guide
Check us out all this month for our picks for the best series premieres, season returns and must-see episodes.
My Television
‘Housewives’ get real... catty
Maybe there won’t be any table flipping (that was Jersey) or wig pulling (’sup, Atlanta) on the third season of “Real Housewives of New York City,” but cast member Ramona Singer guarantees that the socialites will be bringing the drama the way only New Yorkers can.
 
 
 

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Television
3 Things to expect as Leno returns to ‘Tonight Show’
1 He’ll be a more humble host

2 There will be plenty of A-list guests as usual

3 Familiar faces and sketches
 
Television
Cartoon ultra-violence
When Ricky Gervais isn’t the funniest guy in the room
For whom the NYSE opening bell tolls
10 years of surviving cutthroat TV
Island’s secrets are a ‘Lost’ cause
The end is here for Conan and ‘The Tonight Show’
‘Diaries’ of a madly in love man
Going for the ‘Glee’
After being so serious, FX tries on a new personality
Big winners are blue in the face
Television
Hot messes and hotter successes
Take a seat, Rachael Ray — Sam Mason rules
Getting real with Fantasia — ‘Idol’ star speaks on her made-for-TV life
TV watch list from the TCA press tour
For ABC lineup, family matters
The clock’s ticking
What is the deal with marriage problems?
Don’t wanna be an ‘American’ idiot
NBC braces viewers for the late-night shakeup
Telling the other side of the story
 
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Music
MMMpod
The March MMMpod features conversation and music from Surfer Blood and The Allman Brothers Band (There's a double-bill you're not too likely to see. However, Gregg Allman does mention Hannah Montana!). We also speak with Vampire Weekend and the Dropkick Murphys.
 
 
 
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