Tom and Leslie go to the town pool on "Parks and Recreation."

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A review of tonight's "Parks and Recreation" coming up just as soon as I eat racist salad...

Daisy Betts as Grace in "Last Resort."

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A review of tonight's "Last Resort" coming up just as soon as I call off the Cold War for an hour...

Kevin Spacey's new Netflix series "House of Cards" will debut on February 1 — all at once.

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Netflix is trying to present an alternative to the TV production model, and now it's working on an alternative to the TV scheduling model, as well.

Netflix today announced that "House of Cards," its new political drama series produced by David Fincher, adapted from the U.K. series of the same name, and starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright as the House Majority Whip and his wife, will debut on February 1, 2013 — and that all 13 episodes of the first season will be available to watch at the same time.

"Strike Back" will return next season, but will all three of Sullivan Stapleton, Rhona Mitra and Philip Winchester?

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"Strike Back" has been renewed for another season.

The action drama about a British special forces unit will return next year for its third season on Cinemax, and its fourth season overall, produced in a partnership between Cinemax/HBO in America and Left Bank and Sky in the UK. Many of the show's writers, directors and producers will return, but the press release says that "due to plot spoilers in upcoming episodes of season two, the cast of season three will be announced at a later date as well." (Could be that somebody major dies in the last two episodes, or that nobody else dies but they don't want us to be reassured of that yet.)

I'm a couple of episodes behind on the current season, but have been enjoying it immensely so far, and am glad the show will be continuing.

Zooey Deschanel and Jake Johnson in "New Girl."

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A review of last night's "New Girl" coming up just as soon as I'm going through a Taylor Swift-like range of emotions...

Dax Shepard and Joy Bryant in "Parenthood."

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A review of tonight's "Parenthood" coming up just as soon as I report you to the House Un-American Activities Committee...

Mindy Kaling and Chris Messina in "The Mindy Project."

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Some quick thoughts on tonight's second episodes of "Ben and Kate" and "The Mindy Project" coming up just as soon as I pretend to be 1/4 Inuit to get a very specific marine biology scholarship...

Andre Rison in the "30 for 30" documentary "Broke."

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It never made sense to me that ESPN decided to ditch the "30 for 30" documentary name. Yes, Bill Simmons had come up with the idea to celebrate the network's 30th anniversary. But the original run of "30 for 30" films ran well into ESPN's 31st anniversary year, and sometimes, a brand name transcends its literal meaning. (20th Century Fox didn't suddenly change to 21st Century Fox, for instance.) When "30 for 30" ended, ESPN continued to put out some good documentaries under the "ESPN Films Presents" banner, but they appeared irregularly, you couldn't set a DVR season pass for them, and it didn't have that same cumulative feeling that the original series had. I made a point to watch nearly all the "30 for 30" docs (skipping the Red Sox one for partisan reasons and missing one or two others due to scheduling), and that same completist's impulse simply wasn't there for the "ESPN Films Presents" movies that followed.

Kelly Macdonald and Steve Buscemi in "Boardwalk Empire."

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HBO has renewed "Boardwalk Empire" for a fourth season.

The Prohibition era gangster drama hasn't been the awards juggernaut HBO might have hoped for (though it was a surprise winner for the Emmy drama directing award this year, even without Martin Scorsese behind the camera), but it's been a solid hit, with the pay cable channel estimating that 7.2 million people have watched the third season premiere on various platforms.

“Terry Winter, Martin Scorsese and the rest of their outstanding team continue to produce a stunning show thatnever fails to surprise and entertain,” HBO president Michael Lombardo said in a statement.  “We are excited to bring this unique series back for a fourth season.”

Daniella Alonso as Nora and Tracy Spiridakos as Charlie Matheson in "Revolution."

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A quick review of last night's "Revolution" coming up just as soon as I Shawshank my way out of here...