Army Wives

By Josef Adalian
Updated 6:19 Ct
 
The "Ice Road Truckers" are now in the same corporate family as the "Army Wives" and the designers of "Project Runway."
 
A&E Television Networks has acquired ownership of Lifetime as part of a complicated deal involving the Disney-abc TV Group, Hearst and NBC Universal. The move had been expected since June, when word first leaked out about the transaction.
 
Abbe Raven, currently president and CEO of Aetn, will now head the combined company. Lifetime chief Andrea W... »
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A&E Television Networks, a partnership between Disney/ABC, Hearst, and NBC, has acquired the Lifetime Network. The move means Lifetime's new cash cow Project Runway is quasi-reunited with its original network, Bravo, a property of NBC, which also means that Thanksgiving at the Disney/ABC ranch house will be dicey. I expect a Tom Colicchio-catered bacchanal filled with snide commentary from Andy Cohen and Annie Potts, plus a Chanel No. 5 fight between Heidi Klum and the cast of Army Wives. Can someone use the baster to insert diplomacy into this mess? »

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Brothers and Sisters feels like an amalgamation of numerous television shows all blended up and mixed into one huge hodgepodge story. With some parts Army Wives, West Wing, Arrested Development and many others, Brothers and Sisters captures a lot of their elements but rarely ever delivers the part that made them worthwhile. The show may fail in the ingenuity of its story and how it tells it, but in terms of casts few shows on right now can match its star power. It may not be the best thing you’ve ever watched, but it has crafted a deeply tangled mess for itself that the writers are clearly enjoying detangling and retangling (which isn’t even a word) all over again.
It’s not that the life of any one person in the Walker family is all that complicated, but just that there are so many people involved that even »
- Lex Walker

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