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The Spoils of Babylon – The Foundling

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  • Title: The Spoils of Babylon – The Foundling
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The Spoils of Babylon - The Foundling

IFC’s new six-episode mini-series The Spoils of Babylon, written by Matt Piedmont and Andrew Steele, sets out to satirize the ridiculous soap opera nature of TV mini-series of the 70’s and 80’s. Boasting an all-star cast, the first episode, with an intro by the show’s creator Eric Jonrosh (Will Ferrell), introduces us to Devon Morehouse (Tobey Maguire) and his adopted family (Tim Robbins, Kristen Wiig) who strike it rich in oil just as the bank is set to foreclose on the last remnants of the Morehouse clan’s once impressive real estate empire.

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The Assets – My Name is Aldrich Ames

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The Assets - My Name is Aldrich Ames

Set during the early 1980’s, and based on the true story of the CIA analyst Aldrich Ames (Paul Rhys) who was eventually discovered to be a mole for the Soviet Union for the better part of the decade, ABC’s new eight-episode mini-series begins with a compromised CIA money drop in Moscow where both the covert agent (Lex Shrapnel) and highly-placed asset (Peter Guinness) were captured.

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Batman ’66 #6

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Batman '66 #6Okay, I love the 60’s Batman TV-show but I’m freely willing to admit not all the show’s villains were winners. For instance: The Bookworm. Two-thirds of a comic centered around the character is far too much (he would have been much better used, if at all, in one of the back-up stories).

The Bookworm’s main story has to do with the literary-obsessed criminal gathering every piece of evidence on the existence of Batman and Robin to determine their true identities. Not surprisingly, Batman tricks the villain into mistaking someone else (Alfred?) for the Caped Crusader and eventually apprehends the Bookworm.

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The Crazy Ones – The Intern

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  • Title: The Crazy Ones – The Intern
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The Crazy Ones - The Intern

Ashley Tisdale guest-stars as the spoiled daughter of one of the firm’s biggest clients who takes a job as the advertising company’s newest intern. Although wanting to give Kelsi (Tisdale) every opportunity to prove herself, Sydney (Sarah Michelle Gellar) quickly becomes discouraged with Kelsi’s self-entitlement and total disinterest in the job and wonders if others see her the same way.

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Ravenswood – Pilot

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“We have a different kind of ordinary in this town.”

Ravenswood - Pilot

Remaining in Ravenswood to help Miranda (Nicole Gale Anderson) get settled with her estranged (and very strange) family, Caleb (Tyler Blackburn) also has a few questions of his own he’d like some answers to beginning with who is buried out in the cemetery under his name and likeness. While Caleb searches for answers in a town that doesn’t like to share its secrets, Miranda tries to warm to her uncle (Steven Cabral), make some kind of connection to her family, and try not to get spooked out by the weird events in the house that appears to be haunted.

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