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Television A
legal show with a
dedicated global fan following, it has spawned a number of clones,
although it itself is a spin-off of the long-running legal show The
Practice. Boston Legal on Saturdays at 8 P.M. on
Star World stars golden oldies like William Shatner (Star Trek)
who plays Danny Crane, a 75 year-old lawyer in the early stages of
Alzheimer’s, former Hollywood diva and five-time Emmy winner
Candice Bergen, a lawyer in her sixties, who has shared a
checkered past with Crane. The story revolves around a group of
brilliant but ethically-challenged lawyers, who take up civil
cases no other firm would and usually win them — by hook or by
crook. Fast-paced and witty Boston Legal makes no pretense
at being overly moralistic but the motto in this wealthy and
powerful law firm is to win cases that no one else is willing—or
even dares—to take up. This legal drama, in its five-year run,
has been nominated for 25 Emmys and won five of them. Every
episode has its own web of intrigues and mysteries and its share
of thrills and suspense. Fear fortune Though
similar in concept to Fear
Factor, the new reality show Estate of Panic on Wednesday
at 10 P.M. on AXN, too, is guaranteed to make viewers’ hair
stand. The script revolves around an eccentric tycoon and his
whacked out 80-year-old butler, who stash away wealth in their
sprawling mansion and then invite seven strangers from across
America to discover and take away the fortune. The catch here is
that the mansion is haunted — or is made to look haunted. There
are terror traps laid out to spook the participants. Other scary
things include flash floods in the basement; creepy crawlies like
crabs, snakes and spiders lurking in corners ready to make a
dinner out of anything that crosses their path. The participants
are eliminated (from the game show) one by one and the last one
that survives all the horrors takes away the cash and fearful
memories that will haunt him for a lifetime. Watch the show with a
hand on your heart. — NF
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