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(CBS) Last week we plowed through most of the new shows hitting television. This week there are three, starting with the two-hour “Terra Nova” premiere on Fox. If you haven’t seen the gargantuan trailers floating around the Interwebs, the show stars “Avatar” bad guy Stephen Lang and Jim O’Mara. One of the many executive producers is Steven Spielberg, which makes sense because this is a dinosaur-heavy tale. Short version: In 2149, Earth is less and less inhabitable. Via time travel, humans are being transported back 85 million years to an unspoiled planet. Expect special effects and…dinosaurs. Other shows debuting this week are “Hart of Dixie” on Monday, starring Rachel Bilson as a yankee doctor who takes a job south of the Mason-Dixon; “Suburgatory,” a single-camera comedy starring Jeremy Sisto and airing on Wednesday; and “How to be a Gentleman,” starring David Hornsby and the erstwhile Johnny Drama, Kevin Dillon. Pictures: The CBS seasonPictures: The NBC seasonPictures: The ABC season On the big screen, the heavily-promoted and thus far well received “50/50,” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a young man with cancer, Seth Rogen as his best friend and Anna Kendrick as an illness counselor, opens Friday. Also opening is “Margaret,” starring Anna Paquin as a high school student who witnesses a fatal traffic accident and feels responsible for causing it. And for the one Josh Hartnett fan still out there,...

New video has surfaced online showing missing American journalist Austin Tice surrounded by anonymous captors, but the brief clip sheds little light on his whereabouts or condition. Tice, a former Marine and freelance journalist who has worked for CBS and other news organizations, has been missing since August 13, when he last emailed colleagues, according to McClatchy Newspapers. Before Tice vanished outside Damascus, 온라인카지노 he had been reporting on the escalating violence in Syria as a freelance journalist. No group has claimed responsibility for his abduction so far, but U.S. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland told reporters Monday they have an idea. More in After the Arab Spring “You know, there’s a lot of reason for the Syrian government to duck responsibility,” Nuland said, “but we continue to believe that to the best of our knowledge we think he is in Syrian government custody” – something the Assad regime denies. The video appeared on a Facebook page of one of Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s supporters, but had been on YouTube for six days prior, reports CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan. The video shows Tice being led by men in robes carrying automatic weapons, and repeating “God is great” in Arabic. Tice is then heard saying part of an Islamic prayer in broken Arabic, and just before the end of the 47-second clip, he appears in distress, saying “Oh...

Critic David Edelstein previews the latest offerings from Hollywood, and finds even the comedies are grim: Glum though I am about the end of summer, with fall comes … no superhero movies! And no 3-D! Well, a lot less, which means fewer headaches, so sell your Tylenol stock. Fall opened strong last Friday with “Moneyball,” and next Friday brings another bright comedy called “50/50,” after hero Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s odds of surviving his spinal cancer. Yes, it’s grim, too, obviously. But the film is less about his illness than other peoples’ dumb behavior in the face of it. And in the case of Anna Kendrick as his novice therapist, she’s so lovably dumb you’re almost happy a horrific disease helped ’em meet cute. More downbeat than the cancer movie is “Take Shelter,” from brilliant young director Jeff Nichols, about a man played by Michael Shannon ravaged by visions of apocalypse. It’s arty and creepy and as barmy as its hero in the end. But it might just capture the national mood. The downbeat goes on in George Clooney’s latest as director and actor, a political melodrama called “The Ides of March,” starring Ryan Gosling as a campaign aide to lefty presidential candidate Clooney whose high ideals plummet to Earth, don’t cha know, when it’s time to win. I like the first half, before all that smug cynicism. Hollywood’s money is...

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