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...couple have not revealed the precious child's name. The actors, both 33, who co-starred in 2003's Daredevil, married in June. Apparently nesting appealed more than acting this year. Affleck didn't appear in a single film--perhaps still atoning for 2003's Gigli--and ABC announced the cancellation of Alias, the show that made Garner a star. The good news is, everybody will soon be free for diaper duty...
...Lost” ABC, Wednesdays, 9pm So, “The Tailies” (the passengers at the back of the plane) have also spent 48 days on the island—but they only get an hour to talk about their tale! Get it—tail? Tale? When multiple people are taken by The Others, Ana Lucia smells a rat, and throws her suspect (Nathan) into that same pit she threw Michael, Jin, and Sawyer. Only problem is, she has the wrong guy! Oh, snap! An evil fellow named “Goodwin” actually conned everyone...
...ABC's movie and CBS's Pope John Paul II (Dec. 4, 9 p.m. E.T., and Dec. 7, 8 p.m. E.T.) cover the same birth-to-death span: his youth in Poland, his resistance first against the Nazis and then the communists, his rise to world leader. But they bring out different sides of his personality. Have No Fear's Wojtyla (Thomas Kretschmann) is starchy and principled, more a paragon than a person. CBS's mini-series presents a soft-focus, avuncular Wojtyla, dividing the role in two: the young priest (Cary Elwes) is a jocular guy who talks...
...John Paul II was more than a kindly pastor. While Pope John Paul II shows his steel in butting heads with communists, it, like the ABC movie, glosses over the controversies and conservatism of his papacy. Women's role in the church gets maybe a minute's attention; contraception comes up only by allusion. In the end, both movies stick to what viewers can agree on (commies and Nazis, bad; love, good), while skipping much of the Pope's sometimes polarizing tenure as a leader--an unsurprising choice in treating a man literally on track for sainthood. As a result...
...RETIRED. TED KOPPEL, 65, as the veteran anchor of ABC's Nightline, three years after the network's embarrassingly public and unsuccessful effort to secretly replace him with David Letterman; in Washington, D.C. Since its inception 26 years ago, Koppel made the half-hour show a lively, aggressive examination of the day's news. Downplaying his exit, he ended his last broadcast by asking viewers to give his successors a chance. Or else, he said with a jab at ABC, "I promise the network will just put another comedy show in this time slot. Then you'll be sorry...