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Detectives, Detectives: My Top 10 Favorite Working Detectives I recently realized that I have been a TV Detective fanatic for quite some time now.

My daughter Lucy is tucked into the recliner watching "Mary Poppins" while sipping from a glass of ginger ale; my husband, Bill, is outside shoveling us out; I am bouncing between watching bits of "Mary Poppins," putting together raffle baskets for Mount Pleasant's Holiday Fair and writing.

Germ-fearing super sleuth Adrian Monk says goodbye in Friday night's series finale of "Monk." Farewell, Adrian Monk.

Jean-Christophe Novelli was born to play himself on TV. An acclaimed chef with restaurants in London, France and South Africa, Novelli has movie-star good looks, a thick French accent, a piercing gaze and a real talent for making cooking students feel intimidated, then adored, then unnerved, then undermined.

Boston Herald TV Critic Mark Perigard is the TV critic for the Boston Herald. CHEF ACADEMY: B- Series premiere tonight at 11 on Bravo.

Patrick McGoohan, the Emmy-winning actor who created and starred in the cult classic television show The Prisoner , has died.

I'll admit to looking askance at the review DVD for a new food show called "Chef Academy." It's easy to tire of these reality shows and I plead guilty.

HE IS quite possibly the most famous and most recognisable detective of them all a ' and Universal Playback has the case all sown up for Christmas with Columbo: The Complete Series 1-10 on DVD from October 19, 2009.

Universal Playback have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of several box-set collections and a few individual TV show releases over the next month or so.

HARRISONBURG Carmen Miranda, the classic movie star, stepped out of the van and sauntered up the red carpet and into JMU's Festival Ballroom on the arm of TV detective Lt.

As an attorney and television aficionado, I was pleased to see "The 25 Greatest Legal TV Shows," August.

Most of the time in the TV Universe, the actors who play the Toobworld characters also exist on Earth Prime-Time and as actors there as well.

For an ostensibly peaceable, turn-the-other-cheek society, we certainly like our homicides.

Permanently enshrined in the hearts of television viewers and mystery fans for his Emmy and Golden Globe-winning portrayal of the savvy Lt.

A few days ago, in British television's five-billionth repeat from the NBC series , Peter Falk's Columbo solved another "perfect" murder and, in doing so, he once again made my day.

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Okay, I do a lot of theorizin' and splainin' here at "Inner Toob". But this time I'm going to throw out a Toobworld situation and ask for your opinion.

TV's best crime-solvers - from Lt. Columbo to Jessica Fletcher and Gil Grissom - eventually fade into reruns.

Entertainment Tonight Headlines After several months of legal proceedings a decision was made to place actor Peter Falk under a conservatorship on Monday.

Peter Falk's daughter and his wife of 30 years are fighting for conservatorship of the Hollywood icon, who suffers from dementia, court records show.