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Showtime has been especially successful in creating a new wave of strong half-hours built around equally fascinating female leads Nurse Jackie in particular, so the network can get by without it.
Ask Matt: NCIS Without Gibbs? Plus Human Target, Shameless and midseason TV 2011
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ABC managed 3.44 million for two half-hours of Happy Endings in prime time's last hour.
Ratings: SVU Ends on a High Note; Idol Actually Improving 2011
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We have one of those coming up on Sunday — except now we can banish our kids to upper and basement floors and not see them for half-hours at a time.
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If you want to go to bed at 10 instead of 2, you'd keep moving it back by half-hours (or so) until you reached your desired time.
Bedtime Help Pushes You Towards An Earlier Bed Time | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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CBS' Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior took the last hour of prime time in total viewership, getting 9.08 million compared with 7.96 million for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit the hour's demo winner with a 2.4 rating and 3.86 million for two half-hours of Happy Endings.
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Often Graham strayed into the music room, and, quite neglected by the pair, sat for moody half-hours listening to their “work.”
CHAPTER XVII 2010
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Even Bored to Death was a bit precious for my taste, but at least it attempted to be funny, which is more than can be said for many of the network's recent half-hours.
Ask Matt: Once Upon a Time, Pilot Season, Luck and HBO, Revenge and More 2012
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Once you have all that stuff down, figure out how many half-hours it would take you to carefully and thoughtfully say it all.
John Shore: The Elephant In The Room: 'I Remain, Still, A Gay Christian' John Shore 2011
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The big wholesale supply houses, the caterers for his hotels, and all the crowd that incessantly demanded to be paid, had their hot half-hours with him.
Chapter XXI 2010
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The beating he had given the gentle Mr. Moody had meant half-hours of horror to her afterward.
CHAPTER VII 2010
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