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The Secret Lives of American Teenagers Are Boring

Richard Lawson · 07/01/08 09:38AM

ABC Family's new series, the ambitiously-titled The Secret Life of the American Teenager, premieres tonight, and the critics are none too excited about it. The Boston Globe's Joanna Weiss breaks down the show—about a 15-year-old who gets pregnant the first time she has sex—into its cliché character archetypes, which include the chaste cheerleader and her dutiful Christian boyfriend who, while tempted, must wait.

Juno You Want It

Richard Lawson · 02/12/08 05:05PM

Because there are no new ideas left anywhere, the super duper hit film Juno is getting its very own knocked-up knock-off. Brenda Hampton, the woman behind the odious 7th Heaven, is peddling a new series about a young teenager who gets pregnant after a tryst with a popular boy at school. But there's a little nerdy kid who likes her too! What will she do? Probably say sassy things and talk on a hotdog phone. [NYMag]