TIME’s Second Annual Oscar Endurance Test—Two Days, Nine Nominees, One Movie Theater
Wherein our intrepid reporter consumes as many Best Picture nominees as he can.
Unlike the stunt-heavy Top Chef, which seems to have grown bored with cooking, Chopped is reliable, workmanlike and procedural, the Law & Order of cable food-competition shows.
On the plus side, the beginning of last night's Glee was a very effective 15 minutes or so of television. The bad thing: it was very effective television—for about 15 minutes or so.
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When NBC pulled Community from its schedule in December, saying it would bring the show back in midseason, fans began to spin all sorts of dark predictions as to what would happen to the show. Well, if you bet on “NBC will bring it back in midseason, just like it said,” get ready to collect: the network has made official that the community-college sitcom will be back to finish its third season Thursdays, starting March 15, in its old 8 pm timeslot.
Does this mean a fourth season? Six seasons and a movie? Let’s take it one thing at a time.
The two entertainment business moguls are both taking advantage of an offer by Comcast Corp. for minority ownership in cable programming
It's been 10 years since the Cranberries released an album. On Roses, the reformed quartet continues to showcase the distinctive Gaelic lilt of vocalist Dolores O’Riordan.
(NEW YORK) — Chris Brown and Rihanna are back together, musically speaking.
Two songs featuring the singers hit the Internet on Monday. Brown sings on the remix of Rihanna’s sexually charged song “Birthday Cake,” and she’s on the remix of his upbeat tune “Turn Up the Music.”
I’m currently fighting off a cold so potent that you probably caught it simply by reading this sentence, so blogging may be a little light for a while. Fortunately, my colleague and critic-pal Ryan McGee at the A.V. Club has offered up an essay that should keep you busy for a while. In it, he argues that The Sopranos and every hallowed HBO drama that followed it (like Luck) have changed TV for the worse by focusing on long-form stories at the expense of individual episodes that are enjoyable on their own terms:
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Four girls, eight parents, one Bachelor. What could possibly go wrong?
Safe House edges The Vow, as five movies break the $20-million threshold over the four-day frame
It may not be the most novel political insight to point out that history repeats itself, but the most intriguing thing about watching PBS’s new American Experience documentary, Clinton (airing tonight and tomorrow), is seeing how quickly it does. So many elements of today’s politics are here—a deeply polarized Washington, a new President criticized by his own party for caving too quickly on the issues, hyperbolic debate over health care—that once we get to the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress and a new-old face appears, that of Newt Gingrich, it seems only natural. Flannel shirts may have gone out of style, but the ’90s never really left us.
The show explodes in violence as the second half of season two continues to sprint along.
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The two-hour finale offers a ton of wish fulfillment while not exactly making up for this season's devolution into convolution.
Susannah Buxton spoke with TIME about why it’s easier to create flattering costumes for a scullery maid than for a countess and the perils of working with vintage clothing.
Like the stars they dress, fashion designers can also be award show regulars. As the countdown to the Oscars begins, TIME looks at 10 dresses recently presented at New York Fashion Week that you may see at the Academy Awards on Feb. 26.
Ricky Gervais, The Guy Who Makes Jokes About About Celebrity, is in danger of becoming that dreaded thing: a comedian with one shtick, getting progressively less funny.
In advance of the Season Two finale, we take a look at Downton Abbey couture, from Edwardian days to the daze of post-World War I Britain.
