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From YouTube to Your Tube

Somebody’s been watching Nobody’s Watching, and soon more of them may be. As speculated here and elsewhere, the resurrection on YouTube of the rejected WB pilot of an inside-TV satire from the maker of Scrubs has led it to be picked up by an old-fashioned TV-box network, NBC. Per a Peacock press release this morning: [...]

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Home Movies from Hell

What strikes you first about the war is how beautiful everything is. A picture-postcard landscape, rolling hills, Mediterranean-style buildings with terra-cotta roofs. But in the center, towering over everything like the canopy of a coal-black tree, is a plume of smoke. It is the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, and Israeli warplanes are bombarding it.  "These motherf___ers [...]