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Anna Nicole Smith, American

Anna Nicole Smith, 39, died today. She wasn’t a TV star, exactly, though CNN describes her as that; by the time she made her reality TV series she was already disturbingly down the path of dissolution and collapse, and it made her show excruciating to watch even for somebody paid to watch excruciating TV. [Update: [...]

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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight

For starters, it gots to be Survivor: Fiji, which by the standards of the previous few seasons has been Stealth Survivor. I’ve seen little publicity for this edition, other than the free PR generated by the unfortunately-timed coup in the host country. Still, I return, even though the show has gotten less and less hip [...]

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Lostwatch: That's a Long Flight from Miami

SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen last night’s episode of Lost, make a small incision in your kidney and don’t stitch it up until you’ve finished watching it. So: This is the first Lostwatch since the time.com folks turned on the Comments spigot, so I’m counting on you to do the lifting here. But here [...]