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Like Some New Romantic Looking for the TV Sound

The vampire squid compels you with his hypnotic eye to watch Planet Earth. Discovery/Stephen Downer Is it worth spending $1000 or more to watch a single TV series? I’m generally as tightfisted as the next TV watcher, but if I hadn’t already loosened my deathgrip on my purse strings to buy an HDTV, Discovery’s Planet [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Charles in Charge

In my TIME column this week: Charles Gibson is ascending, Katie Couric is floundering–and with her may be going the last ambitions that network TV news can ever draw in new, non-aged viewers again. Here’s a taste: Gibson’s success has been seen as a vindication of old-fashioned gravitas over flash. Which is fair enough; Gibson [...]