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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight

We’re only one episode in, but I’m getting a better vibe from this season’s Top Chef than from season 2, with its over-the-top personality clashes, head shavings and what have you. The premiere last week was perfectly enjoyable, but it made me wish that someone had persuaded Anthony Bourdain to be a regular judge; the [...]

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Is Rosie Right for Price?

The idea of Rosie O’Donnell taking over The Price Is Right has been floated–by Rosie herself–and repeatedly knocked down in the press over the past several weeks. But it looks like Rosie is not taking no for an answer; she’s reaffirmed on her blog that she’s interested in the job, and she recently scored an [...]

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Test Pilot: Aliens in America

Trae Patton/ The CW A programming note about Test Pilot. I realize that at the rate I’m doing them, it will be the 2009-10 season before I finish. There’s a good chance I won’t get around to all of them but instead focus on the ones you and I are most curious about, so keep [...]

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Is Toucan Sam (Whole Wheat) Toast?

Saturday mornings may never be the same. Kellogg’s has announced that it’s going to phase out the marketing of high-fat, high-sugar foods to children under 12, a step that could mean the end of characters like Toucan Sam, Shrek (as a cereal pitchman) and whatever weird creatures they use to sell Apple Jacks. Oddly, Tony [...]