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Programming Note

I’m on vacation for the next two weeks. But you’re not getting rid of me that easily. I’ve once again programmed the RoboPoster 3000 to toss up some daily discussion questions while I’m gone. Last time we tried this, the discussion was actually livelier than it is when I’m around here writing stuff, so enjoy [...]

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The Humans Are Alive!

HBO has renewed Flight of the Conchords. Also, some show about movie stars.

More on Murray

The Lowdown, Murray, 2001 — Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Generalitat Valenciana Ok, lets finish up the Elizabeth Murray train of thought I started Wednesday, about the extraordinary number of influences that went into producing her pictures. At the Art Institute of Chicago, where Murray was a student in the late 1950s, she fell in [...]

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JPTV Jr.: The Gift of Gabba

Elijah Wood, DJ Lance Rock and friends make you question whether someone slipped something in your coffee. Lisa Rose / Nick Jr. / TM & © 2007 GabbaCadabra LLC I assume that there is a decent percentage of Tuned In readers who do not have children. I further assume that when the child-unburdened among you [...]

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Mad Men Watch: Private Accounts

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this, swipe a bottle of booze and watch Mad Men. AMC So I’ll admit it: I lost faith just for a second. I briefly thought Mad Men was going to start sucking. That moment when Don asks his long-lost brother whether any of their relatives are left surviving, finds out [...]

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Dead Tree Alert 2: HSM2

HSM2′s sophomore stomp. David James / New Line The pop culture universal mind must be trying to tell us something be releasing Disney’s High School Musical 2 (a sex-free fantasy of high school as imagined by tweens) on the same day as the (terrific) movie Superbad (a sex-filled fantasy of high school as imagined by [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Turn on Your TV, Save the World?

Honky Grandma Be Recycling! NBC Photo: Virginia Sherwood In this week’s newly rebranded Tuned In column in the print Time, I write about TV’s sudden interest in green programming, which is rising faster than the global sea levels. Discovery launches an entire environmental channel, Planet Green, next year, while NBC has planned a week of [...]