The Final Part of My Talk with the Getty

Here’s the second and final part of that interview with Michael Brand, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. LACAYO: Given the anxieties about buying something that might have been looted, and the tighter controls on exports by claimant nations, is it even possible anymore for American museums to buy antiquities? BRAND: [...]

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JPTV: What I'm TiVoing Tonight

So the good news: for the BSG-starved, Sci Fi begins showing two-minute “flashback” minisodes that lead up to the two-hour Battlestar Galactica movie Razor, November 24. So the bad news: Sci Fi is airing them in the middle of Flash Gordon, one of the worst series anyone has committed to video this season. Clearly an [...]

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TV Weekend: Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Etc.

NBC Photo: Bill Records In the current TIME, I make a brief plea for readers to check out Friday Night Lights, which returns tonight. There’s been a lot of discussion among fans who’ve watched the episode (which streamed online earlier) about a pivotal scene near the end, which Alan Sepinwall at the Newark Star-Ledger has [...]

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Calling London. And Sydney. And Copenhagen…

MITCH HADDAD / ABC Glen Levy over at Time Europe emailed me this morning with a tidbit: British television, he writes, has decided to begin the new season of Ugly Betty early, for fear of having its audience cut into by downloads. This reverses the usual practice of having American shows air overseas months, or [...]

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Mad Men Watch: A Girl's Best Friend

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, plug in your TV–and whatever other appliances you need–and watch Mad Men. AMC Things to go and people to do today, so I’ll keep the Watch brief. First: had Peggy gradually been adding the prosthetic pounds in earlier episodes and I just missed it? (There were references to [...]

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Comedy Night Done Right. This Week, Anyway.

NBC photos: Chris Haston, Ron Tom Who needs Seinfeldvision? America’s favorite comedic non-actor came to 30 Rock last night. Sure, it was a pleasure to see him–”How about I buy NBC and turn it into the biggest Lane Bryant in midtown?”–and if he brought a few million new viewers with him, all to the good. [...]

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The Morning After: Another Shot?

RICHARD CARTWRIGHT / ABC If anyone watched a second week of Big Shots, reports are welcome, because I can’t bring myself to go near it again. Otherwise, general Thursday-night discussion welcome. Ugly Betty? CSI? The game where they hit the baseball with the baseball stick?