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Weekend Poll: What Are Your Strike Plans?

Let me leave you with a cheerful discussion topic to spend the weekend with. Let’s assume that when the WGA contract runs out Halloween night, there will in fact be a writers’ strike. There’s been a lot of talk about what the writers would do. There’s been a lot of talk about what the networks [...]

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Pushing Daisies: Questions and Conclusions

CRAIG SJODIN / ABC I finally caught up with this week’s Pushing Daisies. Charming episode again, the budget cutbacks not bothering me so much, and who’d have ever thought I’d be watching a network primetime show that involved a They Might Be Giants singalong? In a valley of windmills? I’m starting a betting pool on [...]

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24-7: Inside the Corridors of Bauer

A trailer for season 7 of 24 is now streaming online. (WARNING: Trailer features a spoiler about the status of a certain character, which, by virtue of being in the trailer, I suppose is not such a spoiler anymore.) Maureen Ryan at the Chicago Tribune suspects that the new season may have Jack Bauer lashing [...]

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The Morning After: Searching for Carrie Fisher

NBC Photo: Anne Joyce The cavalcade of stars on 30 Rock rolled on last night, with Carrie Fisher guesting as Liz Lemon’s comedy-pioneer idol/cautionary tale, and it was just another example of why I’m glad somebody gave Tina Fey her own sitcom. Though Fey didn’t write last night’s episode, who else could you imagine making [...]