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Heroes Watch: Shanti Shanti Shanti

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, grab a plate of waffles and watch last night’s Heroes. NBC Photo: Chris Haston Got a deadline monopolizing my time and verbiage today, so I’ll give you the digest version of Heroes Watch, then let you run with it. A definite improvement for me, perhaps mainly because it [...]

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Can Rosie Punch Up MSNBC's Left Hook?

It’s no The Price Is Right, but the New York Times reports this morning that MSNBC has been talking to Rosie O’Donnell about hosting a 9 p.m. talk show. The strategy: follow where Keith Olbermann’s success has led the third-place news channel and establish a nighttime platform of left-leaning–sorry, “passionate”–talk. It could just work. If [...]

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The Morning After: Theory Reconfirmed

Cliff Lipson/CBS The problem with the idea behind A Second Look At… is that if the second look proves to be pretty much exactly like the first, the results aren’t so interesting. Thus with The Big Bang Theory, which last night turned out to be as stereotyped and predictable as the first time around. The [...]