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Oprah Meets YouTube. Who's Bigger?

Someone evidently informed Oprah Winfrey that there was a medium that she did not yet own a major piece of. And you know what happens when someone tells Oprah that. And so it came to pass that Oprah set up her own YouTube channel. What’s on it? Front and center, of course, there’s Oprah delivering [...]

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Animation Wednesday Continued: My Two Beefs with Beowulf

OK, this is not exactly a post about TV. Well, it’s about the subject of a TV commercial. Give me a break. If this strike goes on for a few months, you’re going to see me doing posts about the commercials for Swiffer mops. So I finally saw a spot for Beowulf, which opens November [...]

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South Park: Not Bigger, Not Longer, but Unstruck

Since the writers’ strike started looming, one of the most frequent questions among Tuned Inlanders has been what would happen to South Park, which–unlike most animated shows–is finished at the last minute and thus doesn’t bank episodes in advance. My most frequent answer had been, “Um, good question.” As it turns out, we get our [...]

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The Morning After: Radar Love

Jack Rowand/The CW If Reaper is turning out basically to be just a procedural with damned souls, it’s at least a pretty charming procedural with damned souls. Last night’s “Love, Bullets and Blacktop” episode didn’t venture into especially new territory, but it did capture the show’s laid-back appeal, from the lengthy bachelorette-party opening sequence to [...]