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Ten Times Two: My Best-TV Lists Are Out

Craig Blankenhorn / AMC …along with 48 other top tens ranking pretty much every aspect of human (and possibly nonhuman) endeavor, at time.com. Here are my top ten new shows, and here are my top ten returning shows. Elsewhere, other critic’s lists are starting to trickle in, with an eclectic list from John Leonard at [...]

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Strike Watch: Dear God, This Thing Is Going to Last Forever Edition

So much for settling the strike by Christmas. On Friday, the producers’ side walked out of the negotiations as the writers dug in their heels over the Writers’ Guild demand, which they until recently had not been stressing, that it get to represent reality-TV and animation staffers. Seeing as how the usual purposes of a [...]

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The Morning After: Straight Outta Vilnius

How happy it is that, after its post-Family Edition lull, The Amazing Race–the only situation in the world where it’s a bad thing to get inadvertently bumped up from coach to business class–is worth watching again. I won’t spoil last night’s episode, but read the comments at your own risk. All I know is that [...]