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Call It Les Collines: The Hills' European Vacation

MTV It’s not like MTV needs a strike as an excuse to load up on reality shows, but yesterday it announced that The Hills, coming off a high-rated season 3, will get a bonus eight episodes next year that will follow Lauren and Whitney to Paris. (In case you missed the most recent show, Teen [...]

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Toldja So Dept.: The Evolution of Cavemen

ABC The New York Times’ Dave Itzkoff reports that critics across the country are discovering that ABC’s Cavemen is not quite as awful as everybody was assuming it would be. I point this out, partly to give credit to an insightful, well-written article, and partly–oh who am I kidding, almost entirely–to note that Tuned In [...]

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The Yule Log: Now Yulier, Loggier

I took some guff for praising WPIX’s Yule Log as one of my seven essential holiday TV programs earlier, but apparently someone else also thinks there’s still some heat in that old stick. Through January 4, Comcast is offering a new, HD version of the log through its On Demand service. It’s not the same [...]

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The Morning After: Model Behavior

Elizabeth Carrillo/The CW I’ve been unfaithful to America’s Next Top Model this season. For four or five seasons it was a never-miss for me, and then I burned out on it. Maybe it was the bulimia modeling competition, but at some point the challenges started seeming more and more contrived, and the Tyra-worship more and [...]