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Trailerama 2: "Rescuing People? Can't Really Say It's Our Primary Objective"

I haven’t found an embeddable version, but James Hibberd at TV Week has the new extended trailer for season 4 of Lost. It’s 1:47 minutes in heaven! If and when anyone locates the inevitable slowed down, frame-grabbed versions, do please share with the class and post a link.

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'Tis the Season

It’s nearing the end of December, and you all know what that means: Time to bribe your local TV critic! OK, “bribe” might be an excessive term to describe the tchotchkes I’ve been receiving from various publicity departments in the biz, but it makes me feel roguish. Among the holiday swag items I’ve come across [...]

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Trailerama: The Wire

So those seven episodes of The Wire I got? Watched ‘em. Oh, the things I could spoil for you. Oh, the wonderful, heartbreaking things I could spoil for you. But I won’t. Because I’m a good man. Because I’m a bad man. More than usual, it’s hard to get into the storyline of this final [...]

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Strike Watch: Awards Shows to Air, Suck

What part of “We’re on strike” don’t people understand? For a while, the desperate hope has persisted that the writers’ guild would extend a waiver to the Golden Globes and the Oscars to allow WGA writers to script jokes for them. Because yeah, when you go on strike, it really means you’re going on strike [...]

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The Morning After: Mrs. Tuned In Calls It

NBCU Photo: Virginia Sherwood It’s called choralography. That little thing choirs do, where they make little joyous motions with their hands, or–gospel-choir-style–push them up toward the sky like they’re trying to hold up heaven? Choralography. This is one of the many things you learn when you watch Clash of the Choirs with an actual choral-music [...]