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JPTV: What I'm Watching This Weekend Eventually

ABC ABC premieres its four-ambitious-sexy-women-in-the-city-why-no-we-can’t-imagine-where-you’ve-seen-that-before drama Cashmere Mafia Sunday night. I haven’t got around to watching it yet, in part because: * The screener arrived among the pile of vacation mail I just opened yesterday * I’m in the middle of watching several other screeners for reviews * I can watch it again when NBC [...]

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Simon Says: Talking with The Wire's Creator

I sat down with The Wire’s creator David Simon at HBO’s offices this fall, talked with him for an hour and a half, then managed to get a hundred or so of his words into my feature/review in the current Time. And you wonder why he’s angry at the media? Anyway, I had entertained dreams [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Wire Service

Paul Schiraldi/ HBO In this week’s print magazine, I have a long-ish feature on the final season of The Wire. [News-pegged update: Barack Obama's favorite show!] It may be a bit Wire 101 for the already-converted; writing about this show for a general-interest magazine, you have to assume a good chunk of the audience hasn’t [...]

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The Morning After: Another Late Night

John Paul Filo/CBS I caught only Jay Leno’s opening monologue last night in the midst of blogging the caucus coverage, but I have to imagine it won’t do much to appease the writers’ guild officials who say Jay is breaking strike rules by writing the monologue. (The New York Times rounds up the controversy here; [...]

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Election Over; Pundits Win

Somewhere behind all the bloviation and declarations of historical significance last night, there was an actual vote going on, and the beauty of the Iowa caucuses was that, unlike your typical primary, you could actually watch them on TV. C-SPAN and C-SPAN2 carried a live video feed from a Democratic and Republican caucus, though because [...]