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TV Weekend: FNL Begins Its End

NBC Photo: Bill Records Friday Night Lights airs the first of its last three episodes (of this season! let’s think positive!) tonight. There haven’t been any decisions made about the show’s future–there aren’t many decisions being made about anything given the writers’ strike–but FNL’s continued survival is one of the few and best side benefits [...]

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Is David Simon Right About the News?

Pick up your local newspaper. Read the bylines on the front page (the ones that don’t say “From Wire Service Reports”). One out of four of the names you read are planning on getting the hell out of the newspaper business. This is the finding of a Ball State professor, who did a study finding [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: Welcome Back, Michael

If I were a good blogger, the kind who plans well, prepares ahead and plots all manner of traffic-generating events, I would have prepped some kind of gigundous Loststravaganza for the week leading up to the return of the Tuned In community’s most hallowed show. I am not a good blogger. In lieu of the [...]

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The Strike Is Over—for Don Draper

Mix yourself a Manhattan and fire up a Lucky Strike, baby: Mad Men is free to go back into production on its second season. The Writers Guild announced another interim side deal, this time with Lionsgate studio, which produces Mad Men as well as Weeds. One of the feared side effects of the strike is [...]

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The Morning After: A Nerd Deferred

What’s behind that door? Hiatus is behind that door, my friend! / NBC Photo: Justin Lubin While you were watching Chuck last night, I was finally catching up on Project Runway, then watching the MSNBC Republican debate, which attempted to answer the immortal question: “How many ways can John McCain work the phrase ‘my friends’ [...]