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TV Tonight: They'll Take Manhattan

Bravo Photo: Giovanni Rufino Time for a TV SAT test! The O.C. is to The Real Housewives of Orange County as Gossip Girl is to __________. If you guessed The Real Housewives of New York City, you’re right. If you guessed by looking at tonight’s TV listings, that is cheating and it will go down [...]

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Three Ways of Looking at Jack Nicholson

But it’s not all about traditional TV campaign ads this morning. Jack Nicholson released this endorsement montage for Hillary Clinton a couple days ago: A few thoughts: * Old People Have the YouTube Channel Too! The ad’s jokey and probably not particularly strategic, but in a real way, it’s also playing to Clinton’s base. There’s [...]

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Ring My Bell: Why the Hillary Ad Works

I’ve been writing a lot this election cycle about the importance of viral and surrogate videos; the other day, I wrote that there hadn’t yet been a traditional campaign ad that has had the impact of what we’ve seen this season on YouTube. I may have to amend that now; if Hillary Clinton does well [...]

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The Morning After: Treat Yourself

Melissa George as Laura. / HBO: Claudette Barius I watched the first five weeks of In Treatment before the show debuted, when HBO sent out a whole stack of screeners, so it was kind of strange going back to the show again last night, as if I were starting the show’s second season. I still [...]