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Make Sweet, Sweet Love to My House

Before Chris Harrison became host of The Bachelor, he was the host of HGTV’s Designers’ Challenge. But the road between dating shows and cable home shows runs both ways. TLC announced that Bob “Bachelor Bob” Guiney will host the new Date My House, in which prospective buyers follow a “speed dating” search of houses with [...]

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HBO's Out-of-Africa Detective Series

This project had not been on my radar screen at all, but HBO has announced a new drama, which I’d describe as a detective show with a pretty big difference. The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, based on a series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith, is a BBC coproduction about a female-run detective agency [...]

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The Morning After: Monday, 9 A.M., No Laura

The temporary absence of my least-favorite character made the Monday edition of In Treatment more enjoyable for me this week. And with Laura briefly out of the picture, we got to open another door on Paul Weston’s home life. His encounters with teen daughter Rosie and college-aged son Ian–each addressing in a different way his [...]

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Spitzer: The (Tabloid) Media Angle

In New York City, people play the New York Post front-page game: the day after some major scandal, you guess what the banner headline on the front page of the Post will be. (After the Hugh Grant hooker case, e.g., I guessed “HOW COULD HUGH?” though I think they went with “BLUE HUGH” instead.) There [...]

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Spitzer: The TV Angle

Showtime must be pleased it happened to be promoting this particular show right about now.

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Tuckered Out

The other day at Tuned In we poked some fun at conservative talker Tucker Carlson, and as you know, that’s all it takes to destroy a TV show. MSNBC had made official that Tucker will be canceled after this week, so that David Gregory’s eyebrows can have their long-overdue showdown with Keith Olbermann’s. You may [...]