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Hulu Party!

Hulu.com, the corporate YouTube competitor from NBC and Fox, opened to the public today; Anita Hamilton has time.com’s review. The gist, for those of you unfamiliar with it: the site archives hundreds of movies and TV episodes; you can watch them for free, with brief ads; and you can share and embed entire episodes or [...]

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Corporate Press Release Theater: Tivo Presents the YouTube Channel!

From the I’m-surprised-they-didn’t-do-this-earlier department: TiVo to Provide YouTube Videos Directly to the Television ALVISO, Calif., March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — TiVo Inc.(Nasdaq: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced an agreement with YouTube(TM) that will offer access to YouTube videos directly from the TV via a [...]

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Idol Watch 2: Who Can Win?

One more point I meant to bring up in this morning’s Idol Watch. Typically, Idol’s ratings slide off a bit in the early weeks of the finals, until the finale gets close. Even though I like the show (I’m serious!), I can see why. For at least the first month and a half, there may [...]

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Idol Watch: The Fab (and Less Than Fab) 12

R Mickshaw / Getty Images for Fox My reviews of Beatles Night on American Idol are posted. The night wasn’t the travesty I might have expected—I imagined one Whitney-ized Lennon/McCartney ballad after another—but the highlights and lowlights didn’t come where I expected them, either. Chikezie tore the roof off the new set (there was a [...]

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The Morning After: Fading Beauty

Geeks and beauties, after this week’s beauty “make-under.” / Michael Desmond /The CW The CW’s Beauty and the Geek had its fifth-season premiere last night, and like many reality shows whose concepts have survived past their sell-by date, it’s decided to shake things up with a twist. The twist, in this case, pretty much undoes [...]