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Coming Attraction: Swingtown

“Swing” don’t mean dancing! / Cliff Lipson/CBS Yesterday I posted about having finally gotten a screener of CBS’s summer drama Swingtown, which I’d been anticipating since CBS screened a trailer a year ago at upfronts. I’ve watched it, and I have to report that I’m disappointed. Disappointed because it’s good. Very good. Which means that [...]

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John McCain, Maoist

Daily Show regular John McCain returned to TDS last night, this time as presumptive Republican nominee, and cited the inspirational words of Chairman Mao: I somehow get the feeling that people would be making a bigger deal of it had Barack Obama dipped into the little red book. In the second half of the interview, [...]

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TV Poll: What's Your TV Guide?

In the New York Times, the new editors of TV Guide—which looks like it will be up for sale again already—explain why they believe the magazine still matters. It may, but the magazine itself recognized some time ago that if TV Guide matters, it’s not as a guide to TV, as least not as far [...]

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Coming Soon in the 2008-09 TV Season: The 2007-08 TV Season

USA Today runs a walkup to next week’s broadcast network upfront, where the big trend in new TV will be: less new TV. The upfronts are usually an intense preview of the coming fall season, with the networks screening trailers of pilots that they mail out to advertisers and critics soon afterward. This year, there’ll [...]

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The Morning After: Idolimination

SPOILER ALERT: A few thoughts on list night’s American Idol elimination coming up—after the break!