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Corporate Press Release Theater: Bravo Goes Green

Remember Tuned In’s lengthy whine the other day about massively packaged TV-network mailings? We get results! BRAVO IS COMPLETELY GREEN WITH EMMY® Network Offers On-Air And Online Screenings That Include Friday Viewing Marathons And Downloads On BravoTV.com/Emmy NEW YORK – May 8, 2008 – Bravo is completely Green with Emmy – as the network announced [...]

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Fox Newser Discloses Self Out of Job

When Time’s not breaking news, we’re making news! After last night’s big Time 100 bash in Manhattan—which neither I nor fellow Timeblogger Lisa Cullen attended—a Fox News production assistant got her walking papers for telling Sen. John McCain she voted for him in the primary, reports TV Newser. (Link via Romenesko.) “I voted for you [...]

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Dept. of Does Not Exactly Surprise Me

ABC News reports that college students get high and watch Yo Gabba Gabba!, the most awesome kids’ show on TV. (Via TV Tattle.) Makes sense to me—I get high by watching Yo Gabba Gabba!, but same difference. It only takes a few minutes watching the show’s surreal images, wacky monsters and talking food to draw [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Florida Forever

In the paper version of Time magazine this week, my column looks at the upcoming HBO movie Recount, and how the 2000 electoral circus in Florida still looms over the psychology of politics—especially in a certain party that has a lot of members cheesed off about enfranchisement and Florida: After George W. Bush won Florida [...]

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The Morning After: The Taste of Solitude

NBC Photo: Nicole Rivelli The secret to most good 30 Rock episodes is that they strike the right balance between character comedy and farce. That balance generally is: one, maybe two characters get to be real people, while the rest are free to be cartoons. (I love cartoons, by the way, so I mean that [...]

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Lostwatch: Will the Real John Locke Please Stand Up

Mario Perez / ABC SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, take your remote control, a compass, a knife—no, not the knife!—and watch last night’s Lost.