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MTV Is Invading My Hood

By James Poniewozik

Still time to stock up before the drunk hipsters attack! / Photo by s o d a p o p reprinted under Creative Commons license. So it turns out that I live in the 21st coolest place in the world. At least by one measure: Season 21[!] of The Real World will be taping this [...]

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Corporate Press Release Theater: Turner to Debut Slew of New Shows, Unless It Doesn't

By James Poniewozik

Turner Entertainment Networks (known to you as TNT, TBS and truTV [formerly known to you as Court TV]) piggybacked on the broadcast upfronts with their own announcement today. I’m only one man, and a lazy one at that, so I didn’t attend, but the networks announced a number of shows. Theoretically. Most of the announcements [...]

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Over Eggs and Bacon, CBS Serves Up Meat and Potatoes

By James Poniewozik

Leave it to CBS to maintain some sort of tradition in this strike-and-ratings-collapse-disrupted upfront. For years the network has had a ritual of revealing its schedule to reporters over a buffet breakfast at its Midtown headquarters. Even though the Eye is—in this year’s trendy spirit of austerity—canceling its Tavern on the Green after-party, it kept [...]

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The CW, CWickly

By James Poniewozik

The cast of 90210 (sans the “Beverly Hills”). / Frank Ockenfels/ The CW I had to bail on The CW’s schedule presentation after ABC’s last night, but having heard that there were no clips of the 90210 remake—the main thing I would have wanted to see—I don’t feel quite so bad. But here’s the roundup [...]

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Rauschenberg: A Tribute

By Richard Lacayo

It’s not possible to sum up briefly all of the ways that Rauschenberg changed the way we think about art. Here’s my attempt to summarize some of them.

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The Morning After: Three for Three

By James Poniewozik

David A., Archuletting a Billy Joel tearjerker in the Final Three. / F. Micelotta / Fox / Getty My American Idol reviews are now up at time.com. My prediction this week—Syesha—is not exactly rocket science, but even though I don’t think she deserves to win the thing (she’s looking at a nice Broadway career), I [...]

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ABC Upfront: TV Defeats Television

By James Poniewozik

ABC’s upfront at Lincoln Center begins with a video, interspersed with scenes from ABC shows, of people riding unicycles with cellphone symbols inscribed on the wheels, riding a surfboard into a computer logo, juggling little black balls with iPods on them. The (apparent) message: television may be fading away, but TV shows are not. This [...]