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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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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 [...]