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Trailerama: 90210, Dollhouse

Courtesy of the YouTubes, The CW offers a preview of what the new 90210 will look like. Or at least the title sequence! And the automotive product placements! Meanwhile I had been waiting to post Fox’s trailer of Dollhouse, but they were disappearing as soon as they appeared. (There may be legitimate reasons that Fox [...]

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Dead Electron Alert: Summer Preview

Eleswhere at time.com, I and other Time critics were enlisted to blurb four things in our respective fields that we’re curious about / looking forward to this summer. Readers love this, because it allows them to plan their summer entertainment calendars! Advertisers love it, because it means they get critics to write quasi-positive things about [...]

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Upfront Rundown: The Big Trends

The 2008-09 upfronts are ancient history, except for the actual selling the ads part. Here’s a rundown of some of the major trends we saw last week. * How Do We Pay For This Stuff? There was a sharp, networks-wide acknowledgement of the fact that fewer people are watching live, primetime TV; consensus that this [...]

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The Morning After: Basestar Galactica

BSG jumps away for two weeks with a cliffhanger ending. / SCI FI Channel Photo: Carole Segal SPOILER ALERT: Discussion of Battlestar Galactica coming up after the, er, jump: