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More Sessions for In Treatment?

By James Poniewozik

When HBO picked up the second season of Tell Me You Love Me, I wrote: “File this under News I Didn’t Expect to Be Reading This Soon and Come to Think of It Probably Ever.” Well, I hope there’s still room in that manila folder. The LA Times reports that In Treatment may get a [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1345 days ago

Corporate Press Release Theater: The Many Faces of Toni

By James Poniewozik

SHOWTIME For Showtime, a Diablo Cody comedy about a woman with many personalities who is not Tracey Ullman: Los Angeles, CA – (June 4, 2008) – Showtime Networks has fast-tracked the pickup of THE UNITED STATES OF TARA, a new 12 episode half-hour comedy series starring Academy Award®-nominated actress Toni Collette (“Little Miss Sunshine”) as [...]

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Tuned In+Movies | 1345 days ago

The Carrie-Clinton Connection?

By James Poniewozik

Over at Slate, Timothy Noah, who’s been writing about pop culture and the election, suggests that the success of the SATC movie is the result of disappointed Hillary voters drowning their sorrows. No, seriously. He wrote that. I guess somebody had to draw this connection; I just can’t believe it wasn’t Maureen Dowd. A while [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1345 days ago

Breaking: McCain Suggests Summer Series

By James Poniewozik

We may as well further overextend the metaphor of the morning: if the hit series of the regular season just ended, how do you hang on to the viewers until fall? With summer reality programming! In a speech this morning, John McCain suggested a series of ten joint “townhall meetings” with Barack Obama throughout the [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1345 days ago

The Greening of Discovery

By James Poniewozik

Gurwwitch confronts the Hutchinson family about their wa$te. / PLANET GREEN Tonight at 6 p.m., Discovery Home Channel becomes Planet Green, a testament to the fact that eco-mindedness has become part of the national consciousness, a mainstream attitude, and a really awesome ways for advertisers to sell things. I’ve seen only a sampler of Planet [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1345 days ago

Election Watch: A Finale, and a Cliffhanger

By James Poniewozik

And so last night, the surprise hit of the 2007-08 television season came to an end… but with a cliffhanger. As had been foreshadowed for some time now, Barack Obama declared victory in the Democratic primary in a climactic speech in St. Paul, Minnesota, setting up a dramatic fall-season storyline with John McCain. But as [...]