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Corporate Press Release Theater 2: Sale of the Centurion

We don’t usually publicize product listings at Tuned In, but we make an exception in the case of seven-foot-tall killing machines. In the event that you are interested in subjugating the human race, or planning to wage a civil war against a rival group of skinjobs, the free market has stepped in to help: BATTLESTAR [...]

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Corporate Press Release Theater: More Celebrity Rehab

American Idol may run out of qualified applicants, but Dr. Drew never will: VH1 has once again partnered with Dr. Drew Pinsky for a second season of the hit reality series “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.” The series, consisting of eight one-hour episodes, is slated to premiere October 2008. Similar to the first cycle, the [...]

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Test Pilot: Fringe

Torv (center, wearing brain-melding gizmo) with Noble and Jackson. / Mark Ben Holzberg/FOX Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove [...]

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Celebrity Affected! Housing Crisis Now a Big Deal!

I’m guessing I had the same huh-what? reaction many of you did when Ed McMahon went on Larry King last week to say that he was facing foreclosure on the mansion that he has been trying to sell for $6 million. (Sure, that sounds like a lot, but back in the day you could buy [...]

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The Morning After: The Rest Is Still Unscripted

ABC I haven’t regularly followed any edition of The Bachelor/ette since, oh, the Trista era. Nor am I any more inclined to watch it now that the show is two freaking hours long. (Did we really lose that many narrative subtleties at an hour’s length?) But I checked in on last night’s Bachelorette long enough [...]