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More With Less

It’s not as if cuts in newsrooms are exactly surprising news anymore. But one of the latest in a long line of newspaper downsizings has a life-imitates-art angle for Tuned In’s fans of The Wire: The Baltimore Sun is expected to cut 20 percent of its newsroom staff. Watch your back, Gus Haynes.

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From Deadwood to Damages for Olyphant

The “Hire a Deadwood Vet” public-service campaign continues to bear fruit, as Timothy Olyphant, Deadwood’s Sheriff Bullock, joins the cast of Damages for next year’s season 2. Sez FX: Olyphant’s character will become tangled in the life of Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) as she deals with both her recent personal loss and the escalating conflict [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: Locke Box

Bend it like Bentham. / ABC So Locke is dead. Or “dead.” Or… do we need to coin an adjective for the sort of dead-but-possibly-not, well-maybe-actually-dead-but-nonetheless-having-a-big-part-in-the-story state of being that is becoming common on Lost? Dëd, maybe? In any case, we can all agree that the producers will not be foolish enough to deny Terry [...]

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The Morning After: I Love the Present

The warning of U.S. Retro Secretary Anson Williams was a few years off, but it has finally come true: we have run out of past. Last night, VH1 aired I Love the New Millennium, one of its trademark specials wallowing in nostalgia for, um, a few years ago. Remember Jayson Blair? Remember McGriddles? Remember William [...]