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TV Weekend: Centre of the Action

Blame Canada. / Ben Mark Holzberg/CBS Besides Generation Kill, this weekend sees tonight’s debut of Flashpoint, a CBS crime drama—about a police special task force—notable mostly for the fact that it’s a rare Canadian import on U.S. TV,* having been ordered partly as insurance against the possibility that the writers’ strike would last until the [...]

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H.R. PufnSpace

Krofft Kwikies – Lidsville “Escape From HooDoo” It’s been something of a Sid and Marty Krofft Week here at Tuned In, what with the multiple references to The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, so what better way to cap off the week than the news that the Kroffts have launched a MySpace page, as part of [...]

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Dead Tree Alert 2: Tim Gunn Endorses Obama

Michelle Obama, that is. Also in the current print edition of TIME, Tim Gunn escapes the suspicious Bravo fortress of silence surrounding Project Runway to take 10 Questions from the readers of the magazine. None of which have to do with Project Runway itself. (I’m told, though I haven’t listened, that at least some Runway [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Generation Kill

PAUL SCHIRALDI / HBO In this week’s Time, I review HBO’s Iraq War miniseries Generation Kill, which debuts Sunday night. From what I’ve read so far elsewhere, is looks like the praise for the series will be effusive, and that praise will be justified: Kill’s strength comes from focusing not on why we fight or [...]

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The Morning After: TCA Roundup

In yesterday’s news from the TV critics’ press tour: * HBO plans to combat its programming slump with a novel strategy: creating new television shows. (Also, in what is becoming a ritual announcement, those Deadwood movies are still never gonna happen.) * Speaking of HBO, let’s not forget the upcoming, and oxymoronic, American Little Britain, [...]