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TV Tonight: Project Runway Retur—Hey, Look at This Shiny Object!

A dandified Austin Scarlett and Tim Gunn launch (shhh!) PR’s fifth season. / Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke Tonight, Project Runway fans welcome back the fashion reality show despite the underwhelming publicity efforts of Bravo, which no one can prove had anything to do with the fact that next season, the series will belong to Lifetime. [...]

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Dr. Horrible: This Is So Going In My Blog!

I finally managed to pay my $3.99 on iTunes to subscribe to the three parts of Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, and I have just one question: $howmuch.99 would we have to pay to get Whedon and company to keep making this show forever? I’m as big a Whedon fan as anyone (OK, probably [...]

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JibJab: Meet the Real Enemy

With all the noise this week about offensive political satire, and the dearth thereof, we should not lose sight of the worst satire of all: pointless, middle-of-the-road, lowest-common-denominator, little-something-for-everybody skewering. Fortunately, we have JibJab to remind us of that, as Mark Russell’s Internet little siblings have released another song parody that’s not quite edgy enough [...]

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TCA Roundup: Far-Reaching FX

* Fox turns over its remaining time on the TCA stage to sibling network FX, which announces that Nip/Tuck will end after an even 100 episodes, while It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia will be on long after Philadelphia is run by the cockroaches. And it introduces human-lab-rat comedy Testees. Pronounced just like you think. * [...]