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How to Talk to Your Child About the End of Hannah Montana

Well, it may not have come to that yet. But Miley Cyrus, after releasing an album under her own name and totally unintentionally distancing herself from her child-star image in Vanity Fair, has now told E! Online that “We’re thinking this [the upcoming third season] is our last season.” Disney begs to differ, noting that [...]

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Fox Biz Audience Threatens to Break Five Digits

Remember when Fox Business Network launched? Remember when it was the biggest TV news of all time, including the actual invention of television itself? Remember when News Corp was going to parlay the Fox and Wall Street Journal brands into a business juggernaut that would probably culminate in Rupert Murdoch’s face being printed on every [...]

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HBO Not So In Love With TMYLM; Plus, Another True Blood Tease

Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer vamp it up with Ball. / HBO photo: Jamie Trueblood (surname not a typo) Oh, you commenters! Always with your commenty comments! Wilson writes: This isn’t about Mad Men (which was awesome) but James P’s other favorite show, “Tell Me You Love Me.” What happened there? And Tom Shaw drops [...]

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Mad Men Proves That Advertising Works

What do you get for $25 million? For AMC and Mad Men, about a million pairs of eyeballs. The season 2 premiere of the much-lauded-by-critics, not-as-much-watched-by-people drama drew about 1.9 million viewers. That’s not much by broadcast network standards—or even by TNT network standards—but it’s more than double the show’s average audience of 915,000 viewers. [...]

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The Morning After: Ain't That a Kick in the Head

ABC So I’m flipping channels last night, and I come across a reality-competition show in which someone’s been rushed to the hospital after drinking too much in a hot tub. Business as usual, right? Something on MTV, or maybe Big Brother? No: I was watching Fine Living Network. Which, though how this slipped under my [...]