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TV Tonight: Million(?)-Dollar Listing

By James Poniewozik

If you’re like me, no housing crash can suppress your obsession with the real-estate market and the TV shows that chronicle it. If you’re not like me—and you’re not—well, it’s August, so you may want to watch the return of Bravo’s real-esate reality saga, Million-Dollar Listing. I hear the price was just slashed to a [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1283 days ago

Sex and Marriage: Like a Horse and a Horseless Carriage

By James Poniewozik

HIMYM’s Marshall and Lily: what kind of example are they setting for the children? / Eric McCandless/CBS The Parents Television Council issued a report today on sex on broadcast TV. The report, “Happily Never After,” you may not exactly be stunned to learn, finds there to be too much of it. In particular, the report [...]

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Last Candidate Standing

By James Poniewozik

I’m aware, by the way, that it seems sometimes as if I blog about nothing but politics here nowadays. But it’s August, and it’s an election year and that means that by default the election is itself the watercooler show on TV, at least until the Olympics start. But don’t take my word for it. [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1283 days ago

MSNBC Panel: McCain Held Hostage By Advisers!

By James Poniewozik

The panel on MSNBC’s Hardball yesterday offered a novel explanation of why John McCain has gone so sharply negative in the past week or so (link via Talking Points Memo): ANDREA MITCHELL: I have maybe a counterintuitive view that John McCain also doesn’t like this kind of politics, went along with his new, tougher political [...]

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The Morning After: From Making the Band to Making the Coffee

By James Poniewozik

Although I Want to Work for Diddy sounds like it should be a show about people fighting each other to get a minimum-wage job, it is instead another entry in VH1′s vast raft of celebreality shows—in this case, one where aspirants compete to be P. Diddy’s personal assistant. The premise, at first, made me worry [...]