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Project Runway Watch: What a Tulle!

Bravo Photo: Barbara Nitke Spoilers for last night’s Project Runway coming up after the jump.

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Supreme Court History with Sarah Palin

Jeez. Just… jeez. I’m not quite sure what to say that won’t seem like piling on. Well, one thing. Katie Couric has interviewed Sarah Palin in several rounds now. At least three times (McCain and regulation, Palin’s media consumption and Supreme Court decisions), Palin’s stumbles followed pretty much the same pattern: KC: Question? SP: Vague [...]

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The Morning After: Buzzworthy?

ABC Did absence make your heart grow fonder? Last night, ABC’s Pushing Daisies, Private Practice and Dirty Sexy Money returned after an eternity in post-strike suspended animation. The big gamble in keeping these shows off the air in April and May, then “relaunching” now, of course, is that they would neither seem new and exciting [...]

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TV Tonight: Friday Night Satellites

Besides the do-over of the ABC Wednesday night lineup, tonight Friday Night Lights returns on DirecTV’s 101 Network. I’ve seen the first episode, and to the extent that season 2 got away from the show’s first season roots—with the Landry killing subplot especially, but more soap drama in general—the premiere gets back to them, focusing [...]

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Palin Barely Moves Numbers (for Katie)

The New York Times reports that, for all the buzz generated by Katie Couric’s multiple interviews with Sarah Palin, the ratings for the CBS Evening News barely budged, and are down from last year. For CBS, it’s an example of TV’s burning question, to which I don’t pretend to have an answer: In the multiplatform, [...]

Top 10 Worst TV Spin-Offs

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TIME looks back at the most absurd, ill-planned and disastrous TV-show spin-offs of the past few decades.

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Conservatives v. Ifill: Questioning the Questioner, Questionably

A day and a half before the Vice Presidential debate, seemingly the entire conservative blogosphere has, at pretty much the same time, decided that Gwen Ifill is an absolutely unacceptable choice as moderator. (Matt Drudge is presently blaring the news on his Bat-signal.) The reason: she’s writing a book, to be published on Inauguration Day, [...]

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Fringe Watch: Bald Ambition

Craig Blankenhorn/FOX SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, make yourself a raw roast beef sandwich with jalapenos and watch last night’s Fringe.