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TV Tonight: Chung-Chung!

Law & Order returns to NBC tonight. Given the zillions of times per day some version of it is in reruns, you would be forgiven for not noticing that it had been gone. But as I have said recently, I have made a resolution not to judge people for their comfort-TV-viewing habits. (We’ll see how [...]

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Yes We Can Change (Our Marketing)

Every cable news network and TV news division must be wondering how best to stoke viewership now that the election derby is over. A new ad on MSNBC just now sounds a note of Obamopportunism:  Visuals: The White House… a baby holding an American flag… windmills… a young boy holding a flag… Obama speaking at [...]

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Once and Future King?

  When I read the news that Fox was canceling King of the Hill, I thought: Well, at least we’ll have The Goode Family, the animated series Mike Judge is developing for ABC. Turns out ABC might have both The Goode Family and KOTH; reportedly, the network is considering picking up KOTH as a companion [...]

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The Election in Three Minutes

I’ll have a column in the upcoming election issue of Time about the hologramaliciousness of last night’s electoral coverage. But this video, put together by time.com’s Vanessa Kaneshiro, gives you all that in 180  201 seconds. Relive it like it was yesterday night through early this morning!

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Shield Watch: DIY Edition

In an ingenious bit of counterprogramming FX aired a new episode of The Shield last night, despite the distractions going on in the news. I don’t have a writeup for you: there was this election last night, and one thing led to another and… yeah, that’s not going to happen. But I invite those of [...]

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The Morning After: Do Not Disturb

If all goes well, as you read this, I am blissfully asleep, having been up all night liveblogging, then writing a column. Talk among yourselves. But keep it down! Some of us work the night shift! [Update: 9:07 a.m.—Yeah, that whole sleep thing's not working out—thanks, by the way, to all the Tuned In regulars, [...]

Last Talk With: William Eggleston

Let’s finish up that conversation with the photographer William Eggleston.  His retrospective opens Friday at the Whitney Museum in New York. LACAYO: There are certain pictures of your’s that I think of as your Nan Goldin pictures. EGGLESTON: Nan and I are very close. I adore her.  We talk back and forth all the time. [...]