Once upon a time there was a plan to shoot season 7 of 24 in Africa. In between then and now, the idea was scotched, for reasons I’m not completely clear on. What we have been left with is 24: Redemption, a two-hour movie / season 7 prequel that airs Sunday on Fox. In [...]

Spoilers for this week’s Office coming up after the jump:

Early in Comedy Central’s A Colbert Christmas, airing Sunday night, flag-waving country singer Toby Keith stops by Colbert’s cabin in the snowy woods. They get to talking about what’s happened to Christmas in our society—you go to the mall and people say “Season’s Greetings,” you can’t put a Nativity scene in front of a courthouse. [...]

  My column in this week’s magazine looks at the media blitz surrounding America’s newest TV family:   After Obama won, there was talk of a “Huxtable effect”–the idea that pop-cultural portrayals of African Americans from The Cosby Show to 24′s David Palmer readied white America for a black President. But maybe there’s an opposite [...]