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Shield Watch: We Made Each Other Into Something Worse

Spoilers for the series finale of The Shield coming up after the jump:

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Trend Watch: Coming Up Rosie?

A New York Times feature today looks at tomorrow’s Rosie O’Donnell variety special on NBC, widely considered to be a sort of test pilot for a possible variety series. As the piece notes, the Return of the Variety Show has been bruited about in network TV for a little while now—Fox is at work for [...]

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Swag Photography: You Gonna Drink That?

We’re a fickle bunch, TV critics, and the demand for our attention is intense. So the publicists of various TV networks drive themselves to ever-greater heights of creativity to package their DVDs with various swag items to pique our interest. Case in point: TNT’s upcoming heist-caper drama Leverage, a screener for which recently arrived accompanied [...]

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Biz News: TV Thriving, Also Screwed

Two news items, both from the Hollywood Reporter:  * Despite widespread news of a decline in broadcast ratings, a Nielsen study finds people using their TVs more than ever. Using them for what? As attractive planters? Doorstops? No: they’re watching cable and—heed Tim Kring—using their DVRs more and more often.  * That said, the possibility [...]

Architecture Death Watch

Last week I posted about how economic downturns effect architecture. The not-so-surprising conclusion — during bad times there’s a lot less of it. And here we go again. A few weeks ago the spiraling Santiago Calatrava tower in Chicago ground to a halt. Last month the U2 tower in Dublin, designed by the firm of [...]

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HIMYM Watch: Everybody Wang Chung Tonight

Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:

Top 10 Biopics

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As Clint Eastwood’s new film on the life of J. Edgar Hoover hits movie screens, TIME looks back at 80-plus years of films “based on the life of…”

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The Morning After: Chuck in Charge

  It has become a refrain of certain commenters here—cough! Chaddogg! cough!—that Tuned In is not showing sufficient love to Chuck this season. Triage, my friends, triage. I’m liking Chuck better this season than I did the first, but (1) I tend to watch them in chunks, either on DVD long before they air, or [...]