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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, [...]

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Last Election Liveblog of 2008

…or the first election liveblog of 2012, depending how you look at it. Michael Grunwald, Karen Tumulty and I will be liveblogging the election and its coverage here at time.com. The liveblog will really kick into gear when polls begin to close around 6 p.m. E.T. or so, but I (and I suspect my compatriots) [...]

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Today's Most Important Election Forecast

The Weather Channel has its election weather page up.

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HIMYM Watch: Anything But Another Damn Election Post Edition

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

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Call It! The Feature

One way or another, the network projections tonight are likely to be controversial. If John McCain wins, or comes very close, the big question will be: is the polling system broken? If Obama wins, in a way consistent with the fairly big margin the final polls are showing, the big question will be: how long [...]

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Call It! Part Two

I wrote earlier that it’s been network policy not to call elections before the polls close. But there’s calling and then there’s calling. Interesting exchange just now between Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd on Hardball: TODD: … [about Virginia] Let’s say, if the Virginia polls are correct, OK, Chris, and Obama has this five, six, [...]

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Top Video Moments of the Campaign

I came up with a top 10 list for Time.com. I wanted to spread the wealth around and include a sweep from the primaries through the general election, so there’s a vast amount I left on the cutting-room floor. (For instance, the Obamercial, whose impact is hard to assess so soon. Also, honorable mentions should [...]

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Call It! Or Not. The Election Night Dilemma

Aaron Barnhart has a provocative post at TV Barn arguing that the networks should abandon their longstanding policy of not calling Presidential races until the polls in a given state have closed.  I agree with him on the general principle. I don’t think that TV networks, or any journalism organizations, should make their decisions on [...]

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The Morning After: Boyz n the 'Hood

Every once in a while a show comes along that eludes me, yet gets so much praise and attention that I keep thinking: It can’t be them. It must be me. Brotherhood, which returned to Showtime last night, is one such show. I watched all of season one (Showtime sent the entire season out) and thought [...]

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McCain/Fey '08

  John McCain’s political challenge on Saturday Night Live—we can agree there are political stakes in it, right? that you don’t devote time to a national TV appearance three days before an election just for yuks?—was that he had to balance being funny with being funny. That is, he needed to seem likeable and self-deprecating [...]