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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1232 days ago

Paging Surgeon General Gupta?

By James Poniewozik

Barack Obama to Name Dr. Sanjay Gupta Surgeon General: Onion headline or actual news? According to The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, it’s fact, and as long as the CNN doc can accustom himself to making White House money rather than cable-news money, he’s expected to accept.  The jokes write themselves, and hey, I’m not above [...]

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Tuned In+1232 days ago

TV Tonight: Doctors, with Borders

By James Poniewozik

  The midseason is getting under way in earnest, with more primetime debuts tonight:   * On ABC, Scrubs returns for a possibly-last season on a new network. I’ll admit that I haven’t followed the show closely for a couple of years, so I’ll take other critics at their word when they say that the [...]

+Looking Around | 1232 days ago

Another Deaccession Session

By Richard Lacayo

Still more on the debate over whether it can ever be acceptable for a museum to sell work from its permanent collection to pay its bills. Over at his Art Law Blog, the New York attorney Donn Zaretsky has what you might call a throw-all-the-pieces-in-the-air contribution from Adrian Ellis, who heads the arts consulting firm [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1232 days ago

Some Pig

By James Poniewozik

  Buried in mail, expense reports and yet-unwatched screeners right now, and yet I had to share the news that Nickelodeon is bringing one of my favorite modern-day children’s books to TV. Olivia, based on the books by Ian Falconer, debuts Jan. 26.   I haven’t seen the show yet—and I’m a bit worried about [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1232 days ago

Ken Tucker's Watching TV

By James Poniewozik

A good thing, since he’s a TV critic for Entertainment Weekly. Since returning from from a stint as movie critic at New York magazine, Tucker has contributed to ew.com, but now he’s doing a daily blog for the site. The premise: Tucker watches TV every night. Then he writes about what he watched. Simplicity itself.  [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | 1232 days ago

The Morning After: Booty Is Truth, Truth Booty

By James Poniewozik

  True Beauty, which debuted last night on ABC, sought to open our eyes to a fact that no other reality show has ever revealed: that good-looking people competing on TV are often shallow. A joint production of Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher, it combines the hallmarks of their two production styles: sanctimony about “inner [...]