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Corporate Press Release Theater: Celebrity Apprentices, or Apprentice Celebrities

NBC has announced the roster of this year’s Celebrity Apprentice, which debuts March 1. There are ’90s legends including Andrew Dice Clay, Tom Green and Dennis Rodman. There’s a Kardashian (but not the famous one!). And there are Joan and Melissa Rivers, who actually, by the standards of Donald Trump’s show, are absolute A-listers. (Incidentally, [...]

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Feat of Mentalism

I very rarely make accurate ratings predictions, so I have to make a big deal of them when I do. And with news that The Mentalist scored nearly 20 million viewers the other night, I can’t help noting that I kinda-sorta pegged it for a hit last fall:  The Mentalist is, in the end, a [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: We Have to Go Back. But Why?

We are in one of those weird periods for LDG, because I have seen the first two episodes of season 5 (both of which air Jan. 21). So I have to be extremely careful about posing leading discussion questions, or writing anything else that may inadvertently spoil something for someone, if for no other reason [...]

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The Morning After: Damage Assessment

Brief and only mildly spoilery remarks on the season premiere of Damages after the jump: