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What You Are Doing Sunday Night

Watching the Golden Globes, accompanied by your laptop and the liveblog stylings of TIME movie critic Richard Corliss, fashion editor Kate Betts and Mr. Tuned In. You’ll find us at the Golden Globes liveblog, starting 7:30 p.m. E.T.-ish.  What you do after that Sunday night is your business.

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TV Weekend: Jack Bauer Gets Meta

  Much of the advance coverage of the season premiere of 24 has focused on the question: is Jack Bauer going soft for the age of Obama? This is a great benefit for the producers, since it deflects attention from the more pressing question: Does 24 still suck, and if so, how much?   

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Digital Switch Becomes a Political Issue

Those incessant public-service announcements reminding you to prepare your TV for the digital switchover may have to be updated (and stick around a while longer). The Obama transition team is recommending that the switch–in which analog signals will be replaced by digital ones–be delayed past the planned Feb. 17 date. The digital signals are clearer [...]

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The Morning After: Top That!

After putting up my post about Ken Tucker’s new blog, I had an e-mail exchange with a fellow critic about the value of writing about shows after the fact, on a blog, versus writing about them before the fact, in a traditional review. 30 Rock, at least, is a perfect show for blogging about the [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: BSG Preview

  I feel I should offer something of an apology to BSG fans for my Battlestar Galactica preview in this week’s TIME: there’s probably not a lot in it for you. That is, I discuss the new episode, debuting next Friday, only in very general terms, for two reasons. (1) I usually assume a more general [...]