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Vacation Robo-Post: How's Your News?

As you see, I have not posted a Lost review this morning. (The time.com honchos say they plan to have a guest poster review, so if it hasn’t gone up yet, be patient. If all goes according to plan, I will not be watching until tonight on TiVo, so I’ll be avoiding the comments until [...]

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The Morning After: Robo-Edition

Flesh-James is on vacation this week. While his weak meat-body recuperates from its exertions, this is your daily post to discuss what appeared on your television machine last night. 

Lostwatch: 316

Before you read this post, stop thinking how ridiculous it is, start asking yourself whether or not you believe it’s going to work and watch last night’s Lost.

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Vacation Robo-Post: Lost Discussion Group

For this week’s Lost Day robo-post, I’ll start you off with ABC’s description of tonight’s episode, “316″… “316″ – The way back to the island is revealed to members of the Oceanic 6, but there’s trouble ahead when not all of them wish to return, on “Lost,” WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18 (9:00-10:02 p.m., ET) on the [...]

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The Morning After: Robo-Edition

Flesh-James is on vacation this week. While his weak meat-body recuperates from its exertions, this is your daily post to discuss what appeared on your television machine last night. 

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Vacation Robo-Post: Midseason Dreams

It’s midseason, and it’s only getting midseasonier: starting in March, we’ll be seeing a ton of new (and returning) series premieres. Which shows are you most looking forward to—for the spring, the summer, or even beyond?  My partial list:  * Kings (I’ve received review screeners but have not, at this writing, watched) * The Goode [...]

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The Morning After: Robo-Edition

Flesh-James is on vacation this week. While his weak meat-body recuperates from its exertions, this is your daily post to discuss what appeared on your television machine last night. 

Meryl Streep’s Golden Career

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The acclaimed actress has been nominated for a record 16 Academy Awards

Big Love: Am-Bushed!

Before reading this guest post by TIME movie critic Richard Corliss, plant some azaleas while watching the latest episode of Big Love… Big news: In a backyard ceremony, Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) took counter-girl Ana (Branka Katic) as his fourth wife. This concluded a courtship that spread over two of the series’ three seasons, and [...]

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Vacation Robo-Post: Your Favorite TV President

Good morning, and welcome to your week of pre-programmed robo-posts. Today is President’s Day, which means two things: (1) I am on a plane, hightailing it out of New York airspace and trying not to think of water landings on the Hudson, and (2) it’s time for a TV President War! Bartlet for America? Palmer [...]

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The Morning After: Robo-Edition

Flesh-James is on vacation this week. While his weak meat-body recuperates from its exertions, this is your daily post to discuss what appeared on your television machine last night, or over the weekend. Robo-James would like to know, for instance, what you thought of Battlestar Galactica or, in particular, Dollhouse. Robo-James is particularly concerned about [...]

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Programming Note

  I’ll be on vacation next week, part of it in Florida, land of early-bird specials and giant-print traffic signs. I may manage a post or two—and time.com tells me someone will be covering Lost, at minimum; also, TIME movie critic Richard Corliss volunteered a guest Big Love Watch for this Sunday’s episode. But otherwise [...]

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TV Weekend: HBO Bunts, FOTC Homers

  Is it damning with faint praise to say that HBO’s new comedy, Eastbound & Down, is a funny show if you don’t expect too much? What I mean by that is this: whereas some HBO comedies are wry and dry (Flight of the Conchords), cosmopolitan (Sex and the City) or knowingly insidery (Entourage), Eastbound [...]

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TV Tonight: Who Does She Think She Is?

Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse debuts tonight, and you can say this for the series: whatever you think of the time slot Fox gave it, it doesn’t seem to have been stiffed on the publicity and advertising fronts.  My review ran early in TIME, so as a public service, I’ll point you to it again… Echo (Eliza [...]

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The Morning After: McFlurry of Activity

  I’d complained before that Salma Hayek’s character in 30 Rock was not adding much to the show, so credit where it’s due: last night was the first episode in which she really seemed to be a fully contributing part of the ensemble. (And not just because of all the weirdly timely boob jokes, either.) [...]

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Office Watch: My Baby, She Wrote Me a Letter

Spoilers for last night’s Office coming up after the jump:

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Dead Tree Alert: Viewing Outside the Box

  In this week’s TIME magazine, I have an essay inspired by the magical week after Thanksgiving when my TiVo box crapped out on me and I found myself watching most of my TV on my laptop and my iPhone. Now that TV has dispersed from one machine in the center of your living room to [...]

Top 10 Disastrous Letterman Interviews

Top 10 Disastrous Letterman Interviews

Joaquin Phoenix appears on Late Show with David Letterman under the guise of his new bearded hip-hop persona, puzzling everyone. Here are a few more crazy Letterman interviews