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Big Love: We Wish You a Married Christmas

Big Love returns to HBO Jan. 10. To get you through the long holiday wait until then, Roman Grant and his wives prepared you the above video Christmas card. An album of eight songs, A Juniper Creek Christmas, is available for download from hbo.com. No, seriously, it is. Happy holidays to you and yours (plural)!

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Lambert on The View: Tongue in Cheek, Pelvis in Check

“Is it that big a deal?” Adam Lambert asked Barbara Walters on The View this morning, after the umpteenth question about his sexuality, his AMAs performance and whether he would go on a mad crotch-thrusting rampage before the daytime-TV cameras this morning. Well, of course it’s not that big a deal—pop musicians use sex, duh—and [...]

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Glee Watch: Getting What You Want

Spoilers for the midseason finale of Glee coming up after the jump:

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Top Chef Watch: Bad Robot!

Spoilers for last night’s Top Chef finale coming up after the jump:

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For That Special (TV-Loving Modernist) Someone This Holiday

A while ago I alerted you to a blog featuring the most awesome minimalist-design TV posters ever. There was enough interest that I thought I should inform you that, just in time for the holidays, the posters are now available for sale. I haven’t seen the product at first hand, so I can’t vouch for [...]

Top 10 Disney Controversies

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Disney’s The Princess and the Frog was the first to feature a black heroine, but the film still raised some eyebrows. The studio is no stranger to controversy—here are 10 scandals from its past.

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Your Turn: The Best TV Lines of '09

This is what punchy TV critics and fans do on Twitter on a December afternoon: start a tweet meme of Best TV Lines of 2009. (Update: H/t to Mo Ryan, who near as I can tell launched the whole thing.) You can read (and join) the fun at that link, but show us your best [...]

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TV Tonight: Who's Your Top Chef?

If you’re interested, you need no reminder, but Top Chef: No-Longer-in-Las-Vegas-But-Napa has its finale tonight. Facing off are the seeming frontrunners the entire season: Kevin, of the burly beard, and the eerily dispassionate Voltaggio brothers (known affectionately in the Tuned In household as Good Robot and Bad Robot). Though I couldn’t begrudge any of them [...]

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The World Has Turned: Why Are Soaps Dying?

The latest casualty of the Great Soap-Opera Die-Off was named yesterday: CBS’s As the World Turns. Along with the closings of newspapers and the killing of Gourmet magazine, this is one of those epochal-sounding media deaths that drives home the big changes going on. I mean, count the rings on this baby: ATWT will be [...]

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The Morning After: Reuni-Ted

Better Off Ted—now an official Tuned In Show of the Year Honorable Mention™ winner!—returned to ABC last night with an episode that showed how well its corporate satire and roster of characters have come together over the year. It’s still a bit of a doughnut show for me: i.e., a show in which I’m least [...]

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My Top 10 TV Shows: The TV Show(s)

After I finished my lists of the top 10 TV shows and top 10 episodes of 2009, I sat down with time.com’s Vanessa Kaneshiro to talk about some of my picks. Above, the video accompanying my top-10-shows list; after the jump, the video for my top-10-episodes list:

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Top 10 Episodes of 2009: The Best, and the Rest

My list of the top 10 TV episodes of 2009 is also up here at time.com. See my post about the best 10 shows of the year for my general thoughts about listmaking. After the jump, some particular comments about the episode list, the quick-and-dirty version of the list, and my honorable mentions:

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Top 10 Shows of 2009: The Best, and the Rest

TIME’s annual collection of 10-Best Lists are up, including my list of the top 10 TV shows of 2009. (Also up is my list of the top 10 TV episodes, which I’ll cover in a separate post.) After the jump, the quick-and-dirty version of the list, some thoughts and explanations, and my honorable mentions:

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"How Will Dave Ever Make Fun of Sex Scandals Again?"

Like this. I don’t know how the legal investigation into the Letterman extortion/affair case will go. Maybe other shoes will drop. The future is uncertain! But with David Letterman’s ratings having maintained a steady level, and with the host delivering a pretty solid Tiger Woods monologue his first night back since Thanksgiving, I think we [...]

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The Morning After: Two-and-a-Half-to-Three Men

I won’t re-review last night’s Men of a Certain Age and am not sure if I’m adding it to the regular Watch rotation yet, but thought I’d put up a post for your comments and thoughts. In retrospect, I’m not sure whether I’m more impressed at Ray Romano’s dramatic acting or André Braugher’s comedic acting; [...]

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HIMYM Watch: Open and Shut

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

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MTV Embraces a New Era's Optimism, Underwear

“After years of celebrating wealth, celebrity and the vapid excesses of youth, MTV is trying to gloss its escapist entertainment with a veneer of positive social messages.” –The New York Times, 4/19/09 “There’s a palpable generational shift in attitudes that’s informing a new point of view as we develop content and the brand…. Millennials have [...]

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Fox News, Talk Radio Hosts Strike Gold

If you watch a lot of TV news, you become well aware of the consumer options for free credit reports, health-care products for the elderly and—if you watch Fox News in particular—gold. A fascinating story up at Politico examines the symbiosis between the conservative talkers peddling disaster and the various companies peddling the yellow stuff.