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Lost as Spot-the-Difference Puzzle

I’ve been waiting for the Internet to do this for me, and now it has: someone has stitched together a side-by-side video of the initial airplane scene from the pilot of Lost and the just-ever-so-different version from the season 6 premiere. Now you can review the two like one of those puzzles  in the old [...]

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NBC Comedies Watch: Snack Pack

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Fringe Watch: Glimmer of Recognition

Spoilers for last night’s “winter finale” of Fringe after the jump:

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The Most Awesome Negative Ad of All Time

Tom Campbell claims that he is a sheep. But I, Carly Fiorina, maintain that he is in fact a wolf! And a pig! And a man wearing a sheep costume! Tom Campbell—I declare thee ManWolfSheepPig! (Thus doing Al Gore’s South Park nemesis one animal better.) The bonus of this California Senate ad is that is [...]

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The Super Bowl Ad You Must See

…and by “you,” I mean “I.” Super Sunday is still three days away, but I already know what I’m waiting for. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Muno from Yo Gabba Gabba!, one bad-ass sock monkey, and friends for the KIA Sorento: One more preview after the jump. What are you looking forward to come Sunday?

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TV Tonight: Important Things and, Ahem, Extra Things

OK, guys, enough with the comedy on Thursday nights. I’m serious. It’s getting ridiculous. First NBC nailed down its comedy block with the additions of Parks and Recreation and stronger-every-episode Community. Then FX added animated spy comedy Archer. Now Comedy Central has scheduled the third season of The Sarah Silverman Program and the second of [...]

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Stewart and O'Reilly: Taking on Fox News, on Fox News

Last night we saw one of the best debates about media and politics in general, and Fox News in particular, that I’ve seen on TV in a while. That it was conducted by a professional talk-TV bloviator (Bill O’Reilly) and a late-night comedian (Jon Stewart) is nothing that should make anyone in the rest of [...]

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Modern Family Watch: Cheek to Cheek

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

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Murdoch Go-Go on CoCo, If He Can Bring the Dough-Dough

It’s been a while since we’ve done an update on the aftermath of the Jaypocalypse, the next act of which remains seeing where Conan O’Brien ends up next. The latest news is—well, no news, but News Corp head Rupert Murdoch commented on it briefly in an earnings conference call this week. Fox has not had [...]

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Something to Tide You Over, Losties

While we wait for seven days to pass and scrape the bits of our brains off our collective walls, time.com has put together a collection of Lost fan videos, some of which you may have come across in your travels. (I’m partial to the Lost credits from 1967.) What are your favorites not included here?

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Lostwatch: A Different World(s)

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get out your giant hollow wooden ankh and leave yourself a note reminding yourself to watch the season premiere of Lost.

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Happy Lost Day! Take a Look at This, Freckles

On his Twitter feed yesterday, Star-Ledger critic Alan Sepinwall posted a link to this voluminous, two-part YouTube collection of one of Lost’s biggest pleasures: Sawyer’s nicknames: We can talk mythology and literary references and theories all day long, but this is why I really love this show: it’s just incredibly, joyously fun, and while that’s [...]

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HIMYM Watch: He Got Game

Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:

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Happy Lost Day!

It’s finally here! The most joyous day on Tuned In’s calendar! And you know what that means: Time to lay down some severe rules. Just kidding. Kind of. But as you may have heard, the first hour of Lost, screened by ABC for a select group over the weekend, has leaked out on YouTube, as [...]

Top 10 Oscar-Nomination Snubs

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The list of movie greats who never won an Academy Award is long and sad, but there are significant artists and pictures eliminated from contention before Oscar races even begin. Here are 10 classics the Academy ignored

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The Morning After: Ima Let You Finish (Assessing the Grammys for Me)

Last night’s Grammy Awards were the highest rated in years for CBS, drawing over 26 million viewers. I, alas, only accounted for half a viewer, having checked out on the broadcast somewhere after Pink’s fluid-soaked Cirque du Soleil debut. Time.com’s Claire Suddath covered and reviewed the performances for us, however. What were your favorites? Were [...]

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Lost Discussion Group: My Favorite Episodes, and Yours

I’ll be spending much of the next 24 hours or so getting psyched and prepped for the final-season debut of Lost, part of which involves simply trying to remember all the story we’ve downloaded over the past five years. Which means a lot of re-watching and looking back. So what better time to pick our [...]

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Big Love Watch: Principle vs. (Self-) Interest

Before you read this post, whip up a batch of turkey tetrazzini and sit down to watch last night’s Big Love: