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From the Oh, This Will Definitely Work Dept.: Warner Bros. is planning a reboot Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie—without the involvement of Joss Whedon, who wrote the script of the original Buffy movie and was the creative force behind the seven-season series on The WB.
And just in …
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Late Friday night, in a surprise move, Fox announced a midseason schedule with a big, big change: American Idol will move from Tuesday and Wednesday nights to Wednesday and Thursday nights. The move has already been hashed out well at some more biz-minded sites, but it deserves a Tuned In post, for your discussion/mourning if nothing …
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I own a 2005 Scion xB. I mention that by way of admitting that I may not be the best critic to assess the gut-level effectiveness of History channel’s American Top Gear. It’s not that I hate cars, or driving. I’m from Michigan! But I’ve always been attracted to the underpowered weirdos of the car world—the xBs, the VW Things, the AMC …
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“Don’t retreat. Just reload.” —Sarah Palin, to daughter Bristol, while shooting clay pigeons on Sarah Palin’s Alaska
Tonight, the last and perhaps most closely followed vote of the 2010 midterm season gets under way: the season finale of Dancing with the Stars. This year’s voting has been especially controversial because, week after …
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Spoilers for tonight’s Walking Dead coming up:
The disadvantage of getting The Walking Dead on screeners is that I don’t get the full experience of watching the show late Sunday as it airs. That’s also the advantage. How the …
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Spoilers for last night’s Boardwalk Empire coming up:
“The Emerald City” was an underwhelming episode of Boardwalk Empire, partly because it seemed largely to be mechanically setting up conflicts for the season’s final two …
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Fresh off having given Keith Olbermann a two-day suspension without pay for donating to three Democratic candidates, MSNBC has done the same to Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough for making eight contributions to candidates (including his brother) in local Florida races between 2004 and 2008.
I wrote about this issue when …
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Last night’s blissfully weird Community, “Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design,” was a buildup to two elaborately constructed payoffs: the twist-within-a-twist-within-a-twist conspiracy ending, and the chase through Troy and Abed’s teeming blanket-fort city. The latter was one of those …
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Comcast, the intended new owner of NBC Universal, today announced its planned organizational structure for the outfit. The cable side of the operation, which has been doing quite well, will stay largely the same, with Bonnie Hammer and Lauren Zelaznick continuing to divvy up those properties and related ones. As for the NBC …
Something notable is changing about the relationship between late night television programs and the fans who watch them. Once upon a time, the back and forth was based around consistency and familiarity. People would kick back in the recliner, lay back in bed, and tune in to see their old friend Johnny, Dave and Jay. But today, thanks …
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One of the most-anticipated new shows of 2011—and one of the most-anticipated shows at Tuned In since 2009—is Game of Thrones, HBO’s adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy saga. Now (TIME sister publication) Entertainment Weekly is revealing a behind-the-scenes look at the show’s production in Northern …
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Spoilers for last night’s Terriers coming up:
In much of the handwringing over why Terriers is not doing better in the ratings, here and elsewhere, one point of discussion has been the branding—especially the title, which seems to have left some potential viewers unclear what the show is about. The explanation is that Hank and Britt …
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If I were feeling pickier about “Manny Get Your Gun”—which I might be if the episode were not so funny—I might carp that it was not that long ago that another episode (“Unplugged”) revolved around a Dunphy family competition/bet (in that case giving up technology, in this case the race to Manny’s birthday dinner). But you know how …
