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Zombies Devour Ratings Record! 7.3 Million for Walking Dead

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Amid the off-season drama over AMC’s The Walking Dead—in which the network cut the series’ budget and ushered out showrunner Frank Darabont—hung the question: was the network going to, er, cannibalize its zombie drama and biggest commercial hit?

Video: Beyoncé’s “Love on Top” Has Lots of Bounce

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No matter how good or bad the songs, Beyoncé’s music videos are always great.

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Supersize Me! Welcome to TIME Entertainment

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Welcome to the new TIME Entertainment, in which yours truly at Tuned In is being joined by TIME’s other arts writers to form a kind of critical supergroup. (If Tuned In is the ELO of time.com, TIME Entertainment is its Traveling Wilburys.)

TIME Recommends: A Compact (But Meaty) Leonard Cohen Box Set

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Four decades, seventeen albums—the glorious minstrel sounds of Leonard Cohen.

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Is the Media Ready to Take Herman Cain Seriously? Is Herman Cain?

Sunday morning, David Gregory introduced former pizza executive Herman Cain to Meet the Press as the frontrunner in NBC’s latest GOP poll and as “the man of the moment.” Taken together, you can translate those two statements thus: political reporters pretty much have no choice but to cover Cain given his rise in the polls, [...]

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Boardwalk Empire Watch: Slap Happy

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“What Does the Bee Do?,” the fourth episode of Boardwalk Empire’s second season, returns to a familiar theme about power: whether it is better–oh, hell, you don’t want to talk about that, do you?

The Walking Dead: The New Slow Burn

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The season two premiere of AMC’s zombie apocalypse series takes its time before getting all bloody.

Music Monday: Mayer Hawthorne Channels Motown On How Do You Do

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Hawthorne’s neo-soul album offers some of this fall’s tightest songs.

Dawn of the ‘UltraViolet’ DVD: Will the Cloud Doom Cinema?

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Video-on-demand, streaming and the end of film—Hollywood is ushering in a brave new era.

London Film Festival: Seth Rogen And Will Reiser Crack Wise

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The star and writer of 50/50 discuss their cancer comedy in front of a London audience.

‘Real Steel’ Kicks ‘Footloose,’ Leaves ‘The Thing’ for Dead

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Real Steel, last week’s No. 1 film, bucked the odds to retain its crown and defeat the favored challenger, a remake of the 1984 hit Footloose.

Video: Colson Whitehead’s Favorite Pop Culture Zombies

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The novelist talks to TIME about the movies that influenced his new book, Zone One.

I Love Lucy Turns 60

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Six decades after the airing of the sitcom’s first episode, TIME looks back at the historic first season—and the married stars who produced it.

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Dead Tree Alert: Occupy Prime Time!

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Though 2 Broke Girls is the most prominent new example, money troubles and working-class situations have been creeping in elsewhere in primetime.

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Next Week’s TV Today: Watch Kelsey Grammer’s Boss Now (If You Have Comcast)

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A week from tonight, Starz debuts the ambitious Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer as a ruthless mayor of Chicago hiding a debilitating neurological disorder. But the Comcast subscribers among you can watch the entire pilot now (even if you don’t have Starz) through the XfinityTV service. (I don’t have Comcast myself so, full disclosure, I am [...]

Texas Killing Fields: Drenched in the Stench of Death

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Avatar’s Sam Worthington and every film’s Jessica Chastain star in a creepily atmospheric true-crime thriller

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TV Weekend: The Walking Dead Has Legs

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By the end of its short first season, I was ready to put The Walking Dead on my list of “almost” shows: those series that had the potential to be great, but which for lack of execution or desire never actually got there. It had well-regarded source material (I haven’t myself read the Robert Kirkman [...]

The Skin I Live In: Almodóvar's Human Centipede

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The great Spanish filmmaker casts Antonio Banderas as a mad-love surgeon, in a surgical thriller designed to make your flesh crawl