Betty returns bigger than ever, Don psychoanalyzes Stones fans and SCDP continues to diversify. This week’s episode gives us the munchies.
Television
The Week Ahead—10 Things To Watch, Read and Listen To: April 2–April 8
Every Monday, for your planning purposes, we will lay out the week ahead in entertainment. (All times refer to EDT.)
1. Full Steam Ahead
We seem to have taken the “never let go” thing pretty seriously because Titanic is …
Olbermann Out, Spitzer In at Current TV
Once Keith Olbermann worked for MSNBC. Then he left amid a feud with his bosses. Then he signed up to remake Current TV’s news operation. Then he got embroiled in a feud with his bosses (despite ostensibly being one of them). Now, eight months and change later, late on a Friday afternoon Current announced that Olbermann is leaving the …
Dead Tree Alert: Veep, Women in Power and Game of Thrones’ Clash of Queens
In the current print edition of TIME magazine, my new column (subscription required) is about how–while women candidates may not be as prominent in 2012 as in 2008–TV has become chock-full of women exercising political power. I …
TIME Plays the Game of Thrones, and Lives to Tell the Tale
We get ready for Sunday’s season two premiere with a board game full of betrayal, intrigue and very confusing rules.
Talking TV on the Radio: Primetime and the Recession (and/or Recovery)
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post here about how, whatever signs of economic rebound are going on in the actual economy, TV shows were still talking about economic bad times and probably will be for a while. Kurt Andersen, a …
Did American Idol Trade More Talent for Less Excitement?
I haven’t been doing week-by-week writeups of American Idol performances this season, which I thought might give me the perspective to see the forest of the season without getting lost in the trees of the individual song …
“I pray [for] the best for them as a family — but for goodness sake, the best thing you can do is keep your mouth shut.”
Hummus-Aisle Intifada! The Daily Show Comes to My Neighborhood
Ah, those cut-ups at The Daily Show! They’re so delightful and on target–when they’re mocking and ridiculing people who are not you, who do things that you don’t do, and believe things that you do not personally believe! But is Jon Stewart’s satire as funny-because-it’s-true when it comes to your own neighborhood?
A confession: I am …
Dancing with the Stars Watch: The Results
Hint: It wasn’t William Levy
Dancing with the Stars Watch: Week Two Blues
The over-inflated market self-adjusts to more rational scores. It sounds like economics, but it’s Dancing with the Stars.
Jimmy Kimmel to Host, and Hopefully Roast, Emmys
One of my favorite part of upfronts week in recent years has been Jimmy Kimmel‘s monologue at the annual ABC fall-season presentation, in which he roasts celebrities (on Charlie Sheen’s comeback: “Tiger Woods must feel like a …
Mad Men Stuck in Your Head
Jessica Paré, who plays Megan Draper, talks “Zou Bisou Bisou.”
