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Friday Night Lights goes back to school this Friday. NBC Photo: Bill Records
Aaron Barnhart and I do not call each other up and plan what to write about any given day, what to wear (he’s better dressed than I am) or anything else. But the same morning that I used my Aliens in America review to confess that I never felt the Summer of …
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Kalyan, left, and Dan Byrd. Marcel Williams/ The CW
Tonight, The CW debuts Aliens in America, which I gave a brief plug in the current issue of Time. A lot of advance raves have compared the show with The Wonder Years. I didn’t, perhaps because, apparently unlike every other TV critic in America, I was never that crazy for The Wonder …
Marriage at Cana, Veronese, 1562-63 — The Louvre
But not quite. It seems that the Venetian Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, where Veronese’s great Marriage at Cana was housed until Napoleon’s troops carted it back to the Louvre as war booty in 1797, has commissioned and installed a full scale digital reproduction. The New York Times …
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Only one network debut this weekend (Moonlight), but consider this your all-purpose thread for it and the various returning-show debuts. Did Dexter live up to expectations? Did Moonlight live down to them?
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SPOILER ALERT: This post reveals developments on last night’s Meerkat Manor–although, if you watch Meerkat Manor, you probably already have a fairly good guess what those developments were.
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Last night, lovers of the Animal Planet hit nature show / reality soap opera Meerkat Manor said goodbye to the show’s star, Flower, …
Police in the British town of Gateshead have given the British press a gift of great value — a chance to put the words “Sir Elton John” and “child porn” into the same headline. Don’t get excited, no one is carting away Elton’s home computers. A gallery in Gateshead, called the Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, is the latest stop on …
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New-fall-season triage has kept me from watching all four episodes of Dexter that Showtime sent. But the first episode finds Michael C. Hall in spellbinding form as the serial-killer-killing-serial-killer, under growing pressure as his secret comes closer to being exposed, and finding …
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According to the new brain trust at NBC, this
plus this
…equals this:
To wit: Variety is reporting that Ben Silverman at NBC has greenlighted a remake of Knight Rider, in the form of a two-hour backdoor pilot to be directed by Doug Liman. But with transformers! Yes, says the trade mag, “The thinking is that smallscreen f/x …
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I’ll be interviewed on the syndicated Satellite Sisters radio show today at 12:30 p.m. E.T., talking about the new TV season and my top-100 TV list. Where can you listen to it? Um… good question! You can stream the live show online (or download the podcast later) here. (NOTE: Does not actually require a satellite!)
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this, slip some Dr. Scholl’s in your shoes and watch Mad Men.
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I wrote a bit the other day about the various trends of the new season–rich peeople, superpowers, nerds, etc.–but there’s an unusual little meta-trend that crosses a few of these genres: Nostalgia for Shows You Didn’t Realize Anyone Was Nostalgic For. A few shows this season are echoes of cult shows from the past. …
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NBC Photo: Mitch Haddad
With the exception of Big Shots–reviews welcome from those of you who failed to heed my warning–last night was heavier on returning-series debuts: Earl, Betty, The Office, CSI, Grey’s. The floor is open for your postmortems. Also, reports welcome from anyone who can determine if ER is still on the air. Have …
One of the big questions in the museum world in recent months was where would Kathy Halbreich go after announcing last March that she would step down as director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Now we know and it’s a big next step — into the newly created position of associate director of the Museum of Modern Art in New …
