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It’s not often that I get a PR pitch from a network asking me not to write about a new show it’s debuting. But last week FX wrote to say that it was sneak-peeking the first episode of its animated spy comedy Archer (starring the voices of H. Jon Benjamin, Aisha Tyler and Jessica …
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I’ll have a post about last night’s The Office and Parks and Recreation up a bit later this morning. I’ve already weighed in on last night’s debut of Community, though, and while I enjoyed Fringe for its Walterliciousness—and the awesome sight of Olivia flying through the windshield—it stayed far enough away from the big reveal at …
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My other piece in this week’s TIME is a review of ABC’s Modern Family, which is neck-and-neck-and-neck with Community and Bored to Death (about which a little more later) for my favorite new show of the fall. (You notice a trend? As much as people constantly cry the death of the sitcom, this has been a very, very good year for …
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Think of my Tuned In column in the current issue of TIME as a kind of companion piece to the Glenn Beck cover. It’s about Ken Burns’ new documentary, The National Parks, and the (probably unwitting) provocativeness of Burns’ serving up a twelve-hour love letter to a government program in the year of the tea party.
National Parks …
From The Brady Bunch to The Sopranos, TIME picks the 10 most memorable fathers in television history.
I didn’t want to let the week run out without throwing in something about blockbusters, all those giant loan shows of the past few decades, which have been getting spanked lately by critics and museum professionals insisting that museums must get back to focusing on their permanent collections. (A re-focus the recession has done a lot to …
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Folk singer Mary Travers died yesterday from leukemia at age 72. Peter, Paul and Mary should not have been at all my thing: a group of completely earnest folk icons of the ’60s is probably as close to the opposite of my usual taste as is possible. But there was always something entrancing about Travers, who was anything but the sterotype …
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Besides tonight’s debut of Community, we also have the returns of The Office, Parks and Recreation and Fringe, which Fox has decided to add to my Thursday entertainment burden menu. After the jump, a little rundown of what to expect, and how I plan to handle blogging the heavy schedule of Thursday shows as the fall season kicks in.
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Because I was out representin’ at the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia live show last night, I haven’t yet caught up with last night’s Glee (rats!) or The Jay Leno Show (not so much rats!). I’ve already seen Glee’s fourth episode (Fox skipped the third in the mailing to critics), so I hope to have some kind of real Glee Watch up next …
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TIME’s cover story this week, by politics writer David von Drehle, is about Glenn Beck. (Cover line: MAD MAN.) I suspect one or two of you have an opinion about it.
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It’s hard to describe The Nightman Cometh to somebody who hasn’t seen It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. When you do attempt to describe it, it’s just as hard to explain why you would want to make a special trip to see it on stage. But here goes: it’s a musical episode of a sitcom in which one of the characters, to impress a woman he …
A few days ago I mentioned here that Christopher Knight, the art critic of the Los Angeles Times, had noticed the odd fact that the logo for last weekend’s anti-Obama march on Washington makes use of a symbol with a long pedigree on the militant left, a raised fist.
It turns out that the Rolling Stone website has more details. They …
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I get to the set of NBC’s Community a little bit before sunset, the night they are going to set Chevy Chase on fire. The new comedy—about a misfit study group at a community college—does its location shooting on a real campus in Koreatown. Tonight, they’re shooting some nighttime shots …
