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Last week, Robo-James’ time machine looked at the evolution over the decades of Wheel of Fortune. That eternal process continues; the game show starts a new season Monday, with a new twist that—like many in the past—sounds like a needless complication of something that already worked. The “Free Spin” wedge will be replaced by “Free …
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No, Courteney Cox hasn’t gone into a new line of work. This sign—snapped a block and a half from my house—is part of a stealth campaign for Cox’s upcoming ABC sitcom Cougar Town. Cox’s character, besides being an older gal with an eye for the younger fellas, is also a real-estate agent, which career must have seemed pretty hot and au …
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Between the May sneak-premiere and the incessant advertising, it probably seems like Glee is entering its fifth season on TV. In fact the snarky-with-heart high school show choir comedy returns tonight with its second episode. And while it’s not as knock-your-socks-off as the pilot (while retaining some of the same problems), it …
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When Sons of Anarchy debuted on FX this time last year, I appreciated it but couldn’t really get myself to like it; it was (like The Shield, creator Kurt Sutter’s alma mater) relentlessly brutal, but (unlike The Shield) without characters I could get attached to or interested in. Toward the end of the season, I gave it another chance …
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In honor of the long-awaited The Beatles: Rock Band release and the band’s digitally remastered studio albums, TIME explores some of the lesser-known facts about the Fab Four
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At some point, I’m going to post more excerpts from my interview with Jay Leno that didn’t make it into my cover story this week, but for now, office duties, catching up on mail and, well, actually watching TV take precedence. In the meantime, New York magazine has an insightful cover on Leno’s erstwhile late-night rival, …
Again. Back Monday, Sept. 14
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What’s the best yardstick by which to fairly judge the CW’s new remake of Melrose Place? The 1990s original? Last year’s remake of 90210? The CW’s other stable of soaps and teen dramas? (Please don’t say actual good television. I mean, we’re talking Melrose Place here.)
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I’m back. I didn’t actually go anywhere. I was on staycation at home, where the Tuned In Jrs. were still out of school. (And still are! School starts on Wednesday for public students in New York City, so Obama cannot eat the brains of the schoolchildren of Brooklyn today!)
For the TV critic on vacation, though, reminders of work are …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, put on your cesta, make sure you don’t put that pelota through the TV screen, and watch last night’s Mad Men.
Glenn Beck, the conservative commentator and self-proclaimed “rodeo clown”, found a new hobby horse the other night — secretly “communist” and “fascist” art buried into the exterior design program of Rockefeller Center. In Beck’s rant he also managed to imply that “Rockefeller”, it’s not clear which Rockefeller he meant, was also …
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It’s just a week and a half until The Jay Leno Show begins airing a thousand hours a week on NBC, so apropos of my supersized Leno story this week, it seems as good a time as any to close out Time Machine Week with a look at Leno doing Late Night with David Letterman in 1983:
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