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PBS announced today that it plans to overhaul The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer for the 21st century, by instituting some changes to better coordinate the show’s TV and online presence. It’ll also overhaul the newscast for the 20th century, by again pairing Lehrer with a co-anchor—though this time it’ll be rotating co-anchors, rather than a …
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Quick spoilers for How I Met Your Mother and the season finale of House coming up after the jump:
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PBS Kids announced yesterday that it’s debuting, in fall 2010, an educational animated series starring Dr. Seuss’ most famous character. In The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, the giant feline takes six-year-olds Nick and Sally “on a magical journey to all corners of the globe to make natural science discoveries,” in a vehicle …
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Although some people have sworn to me that 24 is on an upswing this season, I’ve been unable to see it. So maybe I just haven’t been paying close enough attention to feel the emotional impact as (spoiler, I guess) good-guy-turned-bad-guy-turned-good-guy-turned-bad-guy Tony got nabbed, and Elisha Cuthbert as Jack’s daughter Kim …
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Because nothing goes together like drug-dealer dramas and catering humor, quick spoilers for the weekend installments of Breaking Bad and Party Down coming up after the jump:
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I linked the other day to a New York Times feature on former Top Chef contestants working (or not working) at restaurants in NYC. In it, I learned to my surprise that New Zealander Mark Simmons was the chef at Get Fresh, a restaurant / specialty foods store in Park Slope, Brooklyn, a mere block from my house, where I had never yet eaten. …
I posted last month about the objections by Prince Charles, famed foe of modern architecture, to a proposed apartment complex in London from the office of Pritzker-prize winning architect Richard Rogers. At the time I mentioned that by excellent coincidence Charles was already scheduled to speak this month to the Royal Institute of …
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Spoilers for the season[?] finale of Dollhouse coming up after the jump:
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Brief spoilers for last night’s season finale of The Amazing Race after the jump:
In his “Hello Beautiful” blog today the Chicago based architecture writer Ed Lifson posted another long, impassioned defense of the little Mies I blogged about yesterday, that small brick box on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology that Mies van der Rohe played a role in designing and that’s now scheduled to be demolished. …
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You may not believe this, but I planned my latest print column, on the fecund families of cable’s we-have-a-jillion-kids reality shows, well before the latest explosion over Jon & Kate Plus 8’s Jon Gosselin’s female “friend”:
The downsizing of fictional TV families left a gap that cable has happily filled. But where the Bradys et
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Spoilers for Survivor: Tocantins, Parks and Recreation, The Office and 30 Rock coming up after the jump:
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Because of scheduling considerations in the print TIME, my review of the Glee pilot—debuting after American Idol’s final sing-off May 19—is in the issue on newsstands today.
I like the pilot. A lot. I have been referencing and tweeting abut Glee so often since seeing it that I am probably in danger of overhyping it, so let …
