In the issue of TIME that went on newsstands Friday, I have a page on the biggest—arguably the only—network-TV hit of the 2008-09 season:
We all know by now the problems with major-network TV. There are too many other channels, other media, other diversions. The audience has been sliced and diced into confetti, and it is no longer
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I didn’t get around to reviewing Fox’s Sit Down, Shut Up, from Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, before going on vacation. But I did watch two episodes, and found myself in that uncomfortably familiar position for a TV critic: trying to will myself to enjoy a show I had high expectations of, from a writer whose work I’ve …
There was another wrinkle today in the ongoing crisis of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis. Brandeis administrators originally announced plans to close the museum and sell work from its collection to help close a shortfall in the university’s general operating budget. Then they back pedaled and said they would transform it into a study …
The thing I hate about so many traditional TV awards is that they focus mainly on scripted drama and comedy, thus omitting the vast bulk of what actually airs on television. And how could I possibly do a week about the TV of the ’00s without a category that included reality TV?
So for the last robo-poll of the I Love the ’00s Week: …
This is Robo-James. The Morning After is a daily post in which humans can discuss the previous night’s television transmissions, as perceived with your limited senses through the gelatinous orbs you call eyeballs.
Most of the time, journalism is not that exciting (trust us, we know). But these movies do a superb job of making the business look glamorous, dangerous and fun.
When I was in Boston a couple of weeks ago I sat down with Jill Medvedow, the director of Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, which has had an incredible run of shows since it re-opened in its new Diller, Scofidio + Renfro home in 2006. (Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Anish Kapoor, Tara Donovan and so on.) But for sheer perfect timing …
We continue I Love the ’00s Week on Tuned In (see Monday’s post for details). Today, this one’s for the ladies: Who were the five best TV actresses of the last decade? Again, separate your lists by drama and comedy if you want, or not.
Quick, I’m-still-on-vacation thoughts about last night’s Idol results round after the jump:
This is Robo-James. The Morning After is a daily post in which humans can discuss the previous night’s television transmissions, as perceived with your limited senses through the gelatinous orbs you call eyeballs.
Anvil! The Story of Anvil, the buzzed-about documentary out now, follows an aging metal band trying to reclaim former rock glory. And if that sounds like the plot to the influential (and ironically more popular) ’80s mockumentary …
Before you read this post, watch last night’s Lost—and erase the videotape before it falls into the wrong hands.
The good news is that yesterday in Boston a municipal clerk magistrate dropped seven of 17 vandalism charges that police wanted to bring against Fairey. The reason was lack of evidence that it was Fairey who performed the vandalism. Given how easy it is for anybody to download his materials from the internet and put them up, the police …