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In this week’s print TIME, I review season 2 of In Treatment, which returns this Sunday and which (having seen four weeks so far) I like better than the first:
By the time Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) sits down for a session with his own therapist, Gina (Dianne Wiest), he has had a long week. He’s been served with a subpoena in a
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As I’ve said, I wasn’t a regular fan of ER, and for that reason I probably didn’t set my bar of expectations for its finale that high. (Spoiler alert, obviously, if you haven’t watched.) But from my once-watcher’s perspective, it was a fitting, low-key finale, one that didn’t try to upend anyone’s image of the show or blow anyone’s …
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ER gets ready to go off the air with its series finale tonight, amid much verbiage from people like me citing it as a sign of the end of the heyday of broadcast TV. It’s worth noting, though, that even in its diminished state, millions of people still watch ER. I just don’t know them, and except for some recent tune-ins out of …
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Fresh off of overtaking CNN for second place in the primetime ratings, MSNBC has struck a deal with progressive radio host Ed Schultz—though it’s to fill the 6 p.m. E.T. timeslot, not the talked-about 10 p.m. vacancy, currently occupied by a Keith Olbermann rerun. David Schuster, who had briefly hosted MSNBC’s 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue …
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Last night gave us the series finale of ABC’s remake of Life on Mars, which impressed me when it debuted but which—especially after Lost began and my Lostwatch duties resumed—I could never get myself to follow closely. Now it’s gone. Yes, I am part of the problem and not part of the solution.
Also a casualty of my Lost/Idol …
Again. Back Monday.
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Spoilers for last night’s American Idol coming up after the jump:
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, grab yourself a milk—no, make that a juice box—and watch last night’s episode of Lost.
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Tonight, MTV airs Pedro, its biopic about Pedro Zamora, the Real World season 3 housemate who was afflicted with AIDS and used the limelight—on the show and off it, until his death—to raise awareness of the disease. I never got around to doing a review, but MTV has been enlisting this big guns to promote the movie, including this …
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In what I am going to assume is not an April Fool’s joke, NBC Universal just issued a statement announcing a settlement to its lawsuit with The Weinstein Company and Lifetime channel over Project Runway‘s move from Bravo:
NBC Universal, The Weinstein Company and Lifetime have resolved their disputes. The Weinstein Company will pay NBCU
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I don’t tend to cover a lot of daytime TV at Tuned In, because, well, there are so many hours in a day and that’s a full-time job in itself. But this is worth note: CBS’s Guiding Light, which began on the network in 1952, is reportedly going off the air in September. Counting its original radio iteration, the show has been on in various …
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The ratings results are in for the first quarter of 2009, and they’re not pretty for CNN, which, after riding high for much of the election year, has fallen to third place in the primetime ratings for the first time. Fox News’ primetime is up 24% on the year, MSNBC up 22% and CNN is down 10%. (The one bright spot for the larger CNN …
There’s some good news out of Philadelphia this morning. The recession hasn’t kept people away from the great “Cézanne and Beyond” show that’s five weeks into its run at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. With ticket sales at 134,000 so far, the museum just announced that it’s pushing back the close date from May 17 to May 31. That …
