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The University of Georgia has announced the annual George Foster Peabody Awards for broadcasting and media. The entertainment-TV winners include Breaking Bad and Lost (well-deserved), Saturday Night Live’s political satire (well-expected) and Entourage (well… wha?). Interestingly, the charges of sleight-of-hand at the Beijing Olympics’ …
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Maybe it’s a lame choice for a Lost Discussion Group topic, but I don’t see how we move on from last week’s conclusion without asking whether Ben is dead or not. Having said that, there are plenty of subquestions to explore.
First—and I have to credit this question to time.com honcho Josh Tyrangiel—is it possible that Jack will have …
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As the makers of TV variety-show revivals like to tell us, there was once a great tradition in television. That tradition was of big, broad, vaudeville-like stage shows featuring song, dance, comedy, real-people stunts—all the light entertainment wrought by human imagining brought together under one umbrella.
There was another …
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This week’s American Idol song theme was “popular downloads,” which apparently means “songs, released at some point in the last forty years, that are available somewhere on the Internet.” For reviews of this week’s Idol performances, click on the photos below.
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Damn you, TVguide.com-the-website-no-longer-affiliated-with-the-magazine-but-still-affiliated-with-the-cable-channel! Damn you to hell with your frenetic, link-bait list-making! Damn you for making me expend actual energy into disagreeing with your list of the 16 Greatest TV Catchphrases!
For starters, there’s the no. 1 choice—I won’t …
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If somebody had asked me to pick one ABC romantic dramedy of the ’90s to remake, I would have chosen Relativity. But nobody did ask me, Jason Katims is busy with Friday Night Lights, and instead ABC gave Rob Thomas (Party Down, Veronica Mars) a second crack at his offbeat series Cupid (tonight, 10 p.m. E.T.), about a man who is …
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If the broadcast networks are turning into large cable companies, here’s one bright side of it: a show like Friday Night Lights can get a fourth, and fifth, season on NBC with basic-cable-like ratings. NBC and DirecTV have confirmed a deal that will keep FNL around for two more seasons. The seasons will also be basic-cable-like—that …
Some famous names — Josh Groban, Linda Ronstandt, Wynton Marsalis — are trooping up to Capitol Hill this morning to testify before a House appropriations subcommittee on the usefulness of the arts and arts education. Lest anyone miss the utilitarian point, the hearing is being headlined as “The Arts = Jobs”.
All of this is part
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Not a lot that was either spoiler-worthy or comment-worthy in last night’s How I Met Your Mother, except to say that it may have been as close as possible to being a statistically average episode of HIMYM: ’80s movies references (check), Canadian jokes (check), a challenge (check) and a lesson about growing up (check). For me, the star …
Helen Levitt was one of the pivotal figures of American street photography. Though she often photographed kids at play, it was without sentimentality. If anything she had a way of making you feel like they were signposts of the secret life of the city, doing their mysterious thing while the adult world bustled by unawares. Likewise …
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Brief spoilers for last night’s The Amazing Race coming up after the jump:
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Some personal business (you don’t want to know) is probably going to keep posting lighter than usual here for a couple of days. For now, I’ll throw this post open for any weekend-TV discussion. For instance—speaking of programming—Friday’s Dollhouse, which seemed to me about half a step forward, and one or two back, after the …
Here’s an update on the ongoing crisis of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. As you probably know, two months ago Brandeis administrators started talking about closing the museum and selling off some of its collection to help close the university’s budget gap. When that decision was met by an uproar on campus and off, …
