The enjoyable thing about an episode like the Valentine’s Day installment (?? — someone monkeyed with the schedule) of The Office is how it allows a moment for nearly everyone from the broad cast. Young, old, single or paired, gay or straight, everyone has relationship issues. And while Michael’s two-ships-that-passed-in-the-blood-drive …
Idol Watch: Let's Twist Again
Quick spoilers for American Idol coming up after the jump:
Top 10 Graphic Novels
Watchmen is one of TIME’s Top 100 Novels. Book critic Lev Grossman picks nine other graphic novels to join it in the pantheon.
This Showrunner, That Show: Let's Play TV Transplant!
What’s keeping me from doing more blogging today is working on my review of Kings for the print magazine. Naturally, it made me want to write a blog post.
I don’t want to telegraph too much about my review—it’s complicated—but one thing I was thinking as I watched was that I sometimes wished that a different writer had gotten …
Crash the Nielsens
In the current Lost thread, commenter archstanton68 goes off-topic to make an offer that deserves its own post (if only because I have little time to write posts myself today):
OT – I got a Nielsen diary in the mail the other day. anyone have any struggling shows for me to help out in the ratings?
Archstanton68 is only one diarist, but …
Idol Watch: Let's Get Wild!
Spoilers for American Idol coming up after the jump:
Lostwatch: That '70s Show
Before you read this post, quit dancing with that girl, turn your attention to the multiple video monitors, and watch last night’s Lost.
Renzo Goes to Athens
A few weeks ago I stopped by the New York outpost of Renzo Piano — his main office is in Genoa — to talk with him about the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, another one of his multitude of commissions. When it’s finished — the scheduled completion date is 2015 — the Center will provide a home for both the National …
Bachelorgate Day 2: The Secret E-Mails!
Following Monday night’s bombshell end of The Bachelor, Access Hollywood has posted what it says are e-mails exchanged between Melissa and Jason after the taping of the reunion special on which he threw her over for runner-up Molly. (h/t tvtattle.)
If you respect Melissa and Jason’s privacy—and who doesn’t respect the privacy of two …
The Morning After: Oh, You're Still On the Air?
The reviews for the first night of Jimmy Fallon’s talk show came in yesterday, many of which were not charitable. As mentioned yesterday, the very idea of reviewing a nightly talk show on the basis of its first night is unfair and kind of ridiculous.
Therefore, in the interest of fairness, I hereby pledge to review Late Night with …
Idol Watch: Rounds of Applause
Thoughts on last night’s American Idol semifinal coming up after the jump.
Corporate Press Release Theater: HSM (Kind of) Returning
Disney today announced plans for High School Musical 4—a TV movie again this time, not a movie-movie like HSM3, and with a new cast:
DISNEY’S “HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 4” SET TO DEBUT AS A DISNEY CHANNEL ORIGINAL MOVIE IN 2010
East meets West in a classic love triangle set against the cross-town school rivalry between the East
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More Cézanne and Beyond
In connection with that ingenious new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art about Cézanne and his enduring influence, we cooked up a little compare-and-contrast slide show for Time.com