If I were better organized, I’d have mentioned this in advance, but at this moment I am on WBUR Public Radio in Boston discussing online TV and the changes in the TV business. Listen live, or it should be archived later.
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Idol Watch: Great Legs!
Spoilers for the American Idol semifinals, round 2, coming up after the jump:
China to Christie’s: You’ll Pay Too
As part of the giant Yves Saint Laurent auction that Christie’s has just wrapped up in Paris, that pair of Qing Dynasty bronze animal heads sold for a combined $40 million. Those are the heads that were looted by French and British troops who ransacked the Old Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. Before the sale, the Chinese government …
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Lostwatch: I Gotta Have Faith
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, buy some cord from the hardware store–no, don’t do that with it!–hook it up to your TV and watch last night’s Lost.
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Kenneth the Governor: Offensive, Brilliant or Offensively Brilliant?
The consensus has emerged: in his response to President Obama’s address last night, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal was channeling 30 Rock’s Kenneth the Page. Which raises the question: since there’s already plenty of cast cross-over between Tina Fey’s Lorne-Michaels-produced comedy and Lorne Michaels’ Saturday Night Live, hasn’t …
The Hits Just Keep On Coming
Lots of cutback news from museums this week. Yesterday it was the Met in New York. Much more seriously, on Monday the beleaguered Detroit Institute of the Arts announced that it’s laying off 20% of its staff — 63 people — in an attempt to cut $6 million from its $34 million operating budget. It doesn’t help that the new state …
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Happy Lost Day! How Dead Is Locke?
For the last Lost Discussion Group, I solicited your thoughts on Locke’s death. Since tonight’s episode is “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham,” I will solicit them again. (I know a little about the episode from teaser clips ABC has posted for the press, but until time.com upgrades the blogs to handle embedded video–cough! cough!–I …
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Tuned In TV: Unpack Your Knives
Top Chef New York airs its finale tonight, and in honor of that, I visited season 1 winner Harold Dieterle at his restaurant Perilla in Greenwich Village for a time.com video. Besides talking about his experience on the show, Harold showed us how to make a recession-gourmet meal: a duck burger with seasoned fries.
The burger, which …
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The Morning After: Obama (and Jindal), Between the Lines
President Barack Obama delivered his address to Congress last night, and in a shocking development, MSNBC beat CNN in the department of busying up the screen with silly but riveting graphics. Just as CNN did during the debates last fall, MSNBC got a dial group to listen to the speech, this time composed of McCain voters (the red line) …
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Corporate Press Release Theater: Andy Richter, M.C.
When Andy Richter showed up for Conan O’Brien’s swan song last week, it got the Tuned In household a little misty—not so much for O’Brien, who’ll be back, but for seeing Richter on TV again. (His late lamented Andy Richter Controls the Universe comes out on DVD next month.)
Well, it looks like someone was reading our minds, because …
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While I Was Out, Pt. 2
Apropos my who-watches-CNBC post of this morning, the PBS Frontline episode “Inside the Meltdown” opens with a tick-tock of how a rumor reported on CNBC prompted a chain of events that put Bear Sterns into crisis last spring. If you, like me, missed this Frontline—which offers a walkthrough of how the banking crisis unspooled in 2008, …
Yves Saint-Laurent: The Final Sale
Well it looks like we know the answer now to the question of whether the Yves Saint Laurent name would convey enough glamor on his former belongings to pump up their prices when they were auctioned off in Paris this week. But I doubt that many people will mistake last night’s record setting sale — the first of three nights — for a …
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Programming Note: Boycott American Idol Tonight!
It’ll be easy, since the show is not on tonight; American Idol‘s being time-shifted one day this week because of President Obama’s address to Congress. Time.com, by the way, will begin our full-bore morning-after Idol reviews once the show gets to the final 12; in the meantime, I’ll try to post something here, time permitting.
Idol is one …