Tuned In
Because there is apparently news going on involving the economy lately, I’ve been trying to add a little more CNBC to my on-in-the-background daily TV rotation. And I’ve been struck by a question that’s often come to me before: Just who watches CNBC, and what do they use it for?
I mean, I’ve written stories on business news before, and …
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I was actually happy to realize that last night’s How I Met Your Mother was a rerun. It freed me up to watch the episode of The Amazing Race that I’d left on TiVo because of the Oscars. (Side note: with DVRs in over 20% of homes and rising, it makes ever more sense to counterprogram original episodes against big events like the …
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Certain critics may have groused about last night’s Oscars, but preliminary ratings have the broadcast up about 6% from last year. The rise, however, comes off an all-time low last year, so the broadcast may still be among the three lowest rated ever. Still, the odds are that much higher for more show tunes next year.
Meanwhile, there …
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Before you read this post, put on the cardigan I bought you and watch last night’s Big Love.
I made it over on Sunday to the re-opening night concert at Alice Tully Hall, the 1960s-era chamber music auditorium at Lincoln Center in New York that’s been greatly refashioned in all senses of the word by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. I won’t pretend to be any judge of acoustics. I’ll leave that to people who know what they’re talking …
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You’ll have noticed that I’m back from vacation. That is, if you noticed I was on vacation in the first place. What did I miss?:
* Lost had a swing-and-a-miss of an episode. Don’t want to pile on—they can’t all be gems—but I found myself for once having the reaction that Lost haters regularly have: namely, this sounds like …
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We’ve made it through another Academy Awards, and if you missed last night’s liveblog, this morning you can relive them backwards in time, Benjamin Button-style, by starting at the top and reading to the bottom. (And you can read Richard Corliss’ take on the awards themselves, as well as Kate Betts’ write-up of Oscar fashions.)
The …
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The Oscar liveblog is tonight, not here, but here. Liveblogging should commence around 6:30 or so, with TIME fashion czarina Kate Betts critiquing the red carpet–or rather, what’s on the red carpet–and film critic and Richard Corliss and I will join her for running commentary on the show.
Be there, and watch me make a Huge Ackman of myself!
No low-key Oscars for these glamorous actresses. Despite rumors that this year’s ceremony would be toned down, the red-carpet regulars turned up the fashion volume. Jewelry also made a big statement.
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Spoilers for Friday’s Battlestar Galactica coming up after the jump:
This just in from Battlestar Galactica Watch replacement John Cloud:
I just got to the hotel, and although they have 78 channels, including ESPN2, CSPAN2 and the home-and-gardening channel (seriously), they don’t have SciFi. SciFi.com used to stream BSG episodes on the same day they aired–you could watch them starting at 12:01 a.m.
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James will be back from vacation on Sunday, and he’s demanded that we put him back to work immediately. He’ll be live-blogging the Oscars—a television show about movies hosted by a Tony-winner—along with fim critic Richard Corliss and fashionista Kate Betts at http://live.blogs.time.com. Jim has also recorded a medley featuring the …
Alice Tully Hall, the chamber music auditorium at Lincoln Center in New York, re-opens this weekend in a building that’s been ingeniously opened out and reconfigured by Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. In this week’s Time I wrote about it in the context of performing arts centers in a few places around the U.S. that have found themselves to …
