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As the New York Times reports—and the constant stream of network-news PR emails hitting my inbox attest—TV is going all out to provide coverage of Barack Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
HBO will carry a free inaugural celebration. CNN will be at the Newseum. MSNBC will be on the Mall. And Fox News will be broadcasting from a bar …
The other day on his blog Modern Art Notes Tyler Green suggested that museums that suffer severe financial meltdowns should close their doors rather than rescue themselves by selling work from their collections. Their collections should be redistributed among other, more solvent museums that could continue to show the work.
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Scrubs last night began its first season on a new network, ABC, in the process generating much more attention than it would have were it beginning its eighth season on its old network, NBC. What say you, Scrub-o-philes: was the procedure a success? Or is it being unnecessarily prolonged past the limits of its natural life?
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Barack Obama to Name Dr. Sanjay Gupta Surgeon General: Onion headline or actual news? According to The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, it’s fact, and as long as the CNN doc can accustom himself to making White House money rather than cable-news money, he’s expected to accept.
The jokes write themselves, and hey, I’m not above it: Jim …
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The midseason is getting under way in earnest, with more primetime debuts tonight:
* On ABC, Scrubs returns for a possibly-last season on a new network. I’ll admit that I haven’t followed the show closely for a couple of years, so I’ll take other critics at their word when they say that the new episodes represent a return to the …
Still more on the debate over whether it can ever be acceptable for a museum to sell work from its permanent collection to pay its bills.
Over at his Art Law Blog, the New York attorney Donn Zaretsky has what you might call a throw-all-the-pieces-in-the-air contribution from Adrian Ellis, who heads the arts consulting firm AEA …
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Buried in mail, expense reports and yet-unwatched screeners right now, and yet I had to share the news that Nickelodeon is bringing one of my favorite modern-day children’s books to TV. Olivia, based on the books by Ian Falconer, debuts Jan. 26.
I haven’t seen the show yet—and I’m a bit worried about seeing Olivia in CG …
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A good thing, since he’s a TV critic for Entertainment Weekly. Since returning from from a stint as movie critic at New York magazine, Tucker has contributed to ew.com, but now he’s doing a daily blog for the site. The premise: Tucker watches TV every night. Then he writes about what he watched. Simplicity itself.
I was happy to see …
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True Beauty, which debuted last night on ABC, sought to open our eyes to a fact that no other reality show has ever revealed: that good-looking people competing on TV are often shallow. A joint production of Tyra Banks and Ashton Kutcher, it combines the hallmarks of their two production styles: sanctimony about “inner …
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I’m writing about the season premiere (or season re-premiere, or second-half-of-the-season premiere, or whatever) of Battlestar Galactica. The problem I’m having is that I cannot write anything about the show without spoiling or otherwise ruining something major. The first return episode is pretty much packed with highly explosive …
Over the New Year weekend, David Ross, former director of the Whitney Museum in New York and then the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, attached an interesting comment to my post from last week about museums selling off work from their permanent collections to stabilize their finances. Here’s most of what he had to say:
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So what do TV critics watch when they’re on vacation? For my part, largely what my children let me. Tuned In Jr. the Eldest, for instance, is in a game-show phase, which means I’m becoming reacquainted with Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune after a long, long time.
On the TV beat, you tend to focus on the new stuff to the exclusion of TV …
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I’ve been on vacation the past couple weeks, but Time ran a Tuned In column of mine in my absence. A robo-column, if you will. The topic: the general implosion of the media business…
When the economy sneezes, the media business catches pneumonia. The problem for the media business in 2008 was that the economy caught pneumonia. When the
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