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I’ll let Maureen Ryan be the bearer of bad (or good, depending on your perspective) news here: besides The CW’s Sunday lineup, looks like Eli Stone, Dirty Sexy Money and—sigh, I know—Pushing Daisies have been cancelled, or as-good-as-cancelled.
Looks like the fall of the do-over is over-and-done.
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Spoilers for this week’s Office coming up after the jump:
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Early in Comedy Central’s A Colbert Christmas, airing Sunday night, flag-waving country singer Toby Keith stops by Colbert’s cabin in the snowy woods. They get to talking about what’s happened to Christmas in our society—you go to the mall and people say “Season’s Greetings,” you can’t put a Nativity scene in front of a courthouse. “I …
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My column in this week’s magazine looks at the media blitz surrounding America’s newest TV family:
After Obama won, there was talk of a “Huxtable effect”–the idea that pop-cultural portrayals of African Americans from The Cosby Show to 24’s David Palmer readied white America for a black President. But maybe there’s an opposite
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Very brief spoilers for last night’s Survivor: Gabon coming up after the jump:
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Jericho is back! Not back back, but still, in a way, back!
The CW has canceled its Sunday night schedule, outsourced to Media Rights Capital to produce, which means the end of Valentine and Easy Money, the latter of which I will apparently be the only person in America to miss. And it’s replacing the shows with… reruns. Including …
Will the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art go the way of Lehman Brothers? The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that the perenially cash-strapped MOCA is in even worse shape than people thought. Much worse. It has an annual budget, “in excess of $20 million”, that equals or exceeds its $20.4 million investment portfolio. Did …
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Two side-by-side stories in today’s Romenesko media news:
1. Thanks to a spellbinding Presidential election and major economic news, 60 Minutes‘ ratings are way up.
2. Despite a spellbinding Presidential election and major economic news, network newscasts‘ ratings are slightly down.
The angle of David Zurawik’s interview with 60 …
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The Heroes panel at a recent Screenwriting Expo was a strange event, reports IGN: creator Tim Kring was scheduled to be on the panel with two of his producer-writers, but they were fired before the panel took place. Naturally, discussion turned to what Kring might change about the show to save it. He made a puzzling suggestion: revising …
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It’s getting close to the end of the year, which means it’s time once again to start putting together the year-end critics’ lists. As I mentioned to another TV writer the other day, this year I’m thanking God for returning shows, because I’d have a hard time finding anything in this fall’s debuts to put on a year-end Best list: partly …
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Apropos of songs being appropriated for commercials, my colleague Sean Gregory writes about that Toyota ad. One thing, as they say, leads to another.
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Brief spoilers for Fringe coming up after the jump.
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* Dancing With the Stars—which I will admit off the bat I do not watch any more than I absolutely have to—has added a little dance competition within the dance competition, this one with little “Ballroom Kids” competing. If only American Idol had thought to do this with their results show, we would have been spared an entire summer …
