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The former Friends star continues his de-Chandlerification, striking a deal to star in a new series from Peter Tolan (Rescue Me). In Showtime’s The End of Steve, Perry will play an afternoon talk-show host in Rochester, New York, who’s foul-mouthed offstage and desperate to get out of town to a bigger city.
Plus: Perry deserves a better …
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The Thom Beers empire added to its library of blue-collar reality shows (Ice Road Truckers, Deadliest Catch) the new TruTV series Black Gold, about roughnecks drilling for oil. (Which I’m told is worth something nowadays.) I wrote about the show in a column about the blue-collar genre a month ago, but it’s been so long I hardly remember …
As auction sales have spiked in recent years, a lot of living artists have been on the sidelines feeling left out. The sales have made millions for collectors and the auction houses, but the artists don’t share in the profits. (Though strong performance for their …
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Ever wonder what it would have been like if Mary Richards had had a daughter, then returned years later to tell her cautionary tales about trying to raise kids while wrangling Ted Baxter? Well, wonder no more! Mary Tyler Moore is returning to TV, with a recurring role on… Lipstick Jungle.
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The Michelle Obama image-enhancement tour kicked seriously into gear today. Facing Internet smears, “baby mama” snarks, “terrorist fist jab” references and opposition attacks that have cast her as basically Angela Davis in a sleeveless …
I’ve posted a few times about the many teardown threats against buildings by Paul Rudolph, including his 1958 Riverview High School in Sarasota, Fla. For a while it looked as though the school might be saved. But today The Sarasota Herald Tribune reports …
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Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much …
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The first summer it was on the air, NBC’s America’s Got Talent was an amusing diversion. The next, it was a forgettable holdover. Now, it just seems like a cruel, sarcastically named taunt. OK, NBC, we get it—we get it! America does not in fact have talent! Do you need to keep rubbing our noses in it summer after summer?
For those who …
Part of the ongoing disaster of the flooding in the Midwest — floodwaters invaded the arts campus of the University of Iowa. The Iowa River crested on Sunday, but not before reaching the Museum of Art and the relatively new Steven Holl-designed School of Art and Art History, seen here before the flood.
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All parents of American tween-aged children, unless they are totally uncool and unfair and hate their kids, have seen to it that they have access to Disney Channel On Demand. (The fact that your cable company doesn’t offer it is no excuse! You could have moved! I never get anything I want!)
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Today’s Romenesko has several links to writers debating whether Tim Russert’s death was overcovered, leading with Slate’s Jack Shafer, who writes:
Did the grievers really think Russert was so important, so vital to the nation’s course, and such an elevated human being that he deserved hour upon hour of tribute? I wonder whether any of
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Despite having been the father of American children for nearly seven years, I had somehow managed to escape that singular phenomenon known as the adapted-from-a-TV-cartoon stage show. That streak ended when I was offered tickets to take the family to …
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Showtime debuted its summer Monday comedy block last night, with Weeds leading into Secret Diary of a Call Girl. I’m curious what you thought, particularly of the British high-priced-hooker comedy. Is it the next Sex and the City? The next Red Shoe Diaries? Or is it not worth the price tag?
