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Just before Mother’s Day, time.com ran a feature on the worst and best mothers in popular culture. I’m not sure if it plans on reprising the feature for Father’s Day—though, between you and me, dads, we all know Mother’s Day is the real holiday—but I do know that it got all kinds of attention. And because I’m just shameless enough to …
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So yesterday afternoon, Fox News ran a segment about criticism of Michelle Obama captioned with the bottom-of-the-screen chyron, “OUTRAGED LIBERALS: STOP PICKING ON OBAMA’S BABY MAMA!” No, seriously, they did.
Is there an emoticon for “Jaw hitting the floor in amazement”? I don’t know how to make one, so I’ll have to risk being called …
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You may have seen this extended trailer for Fringe elsewhere, and I’m not sure how much it differs from the previews Fox has been showing on-air already. But I created this as a test file while learning to use Brightcove software to embed trailer clips on the blog, so I didn’t want it to go to waste. If my lesson paid off, if I find …
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SPOILER ALERT: Click on the jump and you’ll get spoilers about the Top Chef finale faster than you can make bacon ice cream.
It was in February that Tom Krens stepped down as director of the Guggenheim Foundation. Whoever is named to replace him will be expected to stabilize the expanding Guggen-universe. But meanwhile the Guggenheim keeps going on sheer momentum. Yesterday the …
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Who among us does not have fond memories of American Juniors, Fox’s effort to make a kiddie version of American Idol? Oh, you don’t? And you? And you? Well, you may want to skip this one, then:
NEW YORK – June 10, 2008 – Bravo announced today the development of its new creative competition series “Top Chef Junior” (working title) and
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So I was watching a screener of Camp Rock, Disney Channel’s upcoming Jonas Brothers movie—and you think this job isn’t work?—when I saw something that gave me pause. The three boy-bandmates are conferring in an early scene, and Kevin Jonas (below left) has his innocent American neck swaddled in… could it be… a black and white …
I swung through North Adams, Mass. yesterday to visit MASS MoCA and take a look at progress on their immense installation of 100 Sol LeWitt wall drawings that will open on November 16 and remain in place for a minimum of 25 years. In effect, what they’re producing there will be a one-man LeWitt museum, with the advantage that it’s part …
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USA network never sent me an advance screener of In Plain Sight, its new summer drama about U.S. marshal Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack), who’s assigned to guard people in the witness-protection program. So like a Henry Hill hiding in the suburbs at the end of …
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Last month, I special-commented on how Keith Olbermann’s increasingly frequent and impassioned Special Comments were in danger of becoming less, well, special. (Others begged to differ.)
Fortunately for Olbermann, he doesn’t listen to my unsolicited programming advice. Last week, reports the New York Times’ Brian Stelter, Countdown …
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The last time I really paid much attention to pro basketball was in my school days in the ’80s, when it seemed like the Lakers were always playing the Celtics in the finals. Good to see nothing’s changed! As a non-sports fan, I tend to look at TV sports the same way—broadcasting a game is something that stays essentially the same, year …
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We don’t usually publicize product listings at Tuned In, but we make an exception in the case of seven-foot-tall killing machines.
In the event that you are interested in subjugating the human race, or planning to wage a civil war against a rival group of skinjobs, the free market has stepped in to help:
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA’S CYLON
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American Idol may run out of qualified applicants, but Dr. Drew never will:
VH1 has once again partnered with Dr. Drew Pinsky for a second season of the hit reality series “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.” The series, consisting of eight one-hour episodes, is slated to premiere October 2008.
Similar to the first cycle, the second
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