You might ask, James, do you honestly think these are the greatest holiday shows of all time? And I would answer, well, sorta. It’s a list of seven memorable, distinctive holiday TV treats. (Why …
On the fourth day of writers’-strike talks, the studios came back with an offer for payments on electronic distribution of writers’ work. This much is clear. Whether the deal amounts to more or less for writers, and whether it brings the strike closer to or farther from resolution, is iffier.
My essay in this week’s print TIME is not literally about TV, but it’s about a holiday movie that’s become a cultural phenomenon through reruns on TV. A Christmas Story has supplanted It’s a Wonderful Life (and Miracle on 34th Street) as the favorite holiday movie of Americans of Gen X and later (as defined by a 2006 Harris poll, 41 …
It wasn’t one of the best episodes of 30 Rock last night, but it was probably the most blatant reminder so far that the show has picked up the sitcom torch from Arrested Development. The storyline paralleling Jack and Tracy’s Little League team with the Iraq War recalled the “Mission Accomplished” banner on the …
New Museum of Contemporary Art, Sejima+Nishizawa/SANAA — Photo: Dean Kaufman
I just got back from previewing the new home of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan, an eight story off kilter stack by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the Japanese architects who call their firm SANAA. The museum is located on the Bowery, the …
A little background first. I finally bought a new iPod. (Shortly after which, I learned how to fix the old one with a business card from a Vietnamese-sandwich place, so I now have two.) Being the cheap, boring, Consumer Reports-reading, never-buy-first-generation-tech guy, I am, I got a Classic. And this morning I …
The major issue at the Republican YouTube debate: outsourcing. Not outsourcing as addressed in any of the questions; outsourcing in the form of the questions.
Two YouTube debates into the campaign, it’s becoming clear that the format is not really about the possibilities of a new medium (as at the Democratic one, there were a few …
Tuned In’s Pushing Daisies contingent will have to carry on without me for now; I was watching the CNN/YouTube Republican debate live. (John McCain: “Life is not 24 and Jack Bauer.” They’re not going to like that at Fox.) By the way, Molly Shannon and Mike White? It’s a Year of the Dog / Cracking Up reunion!
Let’s conclude that conversation with the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
LACAYO: As you know, a number of nations have cultural property laws that effectively lay claim to anything found in the ground on their territory, or that require export permits for anything over, say, 100 years old. China has a request …
Tonight, it’s the Republicans’ turn, in the CNN/YouTube Debate, to face questions submitted in video form by questioners on the Internet. Some of them may quite possibly not even be Ron Paul supporters.
There’s been a lot of talk about how, between attention-getting protests and brilliant strike videos, the writers have been winning the PR war against the studios. I’m sure that it’s true; I’m not so sure how much it matters. Mind you, as a writer, I want it to matter: I want to believe that creativity and a powerful, well-expressed …
Sadly, that is not a typo. The Daly show–as in Last Call with Carson Daly–is reportedly planning to return to the air next week despite the writers’ strike. And he needs your help. The Smoking Gun reprints an e-mail, purportedly from Daly, seeking contributions to a “joke hotline” for a bit meant to send up …
Tonight ABC debuts Shrek the Halls, its new Christmas special, which like all things Shrek is funny enough but basically one joke after another after another. Last night, ABC got old-school with A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first and last word in network holiday specials. Talk about that, or any other …