Entourage. Because I can. Because I have the first five episodes. And yes, I am doing a little taunting dance as I write this. Makes it kinda hard to type.

Actually, I’m excited and a little trepidatious. I thought season 3 was a comedown from the stellar season 2, partly because it swung too far in the direction of being The Ari Gold …

On the CW series Veronica Mars, the sharp-tongued eponymous college detective manages to get the best of–among other people–the pretty young airheads who get in her way.

That’s how you can tell it’s a TV show. In the real, meta-world of TV ratings, things don’t always work out so nicely. This week, Mars went on hiatus to make room for …

In the analog version of Time magazine this week, my Culture Complex column looks at new Comedy Central programs featuring Middle-Eastern-American comedians–including the Axis of Evil comedy special this weekend–and asks: if this ethnic group amounts to “the new blacks,” as the pundits say, are they ready for their own Richard Pryor? …

A couple commenters have reminded me of something I thought of during last night’s Lost but didn’t get into in my Lostwatch: What was the deal with that cat? Or rather, Keith asks:

So, was the cat at the farm the same cat at the restaurant or just similar looking? My boss thinks it is the same cat. I wasn’t sure.

This was a point of …

Since the text-voters of America, in their infinite wisdom, are likely to finally boot Antonella Barba from American Idol tonight, this may be my last chance to pander for hits weigh in on the most important news story on the Internet. Why should Rosie O’Donnell get to milk all the sweet, sweet attention for herself?

O’Donnell charged …

SPOILER ALERT: If you have not watched last night’s Lost yet, order a comrade to shoot you before you read any further.

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It is good when you get a Sayid episode, because when you get a Sayid episode, stuff happens. For as it is written in the Scripture:

If Jack is a man of science, and Locke is a man of faith, Sayid is

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Andrew Zimmern makes a stop at a barbecued-lamb market in a Moroccan alleyway. The stalls in the alley are arranged in descending order of price; at the beginning, you have the prized luxury cuts, and as you walk on, you move on to body parts that were far more highly valued by the sheep

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It is a weighty responsibility, the job of professional TV judging. Your faithful critic sweats over his assessments of shows. He watches. He re-watches. He jots and ruminates and second-guesses. Mrs. Tuned In, on the other hand, usually needs to see about 30 seconds of a show to reach a judgment, which is usually

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This video comes to us courtesy of Daniel Radosh, whose forthcoming book on Christian pop culture I can’t wait to read. For anyone tired of the Gomorrah that is YouTube, there is now Godtube, a Christian video sharing site. This clip explains the evidence for the existence of God in the perfectly utilitarian shape of a banana, a fruit …