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+Video Recommendations | November 18, 2011

Poetic Television: BBC's The Song Of Lunch

By Claire Suddath

The short film stars Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson and is based on a narrative poem by Christopher Reid.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | August 17, 2011

TV Tonight: The Hour

By James Poniewozik

AMC may have had a hell of a time figuring out whether to bring Mad Men back, for how much money and at what length, but other networks are not hesitating (despite the show’s relatively paltry ratings) to put their own versions of Mad Men on the air—or, at least, their own versions of social [...]

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Tuned In+News Media | January 24, 2011

Is Cable News Going to Get Sorkin-ized?

By James Poniewozik

Keith Olbermann may be out of a job now, but there’s a possibility that he—or a fictional character bearing his likeness—may end up getting the Jedediah Josiah Bartlet, or Mark Zuckerberg, treatment on HBO. Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing and likely soon-to-be Oscar nominee for writing The Social Network, has told the BBC [...]