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I owe you an apology–I never got around yesterday to warning you not to watch Crowned. This isn’t knee-jerk reality-TV snobbery: when I originally heard “mother-daughter beauty pageant,” I was there. But the first episode, unfortunately, went the American Idol auditions route of mocking the freakish side of the …
Elderfield — Photo: University of Leeds
The Museum of Modern Art just informed its staff that John Elderfield, MoMA’s chief curator of painting and sculpture, will be stepping down in July of next year. (MoMA curators face a mandatory retirement age of 65.) Kim Mitchell in the museum’s press office tells me that no successor for …
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It’s not like MTV needs a strike as an excuse to load up on reality shows, but yesterday it announced that The Hills, coming off a high-rated season 3, will get a bonus eight episodes next year that will follow Lauren and Whitney to Paris.
(In case you missed the most recent show, Teen Vogue was all, Whitney, you’re going to the …
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The New York Times’ Dave Itzkoff reports that critics across the country are discovering that ABC’s Cavemen is not quite as awful as everybody was assuming it would be. I point this out, partly to give credit to an insightful, well-written article, and partly–oh who am I kidding, almost entirely–to note that Tuned In was all over …
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I took some guff for praising WPIX’s Yule Log as one of my seven essential holiday TV programs earlier, but apparently someone else also thinks there’s still some heat in that old stick. Through January 4, Comcast is offering a new, HD version of the log through its On Demand service. It’s not the same broadcast introduced on local New …
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I’ve been unfaithful to America’s Next Top Model this season. For four or five seasons it was a never-miss for me, and then I burned out on it. Maybe it was the bulimia modeling competition, but at some point the challenges started seeming more and more contrived, and the Tyra-worship more and more blatant. …
Shibboleth, Doris Salcedo, 2007 — Photo: Tate
I can’t believe that people are still managing to trip over that long crack that is Doris Salcedo’s temporary art installation in the floor of the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern in London. But the completely ridiculous idea that Salcedo’s piece might actually be dangerous got me thinking …
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As part of my ongoing effort to use my video iPod to ensure that I never have to read on the subway again, I’ve been sampling video podcasts–this morning, the Mosaic newscast from linkTV.The Peabody Award-winning show, which compiles news reports from around the Middle East, has been available for some time on satellite TV and …
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The things I learn watching CNN with the sound off on the elliptical trainer in the morning! The above clip comes via a report this morning that Delta Airlines has been using short video to indoctrinate passengers about airline courtesy. This clip is called “Middleman”–you’ll see why when you watch–and the Planeguage campaign’s …
It’s end of the year list making time, and here at Time.com we’ve been making our’s. Top ten movies, top ten books and so on. Here’s a link to my completely subjective inventory of the top ten shows in U.S. museums this year. The only rule — an exhibition had to have its first American venue in 2007. Oh, and one other. I had to …
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This time they’ve gone too far! The writers’ strike has officially crippled TV critics’ ability to sit in a hotel ballroom in L.A. and ask questions of the stars of The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The Television Critics Association has officially announced that it has cancelled its planned January press tour, owing to a lack of networks …
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NBC Photo: Trae Patton
Deal or No Deal was Two. Freaking. Hours. long last night, as the show padded itself out with a twist involving three players at once. Welcome to the writers’ strike, folks–it just gets better from here! (Though Mrs. Tuned In–who belongs to the Bella Voce Singers, due to rock Saint Saviour’s in Park Slope this …
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…along with 48 other top tens ranking pretty much every aspect of human (and possibly nonhuman) endeavor, at time.com. Here are my top ten new shows, and here are my top ten returning shows.
Elsewhere, other critic’s lists are starting to trickle in, with an eclectic list from John Leonard at New York …
