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Answer: by getting DirecTV, at least in a roundabout way. According to today’s New York Times, the deal by which NBC got the satellite provider to pony up for a third season of Friday Night Lights could be a model for saving other shows with small but passionate followings—if it succeeds. Says the NYT’s Brian Seltzer Stelter, CBS has …
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The Democratic primary returned to SNL’s cold-open slot after a few weeks’ absence this weekend:
* The Clinton campaign released the couple’s tax returns late Friday afternoon, which means they had to throw this sketch together quickly. So I can only imagine how lousy the skit it replaced must have been. After a few weeks that …
Seems like a good day for Looking Around to do some looking around.
1. Fisk has decided to appeal the judge’s decision that required it to display the Alfred Stieglitz Collection that has been in storage since November 2005. Last month a Nashville judge said that Fisk could keep the collection. The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this edition of BSG Watch, visit your shrine to the One True God—otherwise known as your TV—and watch Friday’s Battlestar Galactica.
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I’m scheduled to be on CNN’s Reliable Sources this Sunday, talking about the election and cable news (or something like that) with Eric Deggans of the St. Petersburg Times. The show airs live from 10 to 11 a.m. E.T.; I’ll probably be on somewhere around the half-hour. I’m currently nursing a head cold, so I promise to be even more nasal …
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In another thread yesterday, someone asked why I hadn’t posted more on the return (tonight) of Battlestar Galactica. I’ve seen the premiere episode and reviewed it, briefly, in this week’s Time…
Battlestar Galactica Sci Fi; Fridays, 10 p.m. E.T. Company’s coming!
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Hillary Clinton got the first big boost out of her appearance on the Tonight show with Jay Leno before she even opened her mouth: the in-show band played her on with the theme from Rocky, which she’s taken on as her talisman as she’s campaigned in Pennsylvania.
The video, and a few thoughts, after the jump:
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My Name Is Earl returned from its strike coma last night with the title star (Jason Lee) going into a coma of his own and experiencing a Kevin Finnerty moment, imagining himself as a sitcom dad marrieed to guest star Alyssa Milano. When an unconventional sitcom …
Not long ago Aperture published American Sports, 1970, a collection of photographs that Tod Papageorge took at various games that happened to be taking place at the height of the Vietnam era. (For one thing, 1970 was the year of Kent State.) None of them are what you …
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I’m on deadline today, so here’s another post that mainly involves you writing stuff instead of me.
In our American Idol threads this week, there’s been some debate about whether Simon Cowell is an ass or a useful honest critic. As a professional critic, my view is: there’s no reason you can’t be both! Seriously, I like Simon, and that …
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Submitted for your consideration this Lost Discussion Group Thursday: Charles Widmore, who we’ve discovered in the first part of season 4 is going to play a significant role in the series going forward. Very significant, it looks like. Yet we really know very little about him, beyond his role in Desmond’s life, and his brand of …
The comment stream on yesterday’s post about bad art writing has been particularly good.
1. I agree with “ruthk’s” point that the rise of curatorial gibberish is linked to the desire of museum people to demonstrate to university scholars that they can still talk the talk, and that by moving to the more populist world of exhibitions they …
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Brief thoughts on last night’s American Idol elimination coming up… after the break!
