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The panel on MSNBC’s Hardball yesterday offered a novel explanation of why John McCain has gone so sharply negative in the past week or so (link via Talking Points Memo):
ANDREA MITCHELL: I have maybe a counterintuitive view that John McCain also doesn’t like this kind of politics, went along with his new, tougher political advisers,
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Although I Want to Work for Diddy sounds like it should be a show about people fighting each other to get a minimum-wage job, it is instead another entry in VH1’s vast raft of celebreality shows—in this case, one where aspirants compete to be P. Diddy’s personal assistant. The premise, at first, made me worry for Diddy’s career. After …
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If I had mentioned TV One to you a few months ago, I’m guessing a substantial percentage of readers would have thought: What? You mean the guys who do news programs for elementary schools?
TV One, as political junkies have since learned, is an African-American-aimed cable channel that is not BET. And it became briefly notorious during …
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In my latest Olympic-walkup column about how pop culture has largely ignored modern China, I mentioned very briefly that some cable documentaries and news shows have been trying—albeit with relatively small audiences—to fill in the gaps. So it’s only fair that I mention some of them. Last month, Discovery viewers saw Ted Koppel …
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This weekend I watched the DVD of last year’s documentary Helvetica, which is, yes, about the typeface, and which is—really, I’m serious—absolutely fascinating. The movie directly relates to Mrs. Tuned In’s job, which involves graphic design, but if you ever have the chance to watch it, it has lessons for Tuned Inland too: namely, …
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One of the most important and least-remarked-on transitions in life is the death of a parent. While it doesn’t get noted the way other developmental milestones do—puberty, graduation, parenthood, etc.—losing a parent is recognizing that you are ultimately responsible for yourself, and as much or more as those other landmarks, …
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…at least when it comes to cable reality TV. Sunday, National Geographic channel debuts L.A. Hard Hats, a show about Golden State high-rise construction workers that promises to be like Deadliest Catch, except warmer, higher above sea level, and not Deadliest Catch.
L.A. Hard Hats also joins the vaunted category of series titles that …
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In lieu of actual pilot screeners this summer, I’ve been getting e-mails from network publicity departments. Hey, we’ve got new publicity photos for 90210 available for the press! Check it out—we posted trailers for new NBC shows at our website!
And I’m all, yeah, dude! I’d love to download and reproduce your publicity stills and …
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In this week’s issue of Time, I have written the only column of mine that Tuned In Jr. and Tuned In Jr. Jr. will probably ever want to read, because it has an illustration of Po from Kung Fu Panda on it. The paradox of the title? With the Olympic a week away, Hollywood is fascinated …
