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I’m sticking with Dollhouse. I do not blame you if you are not. I’m sticking with it because, despite an unfortunately-cast lead and a possibly-impossible premise, Joss Whedon’s playing with some interesting ideas and I want to see what he might do with them, on the basis of his past work. You may not be sticking with it because you …
Robert Gates, the Secretary of Defense, announced on Thursday that the Pentagon will be lifting the ban on media images of soldiers’ coffins as they return from Iraq and Afghanistan, so long as the affected families agree to the pictures. A Pentagon working group still has to settle details of how permission will be granted. I would …
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I only wish I could do a screen capture, but the talking heads on Power Lunch are laid out in little rectangles, side by side, ten of them, like cards in a solitaire game or that old Faberge Organics shampoo commercial:
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I’ll tell two friends that GE has cut its dividend, and they’ll …
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We’d all like to forget the 2006 HBO sitcom Lucky Louie, which I (and most other critics) rightfully panned when it came out. I don’t regret trashing the show, but I have always felt a little bad about simply because, in other formats, Louis C.K. is a really funny guy. In the spirit of generosity, then, I point you to this hilarious clip …
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Brief spoilers for last night’s 30 Rock coming up after the jump:
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Spoilers* for last night’s semifinals week-two elimination of American Idol coming up after the break.
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On time.com, my colleague Sean Gregory has a fascinating article on a study purporting to show that—contrary to nearly every opinion ever expressed about commercial interruptions ever—ad breaks actually enhance enjoyment of TV shows, at least among younger viewers. And not because they have small bladders and need the pee …
Even this early in 2009 it’s safe to say that the deeply entertaining new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is one of the best shows of the year. It goes beyond the standard connections between Cezanne and Matisse or Cezanne and Cubism — though it does very nicely by those, too — to demonstrate how Cezanne’s DNA flows …
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Speaking of February ratings, here’s who else had a good February: Bravo, which just reported its highest ratings yet on the month, including all time ratings highs for Top Chef and multiple Real Housewives series. In my column in the print TIME this week, I look at how Bravo is riding high in the middle of the recession—by making …
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During the election, with CNN and MSNBC surging on politics-news coverage (following a slump by Fox News over the preceding couple years), TV observers like Tuned In wondered how Fox News would do in a new Presidential era. The answer, for February anyway, is: pretty well. For the month (as defined by Nielsen) Fox was up 28%, CNN off by …
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., has been operating with an interim director for a year and a half, since its former director Olga Viso decamped to become head of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. But this afternoon it announced that Richard Koshalek would be its next director.
Koshalek is best known …
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Speaking of watching TV on my iPhone—well, I was speaking about it this morning—word just dropped that CBS just released an iPhone app for tv.com allowing iPhones to stream content from CBS and some of its sister networks.
I immediately downloaded the app. It “can play full episodes of TV series, ranging from C.S.I. to the original …
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Yesterday I used the Bobby-Jindal-is-Kenneth-the-page meme to go on a tangent about actors playing outside their ethnicity, in particular on shows like Saturday Night Live. “It’s not generally white European Americans who get substituted for,” I wrote, “though there had to have been good black George W. Bushes out there.”
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