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EW reports today that NBC focus groups have trashed the pilot for Amy Poehler’s upcoming Parks and Recreation. EW’s PopWatch then concludes, rightly, that we should not give a crap what a focus group thinks. I haven’t seen the pilot, so for all I know it could actually be a dud, but any TV critic can tell you stories of the steaming …
I took a look recently at Guest of Cindy Sherman, a documentary co-produced and directed by an ex-boyfriend of the artist Cindy Sherman, the ultimate New York postmodernist. It’s about the pleasures and humiliations, mostly the humiliations, of being the not-quite-significant other of a much more famous person. It’s been making the …
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Last night, David Letterman, late night’s most-confirmed not-really-a-bachelor bachelor, announced to his studio audience that he finally married girlfriend Regina Lasko, after 23 years. He’s just about grown-up now.
In other late-night news, TBS has announced an 11 p.m. talk show starting in November for George Lopez. Apparently they …
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Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
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On Friday I lamented the overlap of Battlestar Galactica’s finale with the paradigm-shifting relaunch episode of Dollhouse. But it turns out that maybe a rising tide lifts all spaceships / human-personality-imprinting facilities. BSG did score a big sendoff, with its highest ratings in three years. But Dollhouse not only held fairly …
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Having recently written a column on the anti-Obamism of CNBC in the past couple of months, it’s worth noting that the network seems to be having something of a love-in for the President, his administration and their just-announced toxic-assets plan today.
Mind you, I’m not an expert on the markets or bank policy; I’m not going to judge …
If you’ve spent any time in Chicago then you know that whole stretches of that city can seem like a beautifully curated architectural collection. Which is why I was dismayed (and a little puzzled) last month when an Illinois appellate court handed down a peculiar ruling that the state’s landmarks preservation law was unconstitutionally …
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Before you read this post, turn off that home-shopping network and watch last night’s season finale of Big Love.
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I’ll be doing a Watch on the Big Love season finale later, but because I’m recuperating from a stomach bug and looking at a to-do list the length of a Greek diner menu, it may be a while. In the meantime, did anyone stick around for the second week of Kings? Given the ratings for the first week of Kings, it may be a moot point, but I’m …
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Spoilers for the series finale of Battlestar Galactica coming up after the jump:
There is a long line of movies that celebrate one of life’s most vital relationships: A dude and his best buddy.
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…of course it’s on at the same time as the finale of Battlestar Galactica, so how are you supposed to watch both? I don’t know. Get a DVR. Have a friend record it for you. Download it. Call your local cable/satellite provider! Do I have to do everything here?
Seriously, it’s unfortunate timing for Dollhouse, considering the …
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When (and if) you first heard about Party Down, the new comedy on Starz, your reaction was probably the same as mine: do I have Starz? Now would be a good time to find out, because this show—from Rob Thomas and Paul Rudd and with a cast including Adam Scott, Jane Lynch and Martin Starr—is worth your time and pay-cable dollar. …
