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I don’t have a sense of the timeline, or how much of this report is solid vs. wishful, but Silicon Alley Insider is reporting that a Hulu app is coming, within “a few months,” to the iPhone, allowing streaming of the TV-website’s videos over the mobile device. If this comes to pass, Alec Baldwin’s eating my brain will be a small price to …
I mentioned a few weeks ago that Britain’s Prince Charles had inserted his Royal Self into the plans for a proposed apartment complex in London designed by Richard Rogers’ firm. Charles objected to Rogers’ modernist design for the apartments, which are to go up across from Christopher Wren’s late 17th century Royal Hospital. In …
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Having been on vacation, I believe I am the last pop-culture writer in America not to have expressed an opinion about Susan Boyle. During the last week, the Britain’s Got Talent contestant has gone through a full-media cycle, and then some.
Like almost anyone else, I loved watching her TV-debut video, her silencing the sniggerers in the …
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* CNN fell behind not just Fox News but also Ashton Kutcher.
* But neither of them was as big as Susan Boyle.
* Fox News, meanwhile, served tea across the country on Tax Day. And at least one CNN correspondent was not going to take it. (Getting whipped by Ashton Kutcher probably didn’t help.)
* The SAG board approved a new …
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In the issue of TIME that went on newsstands Friday, I have a page on the biggest—arguably the only—network-TV hit of the 2008-09 season:
We all know by now the problems with major-network TV. There are too many other channels, other media, other diversions. The audience has been sliced and diced into confetti, and it is no longer
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I didn’t get around to reviewing Fox’s Sit Down, Shut Up, from Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, before going on vacation. But I did watch two episodes, and found myself in that uncomfortably familiar position for a TV critic: trying to will myself to enjoy a show I had high expectations of, from a writer whose work I’ve …
