Probably not a huge surprise, but EW’s Ausiello reports that Kings will have its remaining (and final) episodes burned off on Saturdays, starting April 18. On the other hand: At least they’ll air. Also: network drama on Saturdays!
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House's Riskiest Operation Yet
After the jump, TIME writer and House aficionado John Cloud shares his (spoilery! you’ve been warned!) thoughts on last night’s House:
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Jon Stewart Has Not Finished Jim Cramer Yet
According to a CNBC announcement, stockpicker and Jon Stewart punching bag Jim Cramer celebrates his 1,000th episode tomorrow. (CNBC actually went to the trouble of counting the number of “boo-yahs” on Mad Money—over 1,500, a surprisingly low figure.) Judging from the reaction to the recent Daily Show smackdown of Cramer, many other …
More Talk About the Venetians
Let’s finish up that conversation with Frederick Ilchman, who co-curated the smart and hilariously lustrous new show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, “Rivals in Renaissance Venice: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese.”
LACAYO: In the fall of 2006 your museum reached an agreement with the Italian culture ministry to give back to Italy 13 …
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The Morning After: All A-Twitter
I’ve been on Twitter for a few weeks now, long enough to have ascertained a few things:
* It’s a great repository for my observations and jokes that are too trivial and superficial even for this blog—and boy, do I have plenty of those.
* Twitter is superior to Facebook, because it is better to have “followers” than “friends.”
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Mini Breaking Bad Watch
Quick thoughts on last night’s installment of Breaking Bad (mild spoilers below):
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Don't Read This, Read That
Sorry for the light posting today, but dealing with a deadline. In the meantime, may I interest you in…
* The New York Times’ David Carr gets an early look at the taping of David Simon’s New Orleans’ drama, Treme
* Tom Braden, the author and liberal pundit who gave us both Eight is Enough and Crossfire, is dead at age 92
* And …
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The Morning After: Any Port in a Storm
I’m not sure when or if I’ll have a chance to blog much of this weekend’s TV—Breaking Bad, Dollhouse, In Treatment, the United States of Tara finale—so consider this an open thread in the meantime. I also wanted to put in a word for Kings, whose episode last night was the first I hadn’t been sent in advance by NBC. Though the ratings …
Talking About the Venetians (And Other Things)
I was up in Boston last Thursday and Friday, mainly to look in on “Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice”. That would be the very pleasurable new loan show at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts about the ways that the Big Three of 16th-century Venetian painting pushed each other’s buttons for decades. It remains …
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The Leno-lution Begins! Boston Says No to Jay
Boston, it is often said, was the cradle of the American Revolution. And today it is the site of an all-out rebellion between a colony (the NBC affiliate) and its distant overlord (NBC). Boston’s WHDH says it will not air Jay Leno’s 10 p.m. talk show next fall, and will put a newscast in its place instead–the TV equivalent of a shot …
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It's a Time.com Reunion! (On the Radio.)
Former Swamplander Ana Marie Cox is guest-hosting on Air America from noon to 3 p.m. E.T. today, and I’ll be on with her somewhere around 1:30, talking about matters TV-related.
I’m told the interview will be available on something called a “radio.” If you don’t have one handy, and are not near an antiques shop, you can find a live …
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Jon and Kate Plus Eight, Plus One More Year
The show that kicked off TLC’s giant brood of shows about families with giant broods, Jon and Kate Plus Eight, was picked up for a fifth season, it was announced yesterday at Discovery’s upfront presentation. As the Zap2It article linked here suggests, you might wonder whether putting the family on camera again is such a hot idea, given …
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Dead Tree Alert: In Treatment Returns
In this week’s print TIME, I review season 2 of In Treatment, which returns this Sunday and which (having seen four weeks so far) I like better than the first:
By the time Paul Weston (Gabriel Byrne) sits down for a session with his own therapist, Gina (Dianne Wiest), he has had a long week. He’s been served with a subpoena in a
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