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On the heels of my post about NBC, USA and comfort-food programming came an announcement for HBO that it renewed an excellent show I could only describe as discomfort food: In Treatment . The showrunners are changing; I’m guessing much of the cast will too (per usual). Excerpts from the announcement:
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If I had gotten around to reviewing USA’s White Collar, which debuts tonight, I’d probably have said what I’d have said about USA shows like Royal Pains or Psych or Monk. It’s a light, funny caper. (The premise: a con man ends up working for the FBI to help them catch other con men.) It’s brisk and slick and fun and competently made, …
This weekend, on October 25, CBS News Sunday Morning, with Charles Osgood, will have a special edition focusing on the problem of obesity in America. That’s not the kind of news that ordinarily makes it into an art blog, but part of the show will be a segment on how the human body has been represented in art from prehistory to the …
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Spoilers for last night’s Survivor coming up after the jump:
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Though he was once a Detroit TV personality, I have only the faintest childhood memory of Soupy Sales and his pies-in-the-face. Fortunately, TIME’s Richard Corliss has applied his encyclopedic pop-culture knowledge to an appreciation of the kids’ funnyman of early TV.
It strikes me that Soupy was once an example of what used to be the …
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If you look closely at my posts today, you may notice some crazy linkage going on here at Tuned In. Over the next couple of weeks, we’re going to be testing out pop-up links that will allow me to embed links to video, photos, reference pages, etc., without sending you to a new Web page. I won’t bore you with the technical details, but …
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Spoilers for Parks and Recreation, The Office, and 30 Rock coming up after the jump:
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My column in this week’s print TIME is the last word on the Balloon Boy saga—”last word” in the sense that I’m pretty sure every other person in America has weighed in on the subject by now. I look at Richard Heene’s reported fixation on getting a reality show and the culture of TV fame that it reflects:
Modern media did not invent
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In 2009, following the release of Bob Dylan’s baffling Christmas album, TIME examined other bizarre celebrity musical experiments.
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Thump-thump. Thump-thump.
That was the sound of broadcast network television getting run over, twice, by FX’s biker drama, Sons of Anarchy, Tuesday night. For the first time, SoA defeated both NBC’s Jay Leno Show and ABC’s The Forgotten in the 18 to 49 ratings, which, as network programmers will tell you incessantly, is the only rating …
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Maybe it was just an off night for Wednesday comedy all around. Modern Family wasn’t as disappointing as last night’s Glee, and I found plenty of laughs in it, but all the same it was probably the show’s weakest outing.
Dallas has spent more than three decades piecing together an ambitious downtown “arts district” in the area around the Dallas Museum of Art. Last weekend the city opened two of the last big parts of the project, an opera house by Norman Foster and a theater by Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus.
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The Fox HD signal went out in the middle of my Glee TiVo-ing last night (this was apparently a NYC-area thing; I don’t know whether to blame Fox 5 or Time Warner Cable, though TiVo is apparently off the hook), with the result that I saw the first 25 minutes (with commercials) and the last three. But a weird, off 28 minutes or so those …
