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Lately the Obama Administration has—in TIME and other outlets—been actively going on the attack against Fox News. The Administration, and Obama himself, have had run-ins with Fox before, but this time the message is different: they’re characterizing the cable channel as not just a conservative outlet, but as a political organization, …
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One side effect of NBC’s announcement last week that it would cancel Southland before season two even aired was a report from Michael Ausiello that the network might bring back Chuck before its planned March debut—maybe as soon as the end of this month.
You might think that Chuck fans would all react as Ausiello did—”How happy are …
As a rule museum directors tend to step down within a few years after completing a major expansion. Marc Wilson, who saw through the great Steven Holl addition to the Nelson-Atkins, will be leaving his job soon. And as we’ve known for a while, Lewis Sharp, 63, will be retiring at the end of December after 20 years as head of the …
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Following up on yesterday’s news about Dollhouse’s increase in viewing from DVRs comes news—prompted by that 50% ratings increase—that Fox is committing to at least air all 13 episodes of Dollhouse’s season two. As for season three, we’ll see later. I would not make plans at this point.
Yesterday’s release of the DVR info led to …
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What with all the singing and dancing and costumes, you would think that the cast of Glee and a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade float would go together like turkey and cranberries. But you would be forgetting that the Macy’s parade airs on NBC, which reportedly forced Macy’s to retract an offer to the kids from Glee to perform in the …
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Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
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The Hollywood Reporter’s James Hibberd has a breakdown of the DVR-viewing figures for TV premiere week. Among other things they show that Dollhouse’s rating goes up 50% when you add in timeshifted DVR viewing.
Mind you, that’s 50% of precious little, lifting it from an anemic 1.0 rating to a slightly less anemic 1.5. DVR viewing was …
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A month into his run on the air, it’s about the time for observers to start weighing in on NBC’s Great Leno Experiment at 10 p.m. But as I alluded to the other day, the problem is determining what constitutes success and failure for The Jay Leno Show. Since it is a cost-containment measure before anything, it can’t be judged by the same …
Here’s a slide show we put together of some of the artworks that the Obamas have chosen for the family quarters of the White House and parts of the East and West Wings. There’s not much about it that could be called controversial, unless you think that Glenn Ligon’s text piece Black Like Me is somehow shocking because it engages the …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, watch last night’s Mad Men, and be sure to keep track of whether they aired all the commercials.
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Sometimes networks cancel low-rated shows after their first season, and sometimes they cancel low-rated shows in their second seasons. NBC, after adding The Jay Leno Show this fall, shows itself willing to continually innovate with new and creative ways to get rid of dramas: it renewed cop show Southland at the end of last season, then …
Two big new shows in New York this fall touch on the moment when abstract art was a very new idea. “Kandinsky”, at the Guggenheim, traces the full career of the man who was one of the pioneers of the form. And over at the Whitney, “Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction” pushes aside all those cattle skulls (or most of them) to focus on the …
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As I mentioned last week, I haven’t given up on FlashForward, not quite yet, but it is distinctly in my I’ll-get-to-it-when-I-get-to-it category. I know it’s the kind of show that demands next-morning analysis, though—isn’t it?—so feel free to DIY it, and I’ll either update or sound off in the comments if I have something to add eventually.
