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After getting to my desk and seeing word that Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, I turned on cable news to see the reaction. In particular, Fox News, the #1 cable news network and recent White House bete noire, whose reaction and coverage you might think would be interesting.
It was, mainly because—in the 9:00 ET …
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Spoilers for last night’s episode of The Office coming up after the jump:
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Because I am a TV critic and it is the law, my column in this week’s TIME is about David Letterman, where the scandal may go from here and how Dave is unlike (and like) the politicians he jokes about. Thus it re-encapsulates some of the things I’ve been writing about Letterman here this week, as well as during his June dust-up with …
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Fringe is turning out to be even more like The X-Files than I suspected when it started—structurally, anyway, in that it’s breaking down between monster-of-the-week episodes, which I might enjoy but don’t feel compelled to watch right away, and mythology episodes, which focus on the overarching parallel-universe storyline and …
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[Update: I deleted the embedded video here because it was causing some browsers to crash, and playing unprompted on my own browser, which annoys the crap out of me. But you can see it, other clips—and the full episode—at the South Park Studios website. Apologies.]
While we’re on the subject of product placement this morning, I’m …
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This is really turning out to be the week of scandal comebacks. Michael Richards returned to TV on Curb Your Enthusiasm. Don Imus returned to TV on Fox Business. David Letterman—well, that one’s still in progress. And now, reports the L.A. Times, Michael Vick is getting his own reality show. The Michael Vick Project (tentative title) …
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I highly recommend everyone go read Choire Sicha’s outstanding op-ed in the New York Times this morning about product placement in America, which among other notes that the film version of The Road even managed to work a plug for VitaminWater into a movie about the Apocalypse. (The Coca-Cola scene he mentions, by the way, was actually …
The great American photographer Irving Penn has died. Penn, who was 92, was one of the towering figures of American photography, a master of fashion photography, portraiture and lusciously detailed still life. Along with the late Richard Avedon he was the king of a certain kind of supremely lustrous American magazine photography in …
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Comedy Central, like any good targeted network with a young male audience, is constantly asking itself, What do guys like? Guys like comedy. Guys like the Internet. And guys like point-of-view porn and Girls Gone Wild videos. Ahem, so I’m told.
The channel has combined …
After five years the PBS series Art: 21 — Art in the Twenty-First Century is still the most enjoyable attempt to show a TV audience what contemporary artists do. It’s just about the only one, at least the only multi-part series, though there’s always the occasional documentary on cable and sometimes even a mini-festival of art docs. …
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There was a collision at the intersection of Funny and Awesome last night as The Colbert Report hosted John Darnielle and his band The Mountain Goats. Darnielle’s music can be haunting, disturbing and beautiful, but the last thing I’d expect it to be is topical. And yet the band’s new album, The Life of the World to Come, whose songs are …
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It was widely reported enough yesterday that I doubt it qualifies as a Dancing with the Stars spoiler, but avert your eyes if you want to avoid them anyway: Tom DeLay ended his Cinderella bid for the DWTS crown yesterday, citing injured feet. (Another contestant was eliminated, but I’ll skip that spoiler here.)
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