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The makers of American Idol are gearing up to create a massive, multi-platform, 24-hour, interactive reality show/competition that may be either the biggest or the most tedious reality idea I have ever heard. I’m not sure which.
If I Can Dream, planned to launch on the Internet in …
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Last night, NBC aired SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas, a holiday special whose title made me nervous. I love Kristen Wiig; I do not love Gilly, who like many SNL characters that “break out” for some unknown reason, is one drawn-out, not especially funny joke over and over and over. But …
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Spoilers for last night’s Survivor: Samoa coming up after the jump:
James Cameron’s Avatar, which hits theaters across the U.S. Dec. 18, is the notoriously difficult director’s first film in more than 10 years. In honor of its release, TIME takes a look back at Cameron’s oeuvre to pick out the …
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Tuned In’s sister blog, RealClearPolitics, links this morning to a Wall Street Journal / NBC poll that finds 27% of Americans say that they get most of their news from Fox News compared with 5% for MSNBC (and 16% for CNN). When I first saw the headline, I thought: why bother asking? After all, there are already measures of viewership, …
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The industrious Mo Ryan has posted the last half, or two-thirds, of the transcript of Ryan, Alan Sepinwall and I jawboning about TV over pizza in New York this October. Among the topics: Dollhouse, The Shield‘s Armenian money train, Mad Men and a defense of Fox for canceling all those awesome shows that you love.
It was a blast talking …
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Quick spoilers for The Sing-Off after the jump:
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Last October, Maureen Ryan, Alan Sepinwall and I met at John’s pizzeria in midtown Manhattan to divide the globe among our respective empires a margherita pie and talk about TV. Mo Ryan went to the trouble of recording and transcribing the convo and is posting it in three parts. (The Library of Congress will be after this recording, …
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I met a neighbor at a party last weekend and mentioned that I write for TIME. This led to a conversation about the New York Times–specifically, how many typos she’s noticed in the paper lately. They must be getting rid of all their copy editors! Yeah, I said, they’re probably stretched pretty thin–more copy to edit, in the paper and …
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Quick spoilers for night two of The Sing-Off coming up after the jump:
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Say you happen to have the rights to make a reality show starring an infamous couple who—in the name of getting on a reality show—breached security at the White House by crashing a state dinner. On the one hand: to put them in a reality series would effectively reward their behavior, and how, making them even bigger celebrities, …
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Tuned In doesn’t generally cover the Federal Reserve, but we do cover media, and this time every year TIME makes a media story out of itself by naming its Person of the Year. This year it’s Ben Bernanke, the Fed chairman; you can read the story here, and editor Rick Stengel’s rationale for picking him here.
I wasn’t involved in the POY …
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Busy working on things-that-are-not-this-blog. While I’m otherwise occupied, enjoy this new FX clip for Justified (formerly Lawman), premiering in March. It’s a trailer, rather than the cool extended scene we saw last fall (which is no longer available for embedding), but I’m excited anyway. Cowboy hats, Walton Goggins and rockets!
