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Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post is reporting—as has been buzzed about for months—that ABC is offering the job as Diane Sawyer’s replacement on Good Morning America to George Stephanopoulos.
Now I am all for anything that shows a difficult-to-spell last name is no impediment to rising in the media. But is this the best choice for George?
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I’ll be on KCRW radio’s excellent talk show To the Point today, lowering the level of reasoned discourse with my thoughts on the NBC-Comcast merger. My interview’s at 2:45 p.m. Eastern, but you may want to check with your local public radio station for airtimes. Or get the podcast. Or ignore it entirely.
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In the coming print edition of TIME, my Tuned In column is about your two big media distractions of the week, and how Tiger Woods and the Salahis respectively represent an old- and new-fangled strain of celebrity: the attention-controller and the attention-seeker. Not that this was a particularly good week for either group.
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I get the sense that most of Tuned Inland’s Friday Night Lights fans are waiting to watch it on NBC, so most of the readers who weighed in asked that I wait until the NBC run to post about season 4. For various reasons—mostly personal laziness—I’ve abided by the request. But last night’s episode, “The Son,” was so good that it …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up after the jump:
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Giant cable-TV provider Comcast has reached a deal with GE this morning to take over giant entertainment company NBC Universal. This means big changes ahead for 30 Rock’s Jack Donaghy, who will have to adapt his core competencies from selling microwave ovens to pushing upgrades on DVR cable boxes. But what does it mean for you as a TV …
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Tonight’s annual NBC tree-lighting special—a.k.a. The Reason It Was a Good Idea to Work At Home and Not At Time’s Rockefeller Center Office Today—will go on after all. A union of broadcast technicians rescinded a strike threat against the network, which had threatened to pull the plug on Christmas in Rockefeller Center. The network …
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ABC has announced that Dec. 18 will be Charles Gibson’s last day anchoring World News; he’ll be replaced, as announced in September, by Diane Sawyer shortly afterward. (ABC hasn’t made an official announcement of her start date yet, but it looks to be the following week.)
Sawyer’s ascension isn’t news. What’s interesting is the timing, …
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We live in the age of paranoia: Presidential birth certificates, Vice-Presidential-candidates’ grandkids, terrorist attacks, flu vaccines—there is nothing that cannot become the stuff of conspiracy theory. So it is prescient thinking, if not spectacular TV, that TruTV enlisted wrestler-turned-governor-now-turned-TV-star Jesse “The …
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Well, it would be nice to think so. The fact that Tiger Woods just released a statement on his website apologizing for “transgressions” and saying “I let my family down” shows that Woods has discovered over the past week that the reality is otherwise.
One question that Woods’ phrasing raises, though, is: to what extent was the media …
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Spoilers for the season-two finale of Sons of Anarchy coming up after the jump:
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Courtesy of New York magazine’s Vulture blog (and denisermorris on my Twitter stream) comes this excellent Lost season six teaser from Spain. (Though, like its American cousins, it has no new footage to offer.) How do you say “I cannot freaking wait” en Español?
The New York Post has reported that Dr. Anne Dranitsaris, a Toronto psychotherapist, could be in line to become Oprah’s next media darling. If the tabloid is right, she’s just the latest in a long line of professionals whose …
