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Those incessant public-service announcements reminding you to prepare your TV for the digital switchover may have to be updated (and stick around a while longer). The Obama transition team is recommending that the switch–in which analog signals will be replaced by digital ones–be delayed past the planned Feb. 17 date.
The digital …
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After putting up my post about Ken Tucker’s new blog, I had an e-mail exchange with a fellow critic about the value of writing about shows after the fact, on a blog, versus writing about them before the fact, in a traditional review. 30 Rock, at least, is a perfect show for blogging about the morning after, because, really, all my review …
Two kinds of economies bring art collections to market. Good times, like the one that just ended. And bad times…
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I feel I should offer something of an apology to BSG fans for my Battlestar Galactica preview in this week’s TIME: there’s probably not a lot in it for you. That is, I discuss the new episode, debuting next Friday, only in very general terms, for two reasons. (1) I usually assume a more general audience in the print magazine than in …
And now for something completely different — a post that’s not about deaccessioning, which I think I’m going to take a pledge not to write about for a while. Instead I’ll write about something else everybody keeps talking about, the diaries of Susan Sontag.
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NBC has announced the roster of this year’s Celebrity Apprentice, which debuts March 1. There are ’90s legends including Andrew Dice Clay, Tom Green and Dennis Rodman. There’s a Kardashian (but not the famous one!). And there are Joan and Melissa Rivers, who actually, by the standards of Donald Trump’s show, are absolute A-listers. …
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I very rarely make accurate ratings predictions, so I have to make a big deal of them when I do. And with news that The Mentalist scored nearly 20 million viewers the other night, I can’t help noting that I kinda-sorta pegged it for a hit last fall:
The Mentalist is, in the end, a crime procedural, and thus will probably join my list of
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We are in one of those weird periods for LDG, because I have seen the first two episodes of season 5 (both of which air Jan. 21). So I have to be extremely careful about posing leading discussion questions, or writing anything else that may inadvertently spoil something for someone, if for no other reason than, “Oh, I bet I know why he …
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Brief and only mildly spoilery remarks on the season premiere of Damages after the jump:
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Let it never be said that no media organizations are expanding their overseas coverage. A conservative website has hired Real America resident Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher as a war correspondent. Wurzelbacher will reportedly spend ten days in Israel, asking Israeli “Average Joes” to tell their stories as fighting rages in Gaza. …
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Peevish thoughts that occur to me while going through review screeners, an occasional series:
Can we declare some kind of moratorium on little supertitles in TV series telling us the name and significance of every new character we meet? If we’re watching a scene in which an ad exec is pitching a client—and I pick on TNT’s Trust Me …
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As the New York Times reports—and the constant stream of network-news PR emails hitting my inbox attest—TV is going all out to provide coverage of Barack Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
HBO will carry a free inaugural celebration. CNN will be at the Newseum. MSNBC will be on the Mall. And Fox News will be broadcasting from a bar …
The other day on his blog Modern Art Notes Tyler Green suggested that museums that suffer severe financial meltdowns should close their doors rather than rescue themselves by selling work from their collections. Their collections should be redistributed among other, more solvent museums that could continue to show the work.
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