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Thump-thump. Thump-thump.
That was the sound of broadcast network television getting run over, twice, by FX’s biker drama, Sons of Anarchy, Tuesday night. For the first time, SoA defeated both NBC’s Jay Leno Show and ABC’s The Forgotten in the 18 to 49 ratings, which, as network programmers will tell you incessantly, is the only rating …
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Maybe it was just an off night for Wednesday comedy all around. Modern Family wasn’t as disappointing as last night’s Glee, and I found plenty of laughs in it, but all the same it was probably the show’s weakest outing.
Dallas has spent more than three decades piecing together an ambitious downtown “arts district” in the area around the Dallas Museum of Art. Last weekend the city opened two of the last big parts of the project, an opera house by Norman Foster and a theater by Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus.
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The Fox HD signal went out in the middle of my Glee TiVo-ing last night (this was apparently a NYC-area thing; I don’t know whether to blame Fox 5 or Time Warner Cable, though TiVo is apparently off the hook), with the result that I saw the first 25 minutes (with commercials) and the last three. But a weird, off 28 minutes or so those …
I was intrigued by a position the Associated Press took yesterday when it filed new court papers in its countersuit against Shepard Fairey over his unauthorized use of an AP photo as the basis for his Obama “Hope” poster. Basically, they said: “You lie — some more”.
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Game of Thrones—the HBO pilot based on George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels—is getting ready to shoot next week in Northern Ireland and has cemented its cast. If you’re not familiar with the show, you have a good excuse, since it does not yet exist and there’s still no guarantee that it ever will.
Still, as …
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You would think that watching entrepreneurs beg for start-up cash for outlandish businesses in the middle of a recession would be a recipe for entertainment, but I never managed to get into ABC’s Shark Tank this fall. (I am, however, still holding out hope for CBS’s corporate-reality show, Undercover Boss, later this season.) Still I …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s Sons of Anarchy coming up after the jump:
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I suppose I could just put up a post with “Oprah” and “Palin” in the headline and let the Google searches do the rest, but here’s a little more detail. The Mighty O will have The Mighty P on her show Nov. 16, in connection with the release of Palin’s book, Going Rogue.
You will recall that there was a controversy, or rather …
The British architect recently won the Stirling Prize, Britain’s highest architectural honor. But was the prize meant as a way for U.K. modern architects to give the finger to Rogers’ prime antagonist — and theirs — Prince Charles? Sort of like an Obama Peace Prize that’s a shot at George Bush? Rogers won’t hear of it, but it’s …
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IFC last night aired the second episode of Almost the Truth: The Lawyer’s Cut, its six-hour documentary on Monty Python. As a longtime Python fan—and one who usually has little patience for showbiz documentaries—I found the doc’s personal stories and cultural context fascinating, but I wonder if the whole haul is a little much for …
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Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
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You would think that a series set in 1963 would be a series with limited potential for product tie-ins, but you would be wrong. Introducing the Brooks Brothers exclusive Limited Edition Mad Men Suit.
Well, I now know who I’m going as for Halloween!
