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Fans of Mad Men are familiar with how meticulously it reproduces period details, but it’s still amazing, and a little weird at times, to see just how meticulous it is. Yesterday while Googling some information on the Ossining Reservoir, I came across the blog of J. Philip Faranda, an Ossining, N.Y., real estate agent, who was surprised …
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So last night on So You Think You Can Dance, an aspiring contestant reacted to some good news by rolling on the floor in her short skirt, exposing her bare crotch to primetime America and inviting the wrath of the FCC. Unless she didn’t. After the video and stills were posted online, SYTYCD producer Nigel Lythgoe made the seeming …
Again! But after the five-part extravaganza posting of the past few days, you could probably use a break.
Back Friday.
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Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton both starred in long-lasting hit comedies in the 1990s (Frasier and Everybody Loves Raymond). On Fox’s short-lived Back to You, they teamed up as news anchors, forming a kind of sitcom-star supergroup. Now they’re debuting back-to-back sitcoms on ABC, a symmetry that demands comparison. When two …
On to the last chapter of the Barnes saga in The Art of the Steal, wherein the trap snaps shut. As I said at the beginning of this five-part blogging opus — by all means, when it goes into theatrical release next spring, go see The Art of the Steal. Just don’t go looking for a happy ending.
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A Friends star changes career direction by making an inside-showbiz satire for a pay-cable network: in the TV industry, they call it “pulling a full Kudrow.” OK, they don’t, but they should. (The variation—making an overserious inside-showbiz drama for NBC, is referred to as “a full Perry.”) First Lisa Kudrow made HBO’s The Comeback; …
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When the pilot of The Good Wife aired last week, I wondered whether the show would continue to focus on its ongoing story, about Alicia and the aftermath of her husband’s sex scandal, or if it would mainly become a law-case-related-to-Alicia’s-personal-situation-of-the-week. I still suspect the show is too much of a law procedural to …
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To usher in Sesame Street’s 40th year on air starting Nov. 10, First Lady Michelle Obama will be appearing on the show to continue to spread her radical/Marxist/fascist message about planting gardens and eating vegetables.
Having successfully turned an American city trying to get the …
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Now that the TV-cost-reduction experiment otherwise known as The Jay Leno Show is in its third week, the numbers are starting to accumulate. After a big debut, his average nightly take has been bouncing around 6 million or so—above, but not a lot above, the 5 million he averaged on Tonight—depending on the strength of his NBC lead-in …
Okay, yet one more look at Don Argott’s new documentary, The Art of the Steal — which will go into commercial release next spring — and how the Barnes mess is wrapping up.
By the end of the tumultuous era of Barnes president Richard Glanton, with its big multi-city tour of Barnes paintings — money in! — and its big costly …
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Here’s something everybody should understand about journalism. The reporters, columnists and news anchors you follow almost all have opinions about the subjects they cover. There is nothing wrong with this. In fact, it is a good thing, because any person who immersed him or herself in a vital, contentious subject all day and formed no …
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In the end, only one Gosselin could end up with custody of the post-breakup Jon & Kate Plus 8, and it turns out that Mom won. TLC announced today that Kate Plus 8 will debut on Nov. 2, with newly-liberated play-ah Jon in a continuing but “less regular role.” Translation: having Jon show up with another “new mommy” every week would be too …
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AMC’s remake of The Prisoner is debuting on Nov. 15! Yay! It’ll air two hours a night for three nights straight! Yay! It’ll be preceded by a marathon of The Matrix movies! Ya— um… [confused muttering].
My yay!-ing, by the way, is based strictly on anticipation; I haven’t seen any of the remake yet. But if you still need to revisit …
