Spoilers for last night’s American Idol coming up after the jump:
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Lostwatch: Wishing Well
Before you read this post, go deep, deep underground and watch last night’s Lost.
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Lost Discussion Group: Violent Shifts Through Time Edition
…and while I’m out, feel free to engage in wild speculation about tonight’s Lost, about which I know next to nothing. Here’s the next to nothing that I know, from ABC’s press release:
LOCKE TAKES IT UPON HIMSELF TO PUT AN END TO THE ISLAND’S VIOLENT SHIFTS THROUGH TIME, ON ABC’S “LOST”
“This Place is Death” – Locke takes on the
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TV News Roundup
Going to be out for much of the day shooting a video for time.com. Not, fortunately, a music video. In the meantime, chew on this:
* Showtime announced a second season for United States of Tara yesterday.
* Amy Poehler’s Parks and Recreation—for some weird reason my favorite title for a new show in a long time—is staffing up.
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The Morning After: Into Thin Air
No time for an extended Fringe writeup this morning, but I just wanted to point out that somehow the show manages to find that exquisite balance of just enough frustrating episodes and just enough intriguing ones to keep me watching the show without quite falling in love with it. Last night was one of the intriguing ones, putting a …
Graduate School
Last week, in a story I put up on the Time.com home page about the attempt by Brandeis to do whatever it’s trying to do to the Rose Art Museum, I mentioned that one reason why trashing the Rose was a terrible idea is that Brandeis has a significant art history program and the Rose is a major teaching resource for that program. What I …
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I Went to Comic Con and All You Got Was This Stupid Blog Post
New York Comic Con—a smaller version of the behemoth held in San Diego in summer—was held last weekend, and I attended for the first time. I went just for a day, with the rest of the Tuned In family (the Tuned In Jrs. got into a packed-to-the-rafters lecture by the author of Diary of a Wimpy Kid), in part because, compared with the …
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Ratings Report: Obama Outdraws Idol?
According to preliminary Nielsen numbers, President Obama’s press conference drew a higher rating than the season premiere of American Idol, says the Hollywood Reporter. On the one hand, Idol only airs on one network. On the other hand, the preliminary press conference rating doesn’t includes the cable news networks, which will drive the …
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Big Love Watch: Go Fish
Brief spoilers about Sunday’s Big Love coming up after the jump:
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The Morning After: Still On Board With Heroes?
Many of our Monday-night staples were pre-empted by the press conference, but Heroes returned for week two of its new installment. The show is farther down my TiVo-and-watch-later list, but your comments welcomed on it, or any other parts of last night’s attenuated primetime.
Three Things on Tuesday
A very bad omen for the Chinese New Year.
Shepard Fairey strikes back at Associated Press (which says it owns the right to the photo he used for his Obama poster.)
And the strangest — arts-hating Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn has a daughter who just happens to be an opera singer. (Maybe we should check that Senate version of the …
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Obama Meets the Press: How Did He Do? How Did They?
Last night, President Barack Obama took questions from the press on national television to argue for his decision to pre-empt Chuck push for a massive economic stimulus package. A few impressions:
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Corporate Press Release Theater: America's Got Talent; Nick Cannon's Got a Job
Jerry Springer threw a nation into chaos last week with the announcement that he will no longer be hosting America’s Got Talent. (In related news, Jerry Springer was host of America’s Got Talent.) But the power vacuum has been filled, by none other than former Nickelodeon star / Mariah Carey-marrier Nick Cannon. Quotes from the release …