There are few examples of movies making a successful transition to the Great White Way. TIME looks at Broadway shows that should never have been.
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The Morning After: An Irish Lullaby
The combination of a defective DVD screener and a night spent watching election coverage has put me an episode behind on Sons of Anarchy. But rather than make you wait, I thought this might be a good place to pause, four episodes from the end of season 3, and poll the Anarchites of Tuned Inland as to how the season is working for you.
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Midterm Media Do the Wave
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Video: MSNBC wasted little time reacting to the reaction at the polls last night.
“Wave,” “tidal wave,” “tsunami”—the terms for the midterm results in last night’s TV coverage were limited only by the English language’s number of terms for something really big from an ocean. (The …
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JPTV: Live Q&A with Louis C.K.
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Tomorrow night (Wednesday, Nov. 3) I’ll be at the Paley Center in Manhattan, hosting a Q&A session with Louis C.K., star/director/writer/editor/almost-everything-else of FX’s fantastic, idiosyncratic Louie, which may well be my favorite new show of 2010. The session starts at 8:30 …
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Zombie Army: 5.3 Million for Walking Dead Debut
If you’ve been wondering if AMC’s The Walking Dead would get a second season after its six-episode debut one, you can probably relax. The zombie series ate the guts out of all previous AMC ratings records, getting 5.3 million viewers for its first airing alone. (By comparison, Rubicon debuted at around a million, and Mad Men, well …
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Sanitized? Olbermann Suspends 'Worst Person' After Rally
After the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear Saturday, Keith Olbermann went on the defensive on Twitter, tweeting that Jon Stewart had “jumped a shark” in behaving as though left and right voices in cable news were equally as guilty for creating a toxic tone in media discourse. (To be fair, Olbermann said it was a small shark. Perhaps a …
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Talking Dead: What Did You Think of AMC’s Walking Dead Premiere?
Spoilers for the debut of The Walking Dead coming up:
As I wrote in my review and earlier on this blog, I really liked Frank Darabont’s pilot for The Walking Dead; the second episode I liked not nearly as much, but the third …
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Boardwalk Empire Watch: The Persistence of Memory
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, put down that Tom Swift book and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
Boardwalk Empire is a work of historical fiction, but the past has its own past. And “Home,” the season’s seventh …
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Stewart and Colbert's Rally: Irony and Sincerity, Merged
America is about putting together things that are not supposed to go together. Korean tacos, for instance. (Which, really, you should try.) Or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and R2D2. Or irony and sincerity.
Which is to say, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert put together a very American show on the National Mall today with the Rally to Restore …
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Weekend Reading: How Jay Beat Conan (and NBC)
When the Jaypocalypse began to unfold at NBC last January, I doubt there was a person who covers TV who did not think: Well, there’s another book for Bill Carter! Indeed, the New York Times TV-beat guy—who immortalized the Leno-Letterman fight for Tonight with The Late Shift—is coming out with a sequel of sorts (The War for Late …
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Community / Office Watch: Fright Night
Proving that there are still a vast amount of costume gags yet to be mined in the sitcom genre, both Community and The Office (and Outsourced, but I’m going to pretend it didn’t happen) delivered Halloween episodes last night. Proving that the supply of said costume gags is not unlimited, both episodes featured essentially the same …
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The Morning After: Making the Cut?
Having dropped out of this season’s Project Runway, it’s not really fair of me to critique the judges’ decision in last night’s finale, which I understand has been fairly controversial; to me—no spoilers here—it was justified from the final collection, but I don’t have the context of the finalists’ full-season work to go on. I will, …
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How Political Is the Rally for Sanity?
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Before anyone opines on The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear this weekend, it’s worth noting that the thing hasn’t actually, um, happened; there have been an awful lot of judgments made on an event whose content we don’t even know yet. So I can only judge the event on the basis …