In the print edition of TIME this week comes, lurching and moaning, my review of AMC’s new zombie drama, The Walking Dead. I liked it—with qualifications.
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TV Tonight: I Got a Rock
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Tonight, ABC airs annual favorite It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. (It’s paired with the midterm-timely special You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown, which at risk of heresy may be the superior cartoon.) The clip above is not from that show; it’s from The Charlie Brown and Snoopy …
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Modern Family Watch: Don't You Give Me An Old Tomato
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A little bird reminds me that I have not yet posted on last night’s Modern Family. I could have used said little bird this morning, when I left for the office, leaving my notes for the episode on my laptop across the East River. So today’s post will be abbreviated. I will say in general that …
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Three Wives, Five Seasons: Big Love Ending
HBO today announced a premiere date (Jan. 16) for the fifth season of Big Love, and announced that the season will be its last. I’m filing this under Things I Sort of Thought Were Already Announced; it had at least been intimated for a while that the polygamy drama would wrap up with five seasons. And while I’ve been a fan of the …
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Conan to Debut (Sort Of) a Week Early
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How excited is Conan O’Brien to start doing his new show for all you wonderful people? So excited that he’s launching it a week earlier than planned! Kind of. At 11 p.m. ET on Nov. 1—Conan’s regular time slot once it debuts on TBS Nov. 8—he’ll broadcast “Show Zero” from his …
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The Morning After: Terrier Than Thou
any chance of a Terriers Morning After? Another solid ep last night. Show does lots of little things right.
Done and done, and agreed! I have not, unfortunately, had the time for week-in-week-out reviews of FX’s Terriers, but I’ve still been following it weekly, and I’m a little puzzled, frankly, why it …
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Obama and Stewart: What Fake News Can Do
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“I don’t want to lump you in with a lot of other pundits,” President Barack Obama told Jon Stewart in his interview on last night’s Daily Show. In saying that, Obama brought up a question that Stewart’s rising prominence, and this weekend’s Rally to Restore Sanity, have …
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BSG Spinoff Dead; Long Live the Other BSG Spinoff!
It always looked like it was going to be a rough road to a third second season for Caprica, but it didn’t even make it through the second half of the first. In a fairly unusual move for a cable drama, Syfy has cancelled the Battlestar Galactica spinoff drama before the season was even over. (Reportedly, the final episodes will air later …
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TV Tonight: One Last Season for FNL
Tonight on DirecTV, Friday Night Lights returns for the last time (or the last time until the final season re-returns for its second run on NBC next year, for which no date has yet been set). I’m going to follow the same practice I did last year: because most Tuned Inlanders don’t have access to this run of episodes (which won’t be on …
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Glee Watch: They've Created a Monster
Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up:
In one sense, “The Rocky Horror Glee Show” was exactly what I expected: an episode in which the cast of Glee performs songs from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with the thinnest of plot justifications for doing it and characters behaving inexplicably in order to fulfill the episode’s music …
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TV Tonight: Art & Copy
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Think of it as a Mad Men DVD extra without the DVD. Tonight on PBS, Independent Lens debuts Art & Copy, a stylish documentary about the American ad business from midcentury forward that—like Don Draper’s career itself—traces the ascendancy of the copywriter in a business that used …
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Daily Show Reaches DC, Visits Juan Williams
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The Daily Show was dark last week, so its first chance to address the Juan Williams tempest came in the first of a week of shows from Washington, D.C. It made up for lost time, snarking that Williams had been fired for violating NPR’s “never say anything interesting” policy, then documenting Fox …
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ABC Picks Up Three New Shows, If You're Watching Them
While ABC has not seen any new breakout hits this season, it has decided to show patience with at least three. It just gave a full season order to Better With You, a relationship sitcom so neither-good-nor-bad I’m not sure I’ve had a word to say about it, and No Ordinary Family, a fun but slight family-superhero drama I haven’t been …