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Conan's Live Cam Is Up, Ready to Give You Buns of Steel
Starting today at 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT, the offices of Conan O’Brien’s coming TBS show are home to the 24-hour Live Coco Cam, set up in a stairwell and promising… well, you’ll have to load it to see. Today, they kicked things off with some aerobics (“Right, left, Cyndi-Lauper-style!”) as staffers made their way to work.
As Linda …
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The Morning After: Mothers and Sons
Brief Sons of Anarchy spoilers following:
I’ll admit I’ve been a little lax on the Sons of Anarchy Watch this season, not that I haven’t been following it, but for a few other reasons: running out of time, between a front-loaded week on the blog and other deadlines; the fact that I’ve been watching episodes in chunks (and thus a …
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Obama to Visit Daily Show Pre-Midterms
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President Barack Obama, who had some positive things to say about the Rally to Restore Sanity—or actually, the “rally for Americans in favor of a return to sanity or something like that”—is going to appear on The Daily Show Oct. 27, the Wednesday before midterms, during the week the show …
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The Good Wife Watch: Third Party
Quick spoilers for last night’s The Good Wife coming up:
In my print-magazine piece about The Good Wife last week (full version should be online within a week or so), I wrote that one way that the show has managed to tell sophisticated stories within the constraints of keeping a CBS-sized audience is by combining its serial and …
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Tom Bosley, 1927-2010: American Dad
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Tom Bosley, a TV fixture as the Cunningham paterfamilias on Happy Days, died today at age 83.
There are two types of TV dads: those who play somebody’s dad, and those who make you feel as if they could be—almost, in some way, as if they are—your dad. Bosley was the latter. His …
Top 10 TV Moms June Cleaver Would Hate
When it comes to television characters, we seem to love bad moms just as much as squeaky clean ones. TIME takes a look at some ladies June Cleaver would have hated.
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Sarah Palin Goes Fishing, Catches Political Metaphor
TLC has released more preview video from Sarah Palin’s Alaska. In today’s installment, the Palin family goes on a fishing trip, and encounters—this is too perfect—a mama grizzly. (OK, I’m not a zoologist and cannot ascertain if the species is in fact grizzly, but I’m sticking with it for now.) “I love these mama bears,” Sarah …
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Boardwalk Empire Watch: The Swearin’ of the Green
Brief spoilers for Sunday’s Boardwalk Empire up next:
Between AMC’s Sunday finales and a large-ish print-magazine piece that I’ve been on deadline for, I didn’t get around to reviewing the very strong Boardwalk Empire …
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The Morning After: Event Horizon
If you were wondering if The Event would be around long enough for you to commit to, good news—NBC picked the sci-fi serial up yesterday for a full season, along with Outsourced and Law & Order: Los Angeles. The Event has slumped seriously in the ratings since it debuted, but maybe NBC has decided it has room to grow—and, maybe …
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Obama to Appear on Mythbusters, Bolster America's Giant-Mirror Capability
President Obama and Discovery Channel announced today that the chief executive will appear on the Dec. 8 episode of Mythbusters. And surprisingly, the myth being busted has nothing to do with either Islam or Kenyan birth certificates.
On the episode, Obama will ask Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman to test whether it was possible for the …
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Mad Men Watch: Put a Ring on It
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get out of the pool, turn on the TV in your hotel room and watch last night’s season finale of Mad Men.
We should not be surprised, in retrospect, to find Don Draper’s work and home …
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Rubicon Watch: I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, pop in an old Meet Me in St. Louis DVD and watch last night’s season finale of Rubicon.
“Do it. Do it.”
With those words, not so much encouraging as defiant, Rubicon ended its first season bringing Will face-to-face with the conspiracy behind the clover messages and the terror attack on …