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Last night was the biggest night of television so far in the 2010-11 season. It was also the first night of television of the 2010-11 season. But still, it was pretty big.
Monday saw the debuts of The Event, Chase, Hawaii Five-0, Mike and Molly and my favorite new broadcast show of the season, Lone Star. It also saw the return of, …
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Spoilers for last night’s season premiere of How I Met Your Mother coming up:
When last we left HIMYM Watch, your humble narrator was close to giving up. For four seasons I’d adored the show, love the characters, the quick humor, the play, the nonlinear storytelling and the commitment to Ted’s quest for love. Last season, however, …
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From the upcoming 41st season of Sesame Street:
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1. Is it just the aftereffects of watching that Candyland “California Gurls” video, or does this child-friendly version of Katy Perry’s Hot N Cold (“You want to play / So I wore dress-up clothes”) actually sound dirtier than the …
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One of the most anticipated—and to me, disappointing—debuts of the fall is tonight’s The Event on NBC. My feelings haven’t changed much since I previewed an early version in July. (“The Event, really, feels more like NBC’s attempt to create the next FlashForward: an extremely plot-forward sci-fi thriller with a Big Question and no …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, hop a train to the city and watch last night’s Mad Men with your father’s “friend.”
No one knows where the next revolution is coming from. I suppose that’s why they’re revolutions. So …
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Bob Allen (James Wolk), as he tells us in the pilot of Lone Star (Fox, debuts 9 p.m. E.T. tonight), is in the “relationship business.” Boy, is he ever. He has a beautiful girlfriend (Eloise Mumford) in Midland, Texas, where he sells land shares in an energy-development deal. And he has a beautiful wife (Adrienne Palicki) in Houston, …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, pack up a tomato and a gun and go watch last night’s Rubicon with someone you barely know.
Who among us hasn’t opened our door at nearly midnight, let in an attractive stranger we only know by sight (pickup line: “You looked pretty”), and agreed to a date with them, at home, while they edgily …
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I plan/hope to do a full-fledged Boardwalk Empire Watch, but with a looming deadline and Mad Men and Rubicon on the same night, with network premiere week looming—and having just published my review based on the first six …
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Who didn’t do regrettable things in the ’90s? Grew a goatee? [Raises hand.] Bought a Limp Bizkit CD? Went on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and recalled having “dabbled into witchcraft,” not considering that you might some day run for the U.S. Senate?
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The premise behind the remake of Hawaii Five-0, debuting Monday night, is that Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin), head of an elite Federal task force in the Aloha State, has been given carte blanche, nearly unlimited resources and tools and vast leeway to accomplish his job by almost any means necessary. That also, it would seem, was …
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If your Potentially Best Thing Ever alarm went off this morning and you’re not quite sure why, here’s the explanation. Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart went Glenn Beck on us and announced a rally in Washington, DC for Sat. Oct. 30. The purpose of the Rally to Restore …
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My review of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, premiering Sunday night, is in the new print TIME. (There’s also a bonus Web exclusive of pretty pictures from the set.) We went with the same “Jersey Shore” headline as did the New York Times, Newsweek, and, I am guessing, your cousin’s blog. I am not proud of this.
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First, reality TV gave us Bridezillas; now it’s going to construct Frankenbrides. According to the Hollywood Reporter, E! has ordered Bridalplasty, a new reality show in which brides-to-be compete for plastic-surgery procedures.
Each week, James Hibberd reports, ” a group of women competes head-to-head in such challenges as writing …
