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Quick hail-of-bullets-style spoilers for Survivor: Nicaragua coming up:
* For a Survivor installment built around a high-concept gimmick, Survivor: Youngs Vs. Olds is not, so far, terribly interesting for that gimmick. This may be because the producers decided to crowd that gimmick with at least two others.
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Spoilers for the finale of Top Chef DC coming up:
Top Chef DC ended its run in Singapore, but it started off in our nation’s capital, and it tried to structure its challenges around Washington, its culture and its politics. So it’s fitting that the end of the season should come down to a choice among flawed candidates, and that the …
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One reason that Mrs. Tuned In and I have a lasting marriage is division of labor. I am the cook; she is the baker. I blister dried chilis in cast-iron pans and bring weird meats back from the store; she produces meltingly buttery cookies and a chocolate-frosted malt cake that I would kill or die for.
I say that by way of full …
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Edwin Newman, whose TV news career spanned much of the early decades of NBC TV and most of its news programs, has died at age 91. Over the years, Newman had roles as various as foreign bureau chief, political correspondent, Today Show personality and Meet the Press moderator and panelist.
From the early ’50s through the early ’80s, …
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Speaking of Conan O’Brien, having conquered Twitter, he’s now putting his attention toward the other social media. (I hear he has his eye on this TV thing as well.) On his Team Coco Facebook page, he’s asking fans to submit questions for him to answer, like a scrawnier, pastier version of the Old Spice guy. His YouTube video explains …
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Outlaw, starring Jimmy Smits, is not a comedy, though it’s from Conan O’Brien’s production company. (Irony alert: the series is on NBC.) In fact, the series—renegade, rule-breaking judge quits the bench and becomes renegade, rule-breaking lawyer—sounds like it could be a show O’Brien would make as a parody. It’s not that either, …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s Sons of Anarchy coming up:
The end of season two of Sons of Anarchy took a sharp—if not unforeshadowed— turn with the abduction of Jax’s son, Abel, suddenly making the IRA the foregrounded Big Bad on the series. The second episode of season three, “Oiled,” continued to expand this new field of …
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First, it was offensive and insensitive to build an Islamic center two blocks away from Ground Zero. Now it’s offensive and insensitive to publish photos of American Muslims peacefully praying, on or around 9/11.
The Portland Press Herald has apologized to its readers for publishing images of Muslims celebrating the end of Ramadan, …
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The official beginning of the 2010-11 TV season comes next week, and with it, a deluge of season and series premieres that I’m not going to come close to having time to cover single-handed. So I’ll be making liberal use of The Morning After posts, inviting you to share your, well, morning-after thoughts with the rest of us.
The CW, at …
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Before Sunday night’s season finale of True Blood, HBO aired previews of several upcoming shows, including footage from next year’s fantasy saga Game of Thrones:
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Cannot. Wait. (Sidebar: Did we see that raven in the Six Feet Under credits, …
In addition to spawning multiple spin-offs, the crime drama Law & Order is also known for its immediately recognizable “doink doink.” TIME takes a look at other unmistakable television sounds.
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Back in 2005, my editors agreed to the idea of a temporary, daily blog reviewing the new fall shows that season over the course of a few weeks. The first post, five years ago today, was about the new daytime talk show from newly minted parolee Martha Stewart. The fall 2005 season came and went—farewell, Head Cases!—but I kept the …
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Quick spoilers for the season finale of Entourage coming up as soon as I get over my amazement that I am actually blogging about a season finale of Entourage.
From the season that Entourage began, its creator, Doug Ellin, was clear on what he did not want the show to be: a black-humored or satirical show about the dark side of fame (a …
