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It’s a close attorney general race in tomorrow’s Democratic primary in New York, and candidate Kathleen Rice has brought out a big gun: college classmate John Slattery, or, as her ad identifies him, “Mad Men’s ‘Roger Sterling.'”
I’d make a joke about the effectiveness of celebrity …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, crack open a Budweiser, open up a can of delicious Dinty Moore beef stew—or just go to the vending machine—and watch last night’s Mad Men.
Last night’s episode of Mad Men, “The …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, fire up the teleconferencing software and watch last night’s Rubicon.
Whereas most spy/espionage dramas create drama and excitement by showing us how intelligence is collected and acted upon, Rubicon to this point has created many of its chilling effects the opposite way. We see the analysis …
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A little heads-up for the morning and the rest of the day: There was a hell of a lot of TV Sunday night—the VMAs, Rubicon, Mad Men, the season finales of HBO’s Hung, True Blood and Entourage—and I’ll have to get to what I can, when I can, especially since I need to get up at the crack of dawn for a non-blogging commitment. My review …
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Received: One full-sized, wooden House M.D. walking cane (to accompany oversized tennis ball sent a previous season). Thank you, Fox! Finally, something to shake threateningly at the young people!
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After I posted a link to my Fall TV Preview post, a reader on Twitter asked me to predict what the highest-rated new shows of the fall would be. My answer: This is something that I do not do, on account of sucking at it. But fine, I finally decided to play along: I think Hawaii Five-0 will do well, because it’s a cinematic remake of a …
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Film critic Roger Ebert lost his voice to cancer, and the classic movie-review program he made famous with Gene Siskel, At the Movies, went off the air this year after attempting to continue with other hosts. Now both Ebert and the show will be returning to TV, as Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies is slated to return next year on …
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The print issue of TIME this week features our Fall Arts Preview, including TV as well as movies, …
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One’s about disturbed minds, one’s about disembodied minds, and fans of HBO’s therapy drama In Treatment and Syfy’s artificial-intelligence drama Caprica can all set their minds at ease: each show is coming back in October.
Caprica, whose fans were initially told they’d have to wait until next year for the second half of the first …
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I don’t have a full-length review for you of The CW’s Nikita, debuting tonight, partly because of other deadlines, partly because, while the pilot is a sleekly executed version of a familiar woman-who-kicks-ass theme (based on the ur-woman-who-kicks-ass story), there’s not enough compellingly original about it to comment on. If it’s a …
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Breaking news, everybody: Sarah Palin posted something on Facebook! Responding to a Florida church’s plans to burn Korans on 9/11, she writes:
Book burning is antithetical to American ideals. People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation – much like
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Spoilers for the first half of Top Chef DC’s finale coming up:
I have seen every episode of Top Chef DC. I have also seen, with the exception of season 2, pretty much every episode of every season of Top Chef. So I think I can speak from experience when I say that, by the time it comes to the finale, I should at least know the names …
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It’s been a barely-veiled secret for months now, but today CNN is confirming that British journalist and sometime reality-show judge/contestant Piers Morgan will replace Larry King in primetime, starting next January.
The proof will be in the show, but my thoughts on the move are pretty much what they were back when the idea first …
