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Earlier this morning I posted about the broadcast networks’ hopes to solve the problem of their not winning enough Emmys, by any means short of actually making better shows. (Let’s not get crazy here!) Now let’s take a minute to look at an Emmy problem that actually might need fixing. Namely: does it still do any good to have separate …
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Last year, I wrote one of the first reviews of Discovery’s post-apocalyptic reality show The Colony. That meant my post got indexed highly in whatever system search engines use to index articles, so a year later, you’re still likely to come up with it when you search on “The Colony reviews.” And that in turn means that I have become …
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Ladies and gentlemen, this November, Conan O’Brien is… Conan! Or “Conaw,” depending how you prefer to pronounce it.
The show-title announcement is neither earth-shattering nor a surprise, I guess, but with two months to build hype for the show, and no Emmy win for Tonight to …
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The Emmy Awards are over, but as always, the complaining about them isn’t. This year, however, the gripes are not coming from critics—who mostly found it in our two-sizes-too-small hearts to enjoy this year’s Emmycast—but from the major broadcast networks who televise them.
Their beefs are various, but they simplify to: we’re not …
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Mild spoilers for AMC’s Rubicon coming up:
Between Mad Men reviewing, vacation, preparing to go on vacation—and, OK, a debilitating helium-inhalation habit—I haven’t had time to do a regular Rubicon Watch since the show debuted. My favorite episode so far, “The Outsider” (in which Will Travers and Truxton Spangler visit their …
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Media personalities and future 2032 Presidential ticket Bristol Palin and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino are among the celebrities chosen for the coming edition of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. TIME’s NewsFeed has the complete list, which also includes David Hasselhoff, Florence Henderson and sundry figures accomplished in the worlds …
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OK, they’re not twins, but they are Ryans. Last night, I Skyped it with Ryan McGee of Boob Tube Dude and Mo Ryan—formerly of the Chicago Tribune and as of tomorrow, of AOL TV—to discuss Sunday’s Mad Men, “Waldorf Stories,” and season four in general. The results are above. The podcast is also available here and at iTunes, and while …
George Lucas isn’t the only filmmaker guilty of giving audiences alternate versions of his movies. TIME takes a look at other cinematic reintroductions.
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, slip out of those uncomfortable clothes and watch last night’s Mad Men.
As if aware that viewers would be toggling between Mad Men winning Emmys on NBC and Mad Men earning them on AMC, …
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While I was on vacation, TIME ran my column on the controversy over ABC’s new cop drama Detroit 1-8-7 and whether it’s exploiting a city that has it rough enough to begin with. It’s a personal issue for me because of where I was born and raised (not Detroit itself, but the Detroit area); I know the effects, not just nationally but even …
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The 2010 Emmy awards broadcast was a night of refreshing twists and unexpected surprises, the biggest of which, perhaps, was the 2010 Emmy awards broadcast. Namely, it was a pretty entertaining night of TV, kicked off by an actually amusing musical number (not even involving Neil Patrick Harris, at that!) featuring the cast of Glee, …
It might seem unlikely that Conan O’Brien will walk away with an Emmy Sunday night for his short-lived stint atop The Tonight Show, but surely no more unlikely than the fact that he received a nomination in the first place. And if he were to indeed win and hop up on stage to accept his honor, the Hollywood Reporter Esquire Blog is …
The other Thursday, as people walked in early to one of the 500 theaters where the RiffTrax demolition of Reefer Madness was scheduled to play, they found one of those pre-show movie trivia games in progress on-screen. “MOVIE MISTAKES,” one card read. “Furry Vengeance was classified as a movie on the Internet Movie Database.” And: “We
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