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Two of the biggest names in daytime talk will be allying as Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network announced it has signed Rosie O’Donnell to host a talk show, to begin at some point after the channel’s launch in January. It’s an attention-getting deal, but one that you could interpret a few ways: a coup for Oprah, a step back for Rosie or a …
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Spoilers for last night’s Top Chef DC coming up:
When Padma announced the theme of the elimination challenge on the “Foreign Affairs” episode of Top Chef—each contestant picks a different country whose cuisine to make—I dreaded the twist I was sure was coming: “Now, please pass your choice to the chef on your left.”
Top Chef has …
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If there’s one thing that TV, especially long-running syndicated TV, is good at doing, it’s making you feel sentimental and nostalgic for shows that you hardly actually watched. It is in that spirit that I announce, with a touch of actual sadness, that Mary Hart is leaving …
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Regular readers of this blog are probably tired of hearing about Mad Men and its spoiler anxiety, but a quick recap: AMC sent out review copies of the season’s first episode to critics, with a request from Matthew Weiner that reviews mention no plot details whatsoever from the …
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It was PBS Day yesterday at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, and you know what that means: drugs, swearing and cattiness! By which, of course, I mean: steroids in baseball, a respectful discussion of FCC policy and The Cat in the Hat. The too-hot-for-TV highlights follow:
* Ken Burns gave a presentation for The Tenth …
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I didn’t write the TV feature in the new print issue of TIME, but it’s good enough that I’d gladly take the credit: contributor and art blogger Carolina Miranda takes a look at Bravo’s Work of Art, as it’s received by other artists. The reviews are mixed:
[T]here’s been some sensitivity over how the show portrays artists. “We get so
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I must apologize for having been remiss in my coverage of Shark Week this year: the way I see it, you’ve seen one shark, you’ve seen 250 million years of evolution. In compensation, here’s CBS’s Craig Ferguson talking with most talented woman in TV history Julie Chen about his own …
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Barack Obama celebrates his 49th birthday today. Or so he claims. According to a CNN survey, more than a quarter of Americans doubt that Obama was born in the United States; 29% say he probably was; and a mere plurality of 42% have no doubt. This despite widely reported empirical documentation of the President’s birth in Hawaii in 1961, …
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I’m not going to pretend you didn’t see this coming, but the Parents Television Council has called on advertisers to boycott CBS sitcom $#*! My Dad Says, based on the Twitter feed shitmydadsays and the subsequent book. “Unless or until CBS chooses a different title for this program, we are urging advertisers to avoid sponsoring such an …
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The Television Critics Association press tour usually has the assembled journalists peppering network executives with difficult, sometimes even hostile questions. But then there are networks like FX, which airs a roster of critical darlings. President John Landgraf took the stage yesterday and was greeted with questions about how much …
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Larry King Live may be the go-to destination for coverage of celebrity deaths, but last night, Bill Cosby called in to confirm that he is quite alive. This, in contradiction to the Trending Topics list on Twitter—the list of most-mentioned subjects on the social-networking …
Anyone who has ever been to a wedding knows that there are certain songs that can’t be avoided. TIME picks the most predictable reception tunes.
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Fox, which is riding high on Glee, has the Death Star (American Idol) and has contractors busily at work on Death Star 2 (a.k.a. Simon Cowell’s X Factor), presented at the Television Critics Association’s press tour yesterday. Here’s what they had to say—and didn’t:
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