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Louis C.K.’s new FX comedy, Louie, debuted while I was on vacation at the end of the June, so I wrote about it in a pre-holiday blog post the week before. If it got lost in the shuffle, let me remedy that by saying: Louie continues to be one of the best new series of the year, and if you haven’t been watching, I urge you to catch …
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I believe we can start thinking of satellite provider DirecTV as the Lourdes of television, the last hope for praised but low-rated TV shows and their fans. A couple years ago, it rescued Friday Night Lights by working out a cost-sharing deal with NBC in exchange for first-run rights. Now it’s adopting the award-winning legal thriller …
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Or: An Explanation, and Example, of the Very Phenomenon The Author Is Discussing:
Today the Washington Post published a sprawling, two-year investigation into America’s huge, complex and hard-to-fathom system of national security and intelligence. What, as of this afternoon, was the most-read article at the Post’s website? “Palin …
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It’s an Arrested Development reunion! According to The Hollywood Reporter, David Cross (formerly Dr. Tobias Fünke on AD) has been signed as a regular on the new Fox sitcom Running Wilde, starring his old castmate Will Arnett and produced by AD creator Mitch Hurwitz. Let’s just rename it “Running Bluth” and call it a day.
Critic Jace …
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SPOILER ALERT: This post totally spoils the TV series Lost and the movie Inception. If you haven’t watched either and don’t want to be spoiled, stop reading. I said stop!
Over the weekend, Lost producer Damon Lindelof tweeted his admiration for Christopher Nolan’s new movie: “I wish that someone would break into my dreams and give …
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I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to post any more Dead Tree Alerts here. Recently, TIME stopped posting full articles from its print edition online, requiring people to buy the print or iPad editions of the magazine to read the pieces. There is—as of now—no option to buy articles or issues of the magazine through the Web, so …
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Good news: my DSL pipeline has been restored, so I’m back in blogging business. Bad news: between at set visit today (to the downtown site of AMC’s Rubicon) and general falling behind from my computer problems, I don’t have time for a full blog review of Friday Night Lights, “Injury List.”
Update: Whoops! And fortunately, I don’t …
Too many movies make it a point to explain every single plot point. But there’s a certain pleasure to be found in confusion. TIME looks at the best cinematic mind benders.
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Most of the big-network fall schedules are out, and the big news is what’s old about them. I’m referring not to the shows themselves but to the schedules.
Over the last decade or so, the networks have tried to become more creative with their fall schedule launches, moving away from the old “premiere week” strategy in which most …
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So a bit more background on my temporary kind-of radio silence: I’m working from home, where, thanks to a vaguely explained snafu on the part of our good friends at Verizon, I have been without DSL since yesterday morning. So I’ve moved “home,” for the moment, to a cafe with wi-fi. (Which, this being Park Slope, Brooklyn, is currently …
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I’m on deadline Thursday and on a set visit Friday, and largely without Internet access both days. (I’m typing this post from my iPhone. It is not easy.) So expect posting to be sporadic. Feel free to use this space to talk among yourselves in the meantime.
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Reports are busily popping about that CNN is on the verge of hiring Piers Morgan as the next host of its 9 p.m. primetime show, replacing Larry King, who is stepping down in the fall. We Yanks may be most familiar with Morgan as a judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent (the network apparently cleared him to do the CNN deal, but he’d stay on …
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And they’re off! HBO, which has been beefing up its regular-series roster heavily in the past year, has ordered to series Luck, a drama set in the horse-racing world, created by David Milch, starring Dustin Hoffman, and its pilot directed by Michael Mann.
Given the roster of names in that previous sentence, I would have been stunned …
