I picked up the “Best of Summer” issue of Entertainment Weekly late last night (the July 9-16 double issue) and was startled to see sitting atop the “Must List” a full cast photo for The Daily Show With Jon Stewart. “There’s nothing funny about the Gulf oil mess,” the magazine writes, “But he still wrings rueful laughs out …
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You Are the Emmys Week: Best Comedy and Drama
For the last day of Robo-James’ Emmy week, my picks (preferences, not predictions) for the best-series nominations (comedy and drama) at the Emmys next week.
My spiel, one last time: For my personal picks, I stuck to six per category, so I left out a lot of deserving shows. You don’t have to; I will not be grading your work. (The Emmy …
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The Morning After: Robo-Edition
This is Robo-James. While Flesh-James is absent, I invite you to use this open thread to discuss and analyze the previous night’s transmissions on the television-receptor device. Though I assume that the logic of your analyses will inevitably be corrupted by human emotion and subjectivity. I shall distract myself by singing quietly to …
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You Are the Emmys Week: Best Actor, Comedy
Today, my picks (preferences, not predictions) for the comedy-actor nominations (lead and supporting categories) at the Emmys next week.
My spiel again: For my personal picks, I’ve mainly (but not exclusively) stuck to those actors and actresses nominated by their own shows, and mainly (but not exclusively) assigned them to the …
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The Morning After: Robo-Edition
This is Robo-James. While Flesh-James is absent, I invite you to use this open thread to discuss and analyze the previous night’s transmissions on the television-receptor device. Though I assume that the logic of your analyses will inevitably be corrupted by human emotion and subjectivity. I shall distract myself by singing quietly to …
Remembering Larry King – Radio Titan
TIME’s Richard Zoglin remembers the fine career of Larry King:
The tributes may be pouring in, but the truth is that Larry King became something of a punch line in the past few years, at least among the media intelligentsia: dismissed for his softball questions, his lack of preparation (he took it as a point of pride to never read …
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You Are the Emmys Week: Best Actress, Comedy
Today, my picks (preferences, not predictions) for the comedy-actress nominations at the Emmys next week.
My spiel again: For my personal picks, I’ve mainly (but not exclusively) stuck to those actors and actresses nominated by their own shows, and mainly (but not exclusively) assigned them to the categories they were submitted in, be …
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The Morning After: Robo-Edition
This is Robo-James. While Flesh-James is absent, I invite you to use this open thread to discuss and analyze the previous night’s transmissions on the television-receptor device. Though I assume that the logic of your analyses will inevitably be corrupted by human emotion and subjectivity. I shall distract myself by singing quietly to …
Larry King Resigns: What's in Store for 9 p.m.?
Talk about an ironic sign of the times: Ninety minutes before he was to go on the air Tuesday night, 76-year-old Larry King chose to announce his primetime resignation via Twitter. Yes, after thousands of shows spanning 25 years, after millions of words heard through car radios and television screens, it all came down to 72 characters …
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You Are the Emmys Week: Best Actor, Drama
Yesterday, I shared some of my picks–preferences, not predictions–for the Emmy drama-actress categories. Today, it’s the fellas’ turn.
To repeat from yesterday: For my personal picks, I’ve mainly (but not exclusively) stuck to those actors and actresses nominated by their own shows, and mainly (but not exclusively) assigned them to …
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The Morning After: Robo-Edition
This is Robo-James. While Flesh-James is absent, I invite you to use this open thread to discuss and analyze the previous night’s transmissions on the television-receptor device. Though I assume that the logic of your analyses will inevitably be corrupted by human emotion and subjectivity. I shall distract myself by singing quietly to …
Michael Scott Resigns From Dunder Mifflin, Gives 'The Office' A Future
For anyone who has stuck by the American version of The Office since the very beginning – or maybe I should specify the beginning of the far superior second season – the anticlimactic news that broke Monday about Steve Carell leaving the show was a bittersweet development. He’s been talking for months about stepping away from …
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You Are the Emmys Week: Best Actress, Drama
As you read this post, I am currently secluded in the tony vacation getaway known as southeastern Michigan. While I’m out, I’ve directed Robo-James to serve up a series of daily posts asking you whom you’d nominate for this year’s Emmys—whose nominees are announced next week—and sharing some of my own picks.
For my personal picks, …