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The NBA finals ended last night with (spoiler alert?) The Los Angeles Lakers pulling off a dramatic comeback against the Boston Celtics. This morning followed with a surprising development of its own: The Parents Television Council commending a broadcast network for the work it did keeping a live event family-friendly. In this case, by …
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One thing I’ve always loved about Snoop Dogg is his determination not to take himself too seriously, without making a joke of himself. Here, Snoop declares his love for Miss Sookie Stackhouse in the way that only he can, …
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We may have to make this a Hollywood-ageism theme day: Betty White may be living large, but for the rest of the showbiz industry, age ain’t nothing but an zealously protected number. Now the Writer’s Guild of America has started a campaign to enable showbiz folks to be able to zap their ages from IMDB; the Screen Actors’ Guild has …
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The debut of Hot in Cleveland, starring Betty White with a trio of sitcom-nostalgia iconettes, attracted nearly 5 million viewers Wednesday night, making it the most-watched show on cable. Those numbers would be fairly decent for a broadcast network show (it’s not far from what, say, 30 Rock or Parks and Recreation draw), they’re …
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Do you really need a seven-minute video to catch you up on the plot of Futurama before it returns with original episodes on Comedy Central June 24? Probably not. Do you have anything better to do? Seeing as how you’re reading my blog, probably not. You’re welcome!
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Yesterday I wrote about the mixed messages in Barack Obama’s oil spill address, but last night Jon Stewart took on the same theme and showed why he gets paid a zillion dollars to do his work on TV, while I have this little blog I run out of the less-nice part of my basement: …
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Spoilers for last night’s premiere episode of Top Chef: DC follow:
“I will set the presidents,” misspoke Angelo with perfect appropriateness, as he kicked off Top Chef‘s first series set in the nation’s capital by rolling to a win in both the Quickfire and the Elimination challenges. If the precedent has indeed been set, we could be …
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I am pretty sure that, this year, it is illegal to write anything negative about Betty White, at penalty of being severely Disliked by Facebook. So let me say upfront—and honestly—that White is easily the best thing about TV Land’s new sitcom Hot in Cleveland.
It makes sense that White should cap off her yearlong hot streak—from …
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People who follow the news and politics closely come to a Presidential Oval Office speech with a list of expectations: policy aims, specific targets, forceful rhetoric, political positioning, expressions of leadership, definitions of problems, proposals of solutions, framing of issues and …
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MSNBC, which has for some time programmed its last hour of prime time with reruns of Countdown, has finally concluded its search for a 10 p.m. host—by hiring someone who has been on MSNBC approximately forever. (Sigh—sometimes it turns out The One has been right under your nose all along!) Lawrence O’Donnell, a former Democratic …
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This morning, Bravo announced a premiere date (August 5) and cast for The Real Housewives of D.C. And in the not-exactly-a-surprise of the day, the cast includes White House party crasher (though she contests the characterization) and media gadfly Michaele Salahi.
So if you have been wondering, America, if there is a sure route to fame …
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Test Pilot is a semiregular feature sharing my first impressions of the pilots for next fall’s shows. These aren’t reviews, since these pilots can be rewritten, recast and retooled before airing, and the shows that eventually get on the air can prove much better or worse. But, premature opinions are why God invented the Internet, so …
