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There’s no new Lost tonight; ABC is rerunning “Ab Aeterno” before resuming the series’ run to the finale, so tonight you have extra time to ponder the significance of Richard’s history on the Island, or simply to vote extra times for American Idol.
On the Twitter suggestion of regular commenter Chaddogg, then, I’m reviving Lost …
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So on last night’s Chuck, the first of six bonus episodes resulting from an additional episode order by NBC, we meet Chuck and Sarah after they have consummated their relationship. Repeatedly. And, for those of you needing the additional assistance of Freudian symbolism, it takes place… on a train.
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If you were a fan of Southland—originally debuted in midseason by NBC a year ago, cancelled, then bought by TNT—you will be delighted to know that TNT has picked up the oft-praised but ratings-challenged (compared with TNT’s biggest hits) cop drama for a third season.
You may also, like at least one follower of my Twitter feed, be …
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Though its events took place thousands of miles away and over two decades later, you could see tonight’s PBS American Experience documentary, “My Lai,” as a kind of nonfiction companion piece to HBO’s The Pacific, especially the recent episodes (like last night’s) about the battle at Peleliu. The Pacific gets into the heads of American …
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It’s been a while since I’ve given a little introduction to The Morning After posts at Tuned In. There’s a lot of TV on television, and most nights there are more noteworthy shows—for better or worse—than I have time or inclination to write about the next day, because of other deadlines, other obligations and extreme personal …
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Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:
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Spoilers for last night’s episode of Treme coming up after the jump:
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But hey, we’re not all death this weekend here at Tuned In. Tonight, Starz returns its hilarious catering comedy, Party Down, for season two. Gone is Jane Lynch, who because of Glee will only be in one episode this season. Gone, after this season, will be star Adam Scott, who’s joining NBC’s Parks and Recreation. The show’s future is …
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I’m not the hugest fan of the kind of biopic film that HBO tends to favor for its original movies: these bio movies (both HBO’s and feature films) are often either straight-ahead recountings of the lives of figures I’m already familiar with or accounts of people I don’t much want to know more about. And nowadays I’m leery of the work …
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Jon Stewart ventured into straight-up, kind-of-earnest commentary on The Daily Show last night, on behalf of a pair of fellow comics. Stewart tweaked his network Comedy Central for censoring an episode of South Park that referenced the Muslim prophet Muhammad. But more than that, …
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And speaking of when media companies attack (themselves), my print column this week looks not at TIME but another unit of Time Warner: CNN, its nosedive in the primetime ratings and its plight as cable-news viewers increasingly turn to more-partisan hosts on Fox News and MSNBC. I’d like the channel to focus less on being a vanilla …
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It’s always entertaining when Fox News takes on Fox Entertainment; nothing better captures the exciting contradictions of Rupert Murdoch’s blend of conservative punditry with anything-goes entertainment. First Sarah Palin attacked “Fox Hollywood” for a Family Guy bit about Down Syndrome that mocked her. And now, as Mediaite points out, …
