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At the beginning of the last boys’ night before the final-12 round of American Idol, the male contingent of the singing contest lined up on stage as if they were getting ready to die. Such a nervous-eyed, beaten-cur group of semifinalists I have not seen on Idol. You can talk about this season’s guys’ singing ability, their looks, …
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Who’s the TV critic you’d vote least likely to ever appear on an ESPN network? Me! Who’s going to be on ESPN2’s First Take today around 11:30 a.m. (ET)? Me!
Not talking sports though, not exactly. The show’s having me on to judge a greatest-sitcoms-of-all-time battle, bracket-style. (Brackets are the tournament groupings they use in …
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No, I’m serious, these are real. Mattel has produced these four collectibles, in co-operation with AMC, and they can be yours for $74.95. (That’s in 2010 dollars.)
I’m a little creeped out by the emo-looking eyeshade on Roger and Don, but it’s nice to see that even representation in Barbie form cannot overexaggerate Christina …
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Variety is reporting what has been whispered around the TV business for a while: this will be the final season for 24 on Fox. The show has been losing viewers and critical acclaim for a while, and it’s expensive to produce; after eight seasons, there’s apparently not enough upside.
This may not be the end of Jack Bauer entirely; there’s …
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Corey Haim, first famous in the ’80s as a child star and then as a cautionary tale of the dangers of becoming a child star, was reported as found dead of a drug overdose early this morning, at age 38. Preliminary reports suggest the overdose was accidental.
It would be nice to say that this was a surprising end for Haim, who became a …
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First, let’s give credit to American Idol‘s producers, shall we? After a season rife with timing errors and overrun issues, they took the challenge of fitting eight performances in an hour—you could see Ryan Seacrest tensing up over it—and actually came in nearly exactly on time, with only a few toll-free numbers running into the 9 …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, pop an organic TV dinner in the microwave and watch last night’s episode of Lost.
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Word is just in that Robert Halderman, the TV producer whose extortion attempt led to David Letterman‘s confessing a longtime affair with a staffer, has pleaded guilty.
That there will be no drawn-out trial means Letterman potentially dodged a bullet, insofar as any further embarrassing details might have come out. I suppose this is …
Gnarls Barkley’s Danger Mouse has teamed up with the Shins’ lead singer, James Mercer, to create a band called Broken Bells. In honor of the newly formed superduo, TIME takes a look at previous all-star bands
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Gabourey Sidibe—the Precious star who was also the most delightful new presence on the Oscar red carpet this year—is joining Showtime’s The Big C, a self-described “dark comedy” about cancer starring Laura Linney. Judging by the production still already available, this was in the works before the Oscars, but you can’t fault …
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Coming back from a vacation is a pain in the ass, isn’t it? It is for NBC, which, its second week back from its blissful Canadian Olympics idyll, is now back in the soggy late-winter reality of its usual shows and its normal ratings. (Indications are that Jay Leno’s high return ratings may also be coming back to reality, though as I …
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Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother after the jump:
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, let me give you a little shot, relax, and watch last night’s season finale of Big Love.
