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Just so you know we’re not all about Oscar complaints here this morning, last night’s awards got one thing 100% right: the award for Best Animated Short went to Logorama, one of the most spectacular things you’re likely to see in quite a while. The 15-plus-minute film tells a hardboiled action-disaster story in a Los Angeles built …
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The awards at this year’s Oscars were more interesting than the show that gave them out. Best Director went to Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman ever to win the award, and her movie, The Hurt Locker, won Best Picture, becoming the smallest-grossing movie to win the award in ages, over the billion-dollar Avatar. (This in a year when the …
TIME’s Belinda Luscombe rates the best and worst of the gowns at the 2010 Academy Awards
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A showdown between Disney, the parent company of ABC, and New York-area cable provider Cablevision went nuclear today, as the Mouse pulled the Alphabet from the—um, the cable-TV company—just before its biggest broadcast of the year, the Academy Awards.
If you’re like me, the details of these contretemps make your eyes glaze over, …
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Not content with taking over Twitter, Conan O’Brien will, as previously rumored, do a live tour of the country this spring, likely with sidekick Andy Richter and Max Weinberg, report TMZ and The Hollywood Reporter (though the two sources disagree on the details). The tour plans to stop on Jay Leno’s doorstep in Los Angeles, among other …
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I’ve never really thought too much about the flow of NBCs Thursday night comedies and why which shows run in which order. From a scheduling standpoint, NBC wants to put its established heavy hitters (The Office and 30 Rock) in the 9 p.m. slot, and the relative newbies (Community and Parks and …
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Also in this week’s print TIME is my review of FX’s Justified, which so far I am loving, and not just because of my man-crush on Timothy Olyphant. (Mrs. Tuned In likes him too so it’s a wholesome shared family interest.) It doesn’t debut until March 16, but the review had to run early for boring scheduling / air-traffic-control …
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EW’s Ken Tucker is not only a brilliant critic but a braver man than I am, and therefore he subjected himself to last night’s hourlong edition of The Marriage Ref. (Actually Ken liked the first airing of the show, but I won’t hold that against him.) He reports what I might have expected: that stretched out to an hour, Ref overstays its …
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There’s a TV-related cover on the print TIME this week, though I didn’t write it; historian Douglas Brinkley looks at HBO’s The Pacific, Tom Hanks and the actor’s drive to become America’s celebrity-historian-in-chief. As Brinkley notes, the follow-up to Band of Brothers is similar and in significant ways very different:
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Spoilers for the one-hour Office special coming up after the jump:
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Quick spoilers for American Idol coming up after the jump:
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Speaking of ABC reality shows, I’ve just watched the first episode of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, which I recommend checking out when it debuts later this month. The series follows the British chef, who’s done anti-obesity work for years, as he goes to a West Virginia town which has been rated the unhealthiest region in America, and …
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Those who fail to learn from the history of celebrity ice-dancing competitions are doomed to repeat it. In this case, ABC is teaming up with the BBC and the makers of Dancing with the Stars to produce a skating version of Dancing to air later this year. “A skating version of Dancing with the Stars” is also how you’d describe Fox’s …
