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For a woman who has so many issues with TV series and hosts, Sarah Palin is becoming awfully active in the industry. The former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate turned Fox News contributor is now, according to Entertainment Weekly, teaming up with Survivor producer Mark Burnett to pitch a reality show about Alaska.
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Crystal Bowersox—and American Idol—dodged a bullet last night as the singer, who had been hospitalized earlier in the day, showed up to perform on a women’s night that had been rescheduled to accommodate her. Had she not made it back, I’m not sure whether it would have been a bigger blow for her or for the show.
Certainly, Idol …
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While I was in New Orleans, visiting the set of Treme and seeing the premiere screening of The Pacific, HBO was keeping busy on its next generation of series. First came news that Dustin Hoffman will star in the pilot of Luck, the horse-racing drama from David Milch and Michael Mann. It’s not guaranteed to make it to series. But if …
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, find the right stone to push at the temple and watch last night’s Lost.
I have stuffed James away in a dark hole where Claire is singing a creepy, off-key lullaby to him. So let’s get to “Sundown.”
When season six started a month ago, fans who had endured a long hiatus expected quick …
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Tolstoy, were he alive today, might have said this: Happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way; and all quirky-but-loving TV families—well, they vary, but within a defined range.
So it should probably not be surprising that you see many of the same conflicts and dynamics on NBC’s new dramedy Parenthood …
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With some time on my hands before visiting the set of David Simon’s Treme (the reason I’m in New Orleans, along with the premiere screening of HBO’s The Pacific), I took my rental car and explored the city, which I’d been to several times, but not since Katrina.
Obviously the effects of Katrina were greatest in terms of lives lost and …
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Jay Leno’s transition from primetime failure to once-and-future host of the Tonight Show lasted about a minute and a half. The cold open of his new Tonight Show had him waking up in a sepia-toned sequence—with Betty White, because the Internet loves her—a la Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. (If you had “finds it was all a dream” in …
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I’m on the road for the next couple days and away from my beloved TiVo, so I missed last night’s Big Love and won’t be able to catch up on it. I’ve been detecting some dissatisfaction with the show in the Twitterverse, however, and figured the Big Lovers, or Big-Love-to-Haters, here might like to hash it out themselves today. I’ll try to …
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Tonight, The Grover Cleveland of television, Jay Leno, commences his second nonconsecutive term as the host of The Tonight Show. (As I write this I’m about to head off on assignment for a couple days, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to blog about his first night back or not.) His first week, as I’ve noted, has no blockbuster guest list, …
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If you watched the first episodes of Caprica and decided it wasn’t for you because it didn’t live up to Battlestar Galactica, try this: watch another episode and try to forget that it has anything to do with BSG.
When the show debuted, I liked its potential but wasn’t entirely on board: it had a lot going on and was a little sluggish …
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Last night, NBC gave a demonstration of the difference between so-awful-it’s-awesome and so-awful-it’s-amazing awful. First came the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, which, after the usual nods to the next Olympic site, final benediction by Olympic officials and emotional performances, morphed into a bizarre comic parody of …
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Word is out that Howard Stern—who was never, ever, not in a million years going to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol—is not going to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol. You know who else is never, ever, not in a million years going to replace Simon Cowell on American Idol? Perez Hilton, but it gets attention when someone …
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Brief spoilers for last night’s Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains coming up after the jump:
