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Conservative journalist and sometime TV pundit Tucker Carlson is not Keith Olbermann; he just plays him on the Internet. This past summer, Carlson’s website, The Daily Caller, purchased the URL keitholbermann.com and used the domain to host (generally unfavorable) Daily Caller articles about the liberal MSNBC host. Last week, after Keith …
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In the grand tradition of button-pushing pseudoscience, someone has done a study determining which TV programs are most popular among Republicans and Democrats. See here for the list, but the overall skew of the study seems to be that the shows with the higher proportion of GOP fans are high-rated mass hits; those with proportionally …
Trains—both deluxe and down-market—have served as prime cinematic locales. TIME takes a look at the best locomotive-heavy films.
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The night Detroit 1-8-7 premiered on ABC, I had a Twittter window open on my laptop, specifically following tweets about the show, which seemed to be running heavily from Michigan natives. There had been a lot of advance concern about how the cop series would portray Detroit, whether it would exploit the city’s rough image and make it …
TIME takes a look at country music’s most absurd tunes—many of which, oddly, involve alcohol.
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Keith Olbermann returned to the air after what turned out to be a brief “indeterminate” suspension from MSNBC for violating its policy by making unapproved donations to three political candidates. He had three apologies to his viewers, but not for the donations. Olbermann was sorry, he said, for …
Okay, so let’s get this out of the way at the top: I’m a big Conan O’Brien fan, and I’m thrilled the red haired one has returned. But was I the only one who thought the opening night show was a little…meh? The cold open video, repurposing Conan as Sonny from The Godfather was hilarious. But the rest felt just a little… awkward, as …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up:
One of the many tightropes that Glee walks is that it makes a dramatic argument against stereotyping while employing many characters who are in some ways stereotypes themselves. This is not necessarily a criticism. At best, it can be a way of further complicating the show’s stories about …
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The ratings are in for the first night of Conan on TBS, and Conan O’Brien has plenty to be happy about.
The big headline everywhere will probably be “Conan Beats Jay”—and yeah, I could not resist a variation on that here—but that’s probably not a big deal in the long run. Yes, Conan got 4.2 million viewers, to 3.5 for Jay Leno and …
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If you are a fan of Steve Coogan, or Rob Brydon, or Michael Caine, or just things that are very funny, you need to watch this video now. It’s from the BBC series The Trip, in which Coogan and Brydon travel the north of England reviewing restaurants. Here, …
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Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother coming up:
I’ve taken a break from the HIMYM Watch here, until the show started producing some episodes I had much to say about, which is to say episodes that began treating the characters again like real people with ongoing challenges and goals. But when I talk about How I Met Your Mother advancing …
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So I don’t know if you’ve heard about it, but Conan O’Brien lost a job last January. No, I’m serious! But I understand if you’ve been busy, so the first episode of O’Brien’s new TBS talk show, Conan, helpfully filled you in. The opening video—very funny, and very much in the spirit of one
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Spoilers for last night’s Boardwalk Empire coming up:
One of the pleasures of Boardwalk Empire has been how thoroughly and freely it has mixed historical and fictional people and events, without seeming bound to history or …
