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And he seemed so stable! A publicist for Charlie Sheen released a statement today that the actor would be taking a leave of absence from Two and a Half Men while he checks into rehab for undisclosed reasons. Where, why and for how long are all up in the air.
In December, Sheen was arrested for domestic violence, but that run-in didn’t …
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Fresh off her mother’s battles with David Letterman and Family Guy, Bristol Palin will make her TV-drama debut in season 3 of ABC Family’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager next summer. The show, now in its second season, follows a single teen mom who got pregnant in a regrettable fling at band camp. (I had no idea in high school …
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TNT’s Men of a Certain Age finished up its first season last night, having emerged as one of this TV season’s unexpected pleasures. It’s a talky, deliberately paced basset hound of a show—”Low-key” somehow sounds too overdramatic to describe its laid-back sensibility. But it used its comedy-drama explorations of small moments to big …
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The New York Times’ Richard Sandomir takes exception to the way NBC covered the upset U.S. victory over Canada in hockey Sunday night. Which is to say: it hardly covered it at all, breaking briefly into coverage for the end of the game, which played in full on cable channel MSNBC. (Where it drew over 8 million viewers, huge numbers for …
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Next Monday, the corpse of The Jay Leno Show will get a jolt of electricity and shamble, moaning, back to life as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. NBC and Jay have nodded to that restoration–and, perhaps, to the generational skew of Jay’s audience–with promos set to The Beatles’ “Get Back.”
And with whom will Jay get back? His first …
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The ratings for Undercover Boss since the Super Bowl have been stellar; last night it held its own against the Olympics and beat a new episode of Desperate Housewives. Joe Adalian at The Wrap says a renewal for a second season is inevitable, and it’s hard to argue. There’s only one question:
How?
If you assume that the show is not 100% …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, turn off that telenovela, get into your ostrich cage, and watch last night’s Big Love.
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Did you miss me? Don’t answer that question! Instead, while I start digging out from under my pile of mail, let’s look at a few of the things I missed (or, at least, ignored) while staycationing last week:
* Tiger Woods showed off his sweet new blue curtain, and said that he was very, very sorry for letting you down. (Where “you” = …
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God bless our friends at the Shout! Factory company, the TV archivists who have been bringing back some of TV’s most obscure creations of the past on DVD. This week, they’ve put on the market—and thus, presumably, subjected some of their employees to watching—season one of what …
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This is Robo-James. The Morning After is a daily post in which humans are encouraged to discuss which televised transmissions stimulated the pleasure or displeasure sections of their rudimentary meat-brains the previous evening. Amuse Robo-James with your illogical human analysis!
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A reader on Twitter last week tweeted me with a suggestion: would it be a good idea for Cougar Town (which has been struggling in the ratings, though picked up for a second season) to change its stupid name in order to attract more viewers? My gut reaction is that Cougar Town needs to …
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This is Robo-James. The Morning After is a daily post in which humans are encouraged to discuss which televised transmissions stimulated the pleasure or displeasure sections of their rudimentary meat-brains the previous evening. Amuse Robo-James with your illogical human analysis!
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When I heard the new theme song for Big Love this season, it was like a punch in the gut. In general, I’m not much of a fan of repurposing already-written songs as themes (with exceptions; it worked for The Wire). But I cannot possibly see what Earthly good one can expect it to do to …
