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Robo-James' Time Machine: Championship Titles

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I am writing this post at a point in the past, at which I do not yet know if I managed to write a review of HBO’s new How to Make It in America before I went on vacation. If I did, however, I might have noted that this was another HBO series that makes excellent use of its opening …

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Robo-James' Time Machine: The Trouble With Remakes

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What’s the next generation of network TV dramas? At least some executives think that it’s the last generation of TV dramas, or the one before that. Among the pilots ordered up lately at the broadcast networks have been remakes of Prime Suspect, Hawaii 5-0 and, at NBC, one of that network’s …

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Programming Note

I’m on vacation next week. Oh, come on—it’s the Winter Olympics. You really wanted to come here and read me blogging about curling? I’m not going anywhere—I’ll be hanging out with the Tuned In Jrs., who are off school, getting snowballs thrown at me, &c.—so really it’s more a vacation for you than for me.

Tuned In will still be …

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The Chuck Crisis of '10: A National Dialogue

This has been one of those weeks that I’ve been glad I don’t blog regularly about Chuck. It’s nothing against the show; I like it fine, though I don’t lurve it the way some folks do, and I don’t have a deep enough interest to sustain a weekly analysis. I haven’t enjoyed this season quite as much as season 2, for reasons I’ll get to in …

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