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The Jay Leno Show ended last night with an absolute minimum of fanfare—fittingly and deliberately, since NBC’s hope is to pretend that it, and Conan O’Brien’s Tonight Show, never happened. Come March 1, the idea is, we’ll all stretch and yawn, memories of Olympic figure skating ice-dancing in …
For everyone who remembers when MTV used to play music videos, the news that the cable channel had removed the phrase “Music Television” from its logo only made its long metamorphosis into a reality-tv channel official. TIME …
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Bravo announced a premiere date (April 7) and the new contestants for season 2 of Top Chef Masters. Among the 22 contestants, will be several chefs getting do-overs after having appeared in season 1, including Wylie Dufresne, the molecular gastronomist whose molecules came unglued in a tough challenge, despite having come in as a …
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Ellen DeGeneres kicked off her American Idol career last night with the Hollywood round of the auditions. Was she an entertaining hire? Absolutely. Unsurprisingly, for someone who’s been on camera for decades, she was immediately confident and able to mix it up with the contestants and, to a lesser extent, the other judges. While …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, take a quick taxi ride and watch last night’s Lost.
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Tonight, there will likely not be a dry eye in the house, as America says goodbye to Jay Leno. Again. This time for three whole weeks.
After The Jay Leno Show ends tonight, Jay will head back to the Tonight show beginning March 1. And what can you do in the meantime, while Tonight is on hiatus …
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Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up after the jump:
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Somewhere in the CBS press release about Undercover Boss’s boffo debut ratings was the claim that this was the biggest debut for any new TV series since the Dolly show in 1987. If you’re like me, you’re thinking, Wow! And also: What the hell was the Dolly show?
I was not watching a …
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Along with last night’s mammoth Super Bowl ratings came the news that 38.6 million people watched the debut of CBS’s new reality show Undercover Boss, in which executives work incognito within their own companies. Did those people see an entertaining, emotional work that celebrated American workers? Or a manipulative, cheesy piece of …
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Last night’s Super Bowl was the most watched program.
Period. Of the night, the week, the year, the Christian era, you name it—at 106.5 million viewers, it broke the record held for 27 years by the finale of M*A*S*H. (Which means that that many people, give or take a few million bathroom breaks, watched that crappy Dodge ad.)
As I’m …
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Toyota has been making a show of contrition for the acceleration problem that led to a massive recall of several of its models, buying a humbled Super Bowl ad and apologizing publicly. But one group of its dealers is working hard to blow any positive credit the company may have earned, pulling its ads from ABC stations to punish the …
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Super Bowl ad duty kept me up late last night without time for Big Love (which, by the way, just got a fifth-season pickup!), and some more pressing duties mean I won’t be able to review “Sins of the Father” soon. So feel free to post your thoughts here, and if I catch up in time, I’ll update this post with mine.
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My quickie reviews of last night’s Super Bowl ads (all of them, with a few exceptions, 68 in total) are up at time.com. I grade them not as an advertising professional but simply as a guy who watches TV and buys stuff, though I try to take the effectiveness of the message into …
