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The Daily Beast is reporting that America’s favorite couple, Tareq and Michaele Salahi, having finagled their way into a White House party and the national headlines last fall, will in fact be regular stars on Bravo’s The Real Housewives of D.C., the reality show they were auditioning for when they crashed the news.
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My column in this week’s print TIME looks at Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, the Madonna-and-whore complex of American food TV, and the reasons food has become another front in the culture war—and a surrogate, among other things, for the health-care debate. (Glenn Beck, of course, makes an appearance in the column, touting a …
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Actor Robert Culp died yesterday after a fall at age 79. I’ll leave it to critics of the Baby Boomer era to eulogize his work on the supercool ’60s espionage show I Spy. My more personal memory of him is for his work as Agent Bill Maxwell on the ’70s superhero comedy-drama The …
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At the Movies, the TV show that brought Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel and their thumbs to the masses, is being canceled. The series will finish its run in August. It’s a sad moment, at least if you’re a critic, or simply someone whose love for the movies was inspired by Siskel and Ebert and their passions for the medium. As much heat as the …
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It’s official: Sarah Palin is getting her own reality show, ahem, “documentary series.” The trade press reports from earlier this week were right, sort of: Palin did sign with Discovery Networks, but her show will air not on Discovery Channel (home of Deadliest Catch) but on TLC (home of Kate Gosselin).
Which seems like a tacit …
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Spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination after the jump:
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Why didn’t I make this video? Why didn’t you? This viral video, based on Will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” from the 2008 primaries, is so inevitable it should have been obvious. And I’m not sure anyone needs to write, video-edit, or otherwise create anything further about American politics in …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, roast yourself a nice pig, pour yourself a bottle of wine (I suggest a fruity grenache with the pork), cork the bottle extremely tightly and watch last night’s Lost.
Legendary music veteran Miley Cyrus imparted her decades of showbiz wisdom to the young whippersnappers of tonight as they chose #1 songs from the Billboard Hot 100 (a list that’s three times as old as Cyrus is). Who benefited from her mentoring? We’ll find out… after the break! (Or, actually, by clicking on the pictures below.)
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OK, so cable-news pundits bluster, shoot from the hip and end up hilariously, spectacularly wrong occasionally. Or more than occasionally. It’s pretty much the job description. And Chris Matthews—well, God love him, he’s very good at his job.
But this clip is really something. It’s …
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Does Sarah Palin aspire to be the next Ronald Reagan or the next Bear Grylls? She appears to be stepping closer to one of those goals at least, as Variety reports the former Alaska governor is signing a deal with Discovery for her proposed show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska.”
If you’re expecting a Kardashians-style series, perhaps with a …
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Well, this was quite a present to land in my inbox this morning: IFC has announced a set of new comedies, including an Onion News Network original series, a comedy starring Arrested Development’s David Cross and Will Arnett, and an acquisition of a Kids in the Hall reunion series.
All good news, but Cross and Arnett together again? I …
