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Don’t quite have time for a full-on review of “Brown Betty,” last night’s episode of Fringe. But I’m not sure in any case that I could objectively review an episode that incorporates a musical detective story and begins with an elderly scientist listening to Yes’ awesome “Roundabout” while smoking a bong under the watchful gaze of a …
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I mentioned this in my review-blurb of last night’s The Office episode, “Body Language,” but it probably deserves its own post. According to deadline.com, Steve Carell has said that he will likely leave the sitcom after its next season. Now, that isn’t actually cast in cement. Carell has an active movie career and he may just be done …
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CBS’ 60 Minutes has teased some bits of Steve Kroft’s interview with Conan O’Brien, which airs Sunday. It turns out that Coco was pretty forthcoming with what he thought about the events of the Jaypocalypse—specifically Jay Leno’s taking back The Tonight Show after handing him the keys in 2009 (and saying in 2004 that he’s had a long …
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When you think about it, it’s surprising that there aren’t more reality shows about hedonistic, wild senior citizens. There’s an undercurrent of sadness, after all, to seeing young people drink their lives away and make questionable romantic choices on Jersey Shore or The Hills. They have entire long lives ahead of them to screw up. …
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To all those of you who watched Happy Town on ABC last night and hated it, I apologize for not having warned you away. I watched the screeners ABC made available and thought it was almost unwatchable: a clumsy, exposition-heavy compilation of horror and mystery-show clichés overlaid with a few Lynch-for-Dummies sinister-small-town …
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TIME magazine unveiled its “TIME 100” list of influential people today, and because it’s hard to be influential without the use of TV, television folk are all over it. The more-or-less TV-related personalities on the list include Conan O’Brien, Oprah Winfrey, Ashton Kutcher, Neil Patrick Harris (written about by Joss Whedon), Carlton …
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“My dad’s not like your dad. There’s nothing deep and dark inside. His hard candy shell is only hiding more candy.”
Because Jay is a central character on Modern Family, we’ve seen a lot of what makes Claire and Mitchell Claire and Mitchell. We haven’t had the same opportunity with Phil, so it was good to see Fred Willard as his dad …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination, after the jump:
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Conan O’Brien‘s contractual TV-interview-muzzle agreement with NBC reportedly expires on Saturday, May 1, and the next night O’Brien will be giving his first on-air interview since the Jaypocalypse to Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes.
The gag order’s expiration is timed fortuitously, promotion-wise, since it comes after Conan’s deal with TBS, …
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After last week’s Madonna-opera, last night’s Glee, “Home,” was a welcome return to the show’s roots—insofar as any show that’s been on the air for less than a season can be said to have roots. It wasn’t an episode on par with the series’ best, like “Preggers” and “Wheels” from Glee’s fall run, but it reined in the show’s recent …
American Idol introduced megaselling mentor Shania Twain as the woman who “made country pop”; and since Idol is the TV show that makes pretty much every genre into pop, it’s a perfect match. Who among the remaining half-dozen rode the Twain to stardom? Click the pix for my take:
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In light of the dust-up over South Park’s portrayals of Muhammad, TIME looks back at other cartoons that have caused a ruckus
