It was a night dedicated to the music of an American giant, a swaggering, pompadoured rule-breaker whose sexualized performances shocked a nation. Also, it was Elvis night. But the big name on stage was Adam—as in Lambert—last year’s Idol phenom and runner-up. Did Glambert teach this year’s sleepy finalists that it’s American Idol, …
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Treme Gets an Encore
I haven’t yet seen ratings figures for the premiere of Treme, but HBO must have seen something it liked—creatively, commercially or both—because two days after airing the pilot it’s picked up David Simon’s New Orleans drama for a second season. [Update: 1.4 million viewers Sunday, it turns out, so that would be “creatively.”] From …
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TV Tonight: Glee Returns—Too Much of a Good Sing?
Because you probably haven’t seen any ads for it or anything, I should remind you that Fox’s Glee returns tonight, after American Idol, at I-kid-you-not 9:28 p.m. E.T. Get out your scientific calculator and set your DVR.
Glee ended its fall ’09 run on a strong note, so to speak, not just with the finale but the “Wheels” episode, which …
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Conan Hits the Road
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[Update: An enterprising YouTuber posted the above footage of the Masturbating Bear’s curtain call at Conan’s Eugene show. For more clips—spoilers!—see Variety’s On the Air blog.]
With a freshly-inked cable-TV deal in hand, Conan O’Brien kicked off what could now be renamed the …
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HIMYM Watch: Gun-reliable Narrator
The premise of How I Met Your Mother focused on a central problem and pleasure of the show: the multiple layers of narration, all of varying degrees of trustworthiness. We know that Future Ted is telling this story to his kids and that he’s been known to change or embellish details. We know that he, in turn, is recounting the stories …