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I don’t usually do blog posts about production details in TV series that don’t air for another year. But most TV shows do not entail inventing an entire freaking language.
HBO’s dark fantasy saga Game of Thrones, on the other hand, does. Today the network announced that’s it’s going where James Cameron did with Na’vi, Star Trek did …
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In a surprise move—as in, I actually mentally checked that it was not April 1—Conan O’Brien announced today that he will launch a new talk show in the fall, not on Fox but on TBS. Yes, that TBS, the basic-cable channel. The new show will be at 11 p.m. E.T., likely starting in November, four …
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Spoilers for last night’s Breaking Bad coming up after the jump:
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Having been all Treme all the time on Friday—with my Treme feature, my Treme review and my interview with Treme co-creator David Simon—I’m going to skip a full-on review recap of the show’s ninety-minute pilot last night. (I plan on doing a regular Treme Watch for the whole season, time permitting—though work travel next week may …
April 10, 2010, marks the 40th anniversary of the breakup of the Beatles. As a tribute, TIME takes a look at the most memorable band splits of all time
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Treme co-creator David Simon is a thoughtful, passionate interview subject who has deeply thought through every project he has done and every opinion he has held, and loves to hold forth. I am a terrible typist. Put the two together and you have an interview that I am never going to transcribe in full.
I did, however, put together …
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There are a lot of nice things about working at TIME, but one of the nicest is how being on the same staff as superior journalists flatters your self-conception. There are still times when I’m flattened by the fact that here I am, basically a guy who yells at his TV in public for a living, and yet I’m a colleague of [name of actual …
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This week’s print edition of TIME has my feature on HBO’s Treme, debuting this Sunday, for which I visited a shoot in New Orleans (or, technically, Gretna) early last month. As usual, but more than usual, I overreported and underwrote. In the space I had allotted, I left out a lot of research on the city, nuance of the show, and great …
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Back in November when Oprah Winfrey said she was ending her daytime talk show to focus on her new cable channels, there was a lot of coverage of “the end of Oprah’s show.” I made a point of stressing, at the time, that there is a difference between ending one iteration of a show for a particular syndication deal and actually ending …
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So there are a few things that are pretty much known to move product. Sex, of course—we all know sex sells. And a good deep discount—people love to save money! Oh, and also? A pained, publicly shamed celebrity staring dead-eyed at you while being interrogated by the edited, …
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I guested this week on the “Orientation: Ryan Station” podcast with Ryan McGee and Maureen Ryan to talk about the Desmond-centric “Happily Ever After.” It’s my second time this season, the second one having been “Dr. Linus,” so I must be good luck.
The way it works: the Ryans and I sync Lost on …
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Spoilers for last night’s American Idol elimination round coming up after the jump:
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She’s delivered the news and interviewed world leaders, but now, through time.com, ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer is answering to you. Sawyer—who took over the evening newscast in December—is the latest subject in TIME’s 10 Questions interview series, and you can submit a query for her at the 10 Questions page. Now’s the time to ask …
