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Mild spoilers for AMC’s Rubicon coming up:
Between Mad Men reviewing, vacation, preparing to go on vacation—and, OK, a debilitating helium-inhalation habit—I haven’t had time to do a regular Rubicon Watch since the show debuted. My favorite episode so far, “The Outsider” (in which Will Travers and Truxton Spangler visit their …
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Media personalities and future 2032 Presidential ticket Bristol Palin and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino are among the celebrities chosen for the coming edition of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. TIME’s NewsFeed has the complete list, which also includes David Hasselhoff, Florence Henderson and sundry figures accomplished in the worlds …
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OK, they’re not twins, but they are Ryans. Last night, I Skyped it with Ryan McGee of Boob Tube Dude and Mo Ryan—formerly of the Chicago Tribune and as of tomorrow, of AOL TV—to discuss Sunday’s Mad Men, “Waldorf Stories,” and season four in general. The results are above. The podcast is also available here and at iTunes, and while …
George Lucas isn’t the only filmmaker guilty of giving audiences alternate versions of his movies. TIME takes a look at other cinematic reintroductions.
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, slip out of those uncomfortable clothes and watch last night’s Mad Men.
As if aware that viewers would be toggling between Mad Men winning Emmys on NBC and Mad Men earning them on AMC, …
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While I was on vacation, TIME ran my column on the controversy over ABC’s new cop drama Detroit 1-8-7 and whether it’s exploiting a city that has it rough enough to begin with. It’s a personal issue for me because of where I was born and raised (not Detroit itself, but the Detroit area); I know the effects, not just nationally but even …
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The 2010 Emmy awards broadcast was a night of refreshing twists and unexpected surprises, the biggest of which, perhaps, was the 2010 Emmy awards broadcast. Namely, it was a pretty entertaining night of TV, kicked off by an actually amusing musical number (not even involving Neil Patrick Harris, at that!) featuring the cast of Glee, …
It might seem unlikely that Conan O’Brien will walk away with an Emmy Sunday night for his short-lived stint atop The Tonight Show, but surely no more unlikely than the fact that he received a nomination in the first place. And if he were to indeed win and hop up on stage to accept his honor, the Hollywood Reporter Esquire Blog is …
The other Thursday, as people walked in early to one of the 500 theaters where the RiffTrax demolition of Reefer Madness was scheduled to play, they found one of those pre-show movie trivia games in progress on-screen. “MOVIE MISTAKES,” one card read. “Furry Vengeance was classified as a movie on the Internet Movie Database.” And: “We
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Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person.
Upon learning that Jack was the Candidate who ended up succeeding Jacob, Locke told …
I’m hardly the first to take notice of this (at least 370,000 others have beat me to the punch), but I promise you I am one of the few to actually listen to the radio show before ever seeing this accompanying video. I will explain it all in a moment, but first behold: Possibly the best short film I have ever seen on YouTube. Its title: …
Some television shows – hell, entire television networks – are built around the close-up of the jaw-dropping train wreck. Tales of voyeuristic catharsis, where us viewers can take a collective deep breath and thank the heavens that, no matter how bad things get, at least we don’t have it that bad.
I’m talking about the I …
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Note: I’m on vacation this week. While I’m gone, I’ve set up a week of discussion posts revisiting the Lost finale in time for the Lost series DVD set, out Aug. 24. In other words, this is a recording; you cannot press 0 to speak to a real live person.
I’ll keep this one simple: now that Lost is all said, done and epilogued, has it …
