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Tonight and Wednesday, PBS debuts Ken Burns’ The Tenth Inning, his four-hour sequel to Baseball. TIME’s Sean Gregory, who unlike me actually knows something about the sport, interviewed Burns and partner Lynn Novick about the doc:
TIME: The film deals with controversial figures like Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, yet we don’t hear
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Plane crashes are the new getting hit by lightning. That’s my takeaway from tonight’s debut of ABC’s No Ordinary Family, a light drama about a family of four who gain superpowers after their plane ditches into glowing water in the Amazon. My impressions of the show haven’t changed a lot since I Test Piloted it earlier this summer: it’s …
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Today the MacArthur Foundation announced its list of “geniuses” in the arts and sciences who will receive a no-strings grant of $500,000 each to pursue their work. Among them, David Simon, creator of The Wire and Treme, who in addition to the half-mil can now put “GENIUS” on his business cards, just like Wile E. Coyote.
Joking aside, …
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Spoilers for last night’s episode of The Event coming up:
The problem with The Event, and broadcast-network mystery serials in general, comes down to a question: what was the lesson of Lost?
I would argue that the lesson—which few if any attempts to make “the next Lost” seem to get—is that if you start with fresh, original …
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Spoilers for last night’s How I Met Your Mother coming up:
The character of Barney is a gift an a challenge for How I Met Your Mother. On the one hand, he’s hilarious, Neil Patrick Harris plays him brilliantly and he has largely put the show on the larger pop-cultural map. On the other hand, he’s sometimes a tough fit in a show …
