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America is about putting together things that are not supposed to go together. Korean tacos, for instance. (Which, really, you should try.) Or Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and R2D2. Or irony and sincerity.
Which is to say, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert put together a very American show on the National Mall today with the Rally to Restore …
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When the Jaypocalypse began to unfold at NBC last January, I doubt there was a person who covers TV who did not think: Well, there’s another book for Bill Carter! Indeed, the New York Times TV-beat guy—who immortalized the Leno-Letterman fight for Tonight with The Late Shift—is coming out with a sequel of sorts (The War for Late …
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Proving that there are still a vast amount of costume gags yet to be mined in the sitcom genre, both Community and The Office (and Outsourced, but I’m going to pretend it didn’t happen) delivered Halloween episodes last night. Proving that the supply of said costume gags is not unlimited, both episodes featured essentially the same …
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Having dropped out of this season’s Project Runway, it’s not really fair of me to critique the judges’ decision in last night’s finale, which I understand has been fairly controversial; to me—no spoilers here—it was justified from the final collection, but I don’t have the context of the finalists’ full-season work to go on. I will, …
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Before anyone opines on The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear this weekend, it’s worth noting that the thing hasn’t actually, um, happened; there have been an awful lot of judgments made on an event whose content we don’t even know yet. So I can only judge the event on the basis …
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In the print edition of TIME this week comes, lurching and moaning, my review of AMC’s new zombie drama, The Walking Dead. I liked it—with qualifications.
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Tonight, ABC airs annual favorite It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. (It’s paired with the midterm-timely special You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown, which at risk of heresy may be the superior cartoon.) The clip above is not from that show; it’s from The Charlie Brown and Snoopy …
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A little bird reminds me that I have not yet posted on last night’s Modern Family. I could have used said little bird this morning, when I left for the office, leaving my notes for the episode on my laptop across the East River. So today’s post will be abbreviated. I will say in general that …
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HBO today announced a premiere date (Jan. 16) for the fifth season of Big Love, and announced that the season will be its last. I’m filing this under Things I Sort of Thought Were Already Announced; it had at least been intimated for a while that the polygamy drama would wrap up with five seasons. And while I’ve been a fan of the …
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How excited is Conan O’Brien to start doing his new show for all you wonderful people? So excited that he’s launching it a week earlier than planned! Kind of. At 11 p.m. ET on Nov. 1—Conan’s regular time slot once it debuts on TBS Nov. 8—he’ll broadcast “Show Zero” from his …
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any chance of a Terriers Morning After? Another solid ep last night. Show does lots of little things right.
Done and done, and agreed! I have not, unfortunately, had the time for week-in-week-out reviews of FX’s Terriers, but I’ve still been following it weekly, and I’m a little puzzled, frankly, why it …
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“I don’t want to lump you in with a lot of other pundits,” President Barack Obama told Jon Stewart in his interview on last night’s Daily Show. In saying that, Obama brought up a question that Stewart’s rising prominence, and this weekend’s Rally to Restore Sanity, have …
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It always looked like it was going to be a rough road to a third second season for Caprica, but it didn’t even make it through the second half of the first. In a fairly unusual move for a cable drama, Syfy has cancelled the Battlestar Galactica spinoff drama before the season was even over. (Reportedly, the final episodes will air later …
