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TV Tonight: I Got a Rock

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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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Modern Family Watch: Don't You Give Me An Old Tomato

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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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Three Wives, Five Seasons: Big Love Ending

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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Conan to Debut (Sort Of) a Week Early

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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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Obama and Stewart: What Fake News Can Do

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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 …