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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.
