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If you are a fan of Steve Coogan, or Rob Brydon, or Michael Caine, or just things that are very funny, you need to watch this video now. It’s from the BBC series The Trip, in which Coogan and Brydon travel the north of England reviewing restaurants. Here, …
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Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother coming up:
I’ve taken a break from the HIMYM Watch here, until the show started producing some episodes I had much to say about, which is to say episodes that began treating the characters again like real people with ongoing challenges and goals. But when I talk about How I Met Your Mother advancing …
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So I don’t know if you’ve heard about it, but Conan O’Brien lost a job last January. No, I’m serious! But I understand if you’ve been busy, so the first episode of O’Brien’s new TBS talk show, Conan, helpfully filled you in. The opening video—very funny, and very much in the spirit of one
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Spoilers for last night’s Boardwalk Empire coming up:
One of the pleasures of Boardwalk Empire has been how thoroughly and freely it has mixed historical and fictional people and events, without seeming bound to history or …
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Al Roker is wearing his New York City Marathon medal on the Today show this morning, and I don’t blame him. I wore mine home on the subway yesterday, and there’s nothing like getting rounds of congratulations from strangers for your running bling. I’m considering making it a regular part of my wardrobe.
I finished the marathon …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s The Walking Dead coming up:
A series like The Walking Dead has different constituencies to try to please. There are the fans who have read the original comics, and the viewers who haven’t. There …
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Ten months after the Jaypocalypse, a beard, a stage tour and much drama later, Conan debuts on TBS. For all the hype around the show, and the news around how the show came to be, what we’re actually going to see on air has remained a fairly tightly held secret. I don’t have answers. But here are some questions:
* Where did Conan’s fans …
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My Paley Center Q&A Wednesday night with Louis C.K. went great. Which is to say, he was great—all I really did was lob some questions, stepped back and let him go, while I tried not to touch my head too often. (I never know what to do with my hands at these sorts of things.) Fortunately, he more than obliged.
The Paley Center has …
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As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ll be running the New York Marathon this Sunday (televised, not that you’ll be able to see me, on NBC). If you ever have the chance and inclination to do it, it’s a great experience. It’s honestly touching how thousands of New Yorkers throng almost the entire course to cheer on complete strangers, even, …
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This just in: MSNBC host Keith Olbermann supports Democrats. According to a report in Politico this morning, Olbermann made the maximum legal donations to three Democratic candidates last month, one of them immediately after he appeared on Olbermann’s show.
This is potentially a problem for Olbermann, because it looks as though he …
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Brief spoilers for last night’s Community coming up:
A good episode of Community is all a matter of how you see things. Literally. On one level, an episode like “Aerodynamics of Gender” can seem fantastical, what with Abed’s Robo-Bitch-vision and Jeff and Troy gamboling in a magical trampoline …
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Conan O’Brien‘s new talk show debuts on TBS next Monday, which is sure to raise memories of the whole ugly scene last January when NBC threw over O’Brien at 11:35 p.m. for Jay Leno. (As will the timely publication the same day of Bill Carter’s Jaypocalypse dirt-disher, The War for Late Night.)
But whatever you think of how that played …
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Earlier this week, I did an interview with a reporter who’s doing a story on how the recession (or crappy recovery, or whatever the proper term is) is or isn’t affecting TV. I’m always a little skeptical of the idea that news events strongly drive viewing trends; I tend to think people watch …
